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Subgenre: | coming of age filmblack comedycoming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | wildernesshuntingdeath of wifechildhoodadoptiongrieftravelfuneralescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | childhood obesitybirthday presentbirthday partyfat boyfoster father foster son relationshipreference to the terminatorhot water bottletroubled childobese childreference to tupac shakursurvival skillsfour wheel drivebaked beansreference to ramboreference to lord of the rings β¦illiteratehaikuwitch huntconspiracy theoristtrekmaorifoster childselfiechapter headingshermitex conkilling a dogilliteracy13 year oldcandynew zealandjuvenile delinquentrelease from prisonsocial workermanhuntobesitymisunderstandingfaked deathloss of wifekilling an animaltankon the runno opening creditsbirdreference to jesus christbirthdayriflefirechasedog (See All) |
When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him - a 13-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk, Oskari had been planning β¦to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their own "Big Game" prize, the unlikely duo must team up to escape their hunters. As anxious Pentagon officials observe the action via satellite feed, it is up to the President and his new side-kick to prove themselves and survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of their lives. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedycoming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | wildernesshuntingescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | boy |
Story: | 13 year oldon the runbirthdayriflechase |
While exploring g uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary fronjitiersman Hugh Glass sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home while avoiding natives on their own hunt. Grief-stricken and fuel β¦ed by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald, the former confidant who betrayed and abandoned him. (Read More)
Themes: | wildernesshuntingdeath of wifeescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | survival skillsmanhuntloss of wifekilling an animalon the runno opening creditsbirdriflefirechase |
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.
Subgenre: | black comedycoming of age |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationships |
Story: | foster childkilling a dogsocial workeron the runchasedog |
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can' β¦t be a better life. Unfortunately, Jenna realizes that this is not what she wanted. The only one that she needs is her childhood best friend, Matt, a boy that she thought destroyed her party. But when she finds him, he's a grown up, and not the same person that she knew. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of age |
Themes: | childhood |
Characters: | boy |
Story: | birthday presentbirthday party13 year oldbirthday |
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 β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | childhoodescapedeath |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | birthday presentbirthday partyrelease from prisonkilling an animalbirthday |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the β¦ death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
Themes: | childhoodtravelfuneralescapedeath |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partytankbirthdayriflefirechasedog |
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacl β¦es, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | death of wifeescapedeath |
Characters: | girlfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partyrelease from prisonloss of wifekilling an animaltankno opening creditsbirthdaychasedog |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | wildernesshuntingdeath of wifeadoptiongriefdeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | family relationshipsteenager |
Story: | chapter headingsbirdriflefirechasedog |
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 β¦f The Beatles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | death of wifechildhoodfuneraldeath |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | birthday partynew zealandbirthday |
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Toget β¦her, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess deal with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | childhoodgriefdeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | birthday presentbirthdaydog |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | death of wifegrieffuneraldeath |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of wifebirdriflechase |
In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he's captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon's flight and C β¦arver's hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls? (Read More)
Themes: | wildernessdeath of wifegriefescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationships |
Story: | killing an animalon the runriflefirechase |
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.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | childhoodgrieffuneraldeath |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | chapter headingsloss of wifekilling an animalbirddog |
Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, "Brave" features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | birthday presenton the runno opening creditsbirthdaychasedog |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma β¦gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | wildernessdeath of wifegrieffuneraldeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | faked deathkilling an animalno opening creditsbirdfire |
In Alaska, a team of oil workers board a flight home; however, they cross a storm and the airplane crashes. Only seven workers survive in the wilderness and John Ottway, who is a huntsman that kills wolves to protect the workers, assumes leadership of the group. Shortly after they learn that they ar β¦e surrounded by a pack of wolves and Ottway advises that they should seek protection in the woods. But while they walk through the heavy snow, they are chased and attacked by the carnivorous mammals. (Read More)
Themes: | wildernessdeath of wifedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | reference to rambokilling an animalno opening credits |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo β¦idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Themes: | huntingdeath of wifeescape |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | family relationshipsteenager |
Story: | birthday partyloss of wifeno opening creditsbirthday |
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 β¦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 wifegrieftravelfuneraldeath |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | loss of wifereference to jesus christriflefirechasedog |
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sl β¦oth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedycoming of age |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | trekmanhuntobesitykilling an animalno opening creditsrifle |
Subgenre: | black comedycoming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | escapedeath |
Characters: | teenager |
Story: | ex conjuvenile delinquenton the runno opening creditsbirthdayriflechase |
The feature film directed by Elem Klimov, shot in the genre of military drama. The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the story is a Belarusian boy, who witnesses the horrors of the Nazi punitive action, turning from a cheerful teenager into a gray-haired old ma β¦n for two days. (Read More)
Themes: | griefdeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | tankbirdriflefirechasedog |
A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that he has life (as a toy) good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does n β¦ot know is about Andy's birthday party. Woody does not realize that Andy's mother gave him an action figure known as Buzz Lightyear, who does not believe that he is a toy, and quickly becomes Andy's new favorite toy. Woody, who is now consumed with jealousy, tries to get rid of Buzz. Then, both Woody and Buzz are now lost. They must find a way to get back to Andy before he moves without them, but they will have to pass through a ruthless toy killer, Sid Phillips. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday presentbirthday partybirthdaydog |
A boy named Walter is dropped by his mother Mae at his great-uncles' house. Later,Walter will find out his great-uncles' big secret. And rumors say that Hub & Garth, Walter's great uncles, have stolen much gold & money. (some say they stole it from Al Capone) Did they really steal that money or not?
