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Young Lateef works on a construction site in Tehran with some Turks and a few illegal Afghan workers. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and treats Rahmat cruelly. After one of his pranks, however, Lateef discovers Rahmat's secr …et--he is a girl named Baran. Latif's heart softens towards Baran and he shows his new affection for her by doing what he can to ease the hardships she suffers at work. When government inspectors force all Afghans to be fired from the site, Lateef discovers he cannot bear to be without her. Jeopardizing social standing and endangering his own well being, Lateef stops at nothing to save his love. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifeunrequited lovedeath of motherpovertydrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckvillagebuscemeterysnow |
| Characters: | bakerreference to goddancerteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | afghan refugeeconstruction accidentconstruction workconstruction workertehran iranconstruction sitefalling into a riverpickup truckcobbler the shoemakerknocking down a wallbuilding inspectorteenage romancefeeding pigeonshair clipdoor knocker …broken footshoeprinttableclothfarsiwagesgrocerafghancementid cardweldingwheelbarrowgender disguisebricktalibanveilturkishteenage loveiranianshoeconstructionbreadcrutchesemigrationcandydormitoryplantcoinpigeonshadowshoppinggrocery storethunderbroken legiranhitchhikinggoathidingslow motionteaeavesdroppingrefugeewaterfalldeath of brotherliargraveyardeatingcookingriverrunningtearslieletterfalling from heightsecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingfirechasesingingdancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefight (See All) |
Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?
| Themes: | povertylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | tehran irancobbler the shoemakergroceriranianshoeiranslow motiontealiarriverrunningtearsliesecretcrying |
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckvillagecemetery |
| Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction workerconstruction sitewagescementcrutchesbroken legcookingriverrunningtearsletterdrinksongcryingfire …singingdancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, prep …aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdrinking |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | cemeterysnow |
| Characters: | dancersinger |
| Story: | pickup truckshoppinggrocery storegraveyardeatingcookingtearsletterdrinkfoodsongcryingfiresingingdancing …cigarette smoking (See All) |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoneylove |
| Locations: | buscemetery |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerteenage boyteenage girlsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | teagraveyardeatingrunningtearslielettersecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingsingingdancing …cigarette smoking (See All) |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri …te with. (Read More)
| Themes: | unrequited lovepovertydrinkingmoneylove |
| Characters: | teenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | tableclothcementwheelbarrowteaeatingdrinkmirrorfoodsongfiresingingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefight |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | buscemetery |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerteenage boyteenage girlsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | crutchesbroken legteagraveyardeatingrunningtearsliesecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingsinging …dancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdrinkingmoneylove |
| Locations: | cemeterysnow |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckafghantalibanpigeongoattearefugeeliargraveyardrunningtearslielettersecretmirror …foodsongcryingfirechasesingingdancingcigarette smoking (See All) |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
| Themes: | drinking |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | bussnow |
| Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction workerconstruction sitepickup truckpigeondeath of brothertearsletterdrinkmirrorcryingdancing |
Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homem …aking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Locations: | truckvillagebus |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerteenage boyteenage girlsinger |
| Story: | turkishhitchhikinghidingteaeatingcookingrunningdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingchasesingingdancing |
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job - for which he needs a bike - hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the bicycle. Ricci finally manages to locate the thief but with no proo …f, he has to abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep his job. (Read More)
| Themes: | povertydrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckbus |
| Characters: | reference to goddancersingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | breadliareatingriverrunningtearsliedrinkfoodsongcryingchasesingingdancingcigarette smoking |
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 …he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | cemeterysnow |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction workerconstruction siteconstructiondormitoryeatingcookingrunningtearsdrinkmirrorfoodcryingchasesingingdancing …cigarette smokingfight (See All) |
T.J., a high school freshman, lost his mother two months before in a car accident: his father pops pills and sits on the couch; his grandmother holds things together, chatting and cooking. T.J. wants the car back from the salvage yard where the owner's son is a bully. By happenstance, Hesher, a foul …-mouthed squatter, moves in with T.J's family. T.J. also meets Nicole, a grocery clerk near poverty who helps him once. Hesher involves T.J. in crime, the bully is omnipresent, mom's car is slipping away, dad has checked out, T.J. watches Nicole at work, and his grandma invites him to join her morning walk: the odds are long that T.J. can assemble a family to help him thrive. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherpovertydrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | teenage boysingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction sitegrocery storehidingliareatingcookingrunningtearsliefalling from heightdrinkfoodsongcryingfire …chasesingingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefight (See All) |
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 …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: | drinkinglove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | cemeterysnow |
| Characters: | bakerreference to goddancerteenage boyteenage girlchildrenfather son relationship |
| Story: | tehran irangrocerveilgrocery storeiranhidingrefugeeliareatingcookingrunningtearsliefalling from heightdrink …foodcryingchasedancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b …ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckcemetery |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | shoegraveyardeatingcookingrivertearsdrinkfoodsongcryingfiresingingdancing |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | villagebus |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckgoathidingrefugeeeatingriverrunningtearsdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingfirechase …singingdancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimund …a after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her; later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula. They return to Madrid, and after a hard day of work, Raimunda meets her daughter completely distraught at the bus stop waiting for her. When they arrive home, Paula tells her mother that she killed her unemployed father Paco, who was completely drunk and tried to rape her. While Raimunda hides his body, Sole calls her to tell that their beloved aunt Paula has died. The next morning, Sole travels alone to the funeral, and when she returns to Madrid, she finds her mother hidden in the trunk of her car. She brings Irene to her apartment, where secrets from the past are disclosed. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | villagebuscemetery |
| Characters: | teenage girlsingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | grocery storeliareatingcookingrivertearsliesecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingfiresinging …cigarette smoking (See All) |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
| Themes: | death of wifedrinking |
| Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | turkishthundertearefugeedeath of brotherliargraveyardrunningtearsliesecretdrinkmirrorfoodsong …cryingchasesingingdancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of mother |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | eatingtearsfalling from heightmirrorfoodsongcryingsingingdancingcharacter name in title |
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 …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: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | buscemeterysnow |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerteenage boyteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | coinslow motionrunninglieletterdrinkmirrorfoodcryingfirechasedancingcharacter name in title |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i …nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
| Themes: | unrequited lovedrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | village |
| Characters: | dancersingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | veilcandyeatingriverrunningtearsletterdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingfirechasesinging …dancingcigarette smoking (See All) |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkinglove |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | breaddormitoryhidingliarrunningtearslielettersecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingchase …singingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | bussnow |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother sister relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | hitchhikingliareatingcookingliedrinkfoodsongcryingchasesingingcigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg …eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
| Themes: | unrequited lovedrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | dancersingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | thundergraveyardeatingtearsletterfalling from heightsecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingfiresingingdancing |
Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets a …bout living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind... (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckbussnow |
| Characters: | dancersingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction siteeatingtearsdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingsingingdancingcigarette smoking |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped paj …amas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of mother |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | wheelbarrowliargraveyardeatingrunningtearsliesecretfoodsongcryingsingingdancingcigarette smoking |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckcandyliareatingrunningtearslieletterdrinkmirrorfoodcryingdancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in title …fight (See All) |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkinglove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | trucksnow |
| Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshipsingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | dormitoryliareatingtearsliedrinkfoodsongcryingchasesingingdancingcharacter name in titlefight |
Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper co …nnection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | dancerteenage girlsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckgrocery storethunderhitchhikingeavesdroppingliareatingcookingrivertearsliedrinkmirrorfoodsong …cryingsingingdancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | villagebuscemetery |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | tealiargraveyardlieletterdrinkfoodsongcryingsingingcigarette smoking |
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
| Themes: | povertydrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | falling into a rivergoatliarriverrunningtearsliesecretdrinkfoodcryingfirechasesingingcharacter name in title |
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart …his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction workerpickup truckwheelbarrowshoppingthundereatingcookingtearsdrinkmirrorfoodcryingfight |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken … behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckshoppinggrocery storeliareatingtearslielettersecretdrinkfoodcryingdancingcigarette smoking |
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 …angerous and quixotic journey into Mexico. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | truckvillagebuscemetery |
| Characters: | reference to godhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckgoateavesdroppinggraveyardcookingriverrunningfalling from heightdrinkchasedancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
