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Holly Golightly is a flighty Manhattan party girl, who expects "money for the powder room as well as for cab fare" for her companionship. She has even gotten a lucrative once weekly job to visit notorious convict Sally Tomato in Sing Sing, she needing to report back to Sally's lawyer the weather rep…ort that Sally tells her as proof of her visits with him in return for payment. Her aspirations for glamor and wealth are epitomized by the comfort she feels at Tiffany's, the famous high end jewelry retailer where she believes nothing can ever go wrong. Her resolve for this wealth is strengthened, if not changed slightly in focus, upon news from home. Into Holly's walk-up apartment building and thus her life is Paul Varjak, a writer who Holly states reminds her of her brother Fred, who she has not seen in years and who is currently enlisted in the army. The two quickly become friends in their want for something outside of their current lot. Paul's situation is closer to Holly's than he would like to admit. Having not had anything published in over five years, he is a kept man by his wealthy married "decorator", Emily Eustace Failenson - who he refers to as 2E - which allows him not to write, which he no longer truly does. Eventually, Paul falls for Holly, and wants to take care of her, instead of being taken care of as is his current situation. Although Holly also seems to be falling for him, the question becomes whether Paul can fulfill Holly's life aspirations, and if not what n… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | comedy of manners melodrama cult film |
| Themes: | writing break up extramarital affair drunkenness prison |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | fire escape bus station strip club police station urban setting apartment taxi los angeles california bar new york city |
| Characters: | police arrest japanese love triangle writer female protagonist police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | woman smoking cigarette wearing sunglasses inside book as a gift taxi ride ginger cat pet cat prison visitation fifth avenue manhattan new york city scene at a window character appears on front page of a newspaper negative asian stereotype photograph in newspaper kept man character appears in newspaper kissing in the rain …earplug ethnic stereotype yellow cab annulment interior decorator thinness telephone box language learning name change broken engagement animal in cast credits social climber jewelry store revolving door gold digger secret past check racial stereotype brazilian jewel knitting famous score telegram code paparazzi infatuation central park manhattan new york city veterinarian alley being followed loss of brother brushing teeth film producer rainstorm millionaire shoplifting nickname blockbuster crime boss newspaper headline typewriter ring champagne library woman manhattan new york city prostitution neighbor bathroom apostrophe in title sunglasses book mask arrest cat three word title party singing cigarette smoking bare chested male based on novel kiss (See All) |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi…m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama cult film |
| Themes: | break up extramarital affair |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | strip club los angeles california bar |
| Characters: | love triangle police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | famous score rainstorm blockbuster library woman sunglasses party bare chested male based on novel kiss |
Based off of the comic book. Unbeknownst to other people, there is a private agency code named MiB. This agency is some kind of extra terrestrial surveillance corporation. Then, one of the agency's finest men only going by the name "K" ('Tommy Lee Jones' (qv)) , is recruiting for a new addition to t…he agency. He has chosen James Edwards ('Will Smith (I)' (qv)) of the N.Y.P.D. Then, one day, a flying saucer crashes into Earth. This was an alien a part of the "Bug" race. He takes the body of a farmer ('Vincent D'Onofrio' (qv)) and heads to New York. He is searching for a super energy source called "The Galaxy". Now, Agents J and K must stop the bug before it can escape with the galaxy. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | taxi new york city |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | ginger cat pet cat character appears on front page of a newspaper character appears in newspaper yellow cab jewelry store famous score code blockbuster newspaper headline woman manhattan new york city sunglasses book cat …three word title cigarette smoking (See All) |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra…cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | extramarital affair prison |
| Locations: | apartment taxi los angeles california bar new york city |
| Characters: | police arrest police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | telephone box name change rainstorm blockbuster typewriter champagne manhattan new york city prostitution sunglasses arrest cat party singing cigarette smoking bare chested male |
Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for… a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events a… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
| Themes: | writing break up extramarital affair |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | urban setting apartment new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle writer |
| Story: | telephone box central park manhattan new york city typewriter woman manhattan new york city book cigarette smoking |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl…e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | extramarital affair |
| Locations: | los angeles california bar new york city |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | character appears in newspaper telephone box revolving door famous score paparazzi film producer crime boss woman manhattan new york city bathroom cat based on novel kiss |
In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity… as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices. (Read More)
| Themes: | break up |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | apartment taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | writer female protagonist |
| Story: | thinness central park manhattan new york city brushing teeth blockbuster champagne woman manhattan new york city book based on novel kiss |
