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In a working class neighborhood in Los Angeles, a world weary Henry Poole buys a house, caring little about its lack of amenities. He drinks and eats pizza. Recent stucco work has left a brown stain in a patio wall, and, to Henry's irritation, Esperanza, a neighbor, is certain she can see the face o …f Jesus in the stain. She brings her priest, then others. Meanwhile, Henry hears his conversations replayed over the fence in another neighbor's yard: it's Millie, about 7, mute, clutching a tape recorder. He tells Millie's mom why he's sad and angry. The face on the wall seems to shed a tear of blood. Is Henry beyond feeling any emotion? (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in lovetraumahopealcoholismfaithdepressiondeath of fatherlonelinessangermemoryreligiondeath |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | water fightswimming pooltrainhospital |
| Characters: | catholicsingle motherlittle girlreference to godpriestnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | water stainwater balloontape recordingnosy neighbordestroyed wallreference to mikhail gorbachevblood sampletamalelethargycleaning upleftovershole in the wallwindchimestainmute child …candlelight dinnercontemplationfrat packapathychildhood homestore clerkdinner datewater hosepilgrimagesledgehammerhopelessnessbackyardpalm treebeliefdying mancookieblood on camera lensfish tankabandonmentbicyclingreal estate agentlatinapresentprayingvodkaneighborhoodswinghealingmedical examinationtitle appears in writingmiraclepasttimeloss of loved oneoverallsdiseasetape recorderrecordingballoonclaim in titlesupermarketterminal illnessheart attackgraffitisadnessglassessuburbspiritualitypainhouseaxecaliforniaalcoholriverreference to jesus christprayerneighborsurprise endingphotographcharacter name in titlebloodflashback (See All) |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr …aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of fatherangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | swimming pooltrainhospital |
| Characters: | little girlreference to godnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | water hoseneighborhoodloss of loved oneheart attackhousereference to jesus christneighborphotographcharacter name in titlebloodflashback |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
| Themes: | depressiondeath of fatherdeath |
| Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
| Characters: | little girlpriestnursemother daughter relationship |
| Story: | frat packmedical examinationtitle appears in writingtape recorderterminal illnessheart attackphotographcharacter name in titlebloodflashback |
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: | hopealcoholismfaithlonelinessangerreligiondeath |
| Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
| Characters: | little girlreference to godnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | medical examinationtimeheart attackpainreference to jesus christprayerphotographflashbackblood |
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully both worked at the FBI as partners, a bond between them that led to their becoming lovers. But now they're out of the FBI and have begun new careers. Scully works as a staff physician at a Catholic hospital. Her focus these days is on a young boy with an incurable brain di …sease. Administration wants to give up on him. Scully, who feels a special bond with the boy, does not. Meanwhile, Mulder's focus is on clipping newspaper articles, throwing pencils into his ceiling and writing about the paranormal. Scully and Mulder are brought together as partners again when a special case requires Mulder's expertise and Scully is prevailed upon to convince him to help. The case involves a pedophile priest who claims he is having psychic visions regarding the whereabouts of a missing FBI agent. (Read More)
| Themes: | faith |
| Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
| Characters: | catholicpriestdoctor |
| Story: | prayingtitle appears in writingdiseaseclaim in titleterminal illnessglassesaxereference to jesus christprayerphotographblood |
Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He real …izes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh. (Read More)
| Themes: | faithreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholicpriestnursedoctor |
| Story: | prayingvodkahealingdiseaseprayerblood |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t …o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
| Themes: | traumafaithreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholicpriestdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | tape recordingtape recorderreference to jesus christprayersurprise endingphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
When former journalist Martin Sixsmith is dismissed from the Labour Party in disgrace, he is at a loss as to what do. That changes when a young Irish woman approaches him about a story of her mother, Philomena, who had her son taken away when she was a teenage inmate of a Catholic convent. Martin ar …ranges a magazine assignment about her search for him that eventually leads to America. Along the way, Martin and Philomena discover as much about each other as about her son's fate. Furthermore, both find their basic beliefs challenged. (Read More)
| Themes: | faithdepressionmemoryreligiondeath |
| Locations: | swimming pool |
| Characters: | catholiclittle girlreference to godpriestnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | beliefprayingswingreference to jesus christprayerphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
It's 2003. Thirty-eight-year-old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationships with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on … life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family losses. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress, hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death, and Hal's new outlook on life during that time, will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to take care of who was originally Hal's very needy Jack Russell terrier, Arthur. (Read More)
| Themes: | depressiondeath of fatherlonelinessmemorydeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | priestnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | tape recordingtimerecordingterminal illnessgraffitisadnesscaliforniareference to jesus christphotographflashback |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
| Themes: | depressionlonelinessangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | reference to goddoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | backyardswingmedical examinationsadnesssuburbreference to jesus christprayer |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hi …s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
| Themes: | traumaangermemory |
| Locations: | train |
| Story: | bicyclingpresentneighborhoodpasttimehousesurprise endingphotographflashbackblood |
Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 1 …2 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple pie. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring. (Read More)
| Themes: | faithangermemoryreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | reference to godpriestdoctor |
| Story: | beliefmiracleterminal illnessglasseshousecharacter name in titleblood |
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches … age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. (Read More)
| Themes: | anger |
| Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
| Characters: | single motherlittle girlreference to god |
| Story: | swingtape recorderrecordingballoonsadnesspaincalifornianeighborcharacter name in title |
Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter Antia, who reveals that this one is living in Switzerland married and with three children. With the heart b …roken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates with her sending a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Xoan, a Galician fisherman. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between the family, the job and the education of Antia until a fatal accident changes their lives. Slowly decaying in a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia goes missing suddenly after a vacation with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her missing... (Read More)
| Themes: | hopefaithdepressiondeath of fatherlonelinessmemorydeath |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Characters: | single motherlittle girlmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | cookieneighborhoodtitle appears in writingtimepainphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Cres …t Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthen, and ultimately heals her. (Read More)
| Themes: | hopeangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | single motherlittle girlnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | loss of loved oneterminal illnesspaincaliforniaalcoholriverprayerflashbackblood |
Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.
| Themes: | anger |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | tape recordingbicyclingtitle appears in writingoverallstape recorderballoonsuburbpainphotographflashback |
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 … '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: | hopefaithmemoryreligiondeath |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | swimming pool |
| Characters: | catholicreference to godpriest |
| Story: | water hoseswingrecordingsuburbpainhouseriverprayerflashback |
At the age of 38, Mark O'Brien, a man who uses an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate and a typical soccer mom with a house, a mortgage and a husband. Inspired by a true st …ory, The Sessions, follows the fascinating relationship which evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey to manhood. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in love |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholicreference to godpriestmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | prayingtape recordersadnessspiritualitypainhousereference to jesus christprayerflashback |
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 …life will never be the same again. (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemorydeath |
| Characters: | little girlnursedoctor |
| Story: | bicyclingmedical examinationtimeoverallssupermarketriverneighborphotographblood |
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: | depressiondeath of fatherangerdeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholicpriestnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | neighborhoodrecordingreference to jesus christphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel …responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in lovedepressionlonelinessmemoryreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholicreference to godnursedoctor |
| Story: | abandonmentswingdiseasereference to jesus christflashback |
The first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. 'Blue' is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, f …ree of personal commitments, belongings, grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie and draws her back to the land of the living. (Read More)
| Themes: | traumaangermemory |
| Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
| Characters: | little girlnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | presentmedical examinationloss of loved onespiritualitypainneighborphotograph |
After Iggy's long-time girlfriend is murdered and the whole town agrees he is the killer, he awakens one morning with horns and the townspeople soon confess their sins. Once knowing the sins of the people, he is facing the true killer of his beloved girlfriend.
| Themes: | traumaalcoholismangerreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | little girlreference to godpriestnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | blood on camera lenstimeterminal illnessreference to jesus christprayerphotographflashbackblood |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of fatherlonelinessangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | little girlreference to goddoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | childhood homebicyclingterminal illnessheart attackpainphotographflashback |
The carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for Him. But as His mission nears fulfillment, He must face the greatest temptation; the nor …mal life of a good man. Based, not on the Gospels, but on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel of the same name. (Read More)
| Themes: | faithangermemoryreligion |
| Characters: | reference to god |
| Story: | palm treeprayinghealingmiracleclaim in titleaxecharacter name in titleblood |
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present-day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, descending to earth in search of her own 6 messengers to write a brand new testament and change the s …tatus quo. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in loveangermemoryreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | reference to godpriestnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | presentmiraclesadnessaxereference to jesus christneighborblood |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
| Themes: | memoryreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholicreference to godpriestmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | prayingvodkarecordingpainreference to jesus christphotographcharacter name in title |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
| Themes: | death of fatherdeath |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Characters: | little girldoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | timeheart attackgraffitihousesurprise ending |
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlf …riend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience. (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemorydeath |
| Locations: | swimming pooltrain |
| Story: | bicyclingtitle appears in writingtimegraffitiriverphotographbloodflashback |
An emotionally broken woman, Kathy, suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned. Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a sympathetic sheriff's deputy comes to the aid of Kathy and becomes intimately involved in her situation. Soon, Behrani, a proud emigr …ant Iranian and his family move into the house only to find their new lives burdened by harassment from Lester and Kathy as they attempt to reclaim her former home. The once prosperous colonel denies Kathy's pleas for he knows his recent purchase promises a profitable return and a better future for his adolescent son and his wife. But latent consequences lie beneath Behrani's well intentioned plan as Kathy's emotions spiral out of control and her actions spark a tragic chain of events that will leave no resident unscathed in the House of Sand and Fog. (Read More)
| Themes: | traumadepressionanger |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | real estate agenthousecaliforniaalcoholprayerflashbackblood |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only …companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
| Themes: | lonelinessangermemorydeath |
| Characters: | catholicdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | tape recordingtitle appears in writingtape recorderrecordingpainprayersurprise endingphotographflashbackblood |
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center ins …ide Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemory |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | little girlmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | apathyballoonsadnessglasseshousecaliforniaflashback |
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
| Themes: | hopefaithreligiondeath |
| Characters: | reference to godpriest |
| Story: | diseaseballoonsadnessspiritualityaxeriverreference to jesus christprayercharacter name in titleflashbackblood |
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
| Themes: | depressiondeath of fatherlonelinessangerdeath |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Characters: | reference to god |
| Story: | supermarketprayerphotograph |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Themes: | angerdeath |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
| Characters: | single motherdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | supermarketterminal illnessneighbor |
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit …s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)
| Themes: | depressionreligiondeath |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | little girlnursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | sledgehammerterminal illnesssadnessflashbackblood |
Santiago's father, Hernan Munez, smuggled his penniless Mexican family over the US border to seek a better, albeit modest future in L.A. Eldest son Santiago dreams of more, like native Angelinos, then joining Hernan's gardening firm. His change arrives when a British ex-pro spots him as an exception …al soccer natural and promises he can arrange a real British talent scout to check him out. Although that falls trough and dad forbids it, Santiago accepts grandma's savings to try out with English premier league club Newcastle. Despite his asthma, he gets in and befriends the freshly transferred, desperately undisciplined bad boy star scorer, party animal Gavin Harris, who becomes his bothersome house-mate, a recipe for trouble and yet each's salvation. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of fatherdeath |
| Locations: | swimming pooltrainhospital |
| Characters: | catholicnursemother daughter relationship |
| Story: | blood samplelatinamedical examinationheart attackhousephotographflashback |
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: | faithangerdeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | catholiclittle girlpriestnursedoctor |
| Story: | riverneighborsurprise endingphotographflashback |
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views sep …arate them. During the welcome parade a roof tile falls down from Judah's house and injures the governor. Although Messala knows they are not guilty, he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge. (Read More)
| Themes: | faithreligiondeath |
| Characters: | reference to godmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | pilgrimagepalm treehealingmiracletimehouseprayercharacter name in titleblood |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her …separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
| Themes: | alcoholismdeath of fatherangermemorydeath |
| Characters: | reference to goddoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | recordingterminal illnesspainalcoholreference to jesus christprayerphotograph |
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: | traumahopefaithdepressionlonelinessdeath |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Characters: | priestnursedoctor |
| Story: | medical examinationsuburbphotographblood |
The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate jo …urney to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth. (Read More)
| Themes: | hopealcoholismfaithdepressionlonelinessdeath |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | single mother |
| Story: | hopelessnessblood on camera lensmiracleballoonphotographblood |
The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
| Themes: | traumadepressionlonelinessdeath |
| Locations: | swimming pool |
| Characters: | nursemother daughter relationship |
| Story: | vodkasuburbpain |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife … is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of fathermemoryreligiondeath |
| Locations: | swimming pooltrainhospital |
| Characters: | catholicreference to goddoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | tape recordingblood on camera lenstitle appears in writingtape recorderriverprayerphotographflashbackblood |
Buffalo newsman Evan Baxter is elected to Congress with the slogan, "Change the world." He lucks into a huge house in a new Virginia suburb. His Capitol office is also fantastic, but there's a catch: he's tapped by the powerful Congressman Long to co-sponsor a bill to allow development in national p …arks. In steps God, who appears to a disbelieving Evan and gently commands him to build an ark. Tools and wood arrive in Evan's yard, animal pairs follow, his beard and hair grow wildly, nomad's clothes and a staff appear. Long grows impatient, Evan starts building, his family leaves him, reporters gather, and drought grips D.C. Still, Evan believes. But will he change the world? (Read More)
| Themes: | faithreligion |
| Characters: | reference to god |
| Story: | frat packfish tankprayingmiraclesuburbhouseprayercharacter name in title |
Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage to an advertising executive, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is an immature househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two yea …rs for indecent exposure to a minor - living with his elderly mother, May; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of father |
| Locations: | swimming pooltrainhospital |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | leftoversswingmiracleoverallssupermarketheart attackgraffitisadnesssuburbphotographflashback |
Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisie …nne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them. (Read More)
| Themes: | hopedepressionlonelinessangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | catholicreference to godmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | timesadnessspiritualitypainphotographflashback |
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, despera …te to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The Infected -- lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time. (Read More)
| Themes: | hopefaithdepressionlonelinessreligiondeath |
| Characters: | single motherreference to god |
| Story: | hopelessnesstimeclaim in titlesurprise endingbloodflashback |
In Johannesburg, a small time criminal, Tsotsi, is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. After a series of violent gang hits, Tsotsi hijacks a car. However, whilst driving, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat. He brings the baby to his house in the slum. The next si …x days bring about a change in him that couldn't be foreseen. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in lovedeath |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Story: | timegraffitisadnesspainhousereference to jesus christphotographcharacter name in titlebloodflashback |
"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit …ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)
| Themes: | hopefaithdepressionreligiondeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | little girlpriestnurse |
| Story: | healingcaliforniaprayersurprise endingphotographbloodflashback |
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