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Themes: | writingunfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | truck accidentelevatorlos angeles californiarestauranthospital |
Characters: | asianactressthiefwritergirlboybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | buck teethlecture hallkarate choptv writerfire extinguisherchinatown los angelesstudio lotmonopoly the board gamereference to imdbtalent agentexposeteethstroketrafficlecture β¦journalcartoon on tvface maskhit with a baseball batextortiongasolinefilm producerscreenwritertime lapse photographyaquariumanimated sequenceburglarydentisttv showhollywood californiaassaultbreaking and enteringpornographydeath of sonclassdeath of brothersplit screenpursuitbaseball batdiaryauditionkarateprologueconfessionunderwater scenemodelfishbasketballswimmingreporterhallucinationcaferunningtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvblondecar accidentbeatingcryingtopless female nudityvoice over narrationfiretelephone callshowerchasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybare breastsnudityflashbackbloodsexfight (See All) |
The plot revolves around a young married woman whose mundane life takes a turn for the worse when she strikes up a passionate and illicit affair with an oddball discount-store stock boy who thinks he's Holden Caulfield.
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | thiefwritergirlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | cartoon on tvburglaryswimmingtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingvoice over narrationcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashback |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al β¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitydeathlove |
Locations: | elevatorrestauranthospital |
Characters: | girlboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | burglarydeath of sonpursuitbaseball batprologueconfessionswimmingcaferunningtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvcar accidentbeating β¦cryingtelephone callshowerchasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditynuditybloodflashbackfight (See All) |
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Themes: | theftdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | los angeles californiahospital |
Characters: | actressthiefgirlfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to imdbface maskfilm producerburglarybreaking and enteringbaseball batauditionprologueunderwater scenefishswimmingrunningdrinkwatching tvblonde β¦car accidentbeatingvoice over narrationcigarette smokingfemale nudityflashbackbloodfight (See All) |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his β¦ mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity. (Read More)
Themes: | theftdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | thiefwriterbrother brother relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | journalassaultbreaking and enteringpornographyclasspursuitdiaryprologueconfessionbasketballswimminghallucinationcaferunningtears β¦drinkwatching tvbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callchasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybloodfightsex (See All) |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | theftdrinkingjealousyinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestauranthospital |
Characters: | actressthiefwriterhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | tv writeraquariumtv showhollywood californiapursuitfishreporterhallucinationcafetearsdrinkwatching tvcar accidentcryingtelephone call β¦chasenuditysexblood (See All) |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy β¦ neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitylovedeath |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestauranthospital |
Characters: | actresswritergirlhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | screenwriterprologuecafetearswatching tvcryingtelephone callshowercigarette smokingflashback |
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: | writingunfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelity |
Characters: | actresswriterboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | talent agentfilm producerscreenwriterpursuitunderwater scenereporterrunningtearsdrinkbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callchasephotograph β¦cigarette smokingflashbacksex (See All) |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, β¦ even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | los angeles californiahospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | aquariumdeath of sonbaseball batfishbasketballtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvcar accidentcryingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nudity β¦male nuditybloodsex (See All) |
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.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurant |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | journaldeath of sonsplit screendiaryprologuefishswimmingcaferunningtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvblondebeating β¦cryingtopless female nudityvoice over narrationfiretelephone callshowerchasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybare breastsbloodfightnuditysexflashback (See All) |
John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. W β¦hen they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurant |
Characters: | girlboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | monopoly the board gamecaferunningtearsdrinkwatching tvcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callshowerfightsex |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingjealousylovedeath |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | girlboybrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | exposeclassprologueconfessionfishreporterhallucinationcafetearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvcar accidentbeatingcrying β¦telephone callphotographfemale nuditymale nudityfightflashbackblood (See All) |
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 β¦concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | classcaferunningtearsbare buttdrinkcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashbacksexfight |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | actressboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | auditionunderwater sceneswimmingrunningtearsbare buttdrinkblondecryingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysex β¦fightnudityflashback (See All) |
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 β¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | face maskbreaking and enteringpursuitunderwater scenerunningtearsdrinkwatching tvcryingtopless female nuditytelephone callfemale nuditybare breastsnudity |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitylovedeath |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | actresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | film producertv showhollywood californiarunningtearsdrinkwatching tvblondebeatingcryingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditybloodflashback β¦sex (See All) |
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: | writingunfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeathlove |
Locations: | elevatorrestauranthospital |
Characters: | writergirlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | cafetearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingtelephone callshowerphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashbacksex β¦fightblood (See All) |
