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The elementary school teacher Anna Marchant lives with her boyfriend Bryce in a nice apartment and every now and then she meets her best friends Francine and Nina to drink and talk. When Anna is crossing a bridge to meet Bryce, she sees an infamous serial-killer killing a woman. Anna runs but she is … attacked by the killer and she falls off the bridge and hits her head. Anna stays in coma for a week and when she awakes, she learns that she has brain damage followed by Prosopagnosia, a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The police detective Sam Kerrest unsuccessfully tries to force Anna to remember the face of the serial-killer. Now the serial-killer knows that Anna has seen his face, but she is incapable of even recognizing Bryce and her close friends. (Read More)
Themes: | panicfearjealousyrapedeath |
Mood: | nightnightmarerain |
Locations: | fishing townshippolice stationapartmentwaterboatcarrestauranthospital |
Characters: | daughtersecretarypriestdetectivepolice officerteacherchildrendoctorfriend |
Story: | business suitbusiness carddisco dancingvoice messagereading lipssoft drinkbirthday partyriding in a carhorse accidentover thinkingfrightened womanlocking doorno smokinghit on headhouse call …roller bladingprosopagnosiatakeawaytaurusblurmake outcallshangertoboggandaddypenknifescrubbinggraypaperworkjumping from a windowsad endinglife changingtransferrecognitionstaindismissalcurtainsbrick wallgun shotpolice protectiondisordernewsstandsmotheringpretendinggiallo esqueenthusiasmpatternhoroscopebreaking uptearliving togetherhelpforensicsbody part in titlewardrobetrampsuspensionpart of the body in titleemergencysmilingfacemartinieyesfingerprinthandbagheadmastercardmetrotiedivorced parentscountdownredsofamoustacherecoverydnahypnotismparentfacebookjacketmessagechangewhisperingponytailex boyfriendsuitlighteralarmrunning awaymake upset updeafstorelatinaharassmentconfusionengagement ringdjlighthousepsycho killercrowdbrainmeetinglipstickdrunkstairsmobile phoneplaygroundcelebrationcommunitynosebleedmagazinehidingbeardpatientdiseasedressanswering machinediscosyringecoachtherapytrustthreatglassesamerican flagcountrysidescarbusinessreadingchampagneportraitjeansnecklacedrawingsubwaytoiletbridgedisguiseoperanewspaperalcoholbathroombirthdayliedrinkmirrordreamcryingtelephone callphotographdancingsex scenegunkissbloodfight (See All) |
In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?
Themes: | jealousydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | birthday partysmilinghandbagtiesofamoustachejacketconfusionstairsdressthreatchampagnejeansnecklacebridge …bathroombirthdayliedrinkcryingtelephone callphotographgunkissbloodfight (See All) |
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable mal …evolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all. (Read More)
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | carhospital |
Characters: | priestpolice officerdoctorfriend |
Story: | birthday partytearjacketwhisperingconfusionstairsdiseasedressjeansbathroombirthdaydrinkmirrorcryingtelephone call …photographgunblood (See All) |
A once handsome playboy, Cesar finds himself in a mental facility and he can't remember why. All he can remember is meeting the love of his life for one day, and then getting into a car accident which left his face horribly disfigured. But the pain of becoming physically undesirable may help him to …find the truth. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousydeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | secretarychildrendoctorfriend |
Story: | smotheringfaceeyesmeetingsyringedrawingtoiletbirthdaydrinkdreamphotographdancingsex scenekissblood …gun (See All) |
A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Themes: | death |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | secretary |
Story: | eyesengagement ringpatientanswering machinesyringereadingdrawingsubwaybridgebathroombirthdaydrinkdreamcryingtelephone call …dancingkissbloodgun (See All) |
After winning a custody battle for her daughter, Yoshimi tries to make a new start. The apartment she moves into seems perfect at first. Soon though, strange things begin happening. Huge water stains appear on the ceiling and drip constantly, more liquid oozing into the rooms every day. She calls th …e landlord in but he refuses to do anything about it. A child's red bag shows up in odd places and soon the child herself starts appearing. Yoshimi then discovers the origin of the ghost... (Read More)
Themes: | fear |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | apartmentwater |
Characters: | daughterteacherchildren |
Story: | callsstainredanswering machinedrawingcryingtelephone callfight |
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)
Themes: | panicfear |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | carhospital |
Characters: | teacherdoctorfriend |
Story: | callswhisperingbrainmobile phonenosebleedsyringetherapytrustscardrawingbathroomliemirrordreamcrying …telephone callphotographsex scenefightkissblood (See All) |
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: | feardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | apartmentboatrestaurant |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | birthday partyliving togetheranswering machinetherapytrustsubwaybridgedisguisenewspaperdrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callphotographdancing …sex scenekissbloodgun (See All) |
After causing an accident that left his daughter Christiane severely disfigured, the brilliant surgeon Dr. Genessier works tirelessly to give the girl a new face. He does so however by kidnapping young women and attempting face transplants. He has been woefully unsuccessful to date. The doctor's wor …ld begins to collapse around him when his daughter realizes just what he has been doing. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationrestauranthospital |
Characters: | daughtersecretarypriestdetectivedoctor |
Story: | part of the body in titlefaceeyescountrysidescarnecklaceliemirrortelephone callphotographkissblood |
Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.
Themes: | panicjealousydeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | children |
Story: | horoscopefingerprintrecoverycommunitypatientsyringecoachnewspaperliemirrorcryingphotographbloodfight |
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)
Themes: | fearjealousy |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | apartmenthospital |
Characters: | detectiveteacherdoctorfriend |
Story: | magazineanswering machinetrustthreatscarreadingdrawingliedreamcryingtelephone callblood |
After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not … to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons. (Read More)
Themes: | fear |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | apartmentcar |
Characters: | secretarypolice officerchildrenfriend |
Story: | birthday partyfingerprintharassmentdiseasetherapythreatbirthdaydrinkmirrordreamcryingkissfight |
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.
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationhospital |
Characters: | daughterdetectivepolice officer |
Story: | business carddnameetingdrawingsubwaycryingphotographblood |
Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his a …lter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her. (Read More)
Themes: | feardeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | secretarydetectivedoctorfriend |
Story: | fingerprintdnajacketbeardchampagnebridgedisguisenewspapermirrordreamcryingtelephone callphotographdancingsex scene …gunkissblood (See All) |
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)
Themes: | panicfearrapedeath |
Mood: | nightnightmarerain |
Locations: | police stationcarhospital |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | psycho killerpatientsyringetherapytrustbridgemirrordreamcryingtelephone callphotographfightkissbloodgun |
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 …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: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | teacherdoctor |
Story: | birthday partychangelighterstorehidingpatienttherapyscardrawingtoiletbathroombirthdaydrinkcryingtelephone call …photographkissbloodgun (See All) |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei …ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousyrapedeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | waterrestaurant |
Characters: | secretaryteacherfriend |
Story: | birthday partynewsstandthreatdrawingnewspaperbirthdayliedrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callphotographdancingsex scenekiss …bloodfight (See All) |
Adrian Doria, a wealthy businessman named Man of the Year due to his high-tech company and his trade agreements with the Asian market, meets Virginia Goodman, a veteran lawyer expert in witness preparation and judicial declaration, recommended by Adrian's lawyer Felix Leiva in order to create a cred …ible defense. Arrested by the police in a mountain hotel room with the corpse of his lover at his side, photographer Laura Vidal, Adrian talks Virginia about the crime and his relationship with Laura, revealing that both suffered a car crash where a man called Daniel Garrido died, and how Laura manipulated Adrian to avoid the jail by Daniel's death. At the same time that Felix is looking for a clue that it could change the course of the events, Virginia and Adrian keep talking about the case but her, unconvinced of the Adrian's testimony, forces him to clear the dark points of his history, in a puzzle where the truth and the lie are easily exchangeable. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | police stationwatercarrestauranthospital |
Story: | business cardtrampsofachangelighterbeardglassesbridgedisguiseliemirrorcryingtelephone callphotographblood |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | jealousydeath |
Locations: | police stationwatercarhospital |
Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
Story: | ex boyfriendalarmcrowdportraitdrawingbridgedisguisebathroomliedrinkcryingtelephone callphotographsex scenekiss …fightblood (See All) |
After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale - now a musician - who tells him of strange sex parties when he is required to play the piano … blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousydeath |
Mood: | nightnightmare |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | doctorfriend |
Story: | house calleyespatientreadingchampagnetoiletdisguisenewspaperbathroomdrinkmirrordreamcryingtelephone calldancing …kiss (See All) |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri …te with. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousydeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | priestchildrendoctor |
Story: | birthday partybody part in titletherapyreadingchampagnedrawingbirthdaydrinkmirrortelephone callphotographfight |
This "found-footage" film is set in 2009 in the town of Claridge, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. During the town's annual 4th of July Crab Festival, townspeople become sick, exhibiting a variety of symptoms, which leads local news reporters to suspect something has infected the water there. No one …is sure what it is or how it's transmitted, but as people start to behave strangely, and others turning up dead, fear spawns into panic. The town is shut down as government authorities confiscate video footage from every media or personal source they find, in an effort to cover-up the incident. But one local reporter who witnessed the epidemic, was able to document, assemble, and hide this film in hopes that one day, the horrible truth would be revealed . . . (Read More)
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | waterboatcarhospital |
Characters: | police officerdoctor |
Story: | crowdpatientdiseasedressthreatamerican flagbridgeliedrinktelephone callgunblood |
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.
