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Before leaving on his second tour in Afghanistan, Marine Captain Sam Cahill, a leader, an athlete, a good husband and father, welcomes his screw-up brother Tommy home from prison. He'd robbed a bank. In country, Sam's helicopter is shot down and all are presumed dead. Back home, while Sam wastes awa β¦y as a prisoner in a remote encampment, Tommy tries to take care of the widow and her two children. While imprisoned, Sam experiences horrors unbearable, so when he's rescued and returns home, he's silent, detached, without affect, and he's convinced his wife and brother have slept together. Demons of war possess him; what will silence them? (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | starvationtraumagriefguiltparanoiaangertorturemarriagekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchensnowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdeath of soldieramerican soldieruncle niece relationshiplove trianglenursegirlchildrenfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | winter |
Story: | catholic massu.s. marinetour of dutywar traumabrother in lawhome movieprisoner of warremake of danish filmah 64 apache helicopterhelicopter shot downuh 60 blackhawk helicopterhelicopter crashvideo camerafalse accusation of infidelityoperation enduring freedom β¦missing in actionafghan warthreatened suicideraising a flagnursing studentemotional turmoilemotional shockforced to killtraumatic childhoodhomefrontremodelingsibling relationshipsister in lawemaciationprivatethreat to killgrievingrenovationinfanttalibanmarital infidelitymasssnowmangravestonebubble bathgun held to headmarinerelease from prisontragic herofamily dinnerdark pasttourice skatingpost traumatic stress disordersurprisefather figureafghanistanpresumed deadhomeloss of loved onecaptivejoggingballooncaptainshavingtherapybased on filmcharacter says i love youbrothersuspicionamerican flagconfessionbartendergraveyardforeign language adaptationprisonerwidowtearscamerarescueremakecryingpistolbare chested maleone word title (See All) |
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, wit β¦h the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country. (Read More)
Themes: | torturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenhelicopter |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. marinehelicopter shot downuh 60 blackhawk helicopterhelicopter crashmarinetourcharacter says i love youamerican flagrescuepistol |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi β¦ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
Themes: | angermarriagekidnapping |
Locations: | snowbar |
Characters: | childrenmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | gravestoneice skatinghomebartendergraveyardwidowtearscamerarescuecrying |
Chris Kyle was nothing more than a Texan man who dreamed of becoming a cowboy, but in his thirties he found out that maybe his life needed something different, something where he could express his real talent, something that could help America in its fight against terrorism. So he joined the SEALs i β¦n order to become a sniper. After marrying, Kyle and the other members of the team are called for their first tour of Iraq. Kyle's struggle isn't with his missions, but about his relationship with the reality of the war and, once returned at home, how he manages to handle it with his urban life, his wife and kids. (Read More)
Themes: | torturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | helicopterbar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipamerican soldiernursefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | u.s. marinemarinetourpost traumatic stress disorderhomeamerican flagrescuepistolbare chested male |
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and β¦ the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. (Read More)
Themes: | starvationparanoiaangertorturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | snowhelicopter |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | prisoner of warhelicopter crashloss of loved onecaptiveshavingamerican flagprisonerrescuepistolbare chested male |
The city of Spokane, Washington is awakened by a North Korean paratrooper invasion. Marine Corps veteran Jed Eckert and his civilian brother, Matt, escape with a group of friends to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they witness the execution of their father at the hands of the ruthless Captain β¦Cho. The brothers unite with their friends to form a guerrilla resistance group--the Wolverines--to drive the invaders from their home. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | helicopterbar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | u.s. marineprisoner of warmarinehomecaptaincharacter says i love youbrotheramerican flagrescueremakepistol |
SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries β¦to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | griefparanoiaangermurder |
Locations: | snowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | home movievideo cameragravestonecaptivegraveyardprisonertearsrescuecryingpistol |
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: | griefguilttorturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | nursegirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | video cameragun held to headpresumed deadloss of loved onesuspicionconfessionforeign language adaptationtearscameracryingbare chested male |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the β¦concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | griefmarriage |
Locations: | snowbar |
Characters: | love trianglemother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | ice skatingjogginggraveyardwidowtearscameracryingone word title |
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to estrang β¦ed mother. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | guiltanger |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiplove trianglenursemother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | presumed deadballoonbrothersuspicionamerican flagtearscrying |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind β¦, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
Themes: | griefguilt |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiplove trianglegirlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | winter |
Story: | gravestonehomebrothergraveyard |
Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.
