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Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde - also voluptuous and also a hairdresser - with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relati β¦onship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | death of wifeadoptionunrequited loveobsessionmemoryweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormfrancebicyclebeach |
Characters: | suicide by drowningdancerpolicemanbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | shaving beardbarber shopretirement hometape recordingbelly dancersuicide of wifesuicide notemarriage proposalchildhood flashbackbarbiturate overdosearabic musicmassive breastsearth moverchildhood crushyoghurt β¦tape playersmelloccupation in titlechildhood memorieskissing breastswoolodorbed wettingcroquethandsshampooexposed breastcolognecrossword puzzlelottery ticketgenitalianormandyfirst person narrationping ponghair salonrazorbarberhairdresserbenchseasidebroken glassshovelsandthunderdrug overdoseretirementhaircutswimsuitbeardrecordingdesireshavingrecord playersensualitylightningpassionchampagnedrowningnonlinear timelineold manbraundressingface slapfoodvoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingbare breastsfightflashbacksex (See All) |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
Themes: | unrequited lovememorydrinkingsuicidelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | suicide by drowningfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | suicide notecroquetretirementswimsuitshavinglightningdrowningundressingcigarette smokingflashbacksex |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr β¦eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifeweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidelovedeath |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | barber shopmarriage proposalhandsrazorhairdresserbroken glassdrug overdosehaircutbeardshavingface slapfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smoking β¦fightsex (See All) |
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job - for which he needs a bike - hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the bicycle. Ricci finally manages to locate the thief but with no proo β¦f, he has to abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep his job. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkinglove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | barberhaircutswimsuitbeardshavingdrowningold manface slapfooddancingcigarette smoking |
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: | obsessiondrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormbeach |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | earth moverodorbed wettingshovelthunderdrug overdoseswimsuitlightningface slapfoodfight |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg β¦eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited loveobsessionweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormbeach |
Characters: | suicide by drowningdancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalthunderdesirelightningfoodvoice over narrationdancingsex |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | death of wifeadoptionmemorydrinkingmarriagedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormbeach |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | thunderbeardshavinglightningnonlinear timelineold manundressingface slapvoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingbare breastsfightflashback β¦sex (See All) |
Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides, a high-desert landscape dotted by old tires, burned-out cars, and abandoned sofas. He gets a job in a pizza joint. By chance, Zia learns that Desiree offed herself a few months after he did β¦, and she's looking for him. He sets off with Eugene (an electrocuted Russian rocker) to find her, and they pick up a hitchhiker, Mikal, who's looking for the People in Charge, believing she's there by mistake. They're soon at the camp of Kneller, where casual miracles proliferate. They hear rumors of a miraculous king. Can Zia find Desiree? Then what? Where there's death there's hope. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingsuicidedeathlove |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanbrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | tape recordingsuicide notedrug overdoserecordingrecord playerface slapfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingflashbacksex |
Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from β¦ the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifeobsessionmemoryweddingdrinkingsuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | genitaliabenchswimsuitpassionchampagnenonlinear timelineundressingfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingbare breastsflashbacksex |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count β¦ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | drinkingmarriagedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | thunderrecordingrecord playerlightningdrowningold manundressingvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingfightflashbacksex |
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: | obsessionweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | marriage proposalshovelrecordingrecord playerold manundressingfoodpantiesdancingcigarette smokingflashback |
Themes: | adoptiondrinkingmarriagedeath |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | marriage proposalthunderpassionchampagneundressingface slapfoodpantiesdancingcigarette smokingfightsexflashback |
Born Christmas Day 1960, Zac Beaulieu is the fourth of five sons of Gervais and Laurianne Beaulieu. Zac feels somewhat disconnected to his brothers, all of whom are different from each other. They include the bookworm Christian who is the eldest, the dumb jock Antoine who is third, and the youngest β¦Yvan. But Zac has the most contempt for his second eldest brother, the shiftless druggie Raymond. To his devout Catholic mother, Zac is her miracle son, both for being born the same day as Jesus Christ (a fact which Zac has always hated), and because a Tupperware-selling mystic once told her that he has the power to heal. Laurianne has always coddled Zac, the two who have a special if unspoken bond. But Zac wants more to please his father, who wants more than anything in his sons that they grow up to be man's men and not sissies. As Zac goes through his mid-teens to early twenties, Zac isn't sure if he can live up to the ideals of either his mother or especially his father. A young man with stress-induced asthma, Zac just wants to be what he considers normal, which includes getting rid of his asthma. But more importantly, he wants to get rid of the underlying thoughts that he has and which most going through puberty have, but that for him are becoming more prevalent as he grows older. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | obsessionweddingmarriagedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | bed wettingsanddrug overdoseswimsuitrecordingrecord playerlightningundressingface slapfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingfightflashback β¦sex (See All) |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Themes: | memoryweddingdrinkingsuicidelove |
Locations: | france |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalbenchrecordingrecord playerdrowningundressingface slapvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingflashback |
Malena is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malena in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is pres β¦umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | unrequited loveobsessionmemorymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | haircutface slapvoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingsexfight |
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: | death of wifememoryweddingdrinkingmarriagedeath |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | tape recordingmarriage proposalbenchrecordingshavingrecord playernonlinear timelineold manvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingflashback |
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughte β¦r. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | unrequited lovedrinkinglove |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | suicide by drowningdancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | tape recordingcrossword puzzleswimsuitundressingvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingsex |
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: | death of wifedrinkingmarriagesuicidedeath |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | suicide by drowningdancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | suicide of wifebarbershovelthunderbeardold manface slapfooddancingcigarette smokingfightflashback |
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Star β¦ting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingdrinkingmarriagedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalcrossword puzzlebenchdrug overdoseshavingbraundressingface slapfoodvoice over narrationpantiescigarette smokingbare breastsfightsex |
The unluckiest man in Vegas - a guy whose bad luck is contagious - is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love with a cocktail waitress and gets "lady luck," which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty when the casi β¦no director tries to break up the romance. (Read More)
Themes: | adoptiondrinkingsuicidelovedeath |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | drug overdoseretirementrecordingrecord playerundressingface slappantiesdancingcigarette smokingsex |
