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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 … 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)
| Subgenre: | documentary filmmakingindependent film |
| Themes: | getting away with murderjusticeblindnessguiltblackmailextramarital affairfilmmakinggangsterweddingadulteryinfidelitysuicidelovemurder |
| Mood: | behind the scenessatire |
| Locations: | urban settingapartmentbeachnew york city |
| Characters: | jewish weddingbrother brother relationshipjewish americanbrother sister relationshipuncle niece relationshipprofessorpolice detectivejewishlove triangledoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | brother in lawjewish culturejewish familywedding receptionunethical doctoroff screen suicidedead flight attendanttearing up a letterediting machinereference to james joycecontemporary settinganhedoniaindian foodediting roomeye exam …burning a lettercontract killingends with narrationfilm editinggentiletelevision producercrisis of consciencefilm buffchildhood homeguilty conscienceoff screen murderdocumentary filmmakerdinner tablemeaning of lifedocumentary crewloveless marriagedead woman on floortreadmillmarriage problemsflight attendantrabbiblind datebirthday presentdead woman with eyes openfamily dinnerexistentialismvoice over letterengagementcynicismdead womancheating husbanddysfunctional marriagemovie theaterwatching a moviejoggingtape recordersabotagebrotherfilm within a filmdirected by starspeechwritten and directed by cast membernew yorkcriminaldead bodyurinationtelephone callthree word titleflashback (See All) |
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Conf …ronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelitylove |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | jewish familychildhood homeloveless marriagemarriage problemsrabbitelephone callflashback |
Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. Carol becomes suspicious of Paul who seems to be too cheerful and too ready to move on. She begins her investiga …tion. Larry insists she is becoming too fixated on their neighbor as all of the irregularities seem to have simple non-homicidal explanations. Ted, a recently divorced friend helps her investigation and Larry begins to become jealous of their relationship and agrees to help her. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailmurder |
| Locations: | urban settingapartmentnew york city |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | marriage problemsdead womanwatching a movietape recorderdirected by starwritten and directed by cast memberdead bodytelephone callthree word titleflashback |
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 …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)
| Themes: | guiltmurder |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipuncle niece relationshiplove trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | brother in lawfamily dinnerjoggingbrother |
Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
| Themes: | wedding |
| Locations: | beachnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshiplove triangledoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | treadmillfamily dinnerbrothertelephone call |
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: | blackmailweddingsuicidemurderlove |
| Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipjewishmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | dysfunctional marriagejoggingdead bodyurinationtelephone callthree word titleflashback |
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
| Themes: | blackmailgangstersuicidelovemurder |
| Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipjewish americanbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | dead womandysfunctional marriagenew yorkdead bodytelephone callflashback |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | extramarital affairwedding |
| Locations: | urban settingnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipprofessorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | tape recordernew yorkthree word titleflashback |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
| Themes: | blackmailextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshippolice detectivelove triangledoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | dysfunctional marriagetelephone callflashback |
The film's female lead, Naina (Preity Zinta) narrates the story. Her father had committed suicide years ago which left a deep impact on her heart. Her family is dysfunctional since her mother and grandmother just cannot stop arguing. But when Aman (Shahrukh Khan) arrives next door, the whole gloomy …conditions change. Aman infuses life in skeptical and overtly serious Naina, and she falls in love with him. But Aman knows that he cannot marry Naina because of a secret which he cannot divulge to her. So he intends upon setting her up with her best pal Rohit (Saif Ali Khan). (Read More)
| Themes: | weddingsuicidelove |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshiplove trianglemother daughter relationship |
| Story: | indian fooddinner tablemeaning of lifeengagementjoggingnew york |
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)
| Themes: | blindnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
| Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | wedding receptionflight attendantfamily dinnerengagementmovie theaterwatching a movietape recorderspeechcriminalflashback |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelitysuicidemurder |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | documentary filmmakerwatching a movietape recorderfilm within a filmdead bodyflashback |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat …e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | beachnew york city |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionwatching a moviespeechtelephone call |
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.
| Subgenre: | documentary filmmaking |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | documentary crewmovie theaterbrothercriminal |
Seventeen year old Jason Slocumb, Jr. - Igby to most that know him - comes from east coast old money, the second son of self-absorbed and controlling Mimi Slocumb and medically-diagnosed schizophrenic Jason Slocum, Sr., the latter who has for several years been institutionalized in a Maryland psychi …atric facility. While Igby's economics-studying Columbia-attending older brother Ollie Slocum has embraced and aspires to continue their wealthy life, Igby has rebelled against it, considering his brother a fascist (although he could soften that label to Republican). Because of Jason's situation, Mimi has largely left the role of male role model for Ollie and Igby to their godfather, D.H. Banes. Igby's rebellion has led to him being kicked out of one prep school after another, the latest, a military academy, from which Igby escapes before he can graduate. As such, Mimi and D.H. arrange for Igby to live in New York with Ollie for the summer while working for D.H. renovating some of his properties, before Mimi arranges for yet another strict school for the fall so that Igby can at least graduate. Igby is largely able to hide out for most of the summer with the help of Rachel, D.H.'s younger heroin addict mistress, and Sookie, a slightly older waitress with who he falls in love. An issue with Sookie and the aftermath of a joint mission with Ollie leads to Igby having a clearer picture of what his immediate future will look like. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelitysuicidelovemurder |
| Locations: | beachnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipprofessorlove triangledoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | meaning of lifecheating husbandwatching a moviebrothernew yorkdead bodyflashback |
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)
| Themes: | extramarital affairgangsterweddingmurder |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionmovie theatercriminalurinationtelephone call |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitysuicidelovemurder |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | wedding receptioncheating husbandmovie theatertelephone callflashback |
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)
| Themes: | justicelovemurder |
| Locations: | apartmentbeach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | movie theatertape recordersabotagecriminal |
Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events fo …llow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. (Read More)
| Themes: | weddinginfidelity |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionchildhood homeexistentialismvoice over letterspeechurinationflashback |
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a … good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | documentary filmmaking |
| Themes: | filmmakinglovemurder |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | apartmentbeach |
| Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | off screen murderdocumentary crewdead woman with eyes opendead womanbrotherfilm within a filmdead bodyurinationflashback |
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: | independent film |
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitysuicide |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionloveless marriagetelephone call |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
| Themes: | justiceguiltmurder |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipuncle niece relationshipjewishdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | rabbicynicismspeechtelephone callflashback |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitylove |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipuncle niece relationshiplove trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding reception |
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 …, 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: | justicesuicidemurder |
| Locations: | urban settingapartmentnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | brother in lawtape recorderbrotherurination |
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job, his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is …an unwelcome house guest. But both Arthur and Larry get turfed out into a motel when Larry's wife Judy, who wants a divorce, moves her lover, Sy, into the house and even after Sy's death in a car crash they are still there. With lawyers' bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur's criminal court appearances and a land feud with a neighbour Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes. Still God moves in mysterious - and not always pleasant - ways, as Larry and his family will find out. (Read More)
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipuncle niece relationshipprofessorjewishlove triangledoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | gentilerabbibrotherfilm within a filmcriminaltelephone call |
Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up th …rough the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy? (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairgangsterweddingadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | jewish weddingbrother brother relationshipjewishmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | wedding reception |
Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent s …howdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents' murder... Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano. (Read More)
| Themes: | blindnessblackmailsuicidemurder |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationship |
| Story: | off screen murderdead woman on floordead womandirected by starwritten and directed by cast membercriminaldead bodyflashback |
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, … escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | guiltextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | existentialismdysfunctional marriagetape recordertelephone callthree word title |
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Me …tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshiplove trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | cynicismjoggingurinationflashback |
In 1959, 'Alfred Hitchcock (I)' (qv) and his wife, 'Alma Reville' (qv), are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, _Psycho ( …1960)_ (qv), over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams. (Read More)
| Themes: | guiltextramarital affairfilmmakingadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | editing roomfilm editingmovie theaterwatching a moviefilm within a filmdead bodytelephone call |
Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry with Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working in the wedding preparations she meets Luce, wedding's florist, unexpectedly falling in love to her and discovering what is having love feeling to another woman. Unable to stop her Rachel me …ets Luce a few times hiding it to her family, specially her mother Tessa because she contracted Luce. At the same time that Heck tries to win the affection of his parents-in-law, above all the eccentric father-in-law Ned, Rachel tries following with the daily life and marriage with her husband, but the love and passion she feels for Luce causes a secret affair between both women, and a doubt in Rachel about the life she wants for herself. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitylove |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionspeechurinationtelephone call |
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 …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: | guiltextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | childhood homecynicismbrotherdead bodyurinationflashback |
Two friends, John (played by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), crash weddings to pick up women. One day they crash the wedding of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken). Instead of short-term flings they end up being invited to the Clearys' island estate, … and potentially meet the loves of their lives... (Read More)
| Themes: | guiltextramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | jewish weddingfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionrabbifamily dinnertelephone call |
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: | extramarital affairweddinginfidelity |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | blind datecheating husbanddysfunctional marriagetelephone callflashback |
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)
| Themes: | guiltextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | urban settingnew york city |
| Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | guilty consciencemarriage problemsdead womandysfunctional marriagedead bodyurinationtelephone callthree word title |
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)
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitylove |
| Locations: | beachnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipprofessordoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expel …led him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | adultery |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | jewish americanbrother sister relationshipjewish |
| Story: | jewish culturedirected by starwritten and directed by cast membertelephone call |
Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this "solution" only multiplies …the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner's death. He's also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There's also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation... of his partner's death. Will it all come crashing down on him? (Read More)
| Themes: | guiltblackmailmurderlove |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | police detectivemother daughter relationship |
| Story: | dead womantape recorderdead bodytelephone callflashback |
Dan is a 51 year old executive who learns that his company is being restructured and he is being demoted. Carter, who is 26, replaces him. Dan who has two teenage daughters with another on the way, decides to suck it up and work for Carter. Dan and Carter's working relationship is tested when Carter … begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | beachnew york city |
| Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | treadmillbirthday presentjoggingspeechtelephone callthree word title |
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 affairadulteryinfidelitylove |
| Locations: | apartmentbeachnew york city |
| Characters: | jewishlove triangle |
| Story: | jewish familycheating husbandtelephone call |
Seventh-grade is no fun. Especially for Dawn Weiner when everyone at school calls you 'Dog-Face' or 'Wiener-Dog.' Not to mention if your older brother is 'King of the Nerds' and your younger sister is a cutesy ballerina who gets you in trouble but is your parents' favorite. And that's just the begin …ning--her life seems to be falling apart when she faces rejection from the older guy in her brother's band that she has a crush on, her parents want to tear down her 'Special People's Club' clubhouse, and her sister is abducted.... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipjewishfamily relationships |
| Story: | jewish familycynicismbrotherspeechtelephone call |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and …is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailgangstermurder |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshippolice detectivefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | tape recordersabotagecriminaldead bodyflashback |
Biopic of billionaire 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA a …s a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph 'Owen Brewster (I)' (qv) accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with actress 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv). From an early age however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailfilmmakinglove |
| Locations: | beachnew york city |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipprofessordoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | movie theaterwatching a moviefilm within a filmurinationtelephone callflashback |
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
| Themes: | extramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitysuicide |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptioncynicismspeechtelephone call |
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 …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelitysuicidelovemurder |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipprofessorlove triangledoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the wedding by accusing Her …o of infidelity. In the end, though, it all turns out to be "much ado about nothing." (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | justiceweddinginfidelity |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipuncle niece relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | directed by starwritten and directed by cast member |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling hab …its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. (Read More)
| Themes: | guiltsuicidemurder |
| Locations: | urban settingapartmentnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | brother in lawcontract killingnew yorktelephone callflashback |
Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his a …lter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailsuicidelovemurder |
| Characters: | police detectivedoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | flight attendantdead woman with eyes opendead womancriminaldead bodyurinationtelephone callflashback |
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelitylovemurder |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | brother sister relationshipprofessorlove trianglemother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | film within a filmtelephone callflashback |
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)
| Themes: | gangstermurder |
| Locations: | urban settingnew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | wedding receptionthree word title |
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