Themes: | starvationguiltparanoia |
Characters: | love trianglenursechildren |
Story: | dark pastpresumed deadhomeloss of loved onesuspicionremakecrying |
When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.
Themes: | paranoiatorturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | helicopterbar |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | ah 64 apache helicopteruh 60 blackhawk helicoptergun held to headtragic herodark pastsuspicionrescuepistolbare chested maleone word title |
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: | marriagemurder |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipnursegirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | home movievideo camerajoggingtherapysuspiciontearscameracryingbare chested male |
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: | guiltmarriagemurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipgirlchildrenfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | character says i love youamerican flagbartendertearscameracryingbare chested maleone word title |
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: | traumagriefangermarriagemurder |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipnursegirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | prisoner of warpost traumatic stress disordergraveyardprisonerwidowtearscryingbare chested male |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac β¦kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Themes: | traumagriefguiltmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipgirlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | winter |
Story: | home movieprivatedark pasthomeconfessiongraveyardtearscryingbare chested male |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con β¦vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | griefguiltangermarriagemurder |
Locations: | snowbar |
Characters: | nursefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | release from prisontherapyprisonerwidowtearscryingpistol |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and ma β¦ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiatorturemurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | home movievideo cameracharacter says i love youamerican flaggraveyardprisonercamerapistolbare chested male |
A family of police officers - patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law - deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption β¦, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. Is Jimmy involved in the corruption? Where can this take the family? (Read More)
Themes: | grieftorturemurder |
Locations: | snowbar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | brother in lawsnowmanhomebrothergraveyardbare chested male |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltparanoiamurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipgirlfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | gravestonerelease from prisonfather figureconfessiongraveyardtearscamerarescuecryingbare chested male |
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northea β¦st - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | angermurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiplove trianglefather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | release from prisonpost traumatic stress disorderbrotheramerican flagbartenderprisonertearscryingpistolbare chested male |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de β¦fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltangermarriagemurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipgirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | home moviegravestonehomebrothersuspicionamerican flagconfessionbare chested male |
Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, star β¦ting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaangertorturemurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | release from prisontragic herodark pastfather figurebrotheramerican flagprisonercamerarescuepistolbare chested male |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve β¦r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
Themes: | starvationmarriagemurder |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiplove trianglenursefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | presumed deadforeign language adaptationwidow |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | griefguiltparanoiaanger |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | nursegirlchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | grievinggraveyardcamerabare chested maleone word title |
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devou β¦tly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | angermarriagemurder |
Locations: | kitchen |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | video camerafamily dinnerhomegraveyardtearscrying |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's β¦ not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | griefparanoiatorturekidnappingmurder |
Characters: | uncle niece relationshipnursegirlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | captiveamerican flagconfessionprisonertearscameracryingbare chested maleone word title |
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will β¦aliens take over? (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaangermurder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | uncle niece relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | uh 60 blackhawk helicopterpost traumatic stress disorderpresumed deadloss of loved onecaptaincharacter says i love youamerican flagprisonerwidowrescuecryingpistol |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Themes: | guiltparanoiamurder |
Locations: | snowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | video camerabartendergraveyardtearscameracrying |
Paris is starving, but the King of France is more interested in money and bedding women. When a young soldier dies for the sake of a shag, Aramis, Athos and Porthos band together with a plan to replace the king. Unknown to many, there is a 2nd king, a twin, hidden at birth, then imprisoned for 6 yea β¦rs behind an iron mask. All that remains now is D'Artagnan, will he stand against his long time friends, or do what is best for his country? (Read More)
Themes: | starvationgriefanger |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | father figuresuspicionbrotherconfessionforeign language adaptationprisonertearsremake |
When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever β¦ had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | uncle niece relationshipgirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | home movieloss of loved onecaptivebrothersuspiciongraveyardtearscrying |
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, prep β¦aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
Themes: | grief |
Locations: | kitchensnow |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | home movietherapygraveyardtearsremakecrying |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n β¦ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaangertorturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenhelicopterbar |
Characters: | love trianglenursemother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | helicopter crashtragic herodark pastfather figurepresumed deadloss of loved onebartenderprisonerrescuepistolbare chested male |
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring β¦out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything? (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipgirlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | video cameraamerican flagtearscamerarescuecryingpistol |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int β¦ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
Themes: | traumaguiltparanoia |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | nursegirlchildrenfather daughter relationship |
Story: | video camerarenovationcharacter says i love youamerican flaggraveyardrescuecryingpistolbare chested maleone word title |
Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
Characters: | brother brother relationshiplove trianglegirlchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family dinnerbrotherconfessiontearscrying |
Judah Rosenthal is an ophthalmologist and a pillar of the community who has a big problem: his mistress Dolores Paley has told him that he is to leave his wife and marry her - as he had promised to do - or she will tell everyone of their affair. When he intercepts a letter Dolores has written to his β¦ wife Miriam, he is frantic. He confesses all to his shady brother Jack who assures him that he has friends who can take care of her. Meanwhile, filmmaker Cliff Stern is having his own problems. He's been working on a documentary film for some time but has yet to complete it. He and his wife Wendy have long ago stopped loving one another and are clearly on their way to divorce. He falls in love with Halley Reed who works with a producer, Lester. Cliff soon finds himself making a documentary about Lester and hates every minute of it. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltmurder |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipuncle niece relationshiplove trianglemother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | brother in lawfamily dinnerjoggingbrother |
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfi β¦eld pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? (Read More)
Themes: | griefguilttorturemarriagemurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | childrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | grievingpost traumatic stress disordershavingamerican flagbartendertearscameracryingbare chested male |
Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?
Characters: | girlchildrenmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | video camerasibling relationshipbrothertearscameracrying |
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by reckless β¦ly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat, behaving as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | kitchenhelicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | tour of dutyuh 60 blackhawk helicoptervideo cameragun held to headpost traumatic stress disordershavingprisonerrescuecryingbare chested male |
Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal, and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. After running into mountain herders and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned. Now Marcus and hi β¦s team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Story: | ah 64 apache helicopteruh 60 blackhawk helicopterhelicopter crashtalibanafghanistanamerican flagcamerarescuepistolbare chested male |
In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally deranged prisone β¦rs and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal splits the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison. (Read More)
Themes: | starvationtorturemurder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | nursechildren |
Story: | prisoner of waremaciationpost traumatic stress disordercaptiveprisonerrescuecrying |
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | home movierelease from prisonbrotherbartenderprisonerbare chested male |
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 β¦question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaangermarriagemurder |
Locations: | kitchensnowbar |
Characters: | girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | video camerasurprisesuspicionconfessionbartendercameracrying |
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 β¦r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | guiltangermarriage |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | love trianglechildrenhusband wife relationship |
Story: | balloonshavingbartendertearscameracryingone word title |
Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight, in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its police force which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
Themes: | paranoiatorturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchensnowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | police |
Period: | winter |
Story: | release from prisontragic herofather figurepresumed deadcaptainshavingamerican flaggraveyardprisonerrescuepistolbare chested male |
Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all ov β¦er Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiatorturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipnursegirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | video camerafamily dinneramerican flagcameracryingpistol |
In Bedridge, Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at the train station and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds that the dog is an Akita and names it Hachiko. However, nobody claims the dog so his family decides to keep Hachi.
Locations: | kitchensnow |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | gravestonehomeforeign language adaptationwidowtearscameraremakecrying |
Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle β¦for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller. (Read More)
Themes: | torturekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipgirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | video cameraamerican flagtearsrescueremakecryingpistol |