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | fire escape urban setting taxi bar new york city |
| Story: | pet cat revolving door knitting infatuation shoplifting woman manhattan new york city cat party based on novel kiss |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree…dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | break up extramarital affair drunkenness |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | famous score blockbuster woman manhattan new york city neighbor party based on novel |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy… neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
| Themes: | break up extramarital affair |
| Locations: | taxi los angeles california |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | kissing in the rain woman neighbor cat party cigarette smoking kiss |
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the… program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | writing drunkenness prison |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | police station apartment bar |
| Characters: | writer police |
| Story: | famous score rainstorm blockbuster newspaper headline typewriter library mask arrest cat three word title singing bare chested male based on novel |
After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Dejected and remorseful, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Parry, a former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. The …DJ seeks redemption by helping Parry in his quest to recover an item that he believes is the Holy Grail and to win the heart of the woman he loves. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | break up |
| Locations: | bar new york city |
| Story: | wearing sunglasses inside character appears on front page of a newspaper photograph in newspaper character appears in newspaper yellow cab revolving door central park manhattan new york city woman manhattan new york city three word title cigarette smoking |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | writing extramarital affair |
| Locations: | police station bar new york city |
| Characters: | police arrest writer police |
| Story: | woman manhattan new york city neighbor bathroom sunglasses book arrest cat party cigarette smoking based on novel kiss |
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | drunkenness |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | urban setting |
| Characters: | writer police |
| Story: | famous score paparazzi rainstorm blockbuster cat three word title party |
Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancee of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, h…er husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkenness |
| Locations: | police station taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle female protagonist police |
| Story: | kissing in the rain name change jewelry store secret past rainstorm newspaper headline champagne arrest cat three word title kiss |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo…k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | writing drunkenness prison |
| Locations: | police station taxi bar |
| Characters: | writer police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | prison visitation code brushing teeth rainstorm newspaper headline book arrest cigarette smoking |
When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They sh…ow up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | drunkenness |
| Locations: | fire escape urban setting |
| Characters: | love triangle police |
| Story: | scene at a window gold digger millionaire blockbuster crime boss newspaper headline typewriter champagne woman party singing kiss |
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find… out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. But Carl has another plan in mind. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Locations: | taxi new york city |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | check central park manhattan new york city film producer rainstorm shoplifting blockbuster typewriter woman manhattan new york city kiss |
Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together… as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | writing extramarital affair drunkenness |
| Locations: | apartment taxi |
| Characters: | writer |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | secret past famous score neighbor cigarette smoking |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. …As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
| Themes: | writing extramarital affair |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | love triangle writer |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | paparazzi being followed film producer champagne woman sunglasses singing cigarette smoking bare chested male kiss |
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin… when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
| Themes: | extramarital affair |
| Locations: | urban setting |
| Characters: | love triangle female protagonist |
| Story: | blockbuster woman apostrophe in title three word title party singing cigarette smoking based on novel kiss |
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She in…troduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama cult film |
| Locations: | urban setting taxi bar new york city |
| Story: | pet cat famous score alley loss of brother blockbuster three word title |
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in …the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the building who Baxter himself fancies. In turn, Sheldrake has no idea of Baxter's own interest in Fran. And Fran, who is in love with Sheldrake, has no idea that she is only the latest in a long line of Sheldrake's mistresses, that Sheldrake has no intention of leaving his wife for her, and that the apartment belongs to Baxter, who she likes as a friend. As some of these facts come to light on Christmas Eve, one of the three makes a unilateral decision. That decision sets off a series of events over the … (Read More)
| Themes: | break up extramarital affair drunkenness |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | apartment taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle |
| Story: | central park manhattan new york city brushing teeth champagne manhattan new york city neighbor bathroom sunglasses singing cigarette smoking kiss |
Famed writer 'Truman Capote' (qv), southern born and bred but now part of the New York City social circle, is growing weary of his current assignment of writing autobiographical type pieces for the New Yorker. After reading a newspaper article about the just occurred November 14, 1959 cold blooded m…urders of the Clutter family in their rural Kansas home, Truman feels compelled to write about that event as his next article. So he and his personal assistant Nelle 'Harper Lee (I)' (qv), also a southern born New Yorker and an aspiring writer of her own, head to Kansas to research the story first-hand. Truman hopes to use his celebrity status to gain access to whomever he needs, such as to Laura Kinney, a friend of the Clutter daughter she who discovered the bodies, and to Alvin Dewey, the lead police investigator and also a Clutter family friend. If his celebrity doesn't work, Truman will grease the wheels by whatever means necessary. When the police eventually charge suspects, two young men named Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith, Truman uses those same tactics to gain access to them. Truman's fascination with the story makes him believe that he can revolutionize writing by expanding the germ of the article into what he calls a non-fiction novel. His personal involvement also changes as he grows emotionally attached to Perry, the seemingly sensitive and thus probable submissive in the criminal pairing, thus Truman becoming part of the story itself. Article or non-fiction novel, Trum… (Read More)
| Themes: | writing drunkenness prison |
| Locations: | police station taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | police arrest writer police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | prison visitation telegram typewriter neighbor book party cigarette smoking kiss |
We like Florence: she's considerate, sweet, pretty, and terrific with kids and dogs. She's twenty-five, personal assistant to an L.A. family that's off on vacation. Her boss's brother comes in from New York City, fresh from a stay at an asylum, to take care of the house. He's Roger, a forty-year-old… carpenter, gone from L.A. for fifteen years. He arrives, doesn't drive, and needs Florence's help, especially with the family's dog. He's also connecting with former band-mates - two men and one woman with whom he has a history. He over-analyzes, has a short fuse, and doesn't laugh at himself easily. As he navigates past and present, he's his own saboteur. And what of Florence? is Roger one more responsibility for her or something else? (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkenness |
| Locations: | taxi los angeles california bar new york city |
| Story: | check brazilian veterinarian loss of brother champagne woman manhattan new york city bathroom party singing cigarette smoking bare chested male kiss |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor…mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Locations: | taxi |
| Characters: | police arrest writer police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | telegram code being followed newspaper headline typewriter champagne book arrest cat singing cigarette smoking bare chested male kiss |
Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancee left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, dire…ct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra's fidelity for the moments Michelle's moods swing toward him? Can this end well? (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affair |
| Locations: | apartment new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle |
| Story: | taxi ride jewel ring neighbor party singing kiss |
Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, young Clark discovers the source of his superhuman powers and moves to Metropolis to fight evil. As Superman, he battles the vil…lainous Lex Luthor, while, as novice reporter Clark Kent, he attempts to woo co-worker Lois Lane (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Locations: | urban setting new york city |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | character appears on front page of a newspaper telephone box revolving door famous score alley blockbuster library manhattan new york city cat bare chested male |
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)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | break up extramarital affair |
| Locations: | strip club taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle writer |
| Story: | manhattan new york city bathroom book cigarette smoking kiss |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge…ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkenness prison |
| Locations: | strip club police station urban setting apartment bar |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | code loss of brother rainstorm crime boss newspaper headline sunglasses arrest party cigarette smoking bare chested male |
The needy Gigi Haim is a young woman seeking her prince charming somewhere amongst her unsuccessful dates. After dating estate agent Conor Barry, Gigi anxiously expects to receive a phone call from him. However Conor never calls her. Gigi decides to go to the bar where he frequents to see him, but s…he meets his friend Alex who works there. They become friends and Alex helps Gigi to interpret the subtle signs given out by her dates. (Read More)
| Themes: | break up extramarital affair |
| Locations: | apartment bar |
| Characters: | love triangle |
| Story: | infatuation woman apostrophe in title party cigarette smoking |
In London, the public relation Helen is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen: in one life, she stays with her… boyfriend Gerry, and in the other life, she finds that Gerry cheats her with Lydia and falls in love with James Hammerton. (Read More)
| Themes: | writing break up extramarital affair drunkenness |
| Locations: | taxi |
| Characters: | writer female protagonist |
| Story: | kissing in the rain ring library book party cigarette smoking kiss |
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked …out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
| Themes: | break up |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | urban setting los angeles california bar new york city |
