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Humbert Humbert forces a confrontation with a man, whose name he has just recently learned, in this man's home. The events that led to this standoff began four years earlier. Middle aged Humbert, a European, arrives in the United States where he has secured at job at Beardsley College in Beardsley, …Ohio as a Professor of French Literature. Before he begins his post in the fall, he decides to spend the summer in the resort town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire. He is given the name of Charlotte Haze as someone who is renting a room in her home for the summer. He finds that Charlotte, widowed now for seven years, is a woman who puts on airs. Among the demonstration of those airs is throwing around the name of Clare Quilty, a television and stage script writer, who came to speak at her women's club meeting and who she implies is now a friend. Those airs also mask being lonely, especially as she is a sexually aggressive and liberated woman. Humbert considers Charlotte a proverbial "joke" but decides to rent the room upon meeting Charlotte's provocative daughter, Dolores Haze - more frequently referred to as Lolita - who he first spots in a bikini tanning in the back yard. He is immediately infatuated with Lolita, with who he becomes obsessed in a sexual manner despite her age, she being just into her teens. He will also learn that Charlotte has the exact same feelings for him. While Charlotte does whatever she can to be alone with Humbert, Humbert does the same with Lolita. As the summ… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedycult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | writingdeath of wifeunrequited lovedeath of motherobsessionseductionincestpregnancyjealousymarriagemurderdeath |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | gas stationmotelcastletaxicarhotelhospital |
| Characters: | drinking while pregnantpregnant girlpregnant teenagerstepfather stepdaughter relationshipself destructivenessprofessorwriternurseteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | pregnant woman drinkingsexual obsessioncamera shot of feethit by a cartalking to one's dead husbandpainting one's toenailswhite picket fencehot bathwhite tuxedofrustrated loveblow outkodachromefast talkernymphetpromiscuous daughter …reciting poetrycotrantingdark glassesreading letterblowing bubblesdirty old manpossessivenessgirl man relationshipcaviarautomobile accidentcountingadolescent girlpiano lessonnew hampshirestatutory rapehula hoopolder man young girl relationshipscreenplay adapted by authorcigarette holderpassenger traintiaraharpdrive inrestraintballroom dancingdriving at nightmartinifordschool playping ponglolitasex with a minorin medias resobsessive lovejudostrait jacketlandladyinfatuationstretcherplaywrightshoutingtelephone boothbitternesssummer campsarcasmadolescenceforename as titleimpersonating a police officerohiobeing followedmotherhoodage differencepervertmidlife crisismay december romancedeath threatlove at first sightironycynicismforbidden loveblack humoragingcakeheart attackchesstypewriterloss of motherhandgunsadnessdiaryargumentcontroversywidowwomandisguisecollegeliebikinicamerabased on bookcryingpartytitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titleone word titlebased on novelflashback (See All) |
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, …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)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | writingdeath of wifedeath of motherobsessionseductionincestpregnancyjealousymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | gas stationmotelhotelhospital |
| Characters: | pregnant teenagerstepfather stepdaughter relationshipself destructivenessprofessorwriterteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | hit by a carpromiscuous daughterdirty old mangirl man relationshipstatutory rapeolder man young girl relationshipschool playlolitasex with a minorlandladyplaywrightsummer campage differencepervertmay december romance …forbidden lovecontroversywidowcollegeliecryingcharacter name in titlebased on novel (See All) |
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 …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | writingobsessionpregnancyjealousymarriagedeathmurder |
| Locations: | motelcarhotelhospital |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | screenplay adapted by authorbitternesssarcasmlove at first sightironysadnessdiaryargumentwomandisguiseliecamerabased on bookcryingparty …based on novelflashback (See All) |
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: | death of wifeseductiondeathmurder |
| Locations: | carhospital |
| Characters: | stepfather stepdaughter relationshipself destructivenessprofessorwriternursedoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | automobile accidentage differencemay december romanceheart attackcontroversycollegeliecryingtitle spoken by characterbased on novelflashback |
After his death sometime in his forty-third year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few weeks of his life, during which he had no idea of his imminent passing. He is a husband to real estate agent Carolyn Burnham and father to high school student Janie Burnham. Although Lester and Carolyn … once loved each other, they now merely tolerate each other. Typical wallflower Janie too hates both her parents, the three who suffer individually in silence in their home life. Janie tries to steer clear of both her parents. Carolyn, relatively new to the real estate business, wants to create the persona of success to further her career, she aspiring to the professional life of Buddy Kane, the king of the real estate business in their neighborhood. Lester merely walks mindlessly through life, including at his job in advertising. His company is downsizing, and he, like all the other employees, has to justify his position to the newly hired efficiency expert to keep his job. Things change for Lester when he falls in love at first sight with Janie's more experienced classmate, Angela Hays. Both Janie and Angela can see Lester's sexual infatuation with Angela, who courts such attention from any man as a sign that she is model material, she having once appeared in Seventeen and it a career to which she aspires. Lester's infatuation with Angela gives him a reenergized view on life, where he openly doesn't care anymore what anyone thinks about what he does, anyone except Angela. This in… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedycult film |
