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Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mute woman who is suffering from a total amnesia and doesn't even know her name. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss …in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about her identity and her nightmares, Church accepts the help of an antiquary who arrives to offer his services as a hypnotist. The hypnosis sessions will soon begin to reveal some surprises. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | inheritanceamnesiatraumaexecutionparanoiasupernatural powertheftangermemoryweddingadulteryjealousyinfidelitylovemurder |
| Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
| Locations: | catholic churchlos angeles californiachurch |
| Characters: | catholic priestgermanpsychiatristartistpriestwritermusiciandetectivepolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s1990s |
| Story: | music conductorantique shoppast life regressionpast lifeorphanage homestabbed with scissorsmultiple time framesdiamond braceletkarate kicknewspaper reportergrand pianoplaying pianowatching tvwedding gownprivate detective …masquerade partyballroom dancingreference to rachmaninoffreference to teddy rooseveltman wearing a white suitwoman wearing a negligeesome scenes in muted colorthroat cancerwife and husband lead actorsdisplaced personankletmeat lockerreference to walt whitmancostume ballrecountlife magazinesmothered to deathsymbioterefusing to eatmasked ballplaying soccermalpracticepickuplovers reunitedvintage cardealerhypnotistcorvettemetaphysicalsoundtrackpastichedriver's licensejealous husband555 phone numberplotgloveprivate eyesome scenes in black and whitedead wifeconductoriconantiquestutteringstar crossed lovershitchcockiannursing homepsychoanalysiskarmapresshypnotismholocaust survivordeath rowcoughingold ladyearringdual rolemovie producerhomageactress playing multiple rolesjewelryclose up of eyessuffocationnewspaper clippingimprisonmentsports carhousekeeperwisecrack humorconvenience storehypnosisscissorstvpastgrocery storethunderreincarnationhaircutscamorchestrafateorphanagebridetimehollywood californiacomposerjail cellsupermarketteascandalnewspaper headlinerefugeedirected by starlong takepianistbraceletscreamlightningactor playing multiple rolespassionkarateman with glassesfalse accusationnunimmigrantprisonerimpalementbridgeconcertcandlejournalistoperaorphanfoot chasereporterrevolverbritishpianocafepunched in the facerescueface slapdreamsurprise endingpartyphotographdancingcigarette smokingflashbackviolence (See All) |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
| Themes: | amnesiaangermurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | catholic priestpsychiatristpriestdetectivepolice officer |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | music conductorwatching tvstutteringpressjail cellscandalnewspaper headlinefoot chasereporterrevolverpunched in the facesurprise endingphotographcigarette smoking |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | executionparanoiaangermurderlove |
| Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvconvenience storejail celllong takelightningprisonerorphanfoot chaserevolverpunched in the facesurprise endingpartycigarette smokingflashbackviolence |
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ens …uing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest, and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiaadulterymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | private detectivehomagewisecrack humorscamscandalnewspaper headlinelong takefalse accusationbridgerevolverpunched in the facerescueface slapsurprise endingphotograph …cigarette smokingviolence (See All) |
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)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | inheritancetheftweddingjealousymurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | germanartistwriterpolice officermother son relationship |
| Story: | multiple time frameswedding gownold ladyimprisonmentbridenewspaper headlinerefugeenunimmigrantprisonercandleorphanfoot chasepunched in the faceface slap …photographcigarette smokingviolenceflashback (See All) |
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fell …ow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | executiontheftweddinglovemurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | artistpriesthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | orchestraorphanagebrideteapassionprisonercandleoperaorphanpianocafesurprise endingpartyphotographdancing …flashbackviolence (See All) |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu …dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftmemorywedding |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestwritermusician |
| Story: | watching tvwedding gowniconhaircutbridetimescreamconcertjournalistreporterphotographflashback |
Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azaze …l is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | amnesiaexecutionparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | death rowjail cellnewspaper headlinefalse accusationnunprisonerbridgejournalistfoot chaserevolverpunched in the facesurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingviolence …flashback (See All) |
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in the computer generated parallel world his company has created (which looks like the 30's wi …th seemingly real people with real emotions). Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine... (Read More)
| Themes: | amnesiaparanoiajealousymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | detectivehusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | ballroom dancingsome scenes in muted colorclose up of eyesnewspaper clippingorchestratimesupermarketnewspaper headlinelightningactor playing multiple rolesbridgerevolverpianosurprise endingdancing …cigarette smokingviolenceflashback (See All) |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiaangermurder |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice officer |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvhitchcockiannursing homepressscampianistcandlefoot chasereporterrevolverphotograph |
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apoc …alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
| Themes: | executionmemorylovemurder |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | past lifenursing homekarmaactress playing multiple rolesreincarnationcomposerpianistlightningactor playing multiple rolesbridgecandlejournalistreporterpianocafe …punched in the faceface slapdreamphotographcigarette smokingflashback (See All) |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately …try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
| Themes: | executionangermurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | catholic priestpriestpolice officermother son relationship |
| Story: | watching tvdeath rownewspaper clippingthunderlightningnunprisonercandlereporterdreamphotographflashback |
A new film is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiatheftjealousymurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvnewspaper clippinghollywood californiascreamfalse accusationjournalistfoot chasereporterrevolverpunched in the facerescuesurprise endingpartyphotographcigarette smoking …violence (See All) |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
| Themes: | amnesiasupernatural powermemorymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priestmusiciandetective |
| Story: | private detectiveprivate eyeicontimepianistscreamnunbridgecandlefoot chaserevolverpianodreamsurprise endingphotograph …dancingcigarette smokingflashback (See All) |
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.
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | inheritanceexecutionparanoiatheftmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | priestdetectivepolice officer |
| Story: | grand pianowatching tvnewspaper clippingimprisonmentsports carorphanagejail cellnewspaper headlineman with glassesfalse accusationprisonerimpalementbridgeorphanfoot chase …pianocafepunched in the facerescuesurprise endingpartyphotographflashback (See All) |
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powermurderlove |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | germanpsychiatristpolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | stabbed with scissorswatching tvstar crossed loversscissorsnewspaper headlinelightningman with glassesreporterrevolverrescuedreamsurprise endingphotographflashback |
Returning from Navy service in World War II, Freddie Quell drifts through a series of breakdowns. Finally he stumbles upon a cult which engages in exercises to clear emotions and he becomes deeply involved with them.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | traumaparanoiamemoryweddingjealousy |
| Characters: | psychiatristwriterhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | past life regressionpast lifeimprisonmenthypnosisjail cellfalse accusationpianoface slapdreampartyphotographdancingcigarette smokingflashbackviolence |
"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit …ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerjealousymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | catholic churchlos angeles californiachurch |
| Characters: | catholic priestpriestdetectivepolice officer |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | close up of eyesnewspaper clippingnewspaper headlineimpalementorphanrevolverpunched in the facerescuesurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingflashbackviolence |
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability t …o put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | amnesiaparanoiasupernatural powermemorymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristdetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | close up of eyesnewspaper clippinglightningfalse accusationimpalementfoot chaserevolvercafepunched in the facerescuedreamsurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingviolence …flashback (See All) |
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.
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | executionparanoiaadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | watching tvdeath rowsuffocationpassionfalse accusationjournalistreportercafesurprise endingpartyphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Steven Kovak has been kicked out of his apartment by his girlfriend. Steven has a new apartment, and decides to slip the cable guy (Chip) $50 for free cable. Steven then fakes an interest in Chip's line of work. However Chip takes this to heart trying to become Steven's best bud. When Steven no long …er wants to be Chips friend the man who can do it all goes on an all out assault to ruin Steven's life. In the backdrop is the delicate sub-plot of the trial of a former kid star for murdering his brother. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | jealousy |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | police officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvplotclose up of eyesjail celldirected by starlightningactor playing multiple rolesfalse accusationprisonerfoot chasepunched in the facerescuedreamsurprise endingparty …photographviolenceflashback (See All) |
Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley, Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants … him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come. Now Steve only has a few hours left to prove the innocence of Frank and to be right with this theory, as he definitely will be history if he's not. (Read More)
| Themes: | executionadulterymurder |
| Story: | 555 phone numberdeath rowtimejail celldirected by starpassionfalse accusationjournalistreporterrevolvercigarette smoking |
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dr …eams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiaangermurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestdetectivepolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | fatetimeman with glassesprisonerbridgecandlerevolverdreamsurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into … obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiaangermurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | detectivehusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | private detectiveprivate eyefatehollywood californialightningman with glassesnunprisonerimpalementfoot chasepunched in the facesurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingviolence |
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: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiamemoryadulteryjealousyinfidelitymurder |
| Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristmusicianhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvwife and husband lead actorsmasked ballpianistman with glassescandlepianocafedreampartydancingcigarette smoking |
In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship. Van Helsing and Simon travel from Lon …don to New Orleans to rescue Van Helsing's daughter Mary (Waddell) from the family's life long nemesis - Dracula. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powermurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | catholic priestpriest |
| Story: | dealerwisecrack humorhypnosislightningimpalementcandlefoot chasepunched in the facerescuedreamsurprise endingpartyphotographviolenceflashback |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen …ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | amnesiatraumaparanoiaangermemoryadulteryinfidelitylove |
| Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | hitchcockianclose up of eyesnewspaper clippingfalse accusationfoot chasebritishpunched in the faceface slapdreamsurprise endingpartyphotographcigarette smokingflashbackviolence |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rape …d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powermemorymurder |
| Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | watching tvnewspaper clippingthunderjail celllightningfalse accusationprisonerbridgefoot chasereporterdreamsurprise endingphotographviolenceflashback |
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 …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: | angermemoryadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | writermusiciandetectivehusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | thundertimeteanewspaper headlinescreamlightningbridgecandlereporterrescuedreampartyphotographflashback |
Teenager Ethan Wate is obsessed with his urge to finish high school and go on to college in order to leave the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina behind, until a mysterious girl begins to inhabit his dreams. When he meets Lena Duchannes, a newcomer who has just enrolled in his school, Ethan knows …she is the girl in his dreams. Lena is rejected by the rest of her classmates for being the niece of Macon Ravenwood, whom the town's superstitious residents consider to be a devil-worshiper. But Ethan gives her a ride anyway and they fall in love. Lena reveals to her new boyfriend that she is a witch, and that on her sixteenth birthday she will be claimed by either the forces of light or of darkness. She will remain in the light, but only if she does not remain in love with Ethan. To make matters worse, her evil mother, Sarafine, is casting spells to push Lena to the dark side. Ethan joins her in a search to find a magic spell to save their doomed love. Will the lovers succeed? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | amnesiaparanoiasupernatural powerangerlove |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priestmother son relationship |
| Story: | grand pianoplaying pianostar crossed lovershypnotismhypnosisfatelightningfalse accusationorphanpianorescuedreamsurprise endingphotographflashback |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate …ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiatheftangermurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristdetectivepolice officerhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvnewspaper clippingscreambridgeorphanfoot chaserevolverpunched in the facerescuesurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingflashbackviolence |
A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so cl …osely. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | traumaparanoiaangerjealousyinfidelitymurder |
| Characters: | germanpsychiatristmusicianmother son relationship |
| Story: | playing pianowatching tvclose up of eyespastcomposerpianistimpalementjournalistreporterrevolverpianocafeface slapsurprise endingphotograph …cigarette smokingviolenceflashback (See All) |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only …companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemoryjealousylovemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | catholic priesthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | stabbed with scissorswatching tvhypnotisthypnotismimprisonmentscissorshypnosishaircutlong takenunprisonercafesurprise endingphotographcigarette smoking …violenceflashback (See All) |
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | angermurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
| Story: | watching tvpressconvenience storescreamprisonerfoot chasereporterpunched in the faceface slapphotographcigarette smokingflashbackviolence |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me …dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | paranoialovemurder |
| Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristdetectivehusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | death rowclose up of eyeshaircutfatetimejail cellnewspaper headlineprisonerbridgejournalistpunched in the facerescueface slapdreamsurprise ending …photographdancingcigarette smokingflashbackviolence (See All) |
Mort Rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly divorce from his wife of ten years, Amy. Alone and bitter in his cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named John Shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming Rainey stole his story. Mort says he can prove the st …ory belongs to him and not Shooter, but while Mort digs around for the magazine which published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen around Shooter. Mort's dog dies, people begin to die, and his divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. It seems that Shooter has Mort over a barrel, but perhaps Mort has his own ideas on how to resolve all the problems that plague him lately. (Read More)
| Themes: | paranoiatheftangermemoryadulteryjealousyinfidelitymurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | writerdetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | private detectiveconvenience storescissorstimescreamman with glassesrevolvercafepunched in the facedreamsurprise endingcigarette smokingflashback |
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, a …liens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen. (Read More)
