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American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How… do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? (Read More)
Themes: | trauma dying childhood unrequited love poetry time travel obsession divorce memory fear drinking pregnancy money religion marriage …suicide death (See All) |
Mood: | one night |
Locations: | catholic church london england nightclub paris france los angeles california airplane cemetery motorcycle hotel church train restaurant bar |
Characters: | suicide by drowning american german french psychiatrist alcoholic actress priest writer photographer actor dancer brother sister relationship teenage girl singer …boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships (See All) |
Story: | lp recording 45 recording cow costume amusement park train encounter great grandmother great granddaughter relationship flashback to images of memories pretend telephone call reference to klaus kinski national geographic magazine cable access show life changing decision reference to jesse james pet peeve brief encounter …budding friendship stardust palm reader sorbonne dialogue driven storyline danube river tv newscaster simultaneity conversations quaker drifting speculation harpsichord serendipity street performer foosball sightseeing budapest hungary ambiguity pinball machine goodbye multiple perspectives skepticism trolley record store chance meeting pigtails swimmer open ended gravestone madrid spain honesty rainbow ferris wheel coincidence vienna austria theatre production unhappiness plane crash drum honeymoon escalator summer camp fountain veterinarian drifter sunset fortune teller horse and carriage one day fascism card playing drummer playboy magazine star reincarnation role playing promise railway station art gallery tv show one night stand crush improvisation architect communist guitarist happiness recording tourist destiny waiter poem twenty something record player hate europe cow poet first part feminism date cross long take rabbit reading statue park bartender graveyard bridge woman wine journalist guitar hallucination cafe beer lie book drink camera cat underwear song singing explosion photograph dancing cigarette smoking sex dog kiss (See All) |
Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisie…nne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them. (Read More)
Themes: | memory pregnancy marriage suicide death |
Locations: | paris france cemetery hotel train restaurant |
Characters: | american german french writer photographer dancer singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | brief encounter dialogue driven storyline simultaneity conversations sightseeing budapest hungary ambiguity chance meeting vienna austria unhappiness drum sunset one day drummer reincarnation …promise improvisation communist guitarist happiness tourist long take reading park woman journalist guitar cafe lie book cat song singing photograph dancing cigarette smoking (See All) |
2 Jours - 2 Days follows two days in the relationship of a New York based couple - a French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack - as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out, - they both …came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English-speaking parents, flirtatious ex-boyfriends, and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and conviction that French condoms are too small, only adds fuel to the fire. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? Will they ever have sex again? Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing? (Read More)
Themes: | trauma obsession drinking |
Locations: | paris france train restaurant |
Characters: | american french writer photographer dancer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | card playing art gallery improvisation tourist europe rabbit statue wine hallucination cafe beer lie drink camera cat …photograph dancing cigarette smoking sex kiss dog (See All) |
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: | dying memory fear drinking money suicide death |
Locations: | airplane cemetery motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | american german french photographer dancer singer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | drum drifter card playing drummer guitarist tourist cross bridge guitar cafe beer drink camera underwear song …singing explosion dancing cigarette smoking dog (See All) |
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: | divorce memory fear drinking pregnancy marriage death |
Locations: | cemetery hotel bar |
Characters: | actress actor dancer teenage girl singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | theatre production card playing art gallery happiness cross bartender graveyard wine beer lie book drink song singing photograph …dancing cigarette smoking sex kiss (See All) |
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of tha…t time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. (Read More)
Themes: | obsession memory drinking money death |
Locations: | airplane motorcycle hotel train restaurant bar |
Characters: | dancer boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | simultaneity serendipity ambiguity multiple perspectives coincidence escalator promise railway station recording destiny twenty something date long take cafe beer …drink camera cat underwear dancing cigarette smoking kiss dog sex (See All) |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h…is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Themes: | drinking money suicide |
Locations: | los angeles california cemetery motorcycle hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | psychiatrist writer actor dancer brother sister relationship singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | budding friendship serendipity unhappiness escalator improvisation destiny waiter twenty something record player reading graveyard guitar cafe lie drink …underwear song singing dancing cigarette smoking kiss sex dog (See All) |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou…r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | obsession divorce money marriage |
Locations: | london england hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | american writer photographer dancer boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | dialogue driven storyline chance meeting art gallery happiness park bartender journalist cafe lie book camera photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss |
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: | childhood drinking money death |
Locations: | cemetery restaurant |
Characters: | dancer teenage girl singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | record store gravestone drummer guitarist recording record player reading graveyard guitar cafe beer lie book drink underwear …song singing photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss sex (See All) |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta…y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and di… (Read More)
Themes: | dying obsession memory fear drinking marriage suicide death |
Locations: | nightclub airplane motorcycle church train restaurant bar |
Characters: | german french photographer dancer singer |
Story: | budapest hungary promise recording record player cross reading statue bridge woman cafe lie book drink camera underwear …song singing explosion photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss (See All) |
In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi Gardet, a beautiful 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David Bloomberg, a handsome 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of in…timacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce drinking religion marriage death |
Locations: | nightclub paris france church restaurant bar |
Characters: | photographer dancer brother sister relationship boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | coincidence art gallery twenty something date reading bridge woman wine cafe beer lie book drink camera cat …underwear dancing cigarette smoking sex kiss dog (See All) |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a…rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry divorce drinking marriage |
Locations: | london england airplane motorcycle train restaurant bar |
Characters: | french photographer actor dancer singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | multiple perspectives tv show guitarist recording record player poet feminism park wine journalist guitar cafe drink camera underwear …song singing photograph dancing cigarette smoking dog sex (See All) |
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
Themes: | dying childhood poetry divorce memory pregnancy money death |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | writer dancer brother sister relationship singer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | flashback to images of memories poem long take reading book cat singing photograph dancing cigarette smoking dog |
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters, but have spent a summer in Greece on the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send hi…s teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk. (Read More)
Themes: | dying divorce memory fear drinking marriage death |
Locations: | paris france hotel train |
Characters: | american french actress writer photographer boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | unhappiness promise happiness woman wine lie drink camera cat underwear kiss sex dog |
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the… Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. (Read More)
Themes: | memory drinking pregnancy money |
Locations: | nightclub airplane motorcycle hotel church bar |
Characters: | priest writer dancer singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship |
Story: | architect tourist bartender bridge woman guitar book drink song singing photograph dancing kiss dog |
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 love fear drinking pregnancy money marriage death |
Locations: | catholic church restaurant |
Characters: | priest writer brother sister relationship teenage girl singer father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | art gallery recording record player poet reading wine book drink song singing photograph cigarette smoking sex |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu…dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
Themes: | obsession memory fear pregnancy suicide |
Locations: | catholic church cemetery hotel church bar |
Characters: | psychiatrist actress priest writer photographer dancer singer father daughter relationship |
Story: | madrid spain tv show guitarist destiny bartender woman journalist camera singing photograph sex |
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: | dying unrequited love poetry memory fear drinking suicide |
Locations: | catholic church church restaurant |
Characters: | psychiatrist priest writer photographer dancer brother sister relationship teenage girl singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | 45 recording record store unhappiness promise crush happiness reading wine hallucination cafe book drink camera singing photograph …dancing kiss (See All) |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early …flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
Themes: | divorce drinking pregnancy money marriage suicide death |
Locations: | nightclub los angeles california cemetery bar |
Characters: | actress dancer brother sister relationship teenage girl singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship family relationships |
Story: | 45 recording card playing tv show guitarist recording graveyard woman guitar drink camera song singing dancing cigarette smoking kiss …sex (See All) |
Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from… the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (Read More)
Themes: | obsession divorce memory drinking money religion suicide death |
Locations: | nightclub church |
Characters: | actress priest writer actor dancer singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | guitarist tourist poet cross statue park journalist guitar lie book drink song singing photograph dancing …cigarette smoking sex kiss dog (See All) |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an…d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
Themes: | dying memory fear drinking religion suicide death |
Locations: | catholic church cemetery hotel church bar |
Characters: | priest dancer singer mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | 45 recording recording record player cross statue woman drink song singing photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss sex |
Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 20 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction… and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There's a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all. (Read More)
Themes: | dying divorce memory fear pregnancy marriage death |
Locations: | paris france cemetery restaurant bar |
Characters: | actress photographer teenage girl singer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | honeymoon guitarist tourist record player long take park bartender woman wine guitar cafe beer drink camera cat …singing photograph cigarette smoking dog sex (See All) |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for…ever. (Read More)
Themes: | drinking money death |
Locations: | nightclub airplane cemetery hotel church restaurant bar |
Characters: | dancer teenage girl husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | budapest hungary chance meeting madrid spain vienna austria fountain record player park bartender graveyard hallucination cafe beer lie drink underwear …explosion photograph dancing cigarette smoking sex kiss dog (See All) |
A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country …odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. (Read More)
Themes: | drinking |
Locations: | catholic church airplane hotel church restaurant bar |
Characters: | priest photographer dancer singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | cow date cross woman cafe beer drink camera cat song singing dancing dog kiss |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e…xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
Themes: | dying poetry drinking money death |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | french alcoholic actress writer actor dancer teenage girl singer husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | theatre production drum horse and carriage card playing drummer star poem poet wine drink song singing dancing kiss dog …sex (See All) |