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: | memoryweddingdrinkingmarriagedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormbicycle |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalbroken glasssensualitylightningpassionchampagnebraface slapfooddancingfightsex |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifememoryweddingdrinkinglovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalshovelretirementnonlinear timelineold manfoodvoice over narrationdancingflashback |
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: | death of wifeweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | retirement homesuicide noteswimsuitold manbrafoodvoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingsexflashback |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev β¦eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | razorhaircutshavingpassionchampagneundressingface slapfooddancingcigarette smokingsexfightflashback |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri β¦te with. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited lovedrinkingmarriagedeathlove |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalshovelrecordingrecord playerchampagnefoodcigarette smokingflashbacksexfight |
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: | memoryweddingdrinkingmarriagedeath |
Locations: | francebeach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | seasideswimsuitchampagneface slapfoodpantiesdancingcigarette smokingfightsexflashback |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | memorymarriagedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormbicyclebeach |
Characters: | policemanbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | thunderswimsuitrecordingrecord playerdrowningnonlinear timelineface slapfoodvoice over narrationdancingflashbackfight |
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: | unrequited loveobsessionmemorydrinkingsuicidedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | suicide noterecordingshavingrecord playerdrowningundressingfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingflashback |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental β¦ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | memoryweddingdrinkingmarriagedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | francebicycle |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanchildrenfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | tape recordingrazorbroken glassdrowningold manbrafoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingfightflashback |
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | unrequited lovelove |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | childhood flashbackfirst person narrationbenchthunderlightningpassionvoice over narrationflashbackfight |
A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country β¦odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingdrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | stormbeach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tape recordingmarriage proposaltape playerbrafoodpantiesdancingfight |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta β¦y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and diβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionmemorydrinkingmarriagesuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | dancer |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | shampoosanddrug overdoserecordingrecord playerpassionnonlinear timelinebraundressingface slapdancingcigarette smokingflashback |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an β¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifeweddingdrinkingmarriagesuicidedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | swimsuitchampagneundressingdancingcigarette smokingfightsex |
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 hi β¦s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifememorydrinking |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | exposed breastbroken glassshovelnonlinear timelineundressingface slapcigarette smokingflashbacksex |
The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrest β¦ed by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Bernhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. But while Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's allied opponents, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop Operation Bernhard's aid to the war effort. Faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions, which could prolong the war and risk the lives of fellow prisoners, are ultimately the right ones. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifedrinkingsuicidedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | ping pongbarberrecordingrecord playerchampagnenonlinear timelinebraundressingface slapfooddancingcigarette smokingsexfightflashback |
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the β¦ events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingdrinkingmarriagelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | odorbenchsensualitypassionchampagnebravoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingflashbacksex |
Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets a β¦bout living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind... (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifedrinkingmarriagesuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | dancerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | retirementpassionold manfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingflashback |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Themes: | drinkingsuicide |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | recordingshavingrecord playerchampagnedrowningnonlinear timelineundressingface slapfoodvoice over narrationdancingcigarette smokingbare breastsflashbacksex |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, β¦who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifeobsessiondrinkingmarriagelove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanhusband wife relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | desirerecord playerface slapvoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingsexfight |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her β¦separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinkingmarriagesuicidedeath |
Characters: | suicide by drowninghusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | suicide noteshovelthunderrecordingrecord playerdrowningface slapfoodcigarette smokingfight |
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: | memorydrinkingmarriagelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerpolicemanbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | marriage proposalodorbed wettingundressingface slapfooddancingcigarette smokingfight |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only β¦companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifememorydrinkingsuicidelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | tape recordinghair salonbroken glasshaircutrecordingundressingfoodvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashbackfight |
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: | death of wifememorydrinkingmarriagedeath |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | policemanchildrenhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | hair salonhairdresserretirementold manfoodcigarette smoking |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma β¦gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | death of wifeobsessiondrinkingsuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | policemanbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | shovelthunderlightningchampagnedrowningnonlinear timelineold manvoice over narrationflashback |
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: | coming of age |
Themes: | obsessionmarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | recordingrecord playerpassionnonlinear timelinebraface slapvoice over narrationpantiesdancingflashback |
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: | death of wifedrinkingdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | retirement homebenchthunderswimsuitrecord playerold mandancingcigarette smokingsexflashback |
At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in sch β¦ool, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | adoptiondrinkingdeath |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | hairdresserdrug overdosehaircutnonlinear timelinebraface slappantiesdancingcigarette smokingfightflashbacksex |
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: | death of wifememorydrinkingsuicidedeathlove |
Locations: | stormbicyclebeach |
Characters: | policemanbrother brother relationshipchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | recordingrecord playerlightningnonlinear timelineold manface slapfoodcigarette smokingfightflashback |
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with β¦each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home. (Read More)
Themes: | memoryweddingdrinkinglovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | dancerchildrenhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | marriage proposalold manundressingface slapfoodvoice over narrationdancingflashbackfight |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. β¦As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
Themes: | memorydrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | sandpassionchampagnenonlinear timelinebraundressingvoice over narrationpantiesdancingcigarette smokingsexflashback |