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Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctant β¦ly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | murder of husbandaffairblackmailobsessionseductioninvestigationfuneralpregnancyfriendshiprevengemurdersurrealism |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | swimming poollakerural settingbicyclebathtubboatbeach |
Characters: | coronerpolicemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cricket gamecricket the gamedrowning in a bathtubskipping ropenumber in character's namefemale swimmerdead cowmurder by drowningdeath by drowningdead fishkilled in a bathtubdead body in bathtubbeach housenude man murderedunlikely criminal β¦hanged childskippingtug of warchild suicidetideplaying cardcountingwife murders husbandgrotesqueclassic carjumping roperoadkillnumberwheelbarrowcricketcircumcisionbritish renaissanceswimmercountry housetreehousetwin brotherboy with glassescoastbeemathematicsdead animalpainthit and runinsectcynicismpuzzledysfunctional marriagesheeppoolgamecowtypewriterfireworkscountrysidedrowningfemme fatalehit by a carfishwomanswimmingrivermale pubic hairwritten by directorvoice over narrationfirethree word titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysexdog (See All) |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and β¦life will never be the same again. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralfriendship |
Locations: | lakebicycle |
Story: | skipping ropedead fishjumping ropeboy with glassesbeeinsectgametypewriterfireworksfishswimmingriver |
The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'kill β¦ers' (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense... (Read More)
Themes: | revengemurder |
Locations: | swimming poolbathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | drowning in a bathtubmurder by drowningpooldrowningswimming |
Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season, and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurri β¦ed pace is just the tonic for her--until late one night, when John's indolent and insouciant French daughter Julie unexpectedly arrives. Sarah's prim and steely English reserve is jarred by Julie's reckless, sexually charged lifestyle. Their interactions set off an increasingly unsettling series of events, as Sarah's creative process and a possible real-life murder begin to blend dangerously together. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionseductionmurdersurrealism |
Locations: | swimming poolbathtub |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationship |
Story: | wheelbarrowpoolcountrysidefemme fataleswimmingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity |
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | investigationfuneralfriendshipmurder |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | swimming poollakebeach |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | beach housecricketfishswimmingvoice over narrationfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditydog |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af β¦fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
Locations: | lakerural settingbeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | country housecountrysidewomanswimmingrivervoice over narrationthree word title |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, β¦who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailobsessionseductionpregnancymurder |
Locations: | swimming poollakebicycle |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | dysfunctional marriagehit by a carswimmingvoice over narrationfiremale nuditydogsex |
The plot revolves around a young married woman whose mundane life takes a turn for the worse when she strikes up a passionate and illicit affair with an oddball discount-store stock boy who thinks he's Holden Caulfield.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | affairblackmailpregnancyfriendship |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | paintdysfunctional marriagewomanswimmingvoice over narrationthree word titlefemale nuditymale nuditydog |
Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman's stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing β¦ voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband's urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath. (Read More)
Themes: | friendshiprevengemurder |
Locations: | swimming poollakerural settingbathtubboat |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | murder by drowningdrowningwomanthree word titledog |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, β¦ even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Themes: | murderfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolbicycle |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | hit and rundysfunctional marriagehit by a carfishriverfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysexdog |
Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evely β¦n learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationfuneralrevengefriendshipmurder |
Locations: | lake |
Story: | treehousebeewomanswimmingriverthree word title |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Themes: | affair |
Locations: | lakerural settingboatbeach |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | beegamefireworksfishswimmingrivermale pubic hairvoice over narrationfirethree word titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditydogsex |
Having awoken from their spring break extravaganza at Lake Victoria, the swarm heads upstream where they look to make a meal out of Big Wet, a local water park where when it comes to fun, nobody does it wetter! Though they came to get wet, get loaded and get some, the staff and patrons get more than β¦ they bargained for when they must face the fiercest, most bloodthirsty piranhas yet. Lead by the strong-willed, studious Maddy and her friends, Barry and Kyle, the trio must dive in and take on these man-eating creatures using every ounce of their being but can they be stopped? (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | seductionfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poollakebathtub |
Story: | dead cowdead animalcowfireworksdrowninghit by a carfishfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity |
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. Rodriguez, the neighborhood baseball guru, takes Smalls under his wing - soon he becomes part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the β¦ desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Story: | treehouseboy with glassespoolfireworksvoice over narrationdog |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralmurdersurrealism |
Locations: | rural settingbicycleboat |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | death by drowningdrowningwomanmale pubic hairthree word titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | swimming poolbicyclebathtubbeach |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | death by drowningtreehouseinsectdrowningfishswimmingrivervoice over narrationfiredog |
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 β¦is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | lakeboatbeach |
Characters: | coronermother daughter relationship |
Story: | dead fishfishwomanfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditydog |
A former rock star, Johnny Boz, is brutally killed during sex, and the case is assigned to detective Nick Curran of the SFPD. During the investigation, Nick meets Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist who was Boz's girlfriend when he died. Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman, a β¦nd though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz, he is unable to find any evidence. Later, when Nilsen, Nick's rival in the police, is killed, Nick suspects of Catherine's involvement in it. He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her, but as their relationship progresses, the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine's guilt. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionseductioninvestigationmurder |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | beach housenude man murderedcynicismgamefemme fatalehit by a carwomanmale pubic hairfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of 'Michael Collins (XIV)' (qv), the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.
