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Giovanna is a bookkeeper in a company which packs chickens. She is married to a man who has a precarious job. First she starts being curious about a young man who lives in the block opposite hers, and then she falls in love with him. The relationship between the two becomes much stronger when she st β¦arts to find out more about him from an old man who bursts into their lives. The old man, obsessed with the memories of some things that happened n the long past autumn of 1943, has lost his memory and finds refuge in Giovanna. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gay interest |
Themes: | forgivenessamnesiaredemptionmemorydrinkingghostmoneymarriagedeathfriendshipmurder |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | bakerjewlove triangledancerbrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | lost lovepastry shoppastry chefdry cleaningbank employeemanifestationwatchingdeath of loveroverheard conversationpackingchance meetingbakingsleeplessnesschoiceresponsibility β¦holocaust survivorpiesoupbakeryself defensewhisperingbreadlocal blockbusterplaystationelderlyfountainapparitionsaving a lifeaccountantchocolateghettocigarette lighterloststrangerrome italycakerockpubsacrificestatueargumentmontagestabbingold mancandlevoyeurneighborbathroomrunninglettersecretundressingurinationfoodcryingtopless female nuditytelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditybare breastssexbloodflashbackkissnudity (See All) |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | redemptionmemorydrinkingdeathmurder |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | lost lovesaving a lifelostmontagecandlevoyeurneighborrunningfoodcryingtelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingkiss β¦bloodflashback (See All) |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole β¦rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | bakingpiemontageold manlettersecretfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingkisssex |
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: | drinkingmoneymarriagefriendshipmurderdeath |
Characters: | jewdancerbrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | packingself defenseold manneighborrunningsecretundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nudityflashback β¦bloodkiss (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: | memorydrinkingmoneymarriagefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sleeplessnesselderlylostcakeold manletterfoodcryingtelephone callcigarette smoking |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o β¦f The Beatles. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneydeathfriendship |
Characters: | dancerfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | overheard conversationpubargumentmontagerunninglettersecreturinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingflashbacksex β¦bloodkiss (See All) |
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: | forgivenessdrinkingmoneymarriagedeathfriendshipmurder |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sacrificestabbingrunningletterundressingfoodcryingtelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingflashbacknudityblood |
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 β¦he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionmemorydrinkingmoneymarriagemurderdeath |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | sleeplessnesscakemontagecandlebathroomrunningundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditykiss β¦blood (See All) |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmarriagemurderdeath |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | chance meetingelderlyapparitionloststatueold mancandleletterfoodtopless female nuditytelephone callknifecigarette smokingfemale nuditybare breasts β¦flashbackkissblood (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 β¦mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendshipmurderdeath |
Characters: | bakerbrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | pastry shoppastry chefsaving a lifestatuemontagestabbingold mancandlerunninglettersecretfoodcryingtelephone callknife β¦cigarette smokingfemale nudityflashbackbloodkisssex (See All) |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | memorydrinkingmoneyfriendshipdeath |
Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | packingsleeplessnessbakerychocolatecakepubsecreturinationfoodcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingkiss |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Themes: | forgivenessredemptiondrinkingmarriagedeathfriendshipmurder |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sleeplessnesscigarette lighterold mancandlerunningsecreturinationfoodcryingdancingcigarette smokingflashbackbloodnudity |
Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who ma β¦y not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion... (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessredemptionmoneyfriendship |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | bakingstrangerold manneighborlettersecretcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditybloodsexnudity |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Themes: | memorydrinkingmoneydeathfriendshipmurder |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | soupcigarette lighterrockold mancandlerunningundressingurinationfoodcryingdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditybloodsex β¦flashback (See All) |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome β¦d. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagedeathfriendship |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | pastry shopchocolatestatuemontageold manletterfoodcryingknifedancingflashbackkissnuditysex |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion β¦s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmarriagefriendshipdeath |
Characters: | dancerfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | lost lovevoyeurneighborrunningsecretfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nudityflashbackkissnuditysex |
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 β¦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: | memorydrinkingmoneydeathmurder |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | breadsaving a lifecigarette lightersacrificestabbingcandlebathroomrunningundressingurinationfoodcryingcigarette smokingflashbackblood β¦kiss (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 β¦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: | drinkingdeathfriendship |
Characters: | jewbrother sister relationshipfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | breadaccountantlostcandlebathroomrunninglettersecretundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingblood |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for β¦ever. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneyfriendshipmurderdeath |
Characters: | dancerfriendhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | chance meetingfountaincigarette lighterstrangerold mancandlebathroomurinationcryingtelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingflashbackkiss β¦bloodsex (See All) |
The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply...or do they? The youngest son is trying to live up to the father's expectations. He is running a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest β¦son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is a anthropologist. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without argument. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. By the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets a nervous look on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why the oldest sister killed herself. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingfriendshipmurder |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | argumentold mancandlebathroomrunninglettersecretfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditysexkiss |
It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to β¦ tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionmemorydrinkingmoneydeathfriendship |
Characters: | jewdancerbrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | cigarette lighterneighborbathroomundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingflashbackkissnudityblood |
In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this β¦gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmoneymurderfriendship |
Characters: | jewdancerfriendmother son relationshipfather son relationshiphomosexual |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | self defensesaving a lifestabbingsecretundressingcryingtelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingflashbacksexkissnudityblood |
It's 2003. Thirty-eight-year-old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationships with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on β¦ life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family losses. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress, hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death, and Hal's new outlook on life during that time, will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to take care of who was originally Hal's very needy Jack Russell terrier, Arthur. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmarriagefriendshipdeath |
Characters: | jewdancerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | watchingpackinglostmontageold manbathroomrunningsecretcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingkissflashback |
Camden College. Sean Bateman is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He's also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to "fellow" dealer Rupert Guest, as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde is, β¦technically, a virgin. She's saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson, who's left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara, has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton, who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen, who's dating Candice to prove to Paul that he's not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneydeath |
Characters: | love triangledancermother son relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | rome italymontagecandlevoyeurbathroomundressingurinationcryingtopless female nuditytelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditybare breasts β¦flashbacksexkissbloodnudity (See All) |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken β¦ behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessdrinkingmoneymarriagedeathfriendship |
Characters: | jewdancerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | statueold manlettersecreturinationfoodcryingtelephone callknifedancingcigarette smokingflashbackkisssex |
Jim Levenstein has finally found the courage to ask his girlfriend, Michelle Flaherty to marry him. She agrees to get married, but the problems don't stop there for Jim. Now along with Paul Finch and Kevin Myers, Jim must plan the wedding. Unfortunately Steve Stifler is in town and won't let the wed β¦ding go past without having some fun himself, which includes setting up a secret bachelor party. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptiondrinkingmarriagefriendship |
Characters: | love triangledancerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | cakemontageold manvoyeurbathroomsecretfoodtelephone calldancingfemale nuditykisssex |
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Subgenre: | gay interest |
Themes: | redemptionmarriagedeathmurderfriendship |
Characters: | love triangledancerbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | apparitionmontagestabbinglettersecretcryingtelephone calldancingflashbackkissblood |
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 β¦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: | friendship |
Characters: | jewdancerbrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | whisperingneighborrunningsecretundressingfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smoking |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their q β¦uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmoneymarriagefriendshipdeathmurder |
Characters: | jewdancerfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | sleeplessnesscandleneighborbathroomrunningsecreturinationfoodtelephone callknifedancingkissbloodsex |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an β¦d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmurderdeath |
Characters: | jewdancermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | soupstatueold mancandlelettersecretfooddancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditynuditykisssex |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessredemptiondrinkingfriendshipdeathmurder |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | saving a lifepubvoyeurlettersecretundressingcryingtelephone callknifedancingfemale nuditybloodkissflashback |
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).