Themes: | death of wifeescape |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | juvenile delinquentloss of wifeno opening creditsrifledog |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and β¦life will never be the same again. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | childhoodgrieffuneraldeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of wife |
It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about them β¦selves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of age |
Themes: | childhoodgrieffuneraldeath |
Characters: | boyfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | fat boyno opening creditsdog |
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 comedycoming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | escapedeath |
Characters: | family relationshipsteenager |
Story: | juvenile delinquentrelease from prisonno opening creditschasedog |
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | childhoodgriefdeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | birdriflefiredog |
Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly y β¦oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
Themes: | childhoodgrief |
Characters: | girlboyfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of wifefiredog |
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and β¦ the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifetravelescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | hermitloss of wifetankno opening creditsriflefirechase |
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 β¦ 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)
Characters: | girlfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday presentbirthday partybirthday |
After a beloved King vanishes, his ruthless wife seizes control of the kingdom and keeps her beautiful 18-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, hidden away in the palace. But when the princess attracts the attention of a charming and wealthy visiting prince, the jealous Queen banishes the girl to a nea β¦rby forest. Taken in by a band of rebellious but kindhearted dwarfs, Snow White blossoms into a brave young woman determined to save her country from the Queen. With the support of her new friends, she roars into action to reclaim her birthright and win back her Prince in this magical adventure comedy that will capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences the world over. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | no opening creditsbirdbirthdaychase |
Seven Australian teenage friends from a small town go on a camping trip to be with nature. During their trip, they see military aircraft fly overhead. What they didn't know was their country was being invaded by another country. Returning home, they discover that they are at war. With no training, t β¦hey band together to fight the enemy. (Read More)
Themes: | escapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | family relationshipsteenager |
Story: | juvenile delinquenttankno opening creditsriflechasedog |
The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breach in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breach in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it's a ma β¦iden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a cross-dressing pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love? (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | escapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | boy |
Story: | misunderstandingno opening creditsbirdbirthdayfirechase |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has β¦fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
Themes: | childhoodtravelfuneralescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | killing a dogkilling an animalreference to jesus christfiredog |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | funeraldeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | killing a dogmisunderstandingkilling an animalfiredog |
Epic adventure Exodus: Gods and Kings is the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 β¦ slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | huntinggrieffuneralescapedeath |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | killing an animalno opening creditsfirechasedog |
Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house vio β¦lently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | griefescapedeath |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | killing a dogkilling an animalriflechasedog |
In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from t β¦he sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family. (Read More)
Themes: | huntingdeath |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | manhuntloss of wifekilling an animalno opening creditschase |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomo β¦rrowland." (Read More)
Themes: | escapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | juvenile delinquentrelease from prisonon the runno opening creditsfirechasedog |
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle w β¦hen 40 bandits attack the village. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifegriefdeath |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | illiteracymisunderstandingriflefirechase |
When Sam Merrick is beaten up by local bully George Tooney, Sam's older brother Rocky and his friends Clyde and Marty plan to pretend it's Sam's birthday to "invite" George on a boat trip in which they would dare him to strip naked, jump in the lake, and run home naked. But when Sam, his girlfriend β¦Millie, Rocky, and Clyde see George as not much of a bad guy, they want to call off the plan, but Marty refuses. Will the plan go ahead as planned? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | death |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | teenager |
Story: | birthday presentobesitybirdbirthday |
A regular girl, Veronica, tries to survive the social jungle of high school by sticking with the three most popular girls at school who are all called Heather. As she meets a sociopath named JD, her life spirals into a continuous cycle of hate, unintentional murder and indifference, as she exacts re β¦venge on her enemies, also known as her best friends. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age filmblack comedycoming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | funeraldeath |
Characters: | girlteenager |
Story: | obesitychase |
A love story set in a dystopian near future where single people are arrested and transferred to a creepy hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal and released into the woods.
Themes: | huntingescape |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | killing a dogmanhuntfaked deathkilling an animalriflechasedog |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count β¦ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | huntinggriefescapedeath |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | no opening creditsbirdriflefirechasedog |
Alice is a daydreaming young girl. She finds learning poems and listening to literature boring. She prefers stories with pictures and to live inside her imagination. One day, while enduring just such a poetry reading, she spots a large white rabbit...dressed in a jacket and carrying a large watch. H β¦e scurries off, saying he's late, for a very important date. She follows him through the forest. He then disappears down a rabbit hole. Alice follows, leading her to all manner of discoveries, characters and adventures. (Read More)
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | birthday partybirdbirthdayfirechasedog |
In Harlem, 1987. Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is an illiterate, overweight black girl. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see oth β¦erwise. Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch television and collect welfare through fraud (as she doesn't ever look for a job) and believes that education does nothing for Precious, who she would rather also collect welfare if only to bring money into the household. To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school. In dealing with the school's sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain, Precious begins to believe that she can have a future by learning how to read and write. Despite some devastating news from her mother following the birth of her child, Precious also begins to believe she can escape the grips of her abusive mother, who, up to this point, was Precious' only real support. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | adoptionescapedeath |
Characters: | girlteenager |
Story: | illiterateilliteracycandysocial workerdog |
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband- β¦and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction. (Read More)
Themes: | wildernessdeath of wifedeath |
Story: | killing a dogloss of wifekilling an animalno opening creditsriflefiredog |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr β¦ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | death of wifedeath |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | tankbirdbirthdayriflefire |
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | griefescapedeath |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | faked deathon the runno opening creditsbirdchase |