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In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers him and welcomes… him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse. (Read More)
Subgenre: | modern fairy tale christ allegory fish out of water fairy tale dark comedy black comedy coming of age cult film |
Themes: | unrequited love celebrity guilt dysfunctional family loneliness deception drunkenness jealousy christmas surrealism revenge |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | laboratory castle snow |
Characters: | self discovery teacher student relationship psychiatrist bully police officer teenage boy brother sister relationship teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships …teenager police (See All) |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | cut hand hair salon rock paper scissors bank vault bully comeuppance wrongful arrest christmas tree non statutory female on male rape attempt music score features choir symphonic music score show and tell artificial human topiary limerick ice sculpture …lock pick lifting a female into the air cosmetics fictional talk show saleswoman waterbed prosthetic limb organist lemonade talk show host bloody body of a child curiosity sitting orchestral music score altered version of studio logo talent metal famous score treehouse crashing through a window hand plumber creation electric shock cookie self defense misfit drunk driving spiral staircase freak old dark house hair goth flat tire genius dead boy barbecue snowing attic frame up scissors inventor burglary haircut compassion told in flashback gossip mad scientist lifting someone into the air crucifix looking at oneself in a mirror happiness woman with glasses egg gothic cult director magical realism garden sadness scar bank storytelling suburb training creature double cross radio nonlinear timeline dinner stabbed in the chest diner montage revolver handcuffs neighbor held at gunpoint arrest watching tv slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse beating chase photograph cigarette smoking character name in title flashback blood fight dog (See All) |
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 19…72 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy coming of age cult film |
Themes: | dysfunctional family revenge |
Characters: | bully police officer brother sister relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships teenager police |
Story: | bully comeuppance altered version of studio logo barbecue burglary haircut compassion looking at oneself in a mirror garden scar suburb training montage revolver handcuffs neighbor …held at gunpoint arrest watching tv rescue beating cigarette smoking dog blood (See All) |
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enc…hanted. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water fairy tale coming of age |
Themes: | unrequited love deception jealousy revenge surrealism |
Locations: | castle snow |
Characters: | father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | lock pick altered version of studio logo famous score spiral staircase inventor compassion garden creature montage held at gunpoint slow motion scene rescue corpse beating chase …photograph character name in title flashback fight dog (See All) |
In the sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, and in both wizard and muggle worlds Lord Voldemort and his henchmen are increasingly active. With vacancies to fill at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore persuades Horace Slughorn, back from retirement to become the potions teacher, while Professor Sn…ape receives long awaited news. Harry Potter, together with Dumbledore, must face treacherous tasks to defeat his evil nemesis. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | guilt deception drunkenness jealousy christmas revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | teacher student relationship brother sister relationship boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | cut hand lifting a female into the air orchestral music score lifting someone into the air looking at oneself in a mirror scar slow motion scene corpse photograph character name in title blood flashback |
James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in a dynamic and thrilling twist on a legendary tale. Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protege Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But… Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Locations: | laboratory castle |
Characters: | police officer father son relationship police |
Story: | creation spiral staircase told in flashback mad scientist crucifix gothic creature nonlinear timeline stabbed in the chest montage revolver held at gunpoint slow motion scene rescue corpse …chase photograph character name in title blood flashback fight (See All) |
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. A young man with a troubled past pretends to be a police officer working on the case with Wing, …to get him back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | guilt deception drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | police officer teenage boy brother sister relationship teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police teenager |
Story: | bank vault scar bank training double cross nonlinear timeline montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse …beating chase photograph fight blood flashback (See All) |
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)
Subgenre: | black comedy coming of age |
Themes: | deception christmas revenge |
Characters: | brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | christmas tree self defense suburb training montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest blood splatter corpse beating photograph cigarette smoking fight …blood dog (See All) |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh…ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | police officer teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship family relationships police teenager |
Story: | plumber flat tire looking at oneself in a mirror scar double cross nonlinear timeline diner montage handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene blood splatter corpse photograph …cigarette smoking flashback blood (See All) |
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: | black comedy |
Themes: | deception revenge |
Characters: | psychiatrist police officer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | bank vault lock pick scar bank double cross stabbed in the chest revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest watching tv slow motion scene rescue corpse beating …chase photograph cigarette smoking fight blood flashback dog (See All) |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and …disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dark comedy black comedy cult film |
Themes: | loneliness deception drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | psychiatrist police officer mother son relationship police |
Story: | fictional talk show talk show host altered version of studio logo self defense spiral staircase scissors looking at oneself in a mirror sadness scar double cross diner montage revolver neighbor held at gunpoint …arrest watching tv slow motion scene blood splatter beating chase cigarette smoking character name in title blood fight flashback (See All) |
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
Subgenre: | black comedy coming of age cult film |