| Themes: | executionparanoiaweddingadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | detective |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | pastichedeath rowhaircutfalse accusationimmigrantpianodancingflashback |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just …when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiaangerlovemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | musicianpolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvsome scenes in black and whitewisecrack humorconvenience storejail cellnewspaper headlinelong takepassionman with glassesprisonerimpalementbridgeorphanfoot chasereporter …revolvercafepunched in the facerescuedreamsurprise endingphotographdancingcigarette smokingviolenceflashback (See All) |
Two years after the events of Scream, Sidney Prescott and Randy are attending Windsor college. They are trying to get on with their lives...Until a new Ghostface killing spree begins. With the help of Dewey and Gale, Sidney must find out who's behind the murders. As the body count goes up, the list …of suspects goes down. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiamurderlove |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tv555 phone numberclose up of eyesscreamlightningfalse accusationimpalementjournalistfoot chasereporterpunched in the facerescueface slapsurprise endingparty …cigarette smokingviolence (See All) |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a …n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | theftmemorymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | police officer |
| Story: | watching tviconnewspaper clippingsports cargrocery storetimesupermarketrevolverbritishcafepartyphotographcigarette smokingviolenceflashback |
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
| Subgenre: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerlovemurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priestpolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | watching tvhomageclose up of eyesjail celllightningimpalementrevolverrescuesurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingviolence |
Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don't want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients' problems don't challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, …a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti's cars. The exchange of Ben's business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben's duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun? (Read More)
| Themes: | angerweddinginfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestpolice officermother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | watching tvwedding gownbridepianistprisonerbridgereporterrevolverpunched in the facepartyphotographdancing |
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: | suspenseblack comedy |
| Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerangerlove |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priesthusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | dead wifethunderlightningnuncandlefoot chaserevolverdreamsurprise endingphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the … other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again. (Read More)
| Themes: | memoryadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | germanmusicianhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | watching tvconductordead wifejewelrythunderhaircutorchestracomposerconcertface slapdreamphotographdancingcigarette smoking |
Set in France, Georges is a TV Literary Reviewer and lives in a small yet modern town house with his wife Ann, a publisher and his young son Pierrot. They begin to receive video tapes through the post of their house and family, along side obscure child-like drawings. They visit the police with hope …of aid to find the stalker, but as there is no direct threat, they refuse to help. As the tapes become more personal, Georges takes it upon himself to figure out who is putting through his family through such horror. A true Michael Haneke Classic. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | suspense |
| Themes: | paranoiamemoryjealousylove |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | writerdetectivehusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | watching tvprivate detectivecoughingconvenience storegrocery storeorphanagelong takepianodreamviolence |
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans f …inish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancee to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul. (Read More)
| Themes: | amnesiaexecutiontheftmemoryadulteryjealousyinfidelitymurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | germanpsychiatristpriestdetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | private detectivesome scenes in muted colorsome scenes in black and whitehaircutfatenunprisonerorphancafeface slapdreamphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
A vicious serial-killer is on the loose in San Francisco and the police trace a link to a small town further down the coast. When Harry Callahan upsets the press and the mayor in his usual style, he's shipped out of town to investigate while the heat is on. With the help of his new Magnum handgun Ha …rry goes on the trail leaving behind the usual trail of dead criminals along the way. (Read More)
| Themes: | weddingmurderlove |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | artistdetectivepolice officer |
| Story: | presswisecrack humorbridedirected by starimpalementfoot chasereporterrevolvercafeflashbackviolence |
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: | traumaexecutionangermurder |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | germanpriestmusicianhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | iconthunderfatetearefugeeprisonercandlefoot chasebritishpianoface slapphotographdancingcigarette smokingviolence …flashback (See All) |
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: | black comedy |
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestwriterpolice officerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | close up of eyessports carnewspaper headlinelong takescreamlightningprisonerbridgejournalistreporterbritishpunched in the facedreamsurprise endingphotograph …violence (See All) |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li …ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia… (Read More)
| Themes: | memoryweddingjealousylove |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | lovers reunitedstar crossed loversearringhousekeepertimelong takepassionfalse accusationnuncandlebritishpianocaferescuedream …surprise endingphotographcigarette smokingflashback (See All) |
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