SPOILER: Seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams receives an acceptance letter from MIT and she celebrates with her friends. On the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking at Earth 2 and crashes with composer John Burroughs, killing hi …s pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job as high-school janitor, but tries to commit suicide. She survives, however, and submits an essay to a contest where the prize is a ticket to travel to Earth 2. Meanwhile the scientists discover that Earth 2 is a mirror of Earth and the synchronicity between the dwellers was interrupted when the planets were seen by each other. One day, Rhoda decides to visit John Burroughs, whose life was destroyed after the death of his family, to admit to him that she had killed his family. However she does not have the nerve to tell him the truth. So she lies and tells him he has won a free cleaning service of his home. Rhoda wins the writing contest, but meanwhile John and she have fallen in love with each other. Rhoda has to take a decision whether she goes or stays, but she wants to tell John the truth first. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedrinkinglove |
| Locations: | bussnow |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerbrother sister relationshipteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckcandygrocery storeliareatingcookingrunningtearslieletterdrinkmirrorfoodcryingdancing |
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John ('Christian Bale' (qv)) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he fin …ds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckvillage |
| Characters: | teenage girlsingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | breaddormitoryhidingtearunningtearsliefalling from heightdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingchasesinging …cigarette smoking (See All) |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the … more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmoneylove |
| Locations: | cemeterysnow |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerbrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | emigrationgrocery storeteagraveyardeatingrivertearslettersecretdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingsinging …dancingcigarette smoking (See All) |
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: | death of mothermoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckcemetery |
| Characters: | teenage boybrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather son relationship |
| Story: | hair clipcandygraveyardeatingrunningtearsletterfoodsongcryingfiresingingfight |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
| Themes: | death of wifedrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckbussnow |
| Characters: | dancerteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | plantthunderhitchhikingwaterfallcookingriverrunningtearsdrinkcryingfirechasesingingdancingcigarette smoking …fight (See All) |
A German dentist buys the freedom of a slave and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of the slave's wife who belongs to a ruthless plantation owner.
| Themes: | drinkingmoney |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | shadowbroken legteadeath of brotherliareatingtearslieletterdrinkfoodsongcryingfirechase …singingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefight (See All) |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
| Themes: | unrequited lovedrinkinglove |
| Locations: | trucksnow |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckteenage loveeatingrunningtearslettersecretdrinkmirrorfoodcryingsingingdancingfight |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an …d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | construction sitetealiartearsliedrinkcryingfiresingingdancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefight |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr …eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdrinkingmoneylove |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipsingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | turkishgrocery storeliarcookingrunningtearslieletterdrinkfoodsongcryingchasesingingdancing …cigarette smokingfight (See All) |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
| Themes: | death of wifeunrequited lovedeath of motherdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | wheelbarrowteaeatingcookingtearssecretdrinkmirrorfoodcryingcigarette smoking |
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apoc …alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedrinkingmoneylove |
| Locations: | villagesnow |
| Characters: | reference to godbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | plantgoateatingrunningtearsletterfalling from heightsecretdrinkfoodsongcryingchasesingingcigarette smoking …fight (See All) |
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 … 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: | drinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckbus |
| Characters: | reference to goddancersingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | grocery storethunderrefugeedeath of brothereatingcookingriverrunningtearssecretdrinkfoodsongcryingchase …singingdancingcigarette smokingfight (See All) |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdrinkingmoney |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckcemetery |
| Characters: | dancersingerchildrenhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | dormitorythunderhidingwaterfallgraveyardriverrunningdrinksongfirechasesingingdancingcigarette smokingfight |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
| Themes: | death of motherdrinkinglove |
| Locations: | buscemetery |
| Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | hidingtearunninglielettersecretdrinkmirrorsongfirechasesingingdancingcigarette smoking |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro …ss two generations. (Read More)
| Themes: | unrequited lovedrinkingmoneylove |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | truckcemetery |
| Characters: | teenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | thunderteagraveyardtearsletterdrinkmirrorfoodsongcryingsingingcigarette smokingfight |
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 …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: | unrequited lovedeath of motherpovertydrinkingmoney |
| Locations: | truckcemetery |
| Characters: | reference to goddancerteenage boybrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | hitchhikingliargraveyardtearslieletterdrinksongcryingchasesingingdancingcigarette smokingfight |
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