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationhospital |
Characters: | priestchildrendoctorfriend |
Story: | tiepatientanswering machinedrawingdrinkmirrordreamtelephone callphotographgun |
Amal is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her … but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes. (Read More)
Mood: | night |
Locations: | apartment |
Story: | birthday partymobile phonetoiletbridgebathroombirthdaydrinkmirrordreamcryingtelephone callphotographsex scenefightkiss |
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: | rapedeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | fishing townshipboathospital |
Characters: | daughterdetectivechildren |
Story: | patternchangeplaygroundbridgenewspaperdreamcryingphotographsex scenekiss |
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)
Themes: | panicjealousyrapedeath |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | police stationwatercarrestauranthospital |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | fingerprintredjacketmessagestairsdressthreatnecklacedrawingnewspaperbathroomdrinkmirrortelephone callphotograph …bloodgunkiss (See All) |
A young hospice worker helping care for an invalid who lives in a remote mansion in the Louisiana bayous finds herself caught in the middle of morbid happenings centered around a group of Hoodoo practitioners.
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | business cardponytailpatientcountrysidemirrordreamphotographdancingbloodfight |
While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a stran …ge man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation. (Read More)
Themes: | panicfearjealousyrapedeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | apartmentwatercar |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | giallo esquejacketconfusionhidingdiseasethreatsubwaydisguisebathroomdrinkmirrortelephone callphotographkiss |
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)
Themes: | feardeath |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | police stationapartmentwaterrestaurant |
Characters: | secretarydetectivepolice officer |
Story: | business cardsad endingset upnosebleedthreatbridgetelephone callphotographfight |
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.
Themes: | feardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationrestaurant |
Characters: | detectivepolice officerfriend |
Story: | forensicslipstickdrunknosebleedhidingcountrysidetoiletdrinkmirrorcryingphotographdancingbloodfight |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling hab …its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | police stationapartmentcarrestaurant |
Characters: | secretarydetective |
Story: | birthday partyrunning awayanswering machinesyringebusinessreadingbirthdaydrinkmirrordreamcryingtelephone callphotograph |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa …chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
Themes: | panicjealousydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shiphospital |
Characters: | priestpolice officerteacherfriend |
Story: | moustachelighthousemeetingdrunkbeardsyringeamerican flagdrawingsubwaynewspaperalcoholcryingtelephone callphotographdancing …gunfightkissblood (See All) |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousydeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | priestteacherdoctorfriend |
Story: | headmastermagazinehidingcountrysidereadingdrawingbathroomliedrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callphotographbloodfight |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: … truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousy |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurant |
Characters: | police officerteacherchildren |
Story: | messageplaygroundanswering machineamerican flagreadingchampagneliedrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callphotographkissfight |
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Themes: | panicfearjealousyrapedeath |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurant |
Characters: | secretarydetectivepolice officer |
Story: | business cardstainmartinipsycho killeranswering machinechampagnedrawingdrinkmirrordreamcryingphotographdancingsex scenekiss …bloodgun (See All) |
Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancee left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, dire …ct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra's fidelity for the moments Michelle's moods swing toward him? Can this end well? (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | apartmentrestauranthospital |
Characters: | daughter |
Story: | suitengagement ringhidingscarbusinesssubwayoperacryingtelephone callphotographdancingkiss |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro …ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | watercarrestauranthospital |
Characters: | daughterpriestchildrendoctorfriend |
Story: | birthday partyamerican flagbusinessreadingjeansnewspaperbirthdaydrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callfightbloodkiss |
In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years, Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career …. Unfortunately, mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the psychopathic Robert 'Mr. Freezy' Pronge. As much as Kuklinski tries to keep his lives separate, circumstances and his own weaknesses threaten a terrible collision as the consequences of his choices finally catch up to him. (Read More)