| Characters: | writer |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | taxi ride telephone box woman cigarette smoking |
Sarah Ashburn, an FBI agent, is extremely ambitious and has her eye on a promotion, but she doesn't get along with her co-workers. She is sent to Boston to uncover the identity of an elusive drug lord, Mr. Larkin, by tracking down his proxy, Rojas, and is told that she'll have a good shot at the pro…motion if she finds Larkin. When she arrives in Boston, she learns that Larkin has been eliminating his competition and taking over their operations. She learns that Rojas is in Boston PD custody and goes to see him to ask him what he knows about Larkin, but is warned that the cop who arrested Rojas, Shannon Mullins, is very territorial, and she is not exactly sociable. When the two meet they don't get along. When Mullins learns why Ashburn is in Boston, she decides to find Larkin herself. Ashburn is told by her boss to work with Mullins, but it won't be easy because Ashburn does things by the book while Mullins does things her way. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkenness prison |
| Locations: | police station urban setting apartment bar new york city |
| Characters: | female protagonist police |
| Story: | woman smoking cigarette ginger cat pet cat crime boss book arrest cat party cigarette smoking |
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)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | prison |
| Locations: | apartment taxi bar |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | character appears in newspaper infatuation rainstorm woman arrest singing |
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. A…ctually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkenness |
| Locations: | bus station new york city |
| Characters: | writer police |
| Story: | character appears in newspaper telegram rainstorm blockbuster newspaper headline typewriter singing cigarette smoking bare chested male kiss |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woma…n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
| Locations: | strip club police station apartment bar |
| Story: | rainstorm newspaper headline typewriter woman arrest cigarette smoking bare chested male based on novel |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther …Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affair drunkenness |
| Locations: | police station apartment bar |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | character appears on front page of a newspaper rainstorm millionaire newspaper headline woman arrest party cigarette smoking based on novel kiss |
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, …making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast. (Read More)
| Themes: | writing |
| Locations: | apartment new york city |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | animal in cast credits blockbuster woman neighbor singing kiss |
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)
| Locations: | urban setting apartment taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | fifth avenue manhattan new york city jewelry store infatuation central park manhattan new york city being followed champagne woman manhattan new york city book singing cigarette smoking bare chested male kiss |
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)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | extramarital affair |
| Locations: | taxi bar |
| Characters: | japanese female protagonist police |
| Story: | name change telegram shoplifting champagne arrest singing cigarette smoking kiss |
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a sc…reenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | apartment taxi |
| Characters: | love triangle writer |
| Story: | film producer typewriter woman cigarette smoking bare chested male kiss |
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?
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | extramarital affair |
| Locations: | police station new york city |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | woman smoking cigarette central park manhattan new york city blockbuster champagne library woman manhattan new york city cigarette smoking kiss |
After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale - now a musician - who tells him of strange sex parties when he is required to play the piano… blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | extramarital affair drunkenness |
| Locations: | urban setting taxi new york city |
| Story: | central park manhattan new york city champagne manhattan new york city prostitution bathroom mask three word title party cigarette smoking based on novel kiss |
Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the… afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | taxi ride champagne woman prostitution sunglasses cigarette smoking based on novel |
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wr…ong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | writing drunkenness |
| Locations: | apartment bar new york city |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | telephone box typewriter manhattan new york city singing based on novel |
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)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | drunkenness |
| Locations: | taxi bar new york city |
| Characters: | writer female protagonist |
| Story: | blockbuster woman book party singing kiss |
A mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set u…p a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Locations: | strip club apartment los angeles california |
| Characters: | love triangle |
| Story: | being followed film producer woman neighbor sunglasses mask cigarette smoking based on novel |
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.
| Locations: | fire escape bar new york city |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | ginger cat alley manhattan new york city sunglasses arrest cat three word title singing cigarette smoking |
Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the Am…erican southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives. (Read More)
| Locations: | bar new york city |
| Characters: | writer police |
| Story: | shoplifting typewriter prostitution book mask cat three word title singing cigarette smoking bare chested male based on novel kiss |
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