| Themes: | obsessionseductiondeathmurder |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | motelcar |
| Characters: | self destructivenesswriterteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | nymphetdirty old manolder man young girl relationshiplolitain medias resinfatuationsarcasmage differencemidlife crisiscynicismhandgunargumentwomancameraflashback |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancyjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | professordoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | possessivenessloss of motherwidowwomancollegepartybased on novel |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
| Themes: | pregnancyjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | taxihospital |
| Characters: | professorwriternursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | playwrightage differencemay december romanceagingheart attackcryingpartyflashback |
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is …to take her parts and her fiance, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiance shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | taxihotel |
| Story: | cigarette holdermartiniin medias resplaywrightage differencecynicismagingwomanliecryingpartytitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titleflashback |
Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together.. …. until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedycult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | pregnancyjealousymurderdeath |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | gas stationmotelcar |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | hit by a cartelephone boothbitternessforbidden lovesadnesswomancryingtitle spoken by characterbased on novelflashback |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe …s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedycult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | unrequited lovedeath of motherobsessionjealousydeathmurder |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | motelcarhospital |
| Characters: | writernursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | cynicismagingwomancryingcharacter name in title |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou …r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of motherobsessionjealousymarriage |
| Locations: | taxihotelhospital |
| Characters: | writerdoctor |
| Story: | hit by a carscreenplay adapted by authorlove at first sightliecameracryingone word titleflashback |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionpregnancyjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | taxihospital |
| Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | obsessive loveheart attackwidowliecameracryingpartyone word titleflashback |
This is the story of Enid and Rebecca after they finish the high school. Both have problems relating to people and they spend their time hanging around and bothering creeps. When they meet Seymour who is a social outsider who loves to collect old 78 records, Enid's life will change forever.
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | obsessionjealousy |
| Characters: | teenage girl |
| Story: | older man young girl relationshipinfatuationsarcasmage differencemay december romanceironycynicismcakecryingparty |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi …m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | obsessionseductionjealousymarriage |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | gas stationcarhotel |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | telephone boothmay december romanceforbidden lovewomancollegecryingpartybased on novel |
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 …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherdeath |
| Characters: | teenage girl |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | hit by a caradolescenceblack humorsadnessargumentwidowcollegeliebased on bookcryingpartyflashback |
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she … is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, he believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | unrequited loveobsessiondeathmurder |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | self destructiveness |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | dirty old manolder man young girl relationshipbeing followedage differencemay december romancecollegecryingtitle spoken by characterone word titlebased on novelflashback |
Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for … a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events a… (Read More)
| Themes: | writingmarriage |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | professorwriterteenage girl |
| Story: | lolitasex with a minorage differencemay december romancetypewriterwomancollegetitle spoken by characterone word title |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancymarriagemurderdeath |
| Characters: | professornursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | in medias resironyheart attackloss of motherwidowtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novel |
The bitter, cynical and lonely Barbara Covett is a tough and conservative teacher, near to retirement, who is loathed by her colleagues and students. In the loneliness of her apartment, she spends her spare time writing her journal, taking care of her old cat Portia and missing her special friend Je …nnifer Dodd. When Sheba Hart joins the high-school as the new art teacher, Barbara dedicates her attention to the newcomer, writing sharp and unpleasant comments about her behavior and clothes. When Barbara helps Sheba in a difficult situation with two students, the grateful Sheba invites her to have lunch with her family. Sheba introduces her husband and former professor Richard Hart, who is about twenty years older than she; her rebellious teenager daughter Polly; and her son Ben that has Down's Syndrome. Barbara becomes close to Sheba, but when she accidentally discovers that Sheba is having an affair with the fifteen year-old student Steven Connolly, Barbara sees the chance to manipulate and get closer to Sheba, hiding the secret from the school headmaster. When Portia dies and Sheba does not stay with Barbara in the veterinary office to see Ben in a theater play, Barbara plots a Machiavellian revenge against Sheba, creating a scandal and consequent turmoil in their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | writingobsessionseductionpregnancymarriage |
| Characters: | professorteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | school playsex with a minorinfatuationbitternessage differencediaryliecryingbased on novelflashback |
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | obsessionseduction |
| Locations: | taxi |
| Characters: | self destructivenessmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | camera shot of feetpossessivenessobsessive loveinfatuationheart attackcontroversywomanbased on bookpartybased on novel |
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling up to London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date …. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget. There is drinking, truths, an old stalker class mate with a long standing crush, lost divorce papers, lost hopes, competitive indoor sports and yeah Jack finding out the truth that Nancy isn't his blind date. 'Man Up' a romantic comedy about taking chances, finding about being yourself, making decisions and rolling with the consequences. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | seductionmarriage |
| Locations: | taxicar |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | bitternesssarcasmlove at first sightironysadnessargumentwomanliecryingparty |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl …e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | death of wifemarriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | nursefamily relationships |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | screenplay adapted by authorlove at first sightagingheart attackwomantitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Ha …nnah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. (Read More)
| Themes: | writingpregnancymarriage |
| Characters: | professorwriter |
| Story: | midlife crisistypewritercollegeliepartybased on novel |
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 …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: | death |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | nurseteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | love at first sightforbidden loveagingheart attacksadnessargumentwidowwomancollegecryingbased on novelflashback |
It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the mome …nt he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? (Read More)
| Themes: | writingdeath of motherseductionpregnancyjealousymarriagedeath |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | motelhospital |
| Characters: | writerdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | heart attackloss of mothersadnesswomanliecryingflashback |
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Ita …ly, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancee, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionpregnancymurderdeath |
| Characters: | writer |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | bitternesstypewritersadnessliebikinibased on bookcryingpartycharacter name in titlebased on novelflashback |
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite t …he fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create. (Read More)
| Themes: | writingdeath of motherjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | moteltaxihospital |
| Characters: | professorwriternursedoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | playwrightmidlife crisisagingliecryingtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in title |
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: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | writingobsessionmarriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | professorwriterteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | sex with a minordiarycryingpartytitle spoken by characterflashback |
Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | seductionmarriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | car |
| Characters: | writerteenage girl |
| Story: | hit by a carbitternessironychesssadnesscontroversywomancryingpartybased on novelflashback |
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 …umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
| Themes: | unrequited loveobsessionjealousymarriagedeath |
| Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | sex with a minoradolescenceforename as titlewidowliecryingcharacter name in titleone word title |
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 …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)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | writingdeath of wifedeath of motherincestpregnancyjealousydeathmurder |
| Locations: | taxihotel |
| Characters: | doctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | in medias restelephone boothdiarycameracryingtitle spoken by characterone word titleflashback |
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive …Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionseduction |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | adolescent girlstatutory rapeolder man young girl relationshipage differencesadnessargumentcollegeliecryingpartyone word title |
Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later David is a wheelchair … basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherseductionpregnancyjealousymarriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | nurse |
| Story: | sexual obsessionobsessive loveadolescenceargumentliecamerabased on novel |
Events in the life of a Hollywood studio executive, unfold with the same unrealistic positive coincidences ultimately culminating to a 'happy-ending' - much like the movie scripts he works day in and out with, after he accidentally murders someone.
| Subgenre: | black comedycult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | writingobsessionmurder |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | screenplay adapted by authordeath threatironyliebased on bookbased on novel |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu …dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionpregnancy |
| Locations: | taxihotelhospital |
| Characters: | writernursedoctor |
| Story: | hit by a carinfatuationwomancameracryingtitle spoken by characterflashback |
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit …and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present, Whit's new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff's precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | unrequited lovemurder |
| Locations: | gas stationtaxicarhotel |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | martiniin medias resbeing followedliebased on novelflashback |
Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter Antia, who reveals that this one is living in Switzerland married and with three children. With the heart b …roken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates with her sending a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Xoan, a Galician fisherman. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between the family, the job and the education of Antia until a fatal accident changes their lives. Slowly decaying in a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia goes missing suddenly after a vacation with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her missing... (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedeath of motherobsessionpregnancymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | taxihospital |
| Characters: | writerteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | hit by a cardark glassesstretchersummer campforename as titlebeing followedwomantitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titleone word titleflashback |
Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other … hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifeseductionjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | taxihospital |
| Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | landladymidlife crisisblack humorsadnesscollegecryingtitle spoken by characterflashback |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and …disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedycult film |
| Themes: | writingdeath of motherobsessionmurderdeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | nurse |
| Story: | hit by a carironycynicismloss of mothersadnessdiaryargumentcontroversydisguiselietitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titleone word titleflashback |
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship …deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | obsessiondeathmurder |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | obsessive lovetelephone boothbitternesssadnesscontroversywidowwomancrying |
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: | unrequited loveobsessiondeath |
| Locations: | car |
| Characters: | professormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | camera shot of feetmidlife crisisagingheart attackwomancollegecryingpartybased on novelflashback |
In prison awaiting execution the next morning Louis, the 10th Duke of Chalfont, sets down on paper the events that led him to his current situation. His mother has been banished from her family, the D'Ascoynes, after she married Louis' father who was considered far beneath her. After her death, the …D'Ascoynes refused permission for her to be buried in the family crypt. Louis then plots his revenge - and kills all those ahead of him in the succession until he becomes the Duke. Along the way, he becomes involved with the married Sibelia who, when spurned, makes sure he ends up in prison. The day before his execution Sibelia recants her testimony saving him not only from the gallows but also sets him free. Once outside the prison however, he realizes he's forgotten one little thing........ (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | death of motherjealousymarriagemurderdeath |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | castlehotel |
| Characters: | doctorfamily relationships |
| Story: | caviarironyheart attackwidowdisguisecameracryingpartyflashback |
Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events fo …llow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | death of wifeseductionmarriagedeath |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | midlife crisisironywomancollegecryingcharacter name in titlebased on novelflashback |
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
| Themes: | jealousydeathmurder |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | screenplay adapted by authorbitternessloss of mothersadnesswomancryingpartybased on novelflashback |
After three weeks of chatting with the thirty-two year old photographer Jeff Kohlver over the Internet, fourteen year old Hayley Stark meets him in the Nighthawks coffee shop. Hayley flirts with him in spite of the age difference and proposes to go to his house. Once there, she prepares a screwdrive …r for them and Jeff passes out. When he awakes, he is tied up to a chair, and Hayley accuses him of pedophilia. Jeff denies the accusation, and Hayley begins to torture him in a cat and mouse game. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedycult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | reading letterlolitasex with a minorage differencepervertcakehandgunliecameracrying |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous …in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifeunrequited lovedeath of motherpregnancyjealousymarriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | nurseteenage girldoctormother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | ballroom dancingstretcherloss of motherwidowwomanliecryingpartybased on novel |
The story of Ray Charles, music legend. Told in his adult live with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood which included losing his brother and then his sight, his rise as pianist in a touring band, his writing his own songs and running his own band an …d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. (Read More)
| Themes: | writingdeath of motherpregnancymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | forename as titlechessloss of motherliecameracryingtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titleone word titleflashback |
Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a largely obese woman whom only he can see as a …vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis? (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousydeath |
| Locations: | taxihospital |
| Characters: | nursedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | sarcasmcakewomanliebikinicryingtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in title |
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 …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 wifedeath of motherpregnancydeath |
| Locations: | hotelhospital |
| Characters: | nurseteenage girldoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | bitternessblack humorheart attackloss of motherliecameracryingcharacter name in titlebased on novelflashback |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous …ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
| Themes: | writingpregnancy |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | writerdoctor |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | womanbased on bookpartytitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
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