Wanting to learn from the best, aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald wants Frankie Dunn to train her. At the outset he flatly refuses saying he has no interest in training a girl. Frankie leads a lonely existence, alienated from his only daughter and having few friends. Maggie's rough around the edges b…ut shows a lot of grit in the ring and he eventually relents. Maggie not only proves to be the boxer he always dreamed of having under his wing but a friend who fills the great void he's had in his life. Maggie's career skyrockets but an accident in the ring leads her to ask Frankie for one last favor. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, tragedy, brutality |
Locations: | usa, england, wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, waitress, lawyer, priest |
Story: | boxing trainer, boxer, boxing, leg amputation, female boxer, expensive gift, watching boxing on tv, boxing knockout, boxing ko, boxing manager, boxing film, women boxing, boxing movie, boxing gym, boxing gloves, catholic church, london england, los angeles california, title fight, return to sender, reference to yeats, reference to hbo, hospital visit, elbowed in face, family betrayal, clogged toilet, family disapproval, neck injury, rednecks, asking for help, fighting movie, respirator, airplane ticket, death of hero, stool, music score composed by director, quadriplegic, adrenaline, reference to mickey mouse, glass eye, ridicule, vhs tape, death of title character, bottled water, family conflict, disneyland, mentor protege relationship, camera focus on female butt, cupcake, new house, bloody face, public phone, welfare, missouri, assisted suicide, female athlete, determination, writing a letter, broken nose, hospital bed, white trash, robe, amputation, hillbilly, cheering crowd, amputee, reading aloud, restroom, euthanasia, irish american, age difference, underdog, death of protagonist, voice over letter, nickname, janitor, strong female lead, strong female character, europe, las vegas nevada, profanity, gift, directed by star, pay phone, based on short story, gas station, racial slur, voice over, no opening credits, suicide attempt, diner, ambulance, california, prayer, birthday, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship, three word title, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, number in title, f rated, fight, death |
Three years and 10 successful title defenses after beating Apollo Creed, with whom he has become great friends, a now wealthy Rocky Balboa is considering retirement. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to Clubber Lang, who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickey…. Rocky sinks into a depression, and Apollo decides to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang so Rocky can try to win the title back. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, brutality |
Characters: | priest |
Story: | boxing film, boxing movie, boxing trainer, boxing gym, boxing gloves, los angeles california, title fight, fighting movie, cheering crowd, underdog, boxer, directed by star, racial slur, boxing, california, brother sister relationship, number in title, fight, death |
Rocky Balboa is enjoying life. He has a lovely wife, Adrian, had a successful fight with Apollo Creed and is able to enjoy the money he earned from the fight and a new endorsement deal. Unfortunately, Rocky becomes embarrassed when failing to complete an advert and ends up working in a meat packing …company. He believes that he will no longer have a career as a boxer. Apollo wants to rematch with Rocky to prove all his critics wrong that he can beat Rocky. Can Rocky once again have a successful fight? (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, priest |
Story: | boxer, boxing movie, boxing trainer, boxing gym, boxing gloves, catholic church, title fight, fighting movie, new house, cheering crowd, reading aloud, underdog, nickname, directed by star, boxing, ambulance, brother sister relationship, fight, number in title |
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Story: | boxer, boxing, watching boxing on tv, boxing knockout, boxing ko, boxing manager, boxing movie, boxing trainer, boxing gloves, london england, title fight, reference to hbo, fighting movie, irish american, underdog, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, fight |
During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the Am…erican populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him--his family--was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose the ones who are do of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring. (Read More)
Characters: | catholic, priest |
Story: | boxing manager, boxing movie, boxing trainer, boxing gym, catholic church, boxing, determination, irish american, underdog, boxer, no opening credits, birthday, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, fight, death |
Life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramon's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gif…t of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramon taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others. This is why Mar Adentro (2004) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, catholic, priest |
Story: | catholic church, music score composed by director, quadriplegic, assisted suicide, euthanasia, gift, ambulance, death |
Ever since his match with Clubber Lang, Rocky Balboa has a peaceful life. And now he and former champion, Apollo Creed, enjoy good times and are now the best of friends. But Rocky's peaceful life as a boxer gets paused after a match Apollo went into. Unfortunately, Creed fought Ivan drago, a 6'5" Ru…ssian who has never lost a match, and sadly, brutally murders Apollo in the ring. A funeral is held and times start going downhill fast. Now, in order to restore honor, Rocky challenges Drago to a match and must beat him for sweet, bitter vengeance. (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy, brutality |
Story: | boxer, boxing knockout, boxing ko, boxing film, boxing movie, boxing, fighting movie, underdog, las vegas nevada, directed by star, birthday, brother sister relationship, death, fight |
As tragedy strikes him in his prime, famed boxer, Billy Hope, begins to fall into a great depression. Once the decision regarding the custody of his daughter is under question, Billy decides to get his life back on track by getting back into the ring.
Themes: | tragedy |
Locations: | hospital |
Story: | boxer, boxing manager, boxing trainer, boxing gym, las vegas nevada, boxing, father daughter relationship, death |
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael …must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | catholic, lawyer, priest |
Story: | catholic church, death of title character, no opening credits, prayer, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, number in title, death |
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Story: | leg amputation, boxing gym, amputation, amputee, boxer, europe, based on short story, boxing, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, fight |
An abused woman discovers that the dream man she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill h…im. This is why Enough (2002) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Characters: | waitress, lawyer |
Story: | los angeles california, new house, strong female lead, strong female character, pay phone, boxing, diner, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, fight |
Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened "radar sense" that allows him to "see" far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorne…y. But after he's done his "day job" Matt takes on a secret identity as "The Man Without Fear," Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom. (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy |
Locations: | england, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, catholic, priest |
Story: | boxing knockout, boxing ko, boxing gloves, catholic church, irish american, boxer, boxing, father daughter relationship, fight, death |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri…te with. (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, priest |
Story: | catholic church, quadriplegic, determination, suicide attempt, ambulance, birthday, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, death, fight |
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Itallian Stallion to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retir…ement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. With the odds stacked firmly against him, Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history, a hard-hitting, action-packed battle of the ages. (Read More)
Story: | watching boxing on tv, boxing film, boxing manager, boxing movie, boxing, fighting movie, underdog, boxer, las vegas nevada, directed by star, fight |
"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit…ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | waitress, priest |
Story: | catholic church, los angeles california, profanity, suicide attempt, diner, ambulance, california, prayer, death, fight |
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. This is why Nurse Betty (2000) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | waitress, lawyer |
Story: | los angeles california, cupcake, racial slur, diner, ambulance, birthday, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death |
Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" t…o become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time. (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Characters: | catholic |
Story: | boxer, boxing trainer, boxing gym, title fight, fighting movie, underdog, nickname, gift, boxing, brother sister relationship, fight |
Rocky Balboa is forced to retire after having permanent damage inflicted on him in the ring by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Returning home after the Drago bout, Balboa discovers that the fortune that he had acquired as heavyweight champ has been stolen and lost on the stockmarket by his accountant.… His boxing days over, Rocky begins to coach an up-and-coming fighter named Tommy Gunn. Rocky cannot compete, however, with the high salaraies and glittering prizes being offered to Gunn by other managers in town. (Read More)
Characters: | lawyer, priest |
Story: | boxer, boxing, boxing film, boxing movie, boxing trainer, boxing gym, boxing gloves, fighting movie, underdog, brother sister relationship, fight |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an…d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | hospital |
Story: | boxing gym, irish american, death of protagonist, boxer, no opening credits, boxing, diner, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship, three word title, mother daughter relationship, death |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang…er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, tragedy |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | expensive gift, hospital visit, welfare, hospital bed, ambulance, sister sister relationship, three word title, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, death |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the… more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. This is why Brooklyn (2015) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy |
Locations: | usa |
Characters: | catholic, priest |
Story: | catholic church, irish american, voice over letter, europe, voice over, ambulance, prayer, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, death |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | guilt, tragedy |
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, lawyer, priest |
Story: | pay phone, suicide attempt, ambulance, brother sister relationship, death, father daughter relationship |
In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all …time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time. (Read More)
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | boxer, boxing movie, boxing gym, boxing gloves, pay phone, racial slur, boxing, prayer, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, fight, death |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | hospital |
Story: | los angeles california, profanity, gas station, racial slur, no opening credits, california, three word title, number in title, fight, death |
Adonis Johnson is the son of the famous boxing champion Apollo Creed, who died in a boxing match in _Rocky IV (1985)_ (qv). Adonis wasn't born until after his father's death and wants to follow his fathers footsteps in boxing. He seeks a mentor who is the former heavyweight boxing champion and forme…r friend of Apollo Creed, the retired Rocky Balboa. Rocky eventually agrees to mentor Adonis. With Rocky's help they hope to get a title job to face even deadlier opponents than his father. But whether he is a true fighter remains to be seen.... (Read More)
Locations: | england, hospital |
Story: | boxing, los angeles california, title fight, fighting movie, underdog, boxer, no opening credits, fight, death |
A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well. This is why The Horse… Whisperer (1998) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Locations: | usa, hospital |
Story: | public phone, hospital bed, amputation, amputee, directed by star, pay phone, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, death |
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are… sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt |
Characters: | priest, catholic |
Story: | catholic church, welfare, janitor, gift, prayer, brother sister relationship, f rated |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t…o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, priest, catholic |
Story: | voice over letter, pay phone, prayer, death, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship |
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…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: | guilt, tragedy |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | suicide attempt, diner, ambulance, prayer, birthday, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, number in title, death |
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)
Locations: | england, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | age difference, janitor, boxer, boxing, birthday, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, fight, death |
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 19…72 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood. This is why Gran Torino (2008) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy |
Locations: | usa, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, lawyer, priest |
Story: | catholic church, irish american, death of protagonist, strong female character, gift, directed by star, racial slur, no opening credits, ambulance, birthday, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, death |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens…ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | los angeles california, strong female character, profanity, pay phone, gas station, racial slur, diner, ambulance, california, birthday, three word title, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death, fight |
In a town near Austin, Bliss Cavendar's strong-willed mom believes Bliss, at 17, can win pageants - the key to a happy life. Bliss isn't the beauty pageant type: she's shy, quiet, and has just one friend, Pash, her fellow waitress at a diner. Things change for Bliss when she discovers a women's roll…er derby league in Austin, tries out, proves to be whip fast, and makes a team. Now she needs to become someone tough on the rink, keep her parents from finding out where she goes twice a week, and do something about a first crush, on a musician she meets at the derby. Meanwhile, mom still sees Bliss as Miss Bluebonnet. Things are on a collision course; will everyone get banged up? (Read More)
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | female athlete, reading aloud, underdog, nickname, strong female lead, strong female character, pay phone, diner, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, f rated |
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)
Locations: | hospital |
Story: | leg amputation, london england, determination, writing a letter, amputation, reading aloud, irish american, strong female lead, strong female character, prayer, birthday, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, f rated, death, fight |
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted h…is relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Deputy Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. (Read More)
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | catholic, priest |
Story: | catholic church, mentor protege relationship, irish american, birthday, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, fight, death |
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She in…troduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. This is why On The Waterfront (1954) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Characters: | catholic, lawyer, priest |
Story: | boxer, catholic church, irish american, brother sister relationship, three word title, death, father daughter relationship, fight |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | guilt |
Characters: | waitress, lawyer |
Story: | voice over letter, strong female lead, strong female character, diner, prayer, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, fight, death |
Cole is an aspiring DJ who spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James, who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, whe…n Cole starts falling for James' much younger girlfriend, Sophie. With Cole's forbidden relationship intensifying and his friendships unraveling, he must choose between love, loyalty, and the future he is destined for. (Read More)
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | los angeles california, camera focus on female butt, las vegas nevada, gift, no opening credits, diner, birthday, fight |
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dange…rous clandestine fights. (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy |
Locations: | usa, hospital |
Story: | los angeles california, cheering crowd, nickname, boxer, pay phone, racial slur, boxing, california, mother daughter relationship, death, fight |
Sandra Bya, married with two children, has been off work from her job at Solwal on medical leave for depression. During her absence from work, her boss, M. Dumont, on the suggestion of her immediate supervisor, the shop foreman Jean-Marc, figures that her section of the company can function with six…teen people working full time with a bit of overtime instead of seventeen with no overtime, that seventeenth person being Sandra. Because of the global competition the company faces, Dumont decides the company can only finance the annual bonuses for those sixteen employees, which are EUR1,000 per person, or Sandra's job, leaving the decision to those sixteen. On a Friday near the end of her medical leave, Sandra learns of this situation from her friend and co-worker Juliette after the "show of hands" vote is held, the result a 13-3 decision for the bonuses over Sandra's job. Because Juliette knows Jean-Marc, who is determined to get rid of Sandra, influenced the vote by scare mongering through misinformation, Juliette and Sandra, at the end of the working day on Friday, are able to convince Dumont to hold another secret ballot on Monday morning, with Sandra needing a majority to keep her job, meaning nine votes. By Saturday morning, Sandra's supportive husband, Manu, convinces her that over the weekend she should speak to each and all of the thirteen who voted for the bonuses to get them to change their minds. The Byas not only need the income from Sandra's job but Manu believes the job is a symbol for Sandra of her own self worth, important now in her tenuous mental state. As Sandra reluctantly goes about this task, she finds that not only is she uncomfortable being in this somewhat confrontational situation, but that the people who voted against her have their own household conflicts over their own EUR1,000, which would keep some of them afloat financially. As the weekend progresses, Sandra will find if she is strong enough emotionally to deal with the situation. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt |
Locations: | hospital |
Story: | hospital visit, asking for help, bottled water, determination, hospital bed, europe, suicide attempt, ambulance, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, number in title, fight |
Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chase…d by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing. This is why Wild Card (2015) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | waitress, lawyer |
Story: | broken nose, las vegas nevada, pay phone, racial slur, diner, fight, death |
This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Themes: | brutality |
Locations: | england |
Characters: | catholic, priest |
Story: | catholic church, prayer, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, death |
In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as …number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl's husband Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne's grandfather Edwin was sent away from the institution for elders (Sunset Manor) and is addicted in heroin. When her seven-year-old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream come true. (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchair, hospital |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | california, underdog, pay phone, gas station, no opening credits, diner, ambulance, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship, three word title, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, death |
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organiz…es gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs. (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | catholic church, death of title character, mentor protege relationship, irish american, death of protagonist, pay phone, california, birthday, death, fight |
Mick Haller is a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln. When a wealthy Realtor is accused of assaulting a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him. The man claims that the woman is trying to get some money out of him. But when Haller looks at the evidence against him, he learns that this case… might be linked to an old case of his. (Read More)
Locations: | usa, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | los angeles california, vhs tape, three word title, death |
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in …a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death. This is why Night On Earth (1991) is one of the best movies like Million Dollar Baby (2004). (Read More)
Locations: | usa |
Characters: | priest |
Story: | los angeles california, strong female character, europe, pay phone, death |
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he ge…ts confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind. (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | diner, los angeles california, neck injury, mentor protege relationship, gas station, california, brother sister relationship, number in title, fight |
Themes: | brutality |
Story: | profanity, pay phone, racial slur, no opening credits, diner, california, birthday, father daughter relationship, death, fight |
1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, John…ny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger? (Read More)
Themes: | tragedy |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | public phone, pay phone, racial slur, suicide attempt, california, birthday, mother daughter relationship, death |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa…st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Characters: | lawyer, waitress |
Story: | pay phone, suicide attempt, diner, ambulance, prayer, birthday, sister sister relationship, fight, death |