Themes: | feardeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | birthday partymoustachechangeplaygroundhidingdiscotrustthreatnewspaperbathroombirthdaydrinkcryingtelephone callphotograph …dancingkissbloodgun (See All) |
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a …KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipapartmentcarrestaurant |
Characters: | secretaryfriend |
Story: | stairshidingdressanswering machinetrustsubwaymirrortelephone callphotographsex scenekissgun |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni …e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousyrapedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationcarrestaurant |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | handbagwhisperingcelebrationnosebleedtrustthreatbusinesschampagnenewspaperbirthdayliedrinkmirrorphotographdancing …kissbloodgun (See All) |
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Archor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begi …ns to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions. (Read More)
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | police stationcar |
Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
Story: | recoverybrainbeardamerican flagtoiletbathroomdreamblood |
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 …ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | rapedeath |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | police stationrestauranthospital |
Characters: | detectivepolice officerdoctorfriend |
Story: | dnaplaygroundhidingthreatcountrysidenewspaperliedrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callphotographbloodfightgun |
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's r …eal concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff. (Read More)
Themes: | feardeath |
Locations: | police stationcar |
Characters: | childrenfriend |
Story: | jacketrunning awayhidingtrustamerican flagjeansbathroombirthdayliedrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callgunkiss …bloodfight (See All) |
Incarcerated and charged with murder, David Aames Jr. is telling the story of how he got to where he is to McCabe, the police psychologist. That story includes: being the 51% shareholder of a major publishing firm, which he inherited from his long deceased parents; the firm's board, appointed by Dav …id Aames Sr., being the 49% shareholders who would probably like to see him gone as they see him as being too irresponsible and immature to run the company; his best bro friendship with author, Brian Shelby; his "friends with benefits" relationship with Julie Gianni, who saw their relationship in a slightly different light; his budding romance with Sofia Serrano, who Brian brought to David's party as his own date and who Brian saw as his own possible life mate; and being in an accident which disfigured his face and killed the person who caused the accident. But as the story proceeds, David isn't sure what is real and what is a dream/nightmare as many facets of the story are incompatible to be all real. The mysterious man in the restaurant may be able to shed some light on David's confusion. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousydeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | apartmentcarrestauranthospital |
Characters: | police officerdoctor |
Story: | birthday partyfacemartinidnaconfusionbridgedreamphotographdancingsex scene |
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organiz …es gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs. (Read More)
Themes: | fearjealousydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurant |
Characters: | teacherfriend |
Story: | birthday partymobile phonecommunitydrawingsubwayoperanewspaperbirthdaydrinkmirrorcryingtelephone calldancingkissblood …fight (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)
Themes: | rapedeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | shipboatrestaurant |
Characters: | priest |
Story: | trustscarchampagneoperaliedrinkmirrorcryingphotographdancingsex scenekissgunfightblood |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | fearjealousyrapedeath |
Characters: | childrenfriend |
Story: | forensicsdnarunning awayamerican flagchampagnetoiletliedrinkmirrorcryingtelephone callphotographdancingfightgun …blood (See All) |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his … mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | nightnightmarerain |
Locations: | apartmentrestauranthospital |
Characters: | priestteacherfriend |
Story: | nosebleedsyringecoachthreatscartoiletbathroomdrinkdreamcryingtelephone callphotographfightgunkiss …blood (See All) |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied tro …ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | teacherdoctorfriend |
Story: | set upcelebrationhidingsyringetrustcountrysidescarnecklacetoiletdisguisebathroombirthdaymirrorcryingphotograph …dancingsex scenekissbloodfight (See All) |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | teacherfriend |
Story: | birthday partycrowdmeetingreadingdrawingbirthdayliedrinkmirrordreamcryingtelephone callphotographdancingkiss …blood (See All) |