In 1959, 'Alfred Hitchcock (I)' (qv) and his wife, 'Alma Reville' (qv), are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, _Psycho ( β¦1960)_ (qv), over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelity |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurant |
Characters: | actresshusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | studio lotcartoon on tvscreenwritertv showhollywood californiaprologueswimminghallucinationcafedrinkwatching tvtelephone callshowerphotographnudity |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | writerboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | fishreportercaferunningtearsdrinkwatching tvcryingtelephone callshowerchasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditynudity β¦flashback (See All) |
Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boy β¦friend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | thiefgirlfamily relationships |
Story: | breaking and enteringauditionfishrunningtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity β¦fightnuditysex (See All) |
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: | writingdrinkingjealousydeathlove |
Locations: | elevatorrestaurant |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | teethjournalanimated sequencesplit screenbaseball batdiaryprologuehallucinationcaferunningdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingvoice over narration β¦telephone callshowerchasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nudityfightbloodflashback (See All) |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Themes: | writingdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | girlboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | face maskassaultbreaking and enteringprologueconfessioncaferunningtearsdrinkwatching tvcar accidentbeatingcryingfirephotograph β¦cigarette smokingfemale nudityfightflashbacksexblood (See All) |
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: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | thiefboyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | swimmingcafetearsdrinkwatching tvcryingfiretelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfightsexnudity |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark β¦question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | writingunfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | elevatorhospital |
Characters: | thiefwritergirlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | diaryconfessionreporterdrinkwatching tvcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callshowerphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybare breastsfight β¦flashbackblood (See All) |
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, prep β¦aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | actressgirlboyfamily relationships |
Story: | monopoly the board gamecartoon on tvfishcafetearsdrinkwatching tvcar accidentcryingvoice over narrationfiretelephone callphotographcigarette smokingsex |
United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon di β¦e, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, pβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitydeathlove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | thiefwritergirlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | strokeclasspursuitkarateunderwater scenefishbasketballswimmingreportertearsbare buttbeatingcryingvoice over narrationchase β¦photographfemale nudityflashbackbloodnudity (See All) |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The ⦠one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b⦠(Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | thiefwritergirlboybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | classconfessionunderwater scenebasketballswimmingreportercafetearsdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callchase β¦photographcigarette smokingfemale nudityfightflashback (See All) |
Themes: | drinkingmarriagedeath |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | actresswriterhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | pursuitauditionunderwater sceneswimmingcaferunningbare buttdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingtelephone callchasephotographcigarette smoking β¦female nudityfightflashbackbloodnuditysex (See All) |
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | asianfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | breaking and enteringsplit screenbasketballrunningtearsbare buttdrinkcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callphotographfemale nuditynudity |
Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will be over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spir β¦ited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Characters: | actresshusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | time lapse photographyhallucinationtearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvblondecar accidentcryingtelephone callphotographmale nudityfight |
Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 20 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction β¦ and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There's a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | actresshusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | time lapse photographydeath of sonsplit screenpursuitauditioncaferunningtearsdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callchase β¦photographcigarette smokingbloodsexflashback (See All) |
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 β¦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: | writingtheftweddingdrinkingjealousymarriagedeath |
Locations: | elevatorrestauranthospital |
Characters: | thiefwriterboyfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | film producerscreenwriterbreaking and enteringcafetearsdrinkwatching tvcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callsexflashback |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | girlboyhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | time lapse photographypursuitcaferunningtearsdrinkwatching tvcar accidentbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callshowerchasephotograph β¦cigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityfightsexblood (See All) |
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: | theftweddingdrinkingadulterymarriagedeathlove |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | actressthiefgirlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | underwater sceneswimmingcafetearsbare buttdrinkwatching tvcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callshowerphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity β¦bare breastsfightbloodsex (See All) |
Brothers - older Stephen and three years junior Bloom - have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, for who the intricacy of the story used in the con is as important as the positive outcome of the swindle. Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories, the character he ⦠considers the anti-hero. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and who has a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom hits his mid-thirties, he wants to quit the business as he is losing his own identity to that of the characters he portrays; he doesn't know anymore what is real and what is make-believe. Stephen talks him into one last con, the mark to be the eccentric, lonely but beautiful New Jersey heiress, Penelope Stamp. Penelope's primary past-time in life is to, as she calls it, "borrow hobbies": when she sees something she likes, she learns how to do it solely through reading books. As the brothers go through their final con on Penelope, three main problems may occur to thwart the plan. First, the brothers' former mentor and now arch enemy, Diamond Dog, may exact his long awaited revenge on the brothers. Second, Penelope may end up being more unpredictable than all their former marks. And third, Bloom, who has let love slip by in his life, may fall for Penelope. But through the proces⦠(Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitylove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | thiefgirlboybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | journalburglarydeath of brotherpursuitprologueconfessionrunningbare buttdrinkcar accidentbeatingcryingvoice over narrationfiretelephone call β¦chasephotographcigarette smokingfemale nudityfightflashbackblood (See All) |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac β¦kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Themes: | theftdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | thiefgirlboybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | teethcartoon on tvtime lapse photographypornographypursuitconfessionmodelfishhallucinationcafetearsdrinkwatching tvcryingchase β¦photographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityfightsexflashback (See All) |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | actressgirlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | underwater sceneswimmingreporterbare buttdrinkwatching tvbeatingtopless female nudityvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybare breasts β¦nuditybloodsexflashback (See All) |
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a β¦ covert operative. Or so Barris said. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurant |
Characters: | girlboyfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | face maskdentistsplit screenauditionhallucinationdrinkwatching tvvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingfightbloodflashbacksex |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat β¦e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurant |
Characters: | writerfamily relationships |
Story: | prologuecafetearsdrinkwatching tvcryingtelephone callshowerphotographcigarette smokingfemale nudity |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | hit with a baseball batassaultbreaking and enteringpursuitbaseball batunderwater scenerunningtearsdrinkwatching tvbeatingcryingvoice over narrationfiretelephone call β¦chasephotographcigarette smokingbloodflashback (See All) |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con β¦vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | classunderwater scenebasketballswimmingcafetearsdrinkwatching tvcar accidentbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callphotographcigarette smoking β¦female nuditymale nudityflashbackblood (See All) |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | truck accidentrestauranthospital |
Characters: | writergirlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | swimminghallucinationcafetearsdrinkcryingvoice over narrationfirephotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditynuditysexflashback |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early β¦flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | elevatorlos angeles california |
Characters: | actressgirlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | tv showauditionprologuereportertearsdrinkwatching tvcryingfiretelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been β¦behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and 'Charles Bronson,' his superstar alter ego, took center stage. Inside the mind of Bronson - a scathing indictment of celebrity culture. (Read More)
Themes: | theftdrinkinglovedeath |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | thiefboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | lectureanimated sequenceprologuecafetearsbare buttdrinkbeatingcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity β¦flashbackbloodfightnudity (See All) |
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Ze has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bene is the only one to keep him on t β¦he good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitydeathlove |
Characters: | thiefboybrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | death of brothersplit screenpursuitfishswimmingreporterrunningtearswatching tvcar accidentcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callchasephotograph β¦female nuditymale nudityflashbackbloodfight (See All) |
A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Themes: | writingdrinkinglovedeath |
Characters: | actressboyfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | lecture halllectureaquariumclassunderwater scenerunningtearsdrinkcar accidentcryingtelephone callshowercigarette smokingflashbackblood |
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 β¦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: | drinkingmarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | elevatorlos angeles californiarestauranthospital |
Characters: | asianactressgirlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | time lapse photographyanimated sequencehollywood californiaclasssplit screenbaseball batreportercafedrinkwatching tvcar accidentvoice over narrationtelephone callphotographcigarette smoking β¦sex (See All) |
Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specificall β¦y Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | elevatorrestaurant |
Characters: | thiefhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | cartoon on tvbreaking and enteringpornographycaferunningtearswatching tvcar accidentcryingvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity β¦fightflashbacknuditysexblood (See All) |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York β¦and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingjealousylove |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | girlboybrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | classpursuitprologuebasketballcafetearsdrinkcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callchasephotographfightflashback |
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor 'Jean-Dominique Bauby' (qv) - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are in tact, β¦ he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Celine Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children; Ines, his current lover; and his aged father who he calls Papinou. Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette. Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate using a system where he spells out words: she reads out the letters of the alphabet in descending order of their use in the French language, and he blinks his functioning left eye when she reaches the appropriate letter. Although frustrating at start, he learns to communicate effectively but slowly using this method, so much so that with the help of Claude, a full time translator, he decides on the monumental and seemingly impossible task to keep to his pre-injury commitment of writing a book, changing its focus to life in his current state. (Read More)
Themes: | writingunfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | writerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | strokeanimated sequenceunderwater scenemodelcafetearswatching tvcryingvoice over narrationtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashback β¦sex (See All) |