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In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to th β¦e modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis... (Read More)
Subgenre: | epiccoming of age |
Themes: | crueltyunrequited loveabusesexualityguiltangernaturesuicidelovemurder |
Locations: | lakeboatforest |
Characters: | suicide by fireactor directorlustbabypolice |
Story: | buddhist monkrowing a boatanimal abusefrozen lakesutrapagodapenitencerenewalherbsropesbuddha statueseasoncatharsisseasonsfalling through ice β¦seclusioncyclecalligraphycaningatonementsexual intercourseplaying footsierowingbroken heartroostervery little dialoguecorporal punishmentepisodic structureadviceremorsekoreayoung lovebuddhismsufferingfloodbuddhistmonkfrogmurdererisolationwritten and directed by cast memberfishsnakebedbare buttwritten by directorcatbeatingcryingknifemale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynuditysex (See All) |
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltyunrequited loveabusesexualityguiltangernaturesuicidelove |
Locations: | lakeforest |
Characters: | suicide by fireactor directorlustpolice |
Story: | buddhist monkrowing a boatanimal abusefrozen lakebuddha statueseasonfalling through icecyclesexual intercourseplaying footsiebroken heartvery little dialoguecorporal punishmentepisodic structureyoung love β¦buddhismsufferingfloodbuddhistmonkfrogmurdererisolationwritten and directed by cast memberfishsnakebedbare buttwritten by directorcatbeatingcryingknifemale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynuditysex (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltysexualityguiltmurderlove |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | animal abuseatonementepisodic structuresufferingfloodmonksnakebare buttcatbeatingcryingknifemale nuditynuditysex |
"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth ce β¦ntury into a three-hour time-frame. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | angersuicidelove |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | corporal punishmentfishsnakebeatingcryingknifemale rear nuditymale nuditynuditysex |
A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the β¦woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within. (Read More)
Themes: | crueltyguiltnaturelovemurder |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | lust |
Story: | very little dialoguesufferingbare buttcryingknifesex scenemale nuditynuditysex |
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship β¦deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. (Read More)
Themes: | sexualityangersuicidemurderlove |
Characters: | lust |
Story: | sexual intercoursebare buttwritten by directorcryingmale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynudity |
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is c β¦ruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltyabusesexualitysuicide |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | caningcorporal punishmentsufferingfishbedbeatingcryingsexnudity |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac β¦kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | crueltyunrequited loveabusesexualityguiltmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | broken heartsufferingfishbedcryingknifemale nuditysex |
When Sam Merrick is beaten up by local bully George Tooney, Sam's older brother Rocky and his friends Clyde and Marty plan to pretend it's Sam's birthday to "invite" George on a boat trip in which they would dare him to strip naked, jump in the lake, and run home naked. But when Sam, his girlfriend β¦Millie, Rocky, and Clyde see George as not much of a bad guy, they want to call off the plan, but Marty refuses. Will the plan go ahead as planned? (Read More)
Themes: | guiltsuicide |
Locations: | lakeboatforest |
Characters: | police |
Story: | bare buttbeatingcryingknifemale rear nuditymale nudity |
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost β¦limit. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltysuicidemurder |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | very little dialoguesufferingbare buttbeatingcryingmale rear nuditymale nuditynudity |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | abuseguiltsuicidelovemurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | murdererfishbedbare buttbeatingcryingknifesex scenemale nudity |
'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Themes: | unrequited lovemurder |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | very little dialoguefloodbedbare buttcatcryingknife |
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.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | guiltnature |
Locations: | lakeboatforest |
Characters: | police |
Story: | isolationfishsnakebare buttbeatingcryingknifemale nuditynuditysex |
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newport's ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives, who have no personal property concept, turn hostile after a 'theft' is 'punished' violently on the spot. During an arm β¦ed exploration, Smith is captured, but spared when the chief's favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads for the stranger who soon becomes her lover and learns to love their naive 'savage' way of harmonious life. Ultimately he returns to the grim fort, which would starve hadn't she arranged for Indian generosity. Alas, each side soon brands their own lover a traitor, so she is banished and he flogged as introduction to slavish toiling. Changes turn again, leading Smith to accept a northern-more mission and anglicized Pocahontas, believing him dead, becoming the mother of aristocratic new lover John Rolfe's son. They'll meet again for a finale in England. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | unrequited loveabusemurderlove |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | playing footsiefishbedbeatingcrying |
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Gallagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?
Themes: | sexualityguiltsuicidelovemurder |
Characters: | lustpolice |
Story: | sexual intercoursebare buttbeatingknifemale rear nuditymale nuditynuditysex |
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: | guiltmurder |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | isolationbare buttbeatingcryingknifemale rear nuditymale nuditynudity |
Following his mother's death, Mark is sent to Maine to visit his aunt and uncle while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. Mark meets his cousin, Henry, and the two quickly form a friendship. However, Henry begins to show signs of violent behavior that worry Mark.
Themes: | crueltymurder |
Story: | animal abusefrozen lakefalling through icecatcrying |
The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his siste β¦r, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members). (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltysexualitysuicidemurder |
Characters: | lust |
Story: | sufferingsnakebedbeatingcryingmale rear nuditysex scenesexnudity |
A triumphant epic of survival and a tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on earth. Our heroine is Liz (Dakota Fanning), carved from the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, hunted by a vengeful Preacher (Guy Pearce) - a diabolical zealot and he β¦r twisted nemesis. But Liz is a genuine survivor; she's no victim - a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve. Fear not. Retribution is coming. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epiccoming of age |
Themes: | crueltyabusesuicidelovemurder |
Story: | bare buttbeatingcryingknifesex scenesexnudity |
In a story interspersed with interview tales of romantic pitfalls, friendship turns to romantic rivalry for gay man Francis and straight woman Marie when a veritable Adonis named Nicolas enters their lives. Sexual tensions mount as Francis and Marie await Nicolas' show of preference.
Themes: | unrequited loveangerlove |
Locations: | lake |
Story: | written and directed by cast membercatcryingsex scenemale nuditynudity |
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's se β¦cret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited lovesexualityguiltangermurder |
Locations: | lakeboat |
Characters: | lust |
Story: | bedbeatingknife |
A former rock star, Johnny Boz, is brutally killed during sex, and the case is assigned to detective Nick Curran of the SFPD. During the investigation, Nick meets Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist who was Boz's girlfriend when he died. Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman, a β¦nd though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz, he is unable to find any evidence. Later, when Nilsen, Nick's rival in the police, is killed, Nick suspects of Catherine's involvement in it. He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her, but as their relationship progresses, the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine's guilt. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited loveguiltangermurder |
Characters: | lustpolice |
Story: | murdererbedmale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynuditysex |
The Cahulawassee River valley in Northern Georgia is one of the last natural pristine areas of the state, which will soon change with the imminent building of a dam on the river, which in turn will flood much of the surrounding land. As such, four Atlanta city slickers - alpha male Lewis Medlock, ge β¦nerally even-keeled Ed Gentry, slightly condescending Bobby Trippe, and wide-eyed Drew Ballinger - decide to take a multi-day canoe trip on the river, with only Lewis and Ed having experience in outdoor life. They know going in that the area is ethno-culturally homogeneous and isolated, but don't understand the full extent of such until they arrive and see what they believe is the result of generations of inbreeding. Their relatively peaceful trip takes a turn for the worse when half way through they encounter a couple of hillbilly moonshiners. That encounter not only makes the four battle their way out of the valley intact and alive, but threatens the relationships of the four as they do and are asked to do things they never thought possible within themselves. (Read More)
Themes: | abuseguiltnaturemurder |
Locations: | boat |
Story: | very little dialoguefloodbare buttbeatingmale rear nuditymale nudity |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epiccoming of age |
Themes: | crueltyguilt |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | very little dialoguesufferingfishsnakecatcrying |
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that th β¦ey can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything. (Read More)
Themes: | crueltyangernaturemurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | sufferingisolationwritten by directorbeatingknifemale rear nuditymale nuditysex |
Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slave β¦ry. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Although her former slave doesn't see it that way. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltyunrequited lovelovemurder |
Locations: | boat |
Story: | seasonscorporal punishmentcryingmale nuditynudity |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | love |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | broken heartbedbare buttwritten by directorcryingknifemale nuditysex |
On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richa β¦rd and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and their friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | sexualitynaturelove |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | corporal punishmentyoung lovebedmale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynuditysex |
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 β¦ 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: | guiltlove |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | buddhist monkepisodic structurecatbeatingcryingknifesex scenesex |
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 β¦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: | unrequited loveanger |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | lustbaby |
Story: | sufferingbare buttcryingknifemale nudity |
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend, Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small β¦Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen. (Read More)
Themes: | crueltyabusemurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | sufferingbare buttbeatingcryingknifemale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynudity |
The plot revolves around a young married woman whose mundane life takes a turn for the worse when she strikes up a passionate and illicit affair with an oddball discount-store stock boy who thinks he's Holden Caulfield.
Themes: | guiltsuicidelove |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | bedbare buttbeatingcryingmale rear nuditysex scenemale nudity |
A once handsome playboy, Cesar finds himself in a mental facility and he can't remember why. All he can remember is meeting the love of his life for one day, and then getting into a car accident which left his face horribly disfigured. But the pain of becoming physically undesirable may help him to β¦find the truth. (Read More)
Themes: | abuseangersuicidemurderlove |
Characters: | police |
Story: | sufferingcatbeatingsex scenenudity |
A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful people, each representing a planet in the Solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and t β¦he guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal. (Read More)
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | very little dialoguefrogwritten and directed by cast membersnakebedbare buttbeatingknifemale rear nuditymale nuditysexnudity |
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who β¦ have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. (Read More)
Themes: | crueltyangernaturemurder |
Locations: | lakeboat |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | sufferingbeatingcryingknifesex |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al β¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltsuicidemurderlove |
Locations: | lakeforest |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | murdererbare buttbeatingcryingmale rear nuditymale nuditynudity |
In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been β¦behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and 'Charles Bronson,' his superstar alter ego, took center stage. Inside the mind of Bronson - a scathing indictment of celebrity culture. (Read More)
Themes: | angerlovemurder |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | sufferingbedbare buttbeatingcryingsex scenemale nuditynudity |
Themes: | unrequited loveguiltangermurderlove |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | frogsnakebeatingknife |
The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's bastard son draws Excalib β¦ur and becomes king. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall. (Read More)
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | lakeforest |
Characters: | lust |
Story: | snakebeatingmale rear nuditysex scenemale nuditynudity |
A lone fisherman, Baker Dill, who escaped from his past to a remote island, meets with his ex-girlfriend Karen. She asks Dill to kill her cruel husband, who also comes to the island. The swirling neonoire against the backdrop of exotic landscapes "Serenity" was shot by British director and screenwri β¦ter Stephen Knight. The captain of a fishing vessel, Baker Dill, spends his days, indistinguishable from each other, on a tropical island, earns money from wealthy tourists and sees the purpose of his life in catching one particular tuna called Justice. (Read More)
Themes: | abusemurder |
Locations: | boat |
Story: | bare buttwritten by directorcatbeatingmale rear nuditysex scenemale nudity |
Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent's cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him m β¦ore and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence - artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, and ostracism. The turbulent relationship between mother and son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection. The stunning, semi-autobiographical directing debut of 20-year-old actor Xavier Dolan. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | guiltangerlovemurder |
Story: | written and directed by cast memberbeatingknifemale nudity |
In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level.
Themes: | unrequited lovemurderlove |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | buddhist monkcalligraphymonkknife |
United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon di β¦e, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, pβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Locations: | lakeboatforest |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | fishsnakebedbare buttcatbeatingcryingnudity |
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forc β¦ed to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | abusemurderlove |
Locations: | lakeboat |
Story: | floodbeatingcryingknife |
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 β¦overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | unrequited loveabuseguiltsuicidelove |
Story: | sufferingbuddhistwritten by directorbeatingcryingknife |
Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and wa β¦ter and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive? (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltyunrequited loveguiltsuicidemurderlove |
Locations: | boat |
Story: | young lovemurderercatbeatingcryingknifesex scene |
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.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | nature |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | bedbare buttcatcryingmale nuditynudity |
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Cres β¦t Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthen, and ultimately heals her. (Read More)
Themes: | angernature |
Locations: | lakeforest |
Story: | isolationsnakebare buttcryingknifemale rear nuditysex scenemale nudity |
Epic adventure Exodus: Gods and Kings is the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 β¦ slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. (Read More)
Subgenre: | epic |
Themes: | crueltymurder |
Locations: | boat |
Story: | cyclesufferingfrogfishsnakecryingknife |
A couple on a holiday in the Caribbean decide to spend the day on a scuba diving trip. But was it the wrong decision? When a mis-count happens on the boat, Susan and Daniel are left behind in the middle of the ocean, the boat long gone. With all their hopes set on the boat coming back to rescue them β¦, they try to keep themselves safe, especially when sharks start to appear. (Read More)
Themes: | angernature |
Locations: | boat |
Story: | isolationfishbedknife |