Themes: | unrequited love deception drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | police officer brother sister relationship father daughter relationship father son relationship family relationships police teenager |
Story: | flat tire gothic scar double cross stabbed in the chest diner revolver held at gunpoint watching tv slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse beating chase …cigarette smoking fight blood dog (See All) |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an…d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | drunkenness christmas revenge |
Characters: | police officer brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | crashing through a window spiral staircase told in flashback nonlinear timeline diner revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse beating photograph …cigarette smoking flashback blood (See All) |
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: | black comedy coming of age cult film |
Themes: | deception revenge surrealism |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | crashing through a window goth burglary crucifix gothic training double cross stabbed in the chest handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse …chase photograph character name in title fight flashback blood (See All) |
Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted t…o kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | self discovery psychiatrist father daughter relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | cut hand scar suburb double cross radio diner revolver held at gunpoint watching tv blood splatter corpse beating chase cigarette smoking fight …blood (See All) |
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses …this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day. (Read More)
Subgenre: | christ allegory fish out of water cult film |
Themes: | drunkenness surrealism |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | self discovery police |
Story: | ice sculpture lifting a female into the air sitting flat tire snowing compassion lifting someone into the air happiness magical realism diner watching tv slow motion scene corpse chase cigarette smoking |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int…ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | guilt revenge surrealism |
Locations: | laboratory snow |
Characters: | bully boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship |
Story: | bully comeuppance dead boy looking at oneself in a mirror woman with glasses gothic scar diner montage watching tv slow motion scene rescue corpse beating chase photograph …cigarette smoking flashback blood dog (See All) |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra…cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception christmas revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | police officer teenage boy boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police teenager |
Story: | bully comeuppance christmas tree orchestral music score bank double cross nonlinear timeline dinner diner montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest chase photograph …cigarette smoking flashback dog (See All) |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n…ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | christ allegory cult film |
Themes: | deception revenge |
Characters: | police officer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | bank vault wrongful arrest talk show host sitting altered version of studio logo famous score crashing through a window inventor lifting someone into the air gothic scar bank double cross montage revolver …handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue corpse beating chase blood fight dog (See All) |
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry B…uttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dark comedy black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception christmas surrealism |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | wrongful arrest christmas tree spiral staircase looking at oneself in a mirror cult director stabbed in the chest held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse chase cigarette smoking blood |
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends …up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception surrealism |
Characters: | psychiatrist police officer police |
Story: | told in flashback crucifix looking at oneself in a mirror gothic cult director creature nonlinear timeline diner revolver handcuffs arrest blood splatter corpse beating chase …cigarette smoking dog blood flashback (See All) |
Holding a mysterious leather suitcase in his hand, Newt Scamander, a young activist wizard from England, visits New York while he is on his way to Arizona. Inside his expanding suitcase hides a wide array of diverse, magical creatures that exist among us, ranging from tiny, twig-like ones, to majest…ic and humongous ones. It is the middle of the 20s and times are troubled since the already fragile equilibrium of secrecy between the unseen world of wizards and the ordinary or "No-Maj" people that the MACUSA Congress struggles to maintain, is at risk of being unsettled. In the meantime, the voices against wizardry keep growing with daily protests led by Mary Lou Barebone and fuelled by the increasing disasters ascribed to a dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald. At the same time, by a twist of fate, Newt's precious suitcase will be switched with the identical one of an aspiring No-Maj baker, Jacob Kowalski, while demoted Auror, Tina Goldstein, arrests Newt for being an unregistered wizard. To make matters worse, with the suitcase in the wrong hands, several creatures manage to escape to unknown directions. Before long, this situation will catch Senior Auror Percival Graves' attention who will target both Tina and Newt amid panic caused by an invisible, devastating and utterly unpredictable menace that still wreaks havoc in New York's 5th Avenue. Is there a hidden agenda behind Graves' intentions and ultimately, what will happen to the remaining magical creatures still loose in the st… (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | unrequited love deception drunkenness christmas surrealism revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | father son relationship police |
Story: | bank vault wrongful arrest christmas tree altered version of studio logo famous score hand egg bank creature double cross montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest …slow motion scene rescue corpse chase photograph fight (See All) |
Subgenre: | christ allegory |
Themes: | deception jealousy revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | teacher student relationship brother sister relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | spiral staircase compassion crucifix training nonlinear timeline stabbed in the chest montage arrest slow motion scene corpse character name in title flashback blood dog |
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: | dark comedy black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception jealousy revenge |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | police officer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | wrongful arrest frame up lifting someone into the air double cross montage handcuffs arrest watching tv slow motion scene rescue beating chase photograph character name in title fight …flashback (See All) |
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas ('Anton Yelchin' (qv)) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction - Odd knows that his town is in serious t…rouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy ('Addison Timlin' (qv)) and the local sheriff ('Willem Dafoe' (qv)), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Based on the best-selling thriller by Dean Koontz. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | deception revenge surrealism |
Characters: | police officer boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | old dark house barbecue frame up egg creature double cross diner montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter …corpse beating chase photograph cigarette smoking character name in title flashback fight dog blood (See All) |
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced …with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age cult film |
Themes: | revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | bully boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | bully comeuppance bloody body of a child misfit dead boy snowing looking at oneself in a mirror gothic suburb radio dinner neighbor arrest corpse cigarette smoking blood …dog (See All) |
Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn …that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale coming of age cult film |
Themes: | unrequited love deception revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | wrongful arrest altered version of studio logo snowing gothic creature double cross stabbed in the chest arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse chase character name in title blood …flashback (See All) |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i…mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt deception |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | wrongful arrest burglary radio nonlinear timeline montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest beating chase cigarette smoking |
Based on the true story of Daniel Lugo ('Mark Wahlberg (I)' (qv)) a Miami bodybuilder who wants to live the American dream. He would like to have the money that other people have. So he enlists the help of fellow bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal ('Anthony Mackie' (qv)) and ex-convict, Christian bodybuilde…r Paul Doyle ('Dwayne Johnson (I)' (qv)). Their kidnapping and extortion scheme goes terribly wrong since they have muscles for brains and they're left to haphazardly try to hold onto the elusive American dream. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | hair salon bank vault crashing through a window barbecue looking at oneself in a mirror bank nonlinear timeline montage handcuffs arrest slow motion scene blood splatter corpse beating chase …photograph dog flashback fight blood (See All) |
Subgenre: | fairy tale black comedy |
Themes: | unrequited love guilt deception revenge surrealism |
Locations: | castle snow |
Story: | altered version of studio logo looking at oneself in a mirror training creature double cross stabbed in the chest montage slow motion scene rescue corpse beating chase character name in title flashback blood …fight (See All) |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to… prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt deception drunkenness |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | psychiatrist husband wife relationship police |
Story: | prosthetic limb sitting snowing compassion scar double cross revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene blood splatter corpse beating chase …photograph cigarette smoking fight flashback blood (See All) |
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requir…ing genuine courage. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge surrealism |
Locations: | castle snow |
Characters: | father daughter relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | sitting hair snowing lifting someone into the air gothic storytelling creature double cross stabbed in the chest arrest rescue corpse character name in title fight flashback …blood dog (See All) |
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the… capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the Government after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | deception drunkenness christmas revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | husband wife relationship police |
Story: | bank vault christmas tree orchestral music score frame up burglary bank double cross montage revolver held at gunpoint arrest watching tv rescue chase flashback …dog (See All) |
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that chan…ging history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again. (Read More)
Themes: | surrealism revenge |
Characters: | teenage boy boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | sitting electric shock barbecue frame up compassion lifting someone into the air radio diner revolver rescue corpse beating flashback blood fight |
John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Rick…y is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy coming of age cult film |
Themes: | dysfunctional family revenge |
Characters: | police officer teenage boy teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police teenager |
Story: | barbecue sadness storytelling montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene blood splatter corpse beating chase cigarette smoking fight …blood (See All) |
Three years and 10 successful title defenses after beating Apollo Creed, with whom he has become great friends, a now wealthy Rocky Balboa is considering retirement. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to Clubber Lang, who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickey…. Rocky sinks into a depression, and Apollo decides to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang so Rocky can try to win the title back. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | celebrity guilt drunkenness jealousy christmas revenge |
Characters: | brother sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | christmas tree famous score looking at oneself in a mirror training radio montage arrest watching tv slow motion scene beating photograph cigarette smoking character name in title fight flashback |
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Subgenre: | christ allegory coming of age |
Themes: | revenge |
Locations: | laboratory snow |
Characters: | bully husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | bank vault bully comeuppance altered version of studio logo crashing through a window bank creature nonlinear timeline stabbed in the chest diner handcuffs arrest slow motion scene rescue beating chase …photograph fight flashback dog (See All) |
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 cult film |
Themes: | dysfunctional family deception revenge surrealism |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | psychiatrist brother sister relationship boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | haircut looking at oneself in a mirror double cross stabbed in the chest diner montage handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse beating photograph …cigarette smoking fight flashback blood (See All) |
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 coming of age cult film |
Themes: | drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | police officer boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship family relationships police teenager |
Story: | barbecue told in flashback revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest watching tv slow motion scene blood splatter beating chase cigarette smoking fight dog flashback …blood (See All) |
In New Orleans, the notorious bank thief and family man Will Montgomery steals $10m with his partners Vincent, Riley Jeffers and Hoyt. However, he has an argument with Vincent in the runaway and Hoyt leaves Will behind. He tries to flee but the FBI agent Tim Harlend organizes a manhunt and Will is c…aptured, but he burns the stolen money to get rid of the evidence against him. Eight years later, Will leaves the prison and he goes to the house of his teenage daughter Alison Loeb, who has issues against him. Alison leaves Will alone in a coffee shop and takes a cab to go to a session with her shrink. However, a couple of minutes later, Will receives a phone call from Vincent, who is presumed dead, telling that he has abducted Alison and will kill her unless he receives the $10m of the last robbery. Now Will has twelve hours to find a way to rescue his daughter from the hands of the psychopath Vincent. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | teenage girl father daughter relationship police teenager |
Story: | bank vault prosthetic limb barbecue bank stabbed in the chest montage revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest rescue blood splatter beating chase photograph …flashback dog fight blood (See All) |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr…overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | unrequited love guilt loneliness jealousy christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | teacher student relationship psychiatrist bully teenage boy brother sister relationship teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships teenager |
Story: | christmas tree goth looking at oneself in a mirror happiness sadness dinner watching tv slow motion scene beating photograph fight flashback |
Themes: | deception |
Characters: | police officer teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship police teenager |
Story: | crashing through a window freak flat tire frame up gothic bank double cross nonlinear timeline revolver held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse …beating chase photograph cigarette smoking character name in title fight flashback blood (See All) |
On the planet Eternia, Skeletor and his dark army overthrow the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull expecting to acquire her power. He-Man, his old friend Duncan "Man-at-Arms" and his daughter Teela are attacked by Skeletor's soldiers and they defeat them. They also rescue their prisoner, the inventor and… locksmith Gwildor. He explains that he was lured by Evil-Lyn that used his invention Cosmic Key to open the gates and seize the Castle Grayskull. He-Man and his friends retrieve the prototype of the Cosmic Key trying to release the Sorcereress but they are defeated by Skeletor and his army and Gwildor uses his key to open and portal for them to flee. They come to Earth but lose the key. Meanwhile Julie Winston, who grieves the loss of her parents in a plane crash, and her boyfriend Kevin Corrigan find and activate the key, believing it is a foreign musical instrument. On Eternia, Evil-Lyn locates the Cosmic Key and Skeletor sends her with a group of mercenaries and soldiers to vanquish He-man and his friends and bring the key back. Will they succeed? (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water cult film |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | castle |
Characters: | teenage boy teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship police teenager |
Story: | lifting a female into the air sitting orchestral music score inventor lifting someone into the air creature revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest slow motion scene rescue chase fight |
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dea…ler Pooh-Bear. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | drunk driving told in flashback crucifix double cross nonlinear timeline montage neighbor held at gunpoint slow motion scene blood splatter corpse beating photograph cigarette smoking flashback …blood (See All) |
Subgenre: | christ allegory black comedy coming of age |
Themes: | deception jealousy revenge surrealism |
Locations: | castle |
Characters: | brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | altered version of studio logo scar training creature nonlinear timeline stabbed in the chest montage slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse beating chase character name in title blood …fight flashback dog (See All) |
Subgenre: | black comedy coming of age |
Themes: | deception revenge |
Characters: | teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship police teenager |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirror scar double cross diner montage revolver held at gunpoint arrest watching tv slow motion scene rescue blood splatter beating chase photograph …blood fight (See All) |
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
Themes: | deception drunkenness revenge |
Characters: | teacher student relationship police officer brother sister relationship teenage girl boyfriend girlfriend relationship father son relationship mother son relationship teenager |
Story: | attic double cross stabbed in the chest diner montage held at gunpoint slow motion scene rescue blood splatter corpse beating chase cigarette smoking dog fight …blood (See All) |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bosto…n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | deception drunkenness christmas revenge |
Characters: | police officer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | christmas tree altered version of studio logo barbecue told in flashback double cross nonlinear timeline revolver handcuffs held at gunpoint arrest blood splatter corpse beating photograph cigarette smoking …blood flashback (See All) |
Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament, where participants are seriously injured, even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he can't because they need him. Two army offic…ers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While Frank advances, he knows that he may have to face Chong Li, the defending champion, who has killed a few participants. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water black comedy coming of age cult film |
Themes: | deception revenge |
Characters: | teacher student relationship bully husband wife relationship police |
Story: | bully comeuppance scar training montage handcuffs arrest slow motion scene blood splatter beating chase photograph dog fight blood flashback |
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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | guilt loneliness jealousy revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother sister relationship boyfriend girlfriend relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | hair salon snowing scissors haircut montage held at gunpoint watching tv slow motion scene blood splatter corpse beating chase photograph cigarette smoking fight …flashback blood dog (See All) |
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).
Subgenre: | black comedy cult film |
Themes: | guilt dysfunctional family deception revenge |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | cookie snowing storytelling montage watching tv photograph cigarette smoking flashback blood dog |