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: | dying obsession fear drinking pregnancy money marriage suicide death |
Locations: | paris france los angeles california train restaurant |
Characters: | psychiatrist writer photographer dancer brother sister relationship singer father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | speculation recording record player bridge wine cafe drink camera underwear song singing photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss …dog (See All) |
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans f…inish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancee to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul. (Read More)
Themes: | memory fear drinking pregnancy marriage death |
Locations: | paris france airplane cemetery motorcycle church train restaurant bar |
Characters: | german french psychiatrist priest photographer teenage girl singer husband wife relationship |
Story: | railway station recording twenty something record player cross graveyard wine cafe lie drink camera cat underwear song singing …explosion photograph cigarette smoking dog kiss sex (See All) |
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: | trauma unrequited love memory drinking money death |
Locations: | airplane cemetery motorcycle hotel church restaurant bar |
Characters: | german priest dancer singer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | poem twenty something europe rabbit statue graveyard wine hallucination cafe beer lie drink underwear song singing …photograph dancing cigarette smoking sex kiss dog (See All) |
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "phil…istines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry obsession divorce drinking pregnancy money marriage |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | psychiatrist writer brother sister relationship teenage girl singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | guitarist recording record player reading park guitar cafe beer lie book drink cat underwear song singing …photograph sex kiss (See All) |
England's Prince Albert must ascend the throne as 'King George VI' (qv), but he has a speech impediment. Knowing that the country needs her husband to be able to communicate effectively, Elizabeth hires Lionel Logue, an Australian actor and speech therapist, to help him overcome his stammer. An extr…aordinary friendship develops between the two men, as Logue uses unconventional means to teach the monarch how to speak with confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | dying divorce fear drinking money marriage death |
Locations: | london england airplane |
Characters: | american photographer actor singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | horse and carriage promise recording record player cross reading park wine beer lie book drink camera song singing …dancing cigarette smoking dog kiss (See All) |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of hel…p... (Read More)
Themes: | divorce drinking money marriage |
Locations: | los angeles california bar |
Characters: | american dancer brother sister relationship boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | honesty escalator one night stand recording record player date bartender woman lie drink camera photograph dancing kiss |
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity …works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina. (Read More)
Themes: | fear drinking money death |
Locations: | catholic church airplane church train restaurant bar |
Characters: | actress photographer dancer teenage girl singer husband wife relationship family relationships |
Story: | rainbow horse and carriage railway station woman guitar cafe drink song singing explosion photograph dancing sex |
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: | dying memory drinking pregnancy money religion marriage suicide death |
Locations: | london england paris france airplane motorcycle hotel train restaurant bar |
Characters: | american german french writer dancer singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | tv newscaster railway station hate europe wine journalist cafe drink cat underwear song singing explosion photograph dancing …cigarette smoking dog sex (See All) |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin…d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce memory drinking marriage |
Locations: | train restaurant bar |
Characters: | writer photographer dancer teenage girl singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship |
Story: | unhappiness honeymoon communist happiness poem twenty something woman wine cafe lie book drink camera song singing …photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss (See All) |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, …not the answering of them. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry obsession drinking suicide death |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | french photographer brother sister relationship teenage girl singer husband wife relationship |
Story: | sightseeing ambiguity horse and carriage tourist poem reading statue woman wine hallucination beer book drink camera song …singing photograph cigarette smoking kiss sex dog (See All) |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
Themes: | dying unrequited love memory drinking suicide death |
Locations: | los angeles california bar |
Characters: | suicide by drowning german actress photographer actor singer mother daughter relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | bartender wine hallucination drink camera underwear song singing cigarette smoking sex |
At the age of 38, Mark O'Brien, a man who uses an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate and a typical soccer mom with a house, a mortgage and a husband. Inspired by a true st…ory, The Sessions, follows the fascinating relationship which evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey to manhood. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry fear drinking money |
Locations: | catholic church hotel church restaurant |
Characters: | priest writer singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | trolley promise poem poet reading woman cafe beer book drink cat song singing cigarette smoking kiss …sex (See All) |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev…eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Themes: | obsession drinking pregnancy marriage suicide death |
Locations: | nightclub paris france airplane restaurant bar |
Characters: | american french writer dancer husband wife relationship |
Story: | amusement park rainbow ferris wheel card playing woman cafe drink underwear photograph dancing cigarette smoking dog kiss sex |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome…d. (Read More)
Themes: | religion marriage death |
Locations: | catholic church cemetery church bar |
Characters: | priest writer dancer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | skepticism drifter card playing destiny statue graveyard woman guitar cafe lie photograph dancing dog kiss sex |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af…fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited love pregnancy marriage suicide |
Locations: | paris france cemetery train |
