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Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban …forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a promising student to re-engage. Decisions press upon the reporter, the student, and the soldiers. (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificepoliticsfriendshipmurderdeath |
| Locations: | bicyclecemeterysnowhelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipex studentu.s. soldierprofessorstudentteacherafrican american |
| Story: | student activismuniversity studentcollege studentfraternity houseleg woundhead woundnewspaper officetv reportercollege campusarlington national cemeteryfalling from a helicopterhelicopter shot downjumping from a helicopterhelicopter crashmilitary offensive …afghan warmilitary missionnational mallreference to the whopolitical sciencemountain peakreference to watergatenews editorwhite house washington d.c.military strategycondoleezza ricesell outreference to alexander the greatanti aircraftlincoln memorialridgereference to the holocaustpublic servicetimelineshorthandcondescensionmilitary enlistmentwar on terrorismu.s. senatereference to socratesmilitary draftreference to saddam husseinreference to aristotlevietnam war veteranstitchesinfra redreference to osama bin ladengeorge w. bushreference to platoreference to 9 11jihadair strikecamaraderieskepticismreference to richard nixonu.s. senatortalibanvalleyradicalgame playingbehind enemy linesvolunteerblizzardrepublicanconservativefraternitynight visionidealismlecturemexican americanarroganceactivismiraq warsnowingspecial forcesafghanistancynicismbroken legiranjumping from heightwoman with glassespropagandawoundtv newswashington d.c.black americanobscene finger gesturedirected by starscene during end creditsuniversityflash forwardmontagecalifornianewspaperreporterclassroomcollegedead bodyanimal in titleriflefalling from heightwatching tvcomputerrescuecorpsetelephone callexplosionbloodflashback (See All) |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl …e his affairs. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipdeath |
| Locations: | bicyclesnow |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacher |
| Story: | university studentcollege studentsnowinguniversityflash forwardclassroomcollegewatching tvtelephone callflashback |
Freshman university student Josh Wheaton attends a philosophy class, where the uncompromising Professor Radisson requires all students to submit a signed statement that the "God is dead" and never existed. When Josh refuses due to his own Christian beliefs, the Professor challenges him to defend his … position that his god, Yahweh, is real, leading to a series of confrontational presentations between himself and the professor, with the class as jury. Josh's plans to go to law school depend on not failing this class. Josh's girlfriend urges him not to throw away his future with this pointless act of defiance. At the same time, Pastor Dave and African missionary Jude attempt to leave town on a trip, but are hindered by comical accidents. Student Ayisha is at odds with her father's conservative religious principles. Businessman Mark acts cynically towards his mentally ill mother, while his journalist girlfriend receives bad news from a doctor. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudent |
| Story: | university studentcollege studentconservativelecturecynicismuniversity |
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of … one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of associate Shelly Barnes, an FBI agent, his friend Frank Parks, and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigates some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | college campuslecturetv newsobscene finger gestureuniversityflash forwardclassroomcollegedead bodyfalling from heightwatching tvcomputercorpsetelephone callexplosion …flashbackblood (See All) |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Locations: | cemeterysnowhelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | professor |
| Story: | tv reporterreference to socratesreference to aristotlereference to platotv newsobscene finger gesturereportercollegewatching tvcomputertelephone callflashback |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa …chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | cemeterysnowhelicopter |
| Characters: | professorstudentteacherafrican american |
| Story: | college studentcollege campusmilitary draftradicalvolunteersnowinguniversitymontagecalifornianewspaperclassroomriflewatching tvcorpsetelephone call …explosionblood (See All) |
Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal, and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. After running into mountain herders and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned. Now Marcus and hi …s team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificefriendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | helicopter crashwar on terrorismcamaraderietalibannight visionspecial forcesafghanistanbroken legwoundfalling from heightrescuecorpseexplosionflashbackblood |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th …e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsmurderdeath |
| Locations: | helicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacherafrican american |
| Story: | college studenthead woundtv reporterspecial forcestv newsblack americanreporterriflerescuetelephone callblood |
Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 day …s of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go? (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Characters: | u.s. soldierafrican american |
| Story: | military enlistmentreference to saddam husseinvietnam war veteranjihadmexican americaniraq warpropagandawoundtv newsobscene finger gestureflash forwardreporterdead bodyriflewatching tv …corpsetelephone callflashbackblood (See All) |
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 …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)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemeterysnowrestaurant |
| Characters: | studentteacher |
| Story: | reference to saddam husseinblizzardidealismiranwoundobscene finger gestureuniversityflash forwardnewspaperclassroomdead bodyriflefalling from heightwatching tvcorpse …telephone callexplosionflashbackblood (See All) |
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurder |
| Locations: | cemeterysnowhelicopter |
| Characters: | u.s. soldier |
| Story: | white house washington d.c.reference to saddam husseinlectureiraq warsnowingafghanistantv newswashington d.c.montagenewspaperreporterwatching tvcomputertelephone callexplosion |
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 … 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: | politicsdeathfriendship |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | head woundcollege campuslecturesnowingcaliforniaclassroomcollegedead bodyriflewatching tvtelephone callflashbackblood |
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club's trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as hi …s best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger. (Read More)
| Themes: | deathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | bicycle |
| Story: | college campusu.s. senatorfraternityuniversityreportercollegewatching tvcomputertelephone callflashback |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a cafe with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initia …tes a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurder |
| Locations: | cemeteryrestaurant |
| Story: | tv reporterjihadafghanistantv newsmontagereporterdead bodyriflewatching tvcomputertelephone callflashback |
Four childhood friends, Jonesy, Beaver, Pete and Henry all share a special secret. Each year, they take a trip into Maine woods. This year is different. A blizzard occurs, and they recover a man found wandering around. Unbeknownst to them,this wandering individual isn't the only being to be found. N …ow they must act fast to stop the outbreak developing and to prevent the world from its doom (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificefriendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | snowhelicopter |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | helicopter crashblizzardobscene finger gestureflash forwardriflecomputerrescuecorpsetelephone callexplosionbloodflashback |
Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993. On this date nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali …warlord. This led to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Army Ranges, US Special Forces, and hundreds of Somali gunmen; resulting in the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters. The film focuses on the heroic efforts of various Rangers to get to the downed black hawks, centering on SSG Eversmann, leading the Ranger unit Chalk Four to the first black hawk crash site, Chief Warrant Officer Durant who was captured after being the only survivor of the second black hawk crash, as well as many others who were involved. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurder |
| Locations: | bicyclehelicopter |
| Characters: | u.s. soldier |
| Story: | helicopter crashinfra redcamaraderiespecial forcesobscene finger gesturedead bodyriflecomputerrescuecorpsetelephone callexplosionblood |
In Bedridge, Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at the train station and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds that the dog is an Akita and names it Hachiko. However, nobody claims the dog so his family decides to keep Hachi.
| Themes: | deathfriendship |
| Locations: | cemeterysnow |
| Characters: | studentteacherafrican american |
| Story: | snowingblack americanflash forwardmontagenewspaperclassroomanimal in titlewatching tvcomputertelephone callflashback |
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 …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)
| Themes: | self sacrificedeathmurder |
| Locations: | bicyclecemeteryrestaurant |
| Characters: | professorstudentteacher |
| Story: | fraternity housefraternitycynicismuniversityflash forwardcollegeanimal in titletelephone callexplosionflashbackblood |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recru …itment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurder |
| Locations: | bicyclerestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentafrican american |
| Story: | fraternityidealismwashington d.c.black americandirected by starflash forwardclassroomriflecorpsetelephone callflashback |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s …eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacherafrican american |
| Story: | college studentradicalblack americanmontagenewspaperclassroomcollegerifletelephone call |
Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman's stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing … voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband's urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath. (Read More)
| Themes: | deathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | cemeterysnowrestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | college studentuniversitycollegewatching tvcomputertelephone callblood |
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert da …ta, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them? (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsfriendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | bicyclesnow |
| Characters: | u.s. soldierafrican american |
| Story: | game playingsnowingafghanistaniranpropagandatv newswashington d.c.black americanmontagenewspaperreportercomputertelephone callexplosionflashback …blood (See All) |
After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan aka Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, which he is wanted for as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that e …xposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the FBI while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case himself as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals even as Nick faces their consequences with another. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsmurderfriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | helicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | professorafrican american |
| Story: | newspaper officetv reporterradicalidealismtv newsblack americannewspaperreportercomputertelephone call |
Two Irish brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he comes to catching the … Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing. (Read More)
| Themes: | deathfriendshipmurder |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | african american |
| Story: | tv reportermexican americantv newsblack americanscene during end creditsflash forwardnewspaperreporterdead bodyriflefalling from heightwatching tvcomputercorpsetelephone call …bloodflashback (See All) |
After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs … for interrogation which includes torture. An American CIA operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man's wife raises hell to find him despite being pregnant but the person behind this refuses to help or give her any information. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsfriendshipdeathmurder |
| Characters: | student |
| Story: | war on terrorismjihadu.s. senatortv newswashington d.c.dead bodyriflewatching tvcomputerrescuecorpsetelephone callexplosionbloodflashback |
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 develo …ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificepoliticsdeathfriendshipmurder |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Characters: | african american |
| Story: | leg woundmilitary draftu.s. senatorafghanistaniranjumping from heighttv newsflash forwardmontagecaliforniadead bodyriflefalling from heightwatching tvcomputer …corpsetelephone callexplosionflashbackblood (See All) |
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol …business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsfriendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | cemeteryrestaurant |
| Characters: | studentteacher |
| Story: | college studentlincoln memorialvietnam war veteranu.s. senatortv newswashington d.c.newspaperreporterclassroomriflewatching tvcomputertelephone call |
After his father is killed in a car accident, things unravel for Kale Brecht and he is placed under house-arrest for punching his Spanish teacher. Having nothing better to do, Kale occupies himself by spying on his neighbors. But one night, he witnesses what appears to be a murder going on in Mr. Tu …rner's house. Kale becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind these murders but, after a few unsettling run-ins with Mr. Turner, it becomes a matter of life and death. And the ominous question: Who is watching whom? (Read More)
| Themes: | deathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | bicycle |
| Characters: | studentteacher |
| Story: | broken legtv newsobscene finger gestureflash forwardnewspaperclassroomdead bodywatching tvcomputercorpsetelephone callblood |
SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.
| Themes: | politicsmurder |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipu.s. soldierteacherafrican american |
| Story: | war on terrorismreference to osama bin ladenreference to 9 11conservativebroken legtv newswashington d.c.black americanflash forwardmontagenewspaperriflewatching tvcomputertelephone call …explosionflashback (See All) |
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | snowhelicopterrestaurant |
| Story: | tv newswashington d.c.newspaperdead bodyanimal in titleriflewatching tvcomputercorpsetelephone callflashbackblood |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesnowrestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | universitycalifornianewspaperclassroomcollegewatching tvtelephone call |
Fresh from Des Moines, Iowa, Sara Matthews has just landed in Los Angeles as a college freshman studying fashion design. She meets handsome Stephen, party-lover Tracy, and roommate Rebecca. Rebecca is nice, sweet and ready to share everything with Sara. It could be the beginning of a beautiful frien …dship. But Tracy is convinced that there's something seriously wrong with Rebecca and bad things start happening to everyone close to Sara. If Sara is to have a normal college experience, she's going to have to get to the bottom of what's up with Rebecca and quickly get out of her clutches. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipdeathmurder |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | university studentcollege studentcollege campuswounduniversitymontageclassroomcollegerescuetelephone callblood |
Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and wa …ter and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive? (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificefriendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | bicyclehelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacher |
| Story: | tv reportergame playingvolunteerpropagandawoundobscene finger gestureclassroomdead bodycomputercorpsetelephone callexplosionflashbackblood |
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for t …he FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the pres… (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsfriendshipmurderdeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessor |
| Story: | college studentwashington d.c.newspaperreportercollegeriflewatching tvcomputercorpseexplosionblood |
Ben Randall is a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. When his crew is killed in an accident and his marriage ends, his commander tells him he wants Randall to go to the US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer "A" School to train other rescue swimmers. He encounters a guy named Jake who's a little cocky because he was … once a swim champion. So Ben puts him through the wringer to see if he can handle it. (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificedeath |
| Locations: | snowhelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacher |
| Story: | helicopter crashmontagerescuecorpseexplosionblood |
In San Andreas, California is experiencing a statewide earthquake that goes on record as easily the biggest earthquake in history. Dwayne Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a helicopter rescue pilot for the Los Angeles Fire Department, who is trying to find his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is in … San Francisco amidst the chaos. Ray's estranged wife, Emma, is forced to turn to Ray for help, as he is her last resort. Together they journey to save their daughter. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | bicyclehelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | professor |
| Story: | college studenthelicopter crashjumping from heightcaliforniareporterfalling from heightrescueexplosionflashback |
In 1945, the Marines attack twelve thousand Japaneses protecting the twenty square kilometers of the sacred Iwo Jima island in a very violent battle. When they reach the Mount Suribachi and six Marines raise their flag on the top, the picture becomes a symbol in a post Great Depression America. The …government brings the three survivors to America to raise funds for war, bringing hope to desolate people, and making the three men heroes of the war. However, the traumatized trio has difficulty dealing with the image built by their superiors, sharing the heroism with their mates. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipdeathmurder |
| Characters: | u.s. soldier |
| Story: | white house washington d.c.camaraderieu.s. senatorpropagandawashington d.c.flash forwardnewspaperdead bodyriflecorpsetelephone callexplosionbloodflashback |
After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get comp …licated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurder |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | tv reportercynicismwoundtv newsreporterdead bodyriflerescueexplosion |
Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to t …he area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals. The only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsdeathmurder |
| Locations: | helicopterrestaurant |
| Story: | leg woundreference to 9 11air strikenight visionspecial forcesbroken legwashington d.c.obscene finger gestureflash forwardmontagerescuecorpseexplosionblood |
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and … the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. (Read More)
| Themes: | self sacrificedeathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | snowhelicopter |
| Story: | helicopter crashvalleybehind enemy linesblizzardsnowingspecial forcesmontageriflefalling from heightrescuecorpseexplosionflashbackblood |
Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That's the subject of Angela's examination paper. She is a young student at a film school in Madrid. Together with the student Chema (who is totally obsessed wi …th violent movies) they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed. Soon they discover that the girl was a former student at their school... (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudent |
| Story: | university studentcollege studenttv newsuniversity |
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite …Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | tv reporterhelicopter crashafghan waranti aircraftconservativeafghanistanpropagandawashington d.c.reporterwatching tvtelephone call |
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his … children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. (Read More)
| Themes: | deathfriendshipmurder |
| Locations: | cemeterysnowrestaurant |
| Characters: | u.s. soldierprofessorafrican american |
| Story: | college studentmilitary enlistmentreference to richard nixonuniversityclassroomcollegeflashback |
Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hand …s of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again. (Read More)
| Themes: | deathmurderfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemeteryhelicopter |
| Characters: | u.s. soldier |
| Story: | special forcesbroken legtv newsdead bodyanimal in titleriflefalling from heightwatching tvrescuetelephone callexplosionblood |
Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all ov …er Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipdeathmurder |
| Locations: | bicyclehelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | u.s. soldier |
| Story: | jihadbroken legwoundtv newsobscene finger gesturenewspaperdead bodyriflewatching tvcorpsetelephone callexplosionflashbackblood |
On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces wi …th the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack. As the investigation continues, the Tsarnaev brothers realize that the authorities are close to identifying them and attempt to flee the city to continue their fanatical mayhem. To stop them, a police manhunt is performed that would have bloody confrontations and a massive dragnet shutting down the City of Boston to make sure there is no escape from the law. (Read More)
| Themes: | deathmurder |
| Locations: | helicopterrestaurant |
| Story: | college studentcollege campusjihadradicalspecial forcesbroken legtv newsmontagewatching tvrescuecorpseexplosionblood |
"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit …ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacher |
| Story: | head woundarrogancecynicismflash forwardcaliforniadead bodyfalling from heightrescuecorpseexplosionflashbackblood |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Locations: | bicyclehelicopterrestaurant |
| Characters: | studentteacher |
| Story: | cynicismwoundtv newsmontagereporterdead bodyriflewatching tvrescuecorpsetelephone callexplosionblood |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsmurderdeath |
| Locations: | helicopterrestaurant |
| Story: | woman with glassestv newsobscene finger gestureflash forwardmontagecalifornianewspaperreporterdead bodyriflewatching tvtelephone callblood |
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estran …ged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on. (Read More)
| Themes: | politicsfriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipprofessorstudentteacher |
| Story: | reference to socratesreference to platoradicaluniversityclassroomcollegewatching tvcomputertelephone callflashback |
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