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Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years β¦in the making. (Read More)
Subgenre: | australian horror |
Themes: | alcoholismguiltmemoryghostrapesuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | australian supernaturalnightmarerain |
Locations: | police carpolice stationbicycletrain |
Characters: | suicide by hanginggirlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memorytrain derailmentcar hit by a traintoy traintrain wrecktrain trackssmall hometownaustralian accenttalking with the deadperson in a car trunkrearview mirrorfemale police officer14 year oldnewspaper clippingsuffering β¦therapistfaintingumbrellahallucinationhandcuffssecretone word titleviolence (See All) |
A man is hypnotized at a party by his sister-in law. He soon has visions and dreams of a ghost of a girl. Trying to avoid this, nearly pushes him to brink of insanity as the ghost wants something from him - to find out how she died. The only way he can get his life back is finding out the truth behi β¦nd her death. The more he digs, the more he lets her in, the shocking truth behind her death puts his whole family in danger. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemoryghostsuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | girlteenage boymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memoryhallucinationsecret |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rape β¦d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
Themes: | memoryghostrapesuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memorynewspaper clippingumbrellahallucinationviolence |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads en β¦ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | train derailmenttrain wrecktrain tracksfaintinghallucinationsecret |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Themes: | guiltmemorymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | rearview mirrorsufferingumbrellahandcuffsone word titleviolence |
SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries β¦to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | memorymurderdeath |
Locations: | police carpolice stationbicycletrain |
Characters: | girlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | train derailmentcar hit by a train14 year oldsecret |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto β¦p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
Themes: | ghostsuicidemurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | suicide by hangingfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | therapisthallucinationhandcuffssecretviolence |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only β¦companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorysuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationbicycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | faintingumbrellahallucinationsecretone word titleviolence |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | memoryrapedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carbicycle |
Characters: | girlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | 14 year oldnewspaper clipping |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | guiltghostdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | hallucinationhandcuffsone word title |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen β¦ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemory |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | teenage boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memorynewspaper clippingtherapisthallucinationsecretviolence |
The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus o β¦n her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | police carpolice stationtrain |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | therapisthallucinationsecretviolence |
Death stalks the dreams of several young adults to claim its revenge on the killing of Freddy Kruger. Chased and chastised by this finger-bladed demon, it is the awakening of old memories and the denials of a past of retribution that spurns this hellish vision of a dreamlike state and turns death in β¦to a nightmare reality. (Read More)
Themes: | rapemurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memoryhallucinationsecret |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha β¦nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | girlteenage boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | train derailmenttrain wrecktrain trackssecretone word title |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationbicycle |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | talking with the deadfaintinghallucination |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltrapesuicidemurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | girlfather son relationship |
Story: | train trackshallucinationsecretviolence |
Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.
Themes: | guiltmemoryghostsuicidedeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | suicide by hanging |
Story: | hallucinationviolence |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con β¦vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismguiltsuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carbicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | umbrellasecret |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | suicide by hanginggirlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | train tracksrearview mirror |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Themes: | memoryghostdeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | girlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | 14 year oldumbrella |
"Sorority Row" sees a group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.
Themes: | guiltmurderdeath |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | therapistfaintinghandcuffshallucinationsecretviolence |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl β¦e his affairs. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | talking with the deadsufferingumbrellahallucinationone word title |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | police stationtrain |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | train trackshandcuffshallucinationsecretviolence |
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlf β¦riend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | girlteenage boyfather son relationship |
Story: | umbrella |
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there β¦as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorymurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | girlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | repressed memorytalking with the deadhallucinationhandcuffssecretviolence |
Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and wa β¦ter and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive? (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorysuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | suicide by hanginggirlteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | umbrellahallucinationviolence |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, β¦who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltrapemurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | police carbicycle |
Characters: | girlteenage boymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | 14 year oldsecret |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as β¦he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | talking with the deadsufferinghallucinationone word titleviolence |
Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened β¦ that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemoryrape |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | girlteenage boyfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memorysufferingfaintingviolence |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has β¦fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
Themes: | memoryrapesuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | girlteenage boyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memoryviolence |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental β¦ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | girlteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sufferingtherapistfaintinghallucinationone word title |
After the abduction and presumed death of Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, Mack receives a letter and suspects it is from God, asking him to return to The Shack where Missy may have been murdered. After contemplating it, he leaves his home to go to The Shack for the first time sin β¦ce Missy's abduction and an encounter that will change his life forever. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltrapemurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | teenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | rearview mirrorviolence |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | suicidemurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | therapistumbrellasecretviolence |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac β¦kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | girlteenage boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memorysufferingfaintinghallucinationviolence |
A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the β¦woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sufferingtherapistfaintinghallucinationone word titleviolence |
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found deca β¦pitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents". (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carpolice stationbicycletrain |
Characters: | teenage boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | person in a car trunkfemale police officerhandcuffsviolence |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of te β¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | memorymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police cartrain |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | therapisthandcuffsone word title |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately β¦try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltrapemurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | teenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | newspaper clippingfaintinghandcuffs |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate β¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Locations: | police carpolice stationtrain |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | repressed memorynewspaper clippinghandcuffssecretviolence |
In part six of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, dream monster Freddy Krueger has finally killed all the children of his hometown, and seeks to escape its confines to hunt fresh prey. To this end, he recruits the aid of his (previously unmentioned) daughter. However, she discovers the demonic orig β¦in of her father's powers and meets Dad head-on in a final showdown (originally presented in 3-D). (Read More)
Themes: | ghostmurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | repressed memorynewspaper clippingtherapistviolence |
Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step in a fateful journey of unexpected events.
Themes: | murderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police cartrain |
Characters: | girlteenage boyfather daughter relationship |
Story: | train tracksviolence |
A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a d β¦angerous and quixotic journey into Mexico. (Read More)
Themes: | suicidemurderdeath |
Locations: | police stationbicycletrain |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | talking with the deadrearview mirrorhandcuffsviolence |
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is c β¦ruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. (Read More)
Themes: | suicidedeath |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | suicide by hanginggirlteenage boyfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | 14 year oldsufferingfaintingviolence |
In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also β¦destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismguiltghostsuicidedeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | newspaper clippinghallucinationone word title |
Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by β¦ the alias L. (Read More)
Themes: | suicidedeathmurder |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | teenage boyfather son relationship |
Story: | newspaper clippingsecretviolence |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel β¦ Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
Themes: | ghostsuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | suicide by hanginggirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | secretviolence |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife β¦ is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Themes: | memorysuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | rearview mirrorumbrellasecretone word titleviolence |
Set in France, Georges is a TV Literary Reviewer and lives in a small yet modern town house with his wife Ann, a publisher and his young son Pierrot. They begin to receive video tapes through the post of their house and family, along side obscure child-like drawings. They visit the police with hope β¦of aid to find the stalker, but as there is no direct threat, they refuse to help. As the tapes become more personal, Georges takes it upon himself to figure out who is putting through his family through such horror. A true Michael Haneke Classic. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorysuicide |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | secretone word titleviolence |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni β¦e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltrapesuicidedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | sufferingtherapistumbrellahandcuffsone word titleviolence |
Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the β¦older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmemorysuicide |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sufferingsecret |