Characters: | german french writer singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | horse and carriage guitarist waiter statue bridge woman cafe song singing explosion cigarette smoking kiss |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Themes: | poetry drinking money |
Locations: | los angeles california airplane hotel bar |
Characters: | brother sister relationship teenage girl singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | drummer guitarist recording record player poet reading journalist guitar beer book drink camera underwear song singing …photograph dancing cigarette smoking kiss sex (See All) |
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: | poetry drinking money marriage suicide death |
Locations: | nightclub hotel train restaurant bar |
Characters: | american dancer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship family relationships |
Story: | pigtails poem reading statue bartender woman wine cafe beer lie book drink underwear photograph dancing …cigarette smoking dog sex kiss (See All) |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Themes: | memory drinking pregnancy money death |
Locations: | los angeles california airplane cemetery hotel |
Characters: | german dancer singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | ferris wheel vienna austria art gallery recording record player park woman hallucination lie book drink song singing photograph dancing …cigarette smoking (See All) |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their q…uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce memory drinking money marriage death |
Locations: | nightclub airplane motorcycle hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | actor dancer singer father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | amusement park card playing tourist cross reading woman wine cafe beer lie drink underwear song singing explosion …photograph dancing dog kiss sex (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: | drinking pregnancy money suicide |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother sister relationship singer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | lp recording guitarist recording record player reading wine guitar cafe lie drink cat underwear song singing photograph …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: | trauma drinking marriage suicide death |
Locations: | hotel church train |
Characters: | suicide by drowning german priest dancer singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | unhappiness sunset horse and carriage promise architect cross graveyard lie book drink underwear song singing explosion photograph …dancing cigarette smoking dog (See All) |
Eleven vignettes, all homages to New York City life, are presented. I. Ben, a pickpocket, is attracted to Molly on first sight, and gets into an interesting "pissing match" with Molly's married lover, NYU professor Garry. II. Mansuhkhbai, an orthodox Jain diamond wholesaler, and Rifka, an orthodox J…ewish diamond retailer who is getting married tomorrow, learn that they have more in common than just diamonds. III. David, a musician and music editor for a video being directed by Abarra, is having problems meeting Abarra's demands while he slowly falls for Abarra's assistant, Camille, who he's never met but has only talked to on the telephone solely about work. IV. A young man believes he's made a powerful connection to a stranger, a young woman, in the simple act of lighting her cigarette, and proceeds to convince her of the same and as such that there is a future for them from that point on, and not at some unspecified time down the road. V. A high school senior, who has been dumped by his girlfriend just before senior prom, is given a gift by his local pharmacist, Mr. Riccoli, the senior not understanding the full implication of the gift until the full process of prom night is over. VI. Each on their way to their first official date together after what started out solely as a one night stand, Gus and Lydia each contemplate not keeping the date. VII. Isabelle, a retired opera diva, has returned to a hotel where she's stayed many times and where she has strong memories of encou… (Read More)
Themes: | dying memory drinking money marriage death |
Locations: | paris france hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | french actress writer photographer dancer singer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | fountain date reading park bartender woman wine hallucination cafe book drink camera underwear song singing …photograph dancing cigarette smoking sex kiss dog (See All) |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her …separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry divorce memory fear drinking money marriage suicide death |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | suicide by drowning teenage girl singer father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | recording poem record player poet cross woman wine beer lie book drink song singing photograph cigarette smoking …kiss (See All) |
Jewish-American writer 'Jonathan Safran Foer' (qv) is a collector of his family's memorabilia, although most of the items, some which he takes without asking, would not be considered keepsakes by the average person. He places most of those items in individual Ziploc bags, and hangs them on his keeps…ake wall under the photograph of the person to who it is most associated. He has this compulsion in an effort to remember. He is able to tie a photograph that he receives from his grandmother, Sabine Foer, on her deathbed - it of his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the war in the Ukraine, and a young woman he will learn is named Augustine - back to a pendant he stole from his grandfather on his deathbed in 1989, the pendant of a glass encased grasshopper. Learning that Augustine somehow saved his grandfather's life leads to Jonathan going on a quest to find out the story at its source where the photograph was taken, in a now non-existent and probably largely forgotten town called Trachimbrod that was razed by the Nazis during the war, he armed only with his limited knowledge, the pendant, his grandfather's Star of David necklace, the photograph, tip "money", and an old and largely outdated map. Prior to arriving in the Ukraine, Jonathan prearranges the guide services of Odessa-based Heritage Tours, which specializes in helping Jewish expats discover their past. The company is owned and operated by three generations of the Alexander Perchov family, who generally think Jewish people… (Read More)
Themes: | memory fear pregnancy money religion suicide death |
Locations: | nightclub airplane cemetery hotel train |
Characters: | american writer photographer dancer father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | coincidence fascism star railway station statue graveyard woman hallucination book camera underwear photograph dancing cigarette smoking dog …sex kiss (See All) |
Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will be over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spir…ited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | dying childhood unrequited love fear drinking pregnancy marriage death |
Locations: | airplane motorcycle |
Characters: | actress photographer teenage girl singer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | unhappiness art gallery architect twenty something wine hallucination drink underwear photograph dancing kiss |