Themes: | memorymoneymarriagedeathfriendshipmurder |
Characters: | dancerfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | montagerunningundressingurinationfoodtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nudityflashbackbloodkiss |
Kym Buchman has been in drug rehab for nine months, during which time she has been clean. She is released temporarily from the facility to attend her sister Rachel Buchman's wedding. During her release, Kym is staying at the family home, where the wedding is taking place. As such, it is like Grand C β¦entral Station for the duration of Kym's stay, which may not be the most conducive situation for her in constantly being exposed to the watching eyes of those who know and don't yet know her, but know of her situation. The reunion with her family members starts off well enough, but issues around Kym's release from rehab quickly surface. Kym and Rachel's father, Paul Buchman, wants to make sure that Kym is all right at all times, which to Kym feels instead like he doesn't trust her. Rachel slowly begins to resent Kym's situation taking over what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life, some of which is directed by Kym, some of which isn't. One person present but largely not included in the last minute wedding planning work is Kym and Rachel's mother, Abby, from who Paul is divorced. The two have since married other people. Outwardly, Abby has been nurturing of Kym throughout her life. However, what is one of the key moments in Kym's drug induced life, and in their collective family's lives, may profoundly affect the wedding. Beyond how Kym's presence affects the wedding, the goings-on of the family during Kym's short stay may either bring them closer together or tear them apaβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessmemorydrinkingmarriagefriendshipdeath |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | watchingcigarette lighterargumentcandleneighborbathroomrunningurinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingkisssex |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count β¦ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneymarriagefriendshipdeathmurder |
Characters: | dancerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | whisperingaccountantpubold mancandlerunningundressingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingkisssexbloodflashback |
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 β¦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: | forgivenessdrinkingmoneyfriendship |
Characters: | jewfriendmother son relationshipfather son relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | sleeplessnesssoupcakepubcandleneighborurinationfoodcigarette smoking |
We like Florence: she's considerate, sweet, pretty, and terrific with kids and dogs. She's twenty-five, personal assistant to an L.A. family that's off on vacation. Her boss's brother comes in from New York City, fresh from a stay at an asylum, to take care of the house. He's Roger, a forty-year-old β¦ carpenter, gone from L.A. for fifteen years. He arrives, doesn't drive, and needs Florence's help, especially with the family's dog. He's also connecting with former band-mates - two men and one woman with whom he has a history. He over-analyzes, has a short fuse, and doesn't laugh at himself easily. As he navigates past and present, he's his own saboteur. And what of Florence? is Roger one more responsibility for her or something else? (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingdeathfriendship |
Characters: | jewfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | dry cleaningpackingresponsibilitymontagecandlebathroomletterundressingfoodtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditykisssex |
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores β¦these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptiondrinkingmarriagemurderfriendshipdeath |
Characters: | jewdancerbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | chocolatecigarette lightersacrificestatueold mancandlebathroomletterfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditykiss β¦flashbackblood (See All) |
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales β¦ clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptiondeathfriendship |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | lost loveresponsibilitysacrificeargumentundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingflashbackkisssex |
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: | drinkingmoneymarriagemurderdeath |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | brother sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | watchingargumentneighborbathroomlettersecreturinationfoodcryingtelephone callknifecigarette smokingfemale nuditybare breastsflashback β¦bloodkiss (See All) |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Themes: | drinkingmoneyfriendship |
Characters: | love trianglebrother sister relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | rockvoyeurbathroomrunningsecretundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditykisssex |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneydeathfriendshipmurder |
Characters: | love triangledancerfriendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | cigarette lighterstabbingold manneighborrunningundressingcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditybloodsexflashback |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the β¦ death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessredemptionmemorydrinkingmoneymarriagedeathfriendshipmurder |
Characters: | dancerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | old manbathroomrunninglettersecretfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingsexflashbackbloodkiss |
In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi Gardet, a beautiful 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David Bloomberg, a handsome 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of in β¦timacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmarriagefriendshipdeath |
Characters: | jewdancerbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | piebakeryghettocandleundressingfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingflashbackkisssex |
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 β¦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 Ceciliaβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessredemptionmemorydrinkingdeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | fountainsaving a lifechocolatecigarette lightercandleletterundressingfoodcryingcigarette smokingbloodsexflashbackkiss |
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, somet β¦imes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-something Paul, a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, most specifically in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done and, although they don't want Paul infiltrating their lives, want to meet him - especially as Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain some sort of relationship with him. As Paul's relationship with the entire family grows (which includes his hiβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | packingresponsibilitypieargumentmontagecandlebathroomsecretundressingurinationfoodcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nudity β¦kisssexnudity (See All) |
County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferr β¦ed to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support. (Read More)
Themes: | moneydeathfriendship |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | apparitionsacrificemontagebathroomrunningletterurinationcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingkissnuditysexblood |
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: | memorydrinkingmarriage |
Characters: | dancerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | montagebathroomrunningletterurinationfoodcryingtopless female nuditytelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditybare breastskissnudity β¦sexflashback (See All) |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i β¦nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
Themes: | redemptiondrinkingmoneymarriagedeath |
Locations: | water |
Characters: | love triangledancermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | voyeurneighborrunningletterfoodcryingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingflashbackkiss |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen β¦ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
Themes: | forgivenessamnesiamemorymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | friendhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | whisperingargumentmontagebathroomrunninglettersecretfoodcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditysexflashbackkiss β¦bloodnudity (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 β¦alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmoneyfriendshipdeathmurder |
Characters: | jewbrother sister relationshipfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipshomosexual |
Story: | pubstabbingold mancandlerunninglettersecretfoodcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditybloodkissflashback |