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Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | murder of daughter evolution death of daughter amnesia death of wife dying illness paranoia death of father robbery investigation fear pregnancy rape marriage β¦suicide friendship death murder (See All) |
Mood: | ambiguous ending nightmare |
Locations: | new mexico outer space wheelchair water train new york city hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist christian lawyer policeman alien boy children friend father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | future 1990s 1980s |
Story: | apple pie mental patient piano player alien language attempted suicide faster than light essay contest hypnotic regression venetian blinds work accident hoboken new jersey lawn tennis blue jay beam of light philosophical conversation β¦jet lag thorazine reference to rembrandt speed of light tachyon ultraviolet light grand central station manhattan new york city bluebird freudian medical treatment reference to joan of arc astrophysicist albuquerque new mexico salvation army scotch whiskey reproduction art forgery nausea new beginning reference to buddha newfoundland planetarium constellation savant psychiatric ward lawn sprinkler catatonia star gazing dreamer ambiguity skunk homesickness solar system subconscious dutch angle murder of wife greenland secret past luggage strawberry psychosis casket pencil fourth of july lunatic enigma tragic past open ended slaughterhouse galaxy reference to albert einstein second chance sense of smell craziness hypnotism iceland astronomy fruit beggar drifter extraterrestrial surprise after end credits psychotic dark past barbecue swing vegetarian banana time lapse photography sun laughter medication hypnosis delusion surveillance camera telescope imagination mental institution buddhist morality apple picnic railway station schizophrenia stranger planet patient law balloon chess moon cow sleeping policewoman disappearance character repeating someone else's dialogue attempted murder tree drowning bird video camera strangulation manhattan new york city science river reference to jesus christ piano sunglasses watching tv computer remake dream surprise ending party title spoken by character based on novel dog blood (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 immediateβ¦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)
Themes: | paranoia death of father robbery investigation fear friendship murder death |
Locations: | train new york city |
Characters: | psychiatrist mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mental patient dutch angle tragic past dark past surveillance camera mental institution schizophrenia patient policewoman character repeating someone else's dialogue attempted murder manhattan new york city river watching tv surprise ending β¦title spoken by character based on novel blood 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: | dying illness death of father investigation suicide death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | train new york city |
Characters: | psychiatrist boy mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | psychosis medication imagination mental institution patient balloon chess piano dream surprise ending title spoken by character blood dog |
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: | cult film |
Themes: | death of daughter amnesia death of wife paranoia suicide friendship death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | boy children |
Story: | psychosis dark past medication delusion mental institution patient chess drowning remake surprise ending blood |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | death of wife dying paranoia fear pregnancy friendship death |
Locations: | wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | lawyer policeman boy children friend father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | attempted suicide patient character repeating someone else's dialogue drowning bird river dream surprise ending title spoken by character |
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and thβ¦e two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for ten years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | death of wife paranoia investigation fear marriage suicide death |
Locations: | outer space water |
Characters: | alien husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | swing morality planet sleeping science surprise ending title spoken by character based on novel dog blood |
In the not-too-distant future, a less-than-perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity β¦of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. With professional advice, Vincent learns to deceive DNA and urine sample testing. Just when he is finally scheduled for a space mission, his program director is killed and the police begin an investigation, jeopardizing his secret. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | illness paranoia investigation pregnancy marriage suicide murder death |
Locations: | outer space wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | policeman children husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | future |
Story: | solar system surprise after end credits telescope character repeating someone else's dialogue piano computer dream surprise ending party title spoken by character blood |
Donnie Darko doesn't get along too well with his family, his teachers and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may noβ¦t be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank - a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | illness investigation fear suicide murder death |
Characters: | psychiatrist friend police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | enigma psychotic time lapse photography medication hypnosis morality schizophrenia reference to jesus christ dream party title spoken by character |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants tβ¦o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
Themes: | illness investigation murder death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | christian lawyer policeman mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | catatonia psychosis psychotic schizophrenia science reference to jesus christ piano watching tv surprise ending title spoken by character |
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart β¦his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life. (Read More)
Themes: | illness paranoia death of father fear friendship |
Mood: | ambiguous ending nightmare |
Characters: | psychiatrist children friend father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | sense of smell craziness medication delusion schizophrenia sleeping bird reference to jesus christ dream dog |
Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them are guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Soze is felt. It becomes⦠clear that each one of them has wronged Soze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Soze? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | murder of daughter death of daughter death of wife robbery fear rape murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyer boy friend mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s 1980s |
Story: | murder of wife reference to albert einstein law manhattan new york city surprise ending blood |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal:β¦ truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | death of father fear |
Locations: | outer space train new york city |
Characters: | lawyer policeman children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | grand central station manhattan new york city planetarium solar system galaxy reference to albert einstein astronomy telescope stranger manhattan new york city watching tv computer party title spoken by character |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its angβ¦er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | death of daughter death of wife robbery investigation pregnancy friendship death |
Locations: | wheelchair train |
Characters: | lawyer children friend father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | law cow drowning computer title spoken by character based on novel blood |
Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle β¦for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | dying fear pregnancy murder death |
Locations: | outer space train new york city |
Characters: | policeman alien father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | future |
Story: | extraterrestrial sun sleeping drowning bird video camera river watching tv remake surprise ending blood |
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 β¦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: | illness paranoia death of father fear marriage suicide friendship |
Mood: | ambiguous ending nightmare |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lawyer policeman boy friend husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | ambiguity morality drowning video camera piano watching tv dream dog blood |
Incarcerated and charged with murder, David Aames Jr. is telling the story of how he got to where he is to McCabe, the police psychologist. That story includes: being the 51% shareholder of a major publishing firm, which he inherited from his long deceased parents; the firm's board, appointed by Davβ¦id Aames Sr., being the 49% shareholders who would probably like to see him gone as they see him as being too irresponsible and immature to run the company; his best bro friendship with author, Brian Shelby; his "friends with benefits" relationship with Julie Gianni, who saw their relationship in a slightly different light; his budding romance with Sofia Serrano, who Brian brought to David's party as his own date and who Brian saw as his own possible life mate; and being in an accident which disfigured his face and killed the person who caused the accident. But as the story proceeds, David isn't sure what is real and what is a dream/nightmare as many facets of the story are incompatible to be all real. The mysterious man in the restaurant may be able to shed some light on David's confusion. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | amnesia paranoia death of father fear friendship murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending nightmare |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | boy police |
Story: | secret past dark past medication mental institution character repeating someone else's dialogue attempted murder manhattan new york city watching tv remake dream party title spoken by character |
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: | independent film |
Themes: | death of wife dying illness marriage death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | policeman mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | piano player new beginning drifter barbecue laughter apple balloon disappearance bird river piano watching tv dream title spoken by character dog β¦blood (See All) |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hiβ¦s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | death of wife paranoia murder |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | mental patient murder of wife second chance delusion mental institution railway station schizophrenia surprise ending based on novel blood |
Life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramon's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gifβ¦t of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramon taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others. (Read More)
Themes: | dying fear pregnancy marriage suicide friendship death |
Locations: | wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | lawyer boy friend husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | medication telescope cow drowning video camera watching tv computer dream |
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrβ¦owing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoia marriage friendship |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | psychiatrist husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 1990s 1980s |
Story: | thorazine star gazing reference to albert einstein medication delusion imagination mental institution picnic schizophrenia party blood |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | death of father investigation fear rape marriage friendship death murder |
Characters: | lawyer policeman boy children friend mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | attempted suicide law policewoman sunglasses watching tv computer dog blood |
A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | amnesia fear |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | boy children husband wife relationship |
Story: | new beginning constellation star gazing secret past dark past disappearance character repeating someone else's dialogue drowning watching tv computer party title spoken by character dog |
Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a⦠space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wife dying illness marriage murder death |
Locations: | outer space hospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | star gazing time lapse photography telescope planet sleeping tree bird science title spoken by character blood |
Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the β¦right environment to sustain human life. (Read More)
Themes: | death of father death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending nightmare |
Locations: | outer space wheelchair water hospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Period: | future |
Story: | solar system planet attempted murder drowning science surprise ending title spoken by character |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develoβ¦ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | amnesia paranoia fear pregnancy suicide friendship murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | policeman boy father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | future |
Story: | fourth of july telescope picnic schizophrenia balloon disappearance character repeating someone else's dialogue video camera sunglasses watching tv computer dream surprise ending party dog β¦blood (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 homesβ¦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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | fear rape marriage suicide murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | wheelchair new york city hospital |
Characters: | christian lawyer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | time lapse photography morality law video camera manhattan new york city watching tv computer dream surprise ending party based on novel blood dog |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a meβ¦dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | paranoia death of father fear rape death murder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | new mexico |
Characters: | psychiatrist father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | dutch angle tragic past psychotic dark past time lapse photography schizophrenia character repeating someone else's dialogue drowning strangulation sunglasses dream surprise ending blood |
Preacher Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, has lost his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He along with his son and daughter and his brother Merrill lives in a farmhouse. Crop circles begin to appear in their corn fields which Graham dismisses as mischief by miscreants. Aftβ¦er hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together and believe, as a family to survive the ordeal and find a way to escape. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wife investigation fear murder |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | alien father daughter relationship father son relationship |
Story: | extraterrestrial barbecue vegetarian delusion telescope policewoman watching tv surprise ending title spoken by character dog blood |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of teβ¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughter paranoia death of father robbery fear murder death |
Locations: | train new york city hospital |
Characters: | policeman boy mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | newfoundland casket medication surveillance camera sleeping disappearance watching tv surprise ending blood |
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: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | paranoia investigation fear rape murder death friendship |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyer policeman police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | ambiguity lunatic sense of smell laughter telescope schizophrenia attempted murder video camera strangulation manhattan new york city sunglasses watching tv dream surprise ending party β¦based on novel dog blood (See All) |
Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 1β¦2 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple pie. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wife dying illness robbery fear pregnancy suicide murder death |
Locations: | wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | christian father son relationship |
Story: | apple pie sense of smell apple tree bird blood |
Emily Taylor, despite being reunited with her husband from prison, becomes severely depressed with emotional episodes and suicide attempts. Her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks, after conferring with her previous doctor, eventually prescribes an experimental new medication called Ablixa. The plot thickeβ¦ns when the side effects of the drug lead to Emily killing her husband in a "sleepwalking" state. With Emily plea-bargained into mental hospital confinement and Dr. Banks' practice crumbling around him, the case seems closed. However, Dr. Banks cannot accept full responsibility and investigates to clear his name. What follows is a dark quest that threatens to tear what's left of his life apart even as he discovers the diabolical truth of this tragedy. (Read More)
Themes: | investigation fear marriage suicide death murder |
Locations: | new york city hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist lawyer policeman boy father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | mental patient nausea reference to albert einstein medication mental institution sleeping character repeating someone else's dialogue video camera manhattan new york city watching tv surprise ending title spoken by character blood |
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who⦠he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoia death murder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist policeman boy father son relationship police |
Period: | future 1990s |
Story: | dutch angle psychosis reference to albert einstein imagination mental institution science watching tv remake dream surprise ending party title spoken by character blood |
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-conβ¦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: | independent film |
Themes: | death of daughter dying illness pregnancy marriage suicide murder death |
Locations: | new mexico hospital |
Characters: | christian lawyer policeman boy mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | patient law attempted murder bird reference to jesus christ watching tv computer party blood |
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 inteβ¦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)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | death of wife paranoia fear marriage friendship murder death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | boy friend father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | piano player laughter disappearance video camera strangulation piano watching tv computer dream title spoken by character based on novel dog blood |
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)
Themes: | paranoia fear suicide murder death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | psychiatrist father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship family relationships police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | mental patient tragic past dark past mental institution schizophrenia attempted murder strangulation watching tv remake dream surprise ending party blood |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In⦠the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
Themes: | dying paranoia robbery fear death friendship |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | new mexico new york city hospital |
Characters: | lawyer policeman friend mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s 1980s |
Story: | beggar moon cow video camera manhattan new york city reference to jesus christ title spoken by character dog blood |
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: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | dying paranoia death of father robbery fear pregnancy death murder friendship |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | friend husband wife relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | barbecue character repeating someone else's dialogue sunglasses watching tv surprise ending party blood dog |
Returning from Navy service in World War II, Freddie Quell drifts through a series of breakdowns. Finally he stumbles upon a cult which engages in exercises to clear emotions and he becomes deeply involved with them.
Themes: | paranoia fear pregnancy marriage |
Locations: | new york city hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist policeman mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | piano player scotch whiskey drifter hypnosis sleeping science reference to jesus christ piano dream party |
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is⦠in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her NSF superior David Drumlin, as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders and other scientists such as Drumlin, try to take over her work. When the messages received from space are decoded, the project takes on a whole new dimension, which strengthens for Ellie the quest for the truth. Thrown into the mix are the unknown person who has up until now funded most of Ellie's work and what his motivations are, and Palmer Joss, a renowned author and theologian, who despite their fundamental differences in outlook, is mutually attracted to Ellie, that attraction based in part on intellect and their common goal of wanting to know the truth. (Read More)
Themes: | dying death of father suicide death |
Locations: | new mexico outer space |
Characters: | alien father daughter relationship |
Story: | philosophical conversation speed of light star gazing astronomy extraterrestrial time lapse photography surveillance camera telescope character repeating someone else's dialogue science dream surprise ending title spoken by character based on novel |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark β¦question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | illness paranoia robbery investigation pregnancy marriage murder death |
Locations: | wheelchair water new york city hospital |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | surveillance camera policewoman disappearance video camera manhattan new york city sunglasses watching tv surprise ending party based on novel blood |
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 weiβ¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | dying illness paranoia fear rape suicide death murder friendship |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | water train |
Characters: | lawyer policeman boy friend father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | second chance surveillance camera sleeping river watching tv party based on novel blood |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habβ¦its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wife investigation suicide death murder |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyer policeman boy husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | medication law policewoman disappearance video camera manhattan new york city watching tv computer dream surprise ending party title spoken by character |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | dying fear pregnancy marriage suicide murder death friendship |
Locations: | train new york city |
Characters: | psychiatrist lawyer boy friend mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | venetian blinds time lapse photography disappearance video camera manhattan new york city sunglasses party dog blood |
A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Speciβ¦al Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murder of daughter death of daughter paranoia death of father investigation fear friendship death murder |
Locations: | train hospital |
Characters: | christian friend father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | tragic past dark past character repeating someone else's dialogue surprise ending blood dog |
McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of tβ¦he oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | suicide death |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Story: | mental patient medical treatment craziness medication mental institution schizophrenia patient attempted murder strangulation watching tv surprise ending party based on novel blood |
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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | illness paranoia death of father rape suicide death murder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | wheelchair hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist boy father daughter relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | hypnotic regression hypnosis mental institution attempted murder video camera strangulation reference to jesus christ dream surprise ending blood dog |
While returning to Earth, the space shuttle explodes and the fragments bring an alien virus that recodes the human DNA. In Washington, the psychiatrist Carol Bennell observes the modification of the behavior of one of her clients first, then in her former husband and finally in the population in genβ¦eral. Together with her friend Dr. Ben Driscoll the researcher Dr. Stephen Galeano, they discover that the extraterrestrial epidemic affects human beings while sleeping and that her son Ollie, who had chickenpox when he was a baby, is immune to the disease and may save mankind from the outbreak. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia fear suicide death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | outer space hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist alien friend father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | extraterrestrial planet sleeping watching tv remake dream based on novel |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goeβ¦s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film independent film |
Themes: | amnesia robbery investigation friendship death murder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | new mexico hospital |
Characters: | lawyer policeman friend mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | dreamer psychotic delusion patient character repeating someone else's dialogue watching tv computer blood |
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: | dying illness death of father robbery fear friendship death |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | water train hospital |
Characters: | boy children friend father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | strawberry swing sleeping tree bird based on novel blood |