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Twelve-year-old David escapes from a Communist concentration camp with little more than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into the free world for the first time as he travels across Europe. His spiritual voyage o …f discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctive mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love, addresses the cruelties, politics, and suffering of warfare while celebrating the unbreakable spirit of a child. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthhopeabuseillnessbrutalitytheftrobberyescapefearpoliticsmoneydeathlovemurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | prison camptruckshipitalyfarmkitchenwoodsvillageairportbathtubairplaneforestchurch |
Characters: | truck driverrussian soldierbakercatholicmaidartistthiefpolicemangirlbrother sister relationshipboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationship …husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice (See All) |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | barn on firebarbed wire fenceelectric fenceborder crossingitalian soldierpocket knifeaudio flashbackocean currentguard towerlirebulgariansonnetreference to michelangelolife jacketyear 1952 …labor campgrapessunflowerburnt handmistrustsearchlightcrossing selfpneumoniabulgariastowawaywheelbarrowburnquarryswissmotor scooterbarracksenvelopeglobenude bathingcompasslocketeastern europevineyardspaghettifirst person titlecar breakdownposingsaintclimbing a treestation wagonwindmillbunk bedbakerybroken mirrorflarelanguagebreadfencesaving a lifepost world war twodormitorywilhelm screamswitzerlandgasolineborderchoirbookstorefather figureenglishgreecebloody nosesoapfalse identityhitchhikingmagazinedenmarkdemonstrationbarnsurvivorinjuryjeepclaim in titleitaliancircusreference to william shakespearetrustdeath of sonsleepinggardentied upratreunionflowersrabbitliarspiritualitylibraryunderwater scenejourneybathdrawingpainterbirdman with glassesprisonerbridgewineorphansubjective camerasurvivalswimmingprayerjailbathroomrifleliebookpaintingshootingletterarrestcatrescuefooddreambeatingsongvoice over narrationfirechaseknifepartysingingphotographcharacter name in titlebased on noveldogfightflashbackgun (See All) |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac …kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthabusetheftrobberypoliticsmoneymurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | truckitalyfarmairportbathtubairplanechurch |
Characters: | maidartistthiefpolicemangirlboybrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | spaghettihitchhikingbarnitaliansleepingflowersrabbitliarjourneybathpainterwineliepaintingshooting …letterdreamsongchaseknifesingingphotographdogfightflashbackgun (See All) |
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: | hopetheftfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | woodsbathtubairplaneforestchurch |
Characters: | catholicthiefpolicemanboybrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | sunflowerclimbing a treechoirtrustdeath of sonsleepinggardenflowersliarunderwater scenejourneybathman with glassesbridgesurvival …swimmingprayerliebookpaintingarrestcatfoodvoice over narrationfirefightdogflashback (See All) |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Themes: | illnesstheftrobberyfearmoneydeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | truckshipbathtubairplane |
Characters: | thiefgirlbrother sister relationshipboysingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | post world war twoinjurysleepingbathbirdorphansurvivalswimminglettercatfoodbeatingsongvoice over narrationfire …singingphotographbased on novelfightflashback (See All) |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped paj …amas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. (Read More)
Themes: | illness |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | prison campkitchen |
Characters: | maidgirlbrother sister relationshipboysingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | guard towerwheelbarrowfenceswitzerlandmagazineliardrawingprisonerwinesubjective cameraprayerliebookfoodbeating …songpartysingingbased on noveldog (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)
Themes: | wealththeftescapemoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | bathtubchurch |
Characters: | bakermaidartistthiefpolicemanbrother sister relationshipboymother son relationshippolice |
Story: | border crossingeastern europebunk bedsaving a lifebloody noseratbathdrawingpainterprisonerwineorphansubjective camerariflebook …paintingletterarrestcatfoodchaseknifesingingphotographdoggunflashback (See All) |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthbrutalitytheftescapefeardeathlove |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | bathtubchurch |
Characters: | catholicthiefbrother sister relationshipboybrother brother relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | barracksbreaddormitorymagazinesleepingrabbitliarbathdrawingprisonerwineorphanprayerbathroomlie …bookletterarrestfoodsongchasesingingphotographfight (See All) |
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Themes: | illnesstheftfearmoneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckvillageairportairplane |
Characters: | truck drivercatholicthiefpolicemanboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | post world war twojeepitaliansleepingbridgesubjective cameraprayerriflelettersongfireknifesingingbased on noveldog …fightgun (See All) |
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: | hopeillnessbrutalitytheftescapepoliticsmoneymurderlovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | woodsforestchurch |
Characters: | artistthiefboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sainttied upliarspiritualitypainterswimmingprayerliebookpaintingarrestcatfooddreambeating …voice over narrationfirechaseknifesingingcharacter name in titledogflashback (See All) |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a …rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
Themes: | illnesstheftpoliticslove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airportbathtubairplane |
Characters: | artistthiefgirlboysingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | first person titlehitchhikingmagazinedemonstrationclaim in titleflowersunderwater scenebathpainterman with glasseswinesubjective cameraprayerjailrifle …paintingfoodsongvoice over narrationfireknifepartysingingphotographfightdog (See All) |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri …te with. (Read More)
Themes: | fearmoneydeathlove |
Characters: | catholicartistgirlbrother sister relationshipboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | burnt handwheelbarrowlocketreference to william shakespeareflowersdrawingpainterwinesubjective camerabookpaintingfoodsongfiresinging …photographcharacter name in titlebased on novelfightflashback (See All) |
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John ('Christian Bale' (qv)) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he fin …ds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor. (Read More)
Themes: | brutalityescapefearmoneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckvillagechurch |
Characters: | girlsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | breadsaving a lifedormitorychoirtrustflowersunderwater scenewineorphansurvivalsubjective cameraprayerbathroomriflelie …shootingcatfoodsongvoice over narrationchasepartysingingphotographbased on novelflashback (See All) |
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job - for which he needs a bike - hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the bicycle. Ricci finally manages to locate the thief but with no proo …f, he has to abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep his job. (Read More)
Themes: | wealththeftrobberyfearmoneylove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckitalychurch |
Characters: | catholicthiefpolicemanboysingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | crossing selfbreaditalianliarbridgewineswimmingprayerliearrestfoodsongchasesingingbased on novel …dog (See All) |
Aviator Andre Jurieux has just completed a record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring crowd, all he can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come to meet him. He is in love with Christine, the wife of aristocrat Robert de la Cheyniest. Robert himself i …s involved in an affair with Genevieve de Marras, but he is trying to break it off. Meanwhile, Andre seeks help from his old friend Octave, who gets Andre an invitation to the country home where Robert and Christine are hosting a large hunting party. As the guests arrive for the party, their cordial greetings hide their real feelings, along with their secrets - and even some of the servants are involved in tangled relationships. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthhopetheftfearmoneylovemurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | kitchenwoodsairportairplane |
Characters: | truck drivermaidthiefpolicemansingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | searchlightinjurytrustflowersrabbitliarbridgewineriflelieshootingfoodsongchaseparty …singinggundogfight (See All) |
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: | hopeescapemoneymurderlovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmwoodsairplaneforest |
Characters: | policemansingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | borderdemonstrationbarnsurvivordeath of sonratreunionjourneyman with glassesprisonerbridgewinesurvivalpaintingshooting …catfoodbeatingchasesingingphotographbased on noveldoggun (See All) |
"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.
Themes: | brutalitytheftrobberyfearmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | truckitalykitchenwoodsairportairplane |
Characters: | truck driverthiefpolicemanboysingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | quarrymotor scootersleepingsubjective camerariflebookshootingarrestbeatingsongchasesinginggun |
Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from … the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthmoneylovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipitalychurch |
Characters: | catholicartistgirlboysingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | saintchoiritalianreference to william shakespearetrustdeath of songardenliarspiritualityunderwater scenesubjective cameraswimmingliebookpainting …arrestfoodsongvoice over narrationpartysingingphotographdogflashback (See All) |
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apoc …alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
Themes: | escapemoneymurderlovedeath |
Locations: | shipwoodsvillagebathtubairplaneforest |
Characters: | policemangirlbrother sister relationshipboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | stowawaydemonstrationtrustreunionunderwater scenebridgesubjective camerasurvivalprayerriflebookshootingletterarrestcat …fooddreamsongchasesingingphotographbased on noveldogfightflashbackgun (See All) |
'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Themes: | theftrobberyescapemoneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | woodsforest |
Characters: | thiefgirlboysingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | compasssleepingrabbitjourneybridgeorphanrifleshootingcatfooddreamsongvoice over narrationfirechase …knifesingingdoggunflashback (See All) |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The … one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b… (Read More)
Themes: | abusetheftrobberyescapepoliticsdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bathtubchurch |
Characters: | catholicartistthiefpolicemangirlboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | reference to michelangeloitalianratliarlibraryunderwater scenebathdrawingman with glassesswimmingbathroomliebookshootingarrest …foodbeatingsongvoice over narrationchasesingingphotographgunfightflashback (See All) |
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 … 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: | hopeabuseillnesstheftescapepoliticsmoneylovemurderdeath |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | russian soldierthiefboybrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | border crossingaudio flashbackflowersliarjourneyorphanprayerbathroomrifleliebookletterfoodbeatingsong …firechasepartysingingphotographbased on novelflashbackdoggun (See All) |
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 …n for two days. (Read More)
Themes: | hopebrutalityfearmurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckwoodsvillageairplaneforest |
Characters: | russian soldiergirlbrother sister relationshipboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | flaregasolinebarnsurvivorjourneybirdsurvivalsubjective camerarifleshootingfoodfirechasephotographdog …gun (See All) |
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 …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)
Themes: | theftescapemoneymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckshipbathtubairplane |
Characters: | thiefpolicemanboysingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | climbing a treewindmilldormitorygasolinereunionunderwater scenebathbirdswimmingriflearrestrescuesongvoice over narrationfire …chasesingingphotographdogfightflashback (See All) |
Themes: | fearmoneydeath |
Locations: | airportbathtub |
Characters: | catholicpolicemansingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | audio flashbackstation wagoninjuryreference to william shakespearetrustflowersunderwater sceneman with glassesswimmingprayerjailfoodbeatingsongchase …partysingingphotographcharacter name in titlefightflashbackgun (See All) |
This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith.
Themes: | hopeillnesstheftdeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmwoodsforestchurch |
Characters: | thiefgirlfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | flarefenceinjuryreunionrabbitbirdprisonerprayerriflebookshootingletterfoodknifesinging …photographbased on novelgunflashback (See All) |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckfarmchurch |
Characters: | truck drivergirlboybrother brother relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | bunk beddormitorychoirflowersliarorphanliefoodsongvoice over narrationchasepartysingingphotographcharacter name in title …flashbackfight (See All) |
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese … airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. (Read More)
Themes: | theftrobberyescapemurderdeath |
Locations: | truckshipairplanechurch |
Characters: | thiefboysingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | dormitorychoirsurvivorsleepinggardenflowersbathprisonerbridgesurvivalshootingfooddreambeatingsong …chasepartysingingphotographbased on novelfightgun (See All) |
It's a post-apocalyptic world, several years after whatever the cataclysmic event, which has in turn caused frequent quakes as further potential hazards. The world is gray and getting quickly grayer as more and more things die off. A man and his pre-teen son, who was born after the apocalypse, are c …urrently on the road, their plan to walk to the coast and head south where the man hopes there will be a more hospitable environment in which to live. The man has taught his son that they are the "good people" who have fire in their hearts, which in combination largely means that they will not resort to cannibalism to survive. The man owns a pistol with two bullets remaining, which he will use for murder/suicide of him and his son if he feels that that is a better fate for them than life in the alternative. Food and fuel are for what everyone is looking. The man has taught his son to be suspect of everyone that they may meet, these strangers who, out of desperation, may not only try to steal what they have managed to scavenge for their own survival, but may kill them as food. Although life with his father in this world is all the boy has known, he may come to his own thoughts as to what it means holistically to be one of the good or one of the bad. Meanwhile, the man occasionally has thoughts to happier times with his wife/the boy's mother before the apocalypse, as well as not as happy times with her after the apocalypse and the reason she is no longer with them. (Read More)
Themes: | hopeillnesstheftrobberyfearlovemurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | truckshipfarmbathtubforestchurch |
Characters: | thiefboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | trustsleepingflowersjourneydrawingbridgesurvivalswimmingriflebookfooddreamvoice over narrationfirechase …knifephotographbased on noveldogflashbackgun (See All) |
Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot h …im, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? (Read More)
Themes: | fearmoneydeathlove |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | airportbathtubairplane |
Characters: | catholicpolicemanbrother sister relationshipboysingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | audio flashbackflaresleepingbathpainterorphansubjective cameraswimmingbathroombookpaintingshootingfooddreambeating …songfirechaseknifesingingphotographflashbackgun (See All) |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as …he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | illnessescapefearmoneydeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | woodsforestchurch |
Characters: | policemangirlbrother sister relationshipboybrother brother relationshipchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | pneumoniaspaghettidormitorytrustdeath of sonflowerswineorphansubjective camerajailbathroomarrestfooddreamchase …singingphotographfight (See All) |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | illnessfearmoneydeath |
Locations: | village |
Characters: | maidpolicemanbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | post world war twodeath of sonsleepinggardenreunionliarjourneybathprayerlieletterfooddreamsongsinging …photograph (See All) |
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: | escapepoliticsmoneylovedeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | truckitalykitchenairportairplane |
Characters: | catholicgirlboysingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | searchlightcrossing selfswitzerlandjeepgardentied upreunionprisonerwineprayerrifleshootingarrestcatfood …beatingsongchaseknifesingingphotographdoggunfightflashback (See All) |
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.
Themes: | illnessmoneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmwoodsairplaneforest |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | fencedemonstrationbarnsleepingbirdorphanswimmingriflebookcatfooddreamfiresingingphotograph …dogflashback (See All) |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied tro …ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
Themes: | theftescapemoneydeathmurderlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckfarmairplane |
Characters: | thiefbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | border crossinglocketsurvivorjeeptrustrabbitunderwater sceneprisonerprayerjailbathroomriflebookshootingarrest …rescuefoodbeatingsongchasepartysingingphotographfightflashback (See All) |
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans f …inish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancee to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul. (Read More)
Themes: | wealthhopetheftfeardeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | truckfarmbathtubairplanechurch |
Characters: | thiefgirlboysingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | pneumoniabroken mirrorsurvivorgardenratbathprisonerwineorphansubjective camerariflelieshootinglettercat …fooddreamsongvoice over narrationsingingphotographbased on novelgunflashbackdog (See All) |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta …y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and di… (Read More)
Themes: | theftescapefeardeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckitalybathtubairplanechurch |
Characters: | thiefsinger |
Story: | englishbarnsurvivorjeepitaliangardenlibrarybathdrawingprisonerbridgesubjective cameraswimmingprayerrifle …liebookpaintingdreambeatingsongfireknifesingingphotographbased on novelflashbackgun (See All) |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Themes: | theftescapemoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | girlbrother brother relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | posingbookstoredemonstrationtrustsleepingliarpainterrifleliebookpaintingshootingletterarrestsong …chasesingingphotographflashbackfight (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: | wealththeftfearpoliticsmoneydeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | maidthiefbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | audio flashbackpneumoniabroken mirrorfencebarndeath of sonreunionliarlibraryprisonerprayerjailrifleliebook …letterarrestrescuefoodsongfirepartysingingphotographbased on novelfightgundog (See All) |
Four childhood friends, Jonesy, Beaver, Pete and Henry all share a special secret. Each year, they take a trip into Maine woods. This year is different. A blizzard occurs, and they recover a man found wandering around. Unbeknownst to them,this wandering individual isn't the only being to be found. N …ow they must act fast to stop the outbreak developing and to prevent the world from its doom (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | truckwoodsforest |
Characters: | truck driverboysingermother son relationship |
Story: | electric fencewheelbarrowgasolinehitchhikingrabbitliarlibrarydrawingman with glassessubjective camerasurvivalriflelieshootingrescue …foodbeatingsongfirechasesingingphotographbased on novelgundogflashback (See All) |
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.
Themes: | illnessmoneydeath |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | truckfarmwoodsforestchurch |
Characters: | policemanbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | border crossingwindmillborderhitchhikingdeath of sonjourneybirdbridgeswimmingprayerriflebookarrestdreambeating …voice over narrationfirechaseknifesingingphotographfightflashbackdog (See All) |
During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escap …e. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... (Read More)
Themes: | escapelovemurderdeath |
Locations: | farmwoodsvillageairplane |
Characters: | russian soldierpolicemangirlsinger |
Story: | border crossingsearchlightwheelbarrowbarracksswitzerlandtrustflowerswineprayerriflebookshootingletterfoodsong …firesingingphotographdoggun (See All) |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads en …ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
Themes: | abusefeardeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | farmkitchen |
Characters: | girlbrother sister relationshipboysingerfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | false identitydenmarksleepingrabbitunderwater sceneorphanswimmingprayerriflebookpaintingfooddreambeatingsong …fireknifesingingphotographbased on novelflashback (See All) |
London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's cou …ntry cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood... (Read More)
Themes: | illnessfearpoliticsmoneylove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmkitchenbathtub |
Characters: | policemanmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | burnt handglobereference to william shakespeareratrabbitbathwinesurvivalrifleshootingcatfoodvoice over narrationphotographcharacter name in title …fightdog (See All) |
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 … slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. (Read More)
Themes: | hopeillnessbrutalityescapefearpoliticsdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipfarmvillage |
Characters: | thiefbrother sister relationshipboybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | quarrysaving a lifetrustdeath of sonliarunderwater scenejourneysurvivalsubjective cameraliearrestrescuefoodfirechase …knifefightdog (See All) |
Set in France, Georges is a TV Literary Reviewer and lives in a small yet modern town house with his wife Ann, a publisher and his young son Pierrot. They begin to receive video tapes through the post of their house and family, along side obscure child-like drawings. They visit the police with hope …of aid to find the stalker, but as there is no direct threat, they refuse to help. As the tapes become more personal, Georges takes it upon himself to figure out who is putting through his family through such horror. A true Michael Haneke Classic. (Read More)
Themes: | hopeillnessfearpoliticsmoneylove |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Characters: | policemanboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | bookstoremagazinedemonstrationitaliantrustliardrawingwinesubjective cameraswimmingliebookfooddreamchase …dog (See All) |
A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Themes: | illnessdeathlove |
Mood: | nightmarerain |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | artistboymother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bookstoresurvivorreference to william shakespearelibraryunderwater scenebathdrawingpainterbridgeorphansubjective camerabathroompaintingfooddream …flashbackdoggun (See All) |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa …chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
Themes: | abuseescapepoliticsdeathmurderlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckshipchurch |
Characters: | artistpolicemanbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | choirbloody nosehitchhikingdemonstrationcircusdeath of sonunderwater scenejourneydrawingswimmingjailrifleshootingletterarrest …beatingsongfirechasepartysingingphotographfightgun (See All) |
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lif …estyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another. (Read More)
Themes: | theftmoneydeathlove |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | thiefpolicemangirlboyfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | first person titlebunk bedclaim in titletrustflowersliarlibraryprisonersubjective cameraprayerjailliebookletterarrest …foodbeatingvoice over narrationsingingcharacter name in titledogflashback (See All) |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li …ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia… (Read More)
Themes: | deathlove |
Locations: | kitchenbathtubairplanechurch |
Characters: | policemangirlbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | saving a lifejeepreference to william shakespearegardenreunionflowerslibrarybathwineriflelieletterarrestrescuefood …dreamsongvoice over narrationfiresingingphotographbased on noveldoggunflashbackfight (See All) |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Themes: | illnesslovemurder |
Locations: | bathtubchurch |
Characters: | girlboybrother brother relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | broken mirrorgasolinereference to william shakespearedeath of sonsleepingbathrifleliebookletterarrestsongvoice over narrationfirechase …knifesingingphotographbased on noveldogflashback (See All) |