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Aged, wealthy Charlotte Hollis has lived as a recluse in the crumbling family plantation mansion in Hollisport, Louisiana since her father Sam Hollis' death thirty-six years ago. The only people who regularly see her are her hard-as-nails but seemingly loyal housekeeper, Velma Crowther, and her long …time friend and physician, Dr. Drew Bayliss. She has lived there most of her life except for a short stint in London thirty-seven years ago following the vicious murder of her married lover, John Mayhew, at the plantation's summer house while Sam was hosting one of his legendary grand balls in the mansion. She and John had planned to run off together that night, but instead he was bludgeoned to death, his head and right hand severed from his body. Nobody was ever convicted for his murder, but most people believe Charlotte did it after John changed his mind about running off with her. They also believe that Charlotte, whom they haven't seen in years, is a crazy old woman. Conversely, Charlotte has hidden away fearing that people would always be glaring at her. She believes that any bad thing that has happened to her since John's murder has been initiated by his widow, Jewel Mayhew, whom she blames for orchestrating the expropriation of her property to build a bridge across the lake. Charlotte is surprised that her younger cousin Miriam Deering, who left the area years ago and was once Drew's romantic interest, has accepted her invitation to stay at the mansion. While Charlotte wante… (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | panicgreedmental illnessinsanityguiltblackmailangerfearjealousyghostinfidelitydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
Locations: | police cartaxismall towncemetery |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipfatherdaughterterrorsheriffmaidlittle boyphotographermusicianfemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationships |
Period: | year 1964 |
Story: | wind chimegrande dame guignolyear 1927pick up truckpet birdinsurance policygaslightingcon trickgrand guignolinsurance investigatorhand chopped offsouthern bellewealthy familysouthern gothicbraids …grandfather clockfiredgazebomasquerademultiple murdercousintantrumnightgownpackingplantationbulldozerreclusefuneral homemusic boxgravestonefrighttelegrammacabremeat cleaverpressdruggedstrokehusbandold ladysweatsouthern u.s.physicianellipsis in titlelouisianaface maskwifehysteriamusic bandcomma in titlehousekeeperhit on the headlaughterpartnerfanhaunted by the pastguestthunderwoman in jeopardywindrailway stationsevered handtimeservantgossipeccentricmagazinerepetition in titlemutilationhypodermic needledrugfalling down stairsnewspaper headlinesplatterhandgunsuspicionknocked outscreamlightningsuitcasechampagnefantasy sequenceportraitgraveconfessiongunshotcigar smokinggraveyardcoffinsevered headhousefour word titlewidowmansionold mancandledecapitationreporterriverrevolverhallucinationpianotearsriflepaintinglettersecretcameraface slapmirrorcorpsecryingpunctuation in titlepartysingingtitle spoken by characterdancingcharacter name in titlebased on novelblood (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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfearghostdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | cemetery |
Characters: | maidlittle boymusician |
Story: | southern gothicbraidsstrokehusbandlouisianawifemusic bandthunderservanthypodermic needlefalling down stairslightninggunshotmansionold man …candleriversecretcameramirrorpartydancingblood (See All) |
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: | angerinfidelitydeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | daughterlittle boyphotographermusician |
Story: | gravestonesweathaunted by the pastthundertimenewspaper headlinescreamlightninggraveyardsevered headhousewidowcandledecapitationreporter …rivertearscameracorpsecryingpartybased on novel (See All) |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
Themes: | blackmaildeathmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | maidmusiciandoctor |
Story: | pick up trucksouthern gothiclouisianamusic bandfansevered handtimemutilationhypodermic needlescreamgravegunshotgraveyardsevered headmansion …old mancandleriverrevolverhallucinationpianotearsmirrorcorpsecryingsingingdancingcharacter name in titlebased on novelblood (See All) |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous …in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessangerfearjealousyinfidelitymurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipmaidfemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | southern bellecousinpackingplantationsouthern u.s.physicianhysteriawindrailway stationservantgossipfalling down stairsscreamlightningchampagne …gravefour word titlewidowtearsriflelettersecretface slapmirrorcryingpartysingingdancingbased on novelblood (See All) |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
Themes: | panicfearmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police carcemetery |
Characters: | sherifffemale protagonistdoctor |
Story: | insurance policygravestonesouthern u.s.wifemusic bandnewspaper headlineknocked outgunshotcoffinrevolvertearspaintingcamerasingingtitle spoken by character …dancingblood (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | psycho thrillersuspense |
Themes: | panicgreedmental illnessinsanityblackmailangerfearjealousyinfidelitydeathmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police cartaxi |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipterror |
Story: | druggedface maskhysterialaughterwoman in jeopardygossipeccentricsplatterhandgunscreamchampagneconfessioncigar smokingsevered headdecapitation …revolvercameramirrorcorpsecryingpartydancingbased on novelblood (See All) |
Mort Rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly divorce from his wife of ten years, Amy. Alone and bitter in his cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named John Shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming Rainey stole his story. Mort says he can prove the st …ory belongs to him and not Shooter, but while Mort digs around for the magazine which published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen around Shooter. Mort's dog dies, people begin to die, and his divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. It seems that Shooter has Mort over a barrel, but perhaps Mort has his own ideas on how to resolve all the problems that plague him lately. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
Themes: | panicmental illnessinsanityangerfearjealousyinfidelitydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | police carsmall town |
Characters: | sheriffmaid |
Story: | insurance investigatormacabrewifetimemagazinesuspicionscreamdecapitationrevolverhallucinationtearslettersecretmirrorcorpse …cryingtitle spoken by characterbased on novelblood (See All) |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor …mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | greedjealousydeathmurder |
Locations: | taxicemetery |
Characters: | maidlittle boy |
Story: | telegramold ladyguestservantnewspaper headlinehandgunchampagnegraveconfessiongunshotcoffinsevered headwidowold mancandle …decapitationtearsriflepaintinglettersecretface slapcorpsecryingsingingtitle spoken by characterblood (See All) |
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in … love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever? (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessinsanity |
Characters: | female protagonist |
Story: | nightgownstrokehousekeeperhit on the headhaunted by the pastthunderservantgunshotcigar smokinghousecandlepianopaintinglettersecret …cryingsingingtitle spoken by characterdancingcharacter name in titlebased on novelblood (See All) |
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | panicangerfear |
Locations: | police cartaxismall town |
Characters: | maidlittle boydoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | grande dame guignolbraidsmeat cleaverface maskhysterialaughterguestscreamfantasy sequencecigar smokingcandletearspaintingcryingsinging …based on novel (See All) |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | panicguiltangerfearghostdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | little boydoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | physicianwifethunderlightninggravegraveyardcandleriverrevolverhallucinationriflecameramirrorcorpsetitle spoken by character |
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 …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: | panicangerfearinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | small towncemetery |
Characters: | fatherdaughterlittle boy |
Story: | husbandwifepartnerthunderservantlightningchampagnegunshotgraveyardcoffinold mancandlerevolverlettersecret …corpsetitle spoken by characterbased on novelblood (See All) |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull … it off? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | greedguiltangermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police carsmall town |
Story: | wind chimegazebohusbandsweatmusic bandhit on the headfanwindsuspicionsuitcasecigar smokingwidowmansionrevolverface slap …corpsedancingblood (See All) |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate …ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicgreedinsanityangerfearmurderdeath |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police carcemetery |
Characters: | daughterphotographer |
Story: | haunted by the pasthypodermic needlesuspicionknocked outscreamgravegunshotgraveyardcoffinriverrevolvertearssecretcameracorpse …singingtitle spoken by characterbased on novelblood (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | panicmental illnessinsanityguiltjealousyghostdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | fatherfemale protagonist |
Story: | telegramhysteriacomma in titletimesuspicionhousehallucinationmirrorcryingpunctuation in titleblood |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be …fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | blackmailjealousyinfidelitymurderdeath |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipdoctor |
Story: | physicianwifehousekeeperhaunted by the pastwoman in jeopardyservantconfessionmansionpaintingmirrortitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novel |
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)
Subgenre: | psycho thrillersuspense |
Themes: | panicmental illnessinsanityfearghostdeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
Locations: | police cartaxi |
Characters: | terrorsherifffemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | thunderwoman in jeopardyhypodermic needlelightningfantasy sequencecigar smokingreporterhallucinationtearsriflemirrorcorpsecryingblood |
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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicinsanityblackmailangerjealousyghostinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police carcemetery |
Characters: | terrormaidmusiciandoctor |
Story: | macabremeat cleaverhit on the headsuspiciongraveyardsevered headhouseold mandecapitationreporterrevolverhallucinationpianopaintingsecret …cameraface slapmirrorcorpsesingingblood (See All) |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately …try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltangerdeathmurder |
Locations: | police carcemetery |
Characters: | little boy |
Story: | southern u.s.louisianalaughterthunderlightningconfessiongunshotgraveyardcoffincandlereportertearsriflelettercorpse …cryingsingingtitle spoken by character (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicguiltangerfeardeathmurder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | daughterphotographer |
Story: | presssevered handknocked outscreamgravesevered headreportertearscameraface slapcorpsecryingblood |
Clue is a movie about six guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in the murders of six people. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum works in D.C., where everyone else lives. Colonel Mustard is a client of Miss Scarlet, who is the ex-employer of Yvette, t …he maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. White, etc. Blackmailer Mr. Boddy gives each guest a weapon and tells them to kill butler Wadsworth to avoid being exposed. Add in Mrs. Peacock's craziness and Mr. Green's clumsiness, and meet a whole group tangled in a web of murder, lies, and hilarity. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailfearmurderdeath |
Characters: | maid |
Story: | husbandguestthunderfalling down stairssuspicionknocked outlightninggunshothousewidowmansionrevolverlettersecretface slap …corpsesingingdancingblood (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: | guiltfearjealousymurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | taxicemetery |
Characters: | fatherphotographer |
Story: | gravestonehaunted by the pastnewspaper headlinescreamconfessiongraveyardreporterriverhallucinationtearslettersecretcameraface slapmirror …cryingpartydancingbased on novelblood (See All) |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme …to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | greedguiltangerinfidelitydeathmurder |
Story: | insurance policyinsurance investigatorhusbandwiferailway stationsuspiciongunshotwidowrevolvertearscorpsetitle spoken by characterbased on novelblood |
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a … rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmaildeath |
Characters: | little boyphotographerdoctor |
Story: | pressmusic bandhaunted by the pastthunderrailway stationnewspaper headlinelightninggunshotreporterrevolversecretcamerasingingdancingbased on novel |
When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 23 different personalities, they have to work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will try to stop them.
Subgenre: | psycho thrillersuspense |
Themes: | panicmental illnessinsanityfeardeathmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police cartaxi |
Characters: | terrordoctor |
Story: | macabrehaunted by the pastwoman in jeopardyeccentrichypodermic needlesuspicionknocked outriverriflepaintingcorpsepartytitle spoken by characterdancingblood |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
Themes: | death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | maidphotographerdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | reclusestrokehousekeepertimeservantlightningportraitcigar smokinghallucinationriflepaintingcameramirrorsingingtitle spoken by character …based on novel (See All) |
Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman's stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing … voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband's urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicangerfearghostinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | cemetery |
Characters: | daughtermusician |
Story: | druggedphysicianwifesuspiciongravegraveyardhousecandletearssecretmirrorcryingpartyblood |
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling … that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicmental illnessangerfeardeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
Locations: | cemetery |
Characters: | fathersherifffemale protagonistfamily relationships |
Story: | hit on the headhaunted by the pasttimehypodermic needlenewspaper headlinesuspicionknocked outhousemansioncandlehallucinationcorpsepartyblood |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg …eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltjealousymurderdeath |
Story: | housekeeperthunderwindservantlightninggravegunshotgraveyardcoffinwidowcandlepianotearsrifleletter …secretmirrorcryingpartysingingdancingbased on novel (See All) |
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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | guiltangerinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | sherifflittle boydoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | nightgownphysicianhysteriatimehypodermic needlehandgungunshotwidowrevolvertearssecretface slapcorpsecryingparty …singingblood (See All) |
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: | guiltblackmailinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | photographerdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | insurance policymultiple murderwifehaunted by the pasthandgunsuspicionconfessioncoffinmansionrevolvertearsriflesecretcameraface slap …mirrorcorpsecryingbased on novelblood (See All) |
Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother's disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homes …ick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off. (Read More)
Themes: | panicgreedmental illnessinsanityguiltangerfeardeathmurder |
Characters: | photographer |
Story: | presssouthern u.s.wifemusic bandtimenewspaper headlinegunshotcandlereporterhallucinationtearspaintingmirrorcryingparty …singingdancingbased on novelblood (See All) |
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dr …eams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thrillersuspense |
Themes: | insanityangermurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | police carcemetery |
Characters: | little boydoctor |
Story: | gravestonewifetimefantasy sequencegravecandlerevolverhallucinationcorpsetitle spoken by characterblood |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel … Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | fearghostdeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | little boy |
Story: | music boxtelegramwifethunderrailway stationeccentricsuspiciongravegraveyardcoffinhousewidowmansioncandletears …paintinglettersecretmirrorcorpsecryingbased on novelblood (See All) |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto …p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessjealousyghostinfidelitydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | small towncemetery |
Characters: | sherifffamily relationships |
Story: | southern gothicsouthern u.s.woman in jeopardylightninggravegraveyardwidowcandlehallucinationsecretcorpsepartydancingblood |
Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation, becoming the sole arbiter of who gets hire …d and fired. One of his hires is Clyde Tolson who is quickly promoted to Assistant Director and would be Hoover's confidant and companion for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover's memories have him playing a greater role in the many high profile cases the FBI was involved in - the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the arrest of bank robbers like John Dillinger - and also show him to be quite adept at manipulating the various politicians he's worked with over his career, thanks in large part to his secret files. (Read More)
Themes: | panicblackmailfeardeath |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | cemetery |
Characters: | maidlittle boyphotographerdoctorfamily relationships |
Period: | year 1964 |
Story: | firedgravestonepressstrokemusic bandtimehypodermic needlescreamgraveyardold manreporterlettersecretcameracrying …punctuation in titledancingcharacter name in titleblood (See All) |
In the third movie of Rodriguez's "Mariachi" trilogy, a Mexican drug lord pretends to overthrow the Mexican government, and is connected to a corrupt CIA agent who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | deathmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | taxismall town |
Characters: | little boymusiciandoctor |
Story: | druggedface masktimemutilationhypodermic needledrugfantasy sequenceconfessiongunshotcandleriverrevolverpianoriflecorpse …partysingingdancingblood (See All) |
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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicmental illnessguiltangerfearinfidelity |
Mood: | nightmareneo noir |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | little boyfemale protagonistdoctor |
Story: | gaslightinghusbandhit on the headhypodermic needleknocked outhousehallucinationlettersecretcameraface slapmirrorcryingpartybased on novel …blood (See All) |
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
Subgenre: | psycho thrillersuspense |
Themes: | panicblackmailfeardeathmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | sherifflittle boyphotographerdoctor |
Story: | gazebosevered handmutilationnewspaper headlinelightningmansionreporterrevolverriflelettercorpsetitle spoken by characterbased on novelblood |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Subgenre: | psycho thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | angerfearmurder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | photographerfemale protagonistdoctor |
Story: | presswoman in jeopardyknocked outcandlereporterrevolvertearssecretcamera |
In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his inte …ntion. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami? (Read More)
Themes: | angerfeardeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | fatherlittle boydoctor |
Story: | druggedhusbandwifehousekeeperlaughtermutilationhypodermic needlefalling down stairsscreamsevered headold mandecapitationhallucinationpianomirror …title spoken by characterdancingbased on novelblood (See All) |
When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for … one wild expedition. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousyinfidelitydeathmurder |
Characters: | little boy |
Story: | braidswifepartnereccentricgravecoffinold manreporterriverrevolverriflepaintinglettercameraface slap …corpsecryingsingingcharacter name in titleblood (See All) |
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 …oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipmaidlittle boyfamily relationships |
Story: | tantrummusic boxhousekeeperservantportraitmansionsecretcameraface slapcryingtitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and 'Baby' Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville but as they got older, it was Blanche who became the finer actress, which Jane still resents. Blanche is n …ow confined to a wheelchair and Jane is firmly in control. As time goes by, Jane exercises greater and greater control over her sister, intercepting her letters and ensuring that few if anyone from the outside has any contact with her. As Jane slowly loses her mind, she torments her sister going to ever greater extremes. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessinsanityguiltjealousymurder |
Characters: | fatherterrormaidfemale protagonistdoctor |
Story: | grande dame guignolgrand guignolreclusehaunted by the pasttimepianoface slappunctuation in titlesingingdancingcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame …lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfearmurderdeath |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | police cartaxi |
Characters: | little boydoctor |
Story: | woman in jeopardysevered handtimemutilationnewspaper headlineknocked outlightningrevolvercameracorpsetitle spoken by characterbased on novelblood |
Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfr …iends, and his son Petey fears going to school owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins. (Read More)
Themes: | guiltangerinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | taxismall town |
Characters: | daughterlittle boyfamily relationships |
Story: | braidsmeat cleaverhousekeeperthundermagazinelightningsuitcasegraveyardold mantearslettercorpsecryingblood |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | deathmurder |
Locations: | police cartaxicemetery |
Characters: | little boyphotographerdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | grandfather clockgazebosuspicionlightningsuitcasefantasy sequencecandletearspaintingcameracorpsecryingtitle spoken by characterdancingbased on novel …blood (See All) |
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hi …de Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter. (Read More)
Themes: | greedblackmailangerjealousyinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police carsmall town |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsherifflittle boymusicianfemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | woman in jeopardyservantsuspiciongunshottearsriflesecretcorpsecryingsingingtitle spoken by characterblood |
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: | guiltfearjealousydeath |
Locations: | police carsmall towncemetery |
Characters: | fatherlittle boymusicianfamily relationships |
Story: | wind chimetelegramstrokethunderwindgunshotgraveyardcoffinhousecandleriverpianotearspaintingface slap …mirrorcryingdancing (See All) |