Themes: | revengemurder |
Locations: | bicycleboatbeach |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | cricketbritish renaissancesheeptypewriterriverfire |
Ben Randall is a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. When his crew is killed in an accident and his marriage ends, his commander tells him he wants Randall to go to the US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer "A" School to train other rescue swimmers. He encounters a guy named Jake who's a little cocky because he was β¦ once a swim champion. So Ben puts him through the wringer to see if he can handle it. (Read More)
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | death by drowningswimmerdrowningswimmingvoice over narrationfiredog |
Locations: | swimming poollakerural setting |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cowcountrysidemale pubic hairfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditydogsex |
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: | funeralfriendshiprevengemurder |
Locations: | rural settingbathtub |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | jumping ropedrowningfemme fatalewomanvoice over narrationfiredog |
The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by a β¦n ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailseductionfuneralfriendshipmurder |
Locations: | bathtub |
Story: | cynicismfemme fatalewomanriverfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's cou β¦ntry cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood... (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | rural settingbathtub |
Characters: | policemanfather son relationship |
Story: | british renaissancecowcountrysidefishvoice over narrationthree word titledog |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr β¦ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | pregnancymurdersurrealismfriendshiprevenge |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | bicyclebathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | dead animalfishswimmingfirefemale nuditysex |
In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958), and some Romero's zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, β¦will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | wife murders husbanddead animalcowhit by a carwritten by directorsex |
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)
Themes: | pregnancymurderrevenge |
Locations: | swimming poolbicycle |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | swimmermathematicshit and runhit by a carswimmingvoice over narrationfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailinvestigationfuneralpregnancymurderrevengefriendship |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hit and runcountrysidehit by a carfirefemale nuditydogsex |
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: | blackmailobsessionpregnancymurderfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poollakebicycleboat |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | dysfunctional marriageswimmingthree word titlefemale nuditydog |
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 β¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolbeach |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cricket the gameswimmerswimmingfiresex |
In a dreary Florida beach resort village, luscious-limbed lifeguard Raymond is the main attraction for girls. Teenager buddies Claire and Hailey became experts on him by observation, but never dared actually approach him, and after this closing summer season will be separated as one's parents move t β¦o Australia. Then they find a storm washed up in a pool a sassy mermaid, who promises them a wish if they help her prove to Neptune love exists, and Raymond is the only creature resembling a love-god. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | swimming poolbicyclebathtubbeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
Story: | poolfireworksfishswimming |
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Gallagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?
Themes: | affairobsessionseductionpregnancymurderrevenge |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | drowning in a bathtubfemme fatalewomanfemale nuditymale nuditysexdog |
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the β¦ events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever. (Read More)
Themes: | affairblackmailfriendshipmurder |
Locations: | swimming poolbeach |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | dysfunctional marriageswimmingvoice over narrationfirefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysexdog |
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille came into the world unwanted, expected to die, yet born with an unnerving sense of smell that created alienation as well as talent. Of all the smells around him, Grenouille is beckoned to the scent of a woman's soul, and spends the rest of his life attempting to smell her es β¦sence again by becoming a perfumer, and creating the essence of an innocence lost. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionseductionpregnancymurder |
Locations: | boatbeach |
Story: | beefireworksdrowningfishrivervoice over narrationfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditydog |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri β¦ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
Themes: | affairseductionfuneralpregnancyfriendship |
Locations: | bathtubbeach |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | poolwomanrivervoice over narrationfirefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditydog |
Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from β¦ the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionfuneralsurrealismfriendship |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | swimming poolbeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | paintswimmingrivermale pubic hairvoice over narrationfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysexdog |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count β¦ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailmurderfriendship |
Locations: | bathtubboat |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | death by drowningdrowningfishswimmingrivervoice over narrationfiresexdog |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be β¦fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailobsessioninvestigationpregnancymurder |
Locations: | rural settingboat |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | drowningwomanvoice over narrationfiredog |
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hi β¦de Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmurderfriendshiprevenge |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | skipping ropejumping ropedysfunctional marriagewomanvoice over narrationfiremale nuditysexdog |
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 t β¦hat went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralfriendship |
Locations: | rural settingbicycle |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | treehousedead animalinsectfishriverfirethree word titlesexdog |
Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly l β¦eads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailfuneralmurder |
Locations: | boatbeach |
Story: | cricket the gamefishswimmingvoice over narrationfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
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 β¦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: | obsessionpregnancyfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolrural setting |
Story: | hit by a carwomanswimmingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon di β¦e, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, pβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | funeralpregnancysurrealism |
Locations: | swimming poollakerural settingbathtubboat |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | beesheepfishswimmingrivervoice over narrationfemale nuditydog |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | swimming poolbeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | death by drowningdrowningswimmingfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
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: | blackmailobsessioninvestigationmurderfriendship |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | coronerpolicemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | typewritercountrysideswimmingmale pubic hairfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditydog |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe β¦s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | obsessioninvestigationfriendshipmurder |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cynicismfishwomansex |
A couple on a holiday in the Caribbean decide to spend the day on a scuba diving trip. But was it the wrong decision? When a mis-count happens on the boat, Susan and Daniel are left behind in the middle of the ocean, the boat long gone. With all their hopes set on the boat coming back to rescue them β¦, they try to keep themselves safe, especially when sharks start to appear. (Read More)
Locations: | swimming poolboatbeach |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | insectfishwomanswimmingfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
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 β¦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: | affair |
Locations: | swimming poolboat |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | dysfunctional marriagewomanvoice over narrationfemale nudity |
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: β¦ one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationfriendshipmurder |
Locations: | lakebicycleboatbeach |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | coastpaintfireworksfishwomanfiredog |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev β¦eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | affairobsessionpregnancymurderrevenge |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | numbercynicismfemme fatalewomanfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditydogsex |