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The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her young son. But then he finds himself haunted by 30-year old case. Holmes memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husban …d, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifesurveillancegriefangermemorysuicidedeath |
| Locations: | london englandtrain stationtunnelenglandseajapanrural settingtrainrestaurantbeachhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherasianjapaneselittle boywriterdetectivesoldierdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 19471910s1940s |
| Story: | wasp nestmother son conflictmemory losswasp attackwasp stingbee stingreference to the prodigal sonpolice inspectorsussex englandwar widowlibrary bookprivate detectivepassenger trainhit by a trainwhite cliffs of dover …revealing the truthstone circleforged signatureunsolved casegrowing oldnonagenarianaccomplishmentsearch for truthhoneybeeelderly protagonistreality vs fantasywanting a babymusic lessonhiroshimataxidermistpalm readingbeekeeperbuggyscreenbeehiveoil lampwaspchestnestmusic teacherchecktop hatsherlock holmeshorse and wagonmagnifying glasssome scenes in black and whiteinspectormailmanritegravestoneallergyshockperfumebusiness cardharmonicabeenotebookbeing followedconfusionasiamelancholymiscarriagehousekeepersonold ageretirementfollowing someonesheepaudiencelosswatching a moviefamefireplaceperiod in titlecinemafilm within a filmcountrysidestorytellingpoisonuniformgravetheatervoice overwidowbridgeambulanceold manswimmingbooklettermirrortitle spoken by characterphotographcharacter name in titletwo word titlebased on novelflashback (See All) |
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: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | rural settingbeachhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmothersoldierdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | memory losswar widowmailmanharmonicanotebookaudiencelosswatching a moviewidowold manswimmingbookletterphotographtwo word title …based on novelflashback (See All) |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma …gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifegriefangersuicidedeath |
| Locations: | london englandtrainrestaurant |
| Characters: | little boyhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | oil lamptop hathorse and wagonbusiness cardnotebookaudiencelossfamefireplacetheatervoice overold manlettertitle spoken by characterphotograph …two word titlebased on novelflashback (See All) |
In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother, Helen Potter, had introduced several bachelors to Beatrix until she was twenty years old, but she had turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them …since she was a child, but her parents have never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house, and a rookie publisher, Norman Warne, who is delighted with her tales, publishes her first children's book. This success leads Norman to publish two other books, and Miss Potter meanwhile becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Soon Beatrix and Norman fall in love with each other, but Helen does not accept that her daughter would marry a "trader". However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spend the summer with his wife and him in their country house in Lake District, and if she is still interested in Norman after the summertime, he would bless their marriage. When Miss Potter stops receiving letters from Norman, she is disappointed. Then one day she receives a letter from Millie explaining what had happened to Norman. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefdeath |
| Locations: | london englandtrain stationenglandrural settingtrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherlittle boywriterhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1910s |
| Story: | horse and wagonhousekeeperlossfireplacecountrysidestorytellingbooklettercharacter name in titletwo word titleflashback |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel … Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifegriefsuicidedeath |
| Locations: | london englandenglandrural settingtrainbeach |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boyhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1910s |
| Story: | passenger trainhit by a trainoil lamphorse and wagonsonlossfireplacegravewidowlettermirrorphotographbased on novelflashback |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha …nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemorydeath |
| Locations: | train stationtrainrestaurant |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boywriterhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | screenoil lampnotebookbeing followedfollowing someoneaudiencewatching a moviefamecinemauniformgravetheaterold manbookphotograph …character name in titleflashback (See All) |
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 wifegriefangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | train stationtrainrestauranthospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | hit by a trainelderly protagonistretirementgravevoice overambulanceold manbooklettermirrorphotographcharacter name in titlebased on novelflashback |
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: | death of wifegriefmemorydeath |
| Locations: | tunnelsearural settingtrainrestaurantbeach |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boyhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | search for truthoil lampcheckhorse and wagonbeeaudiencelosspoisonbridgeold manswimmingbooktitle spoken by characterphotographflashback |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi …ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemorydeath |
| Locations: | rural settinghospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherlittle boywriterdetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | ritegravestoneaudiencevoice overwidowbridgeambulancephotographbased on novelflashback |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
| Themes: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | train stationtrainrestaurantbeachhospital |
| Characters: | detectivesoldierdoctor |
| Story: | private detectivehorse and wagonritebeing followedaudiencecountrysideuniformgravebridgeold manmirrorphotographcharacter name in titlebased on noveltwo word title …flashback (See All) |
Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation, becoming the sole arbiter of who gets hire …d and fired. One of his hires is Clyde Tolson who is quickly promoted to Assistant Director and would be Hoover's confidant and companion for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover's memories have him playing a greater role in the many high profile cases the FBI was involved in - the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the arrest of bank robbers like John Dillinger - and also show him to be quite adept at manipulating the various politicians he's worked with over his career, thanks in large part to his secret files. (Read More)
| Themes: | surveillancememorydeath |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boydoctor |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | library bookscreenhorse and wagongravestonebusiness cardold ageaudiencewatching a moviefamefireplaceperiod in titlevoice overold manbookletter …photographcharacter name in titletwo word titleflashback (See All) |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor …mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boywritersoldier |
| Story: | passenger trainperfumebeing followedfollowing someoneaudiencewatching a moviecinemapoisonuniformgravetheatervoice overwidowold manbook …lettertitle spoken by characterphotographflashback (See All) |
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 wifeangerdeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherlittle boyhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | mailmangravestoneharmonicaaudiencewidowambulancebooklettermirrorphotographtwo word titleflashback |
In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his inte …ntion. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifegriefangerdeath |
| Locations: | seajapanrestaurantbeachhospital |
| Characters: | japaneselittle boydoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | ritehousekeepersonlossambulanceold manmirrortitle spoken by characterphotographbased on novelflashback |
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: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherdetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | elderly protagonistbeing followedsonfollowing someonecountrysideold manbookmirrorphotographflashback |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hi …s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifeangermemory |
| Locations: | london englandtrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherlittle boyhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | passenger trainnotebookstorytellingphotographbased on novelflashback |
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: | memorysuicide |
| Locations: | rural settinghospital |
| Characters: | writerdoctor |
| Story: | ritenotebookaudiencecinemafilm within a filmuniformtheaterambulanceswimminglettertitle spoken by characterphotographflashback |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li …ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia… (Read More)
| Themes: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | london englandenglandtrainrestaurantbeachhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherwriterdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | harmonicahousekeepersonwatching a moviecountrysidelettermirrortitle spoken by characterphotographbased on novelflashback |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
| Themes: | memorysuicide |
| Locations: | london englandtrain stationrural settingtrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | revealing the truthhorse and wagonbusiness cardtheaterbooklettermirrorphotographbased on novelflashback |
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dr …eams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth. (Read More)
| Themes: | angersuicidedeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boydetectivedoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | gravestonesoncountrysidegravevoice overbridgebooktitle spoken by characterphotographflashback |
Manuela is a hard-working single mom who has raised her son Esteban by herself since the time he was born. On his 17th birthday they go to the theater and after the show, Esteban tries to get the main actress' autograph but is run down on the street and dies. Manuela is beside herself with grief and … decides to return to Barcelona to tell the boy's transgender father Lola, about the death of the son he never knew he had. He is nowhere to be found but Manuela does find an old friend, Agrado and meets up with a pregnant nun, Rosa. Together they form a life and become fast friends - until tragedy strikes again. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefdeath |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherwriterdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | notebooksonaudiencetheaterletterphotographflashback |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s …oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
| Themes: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | mothersoldier |
| Period: | year 19471910s1940s |
| Story: | police inspectorold ageaudiencegravevoice overambulancelettertwo word titleflashback |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and …life will never be the same again. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefangermemorydeath |
| Characters: | little boywriterdoctor |
| Story: | bee stingbeehivewaspallergybeeold agelossswimmingphotographtwo word title |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
| Themes: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | train stationjapantrainbeachhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherjapanesedoctor |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | countrysidegraveswimmingletterphotographbased on novelflashback |
When 'Walt Disney' (qv)'s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, 'P.L. Travers' (qv)' _Mary Poppins (1964)_ (qv), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromi …sing writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | london englandrural settingtrain |
| Characters: | writerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | screenoil lamphorse and wagonaudiencefameperiod in titlecinemavoice overbookphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigat …e further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world. (Read More)
| Themes: | suicidedeath |
| Locations: | trainhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipwriterdetectivedoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | music lessonoil lamptop hatmelancholysonretirementaudiencelossfamefireplacefilm within a filmlettermirrorphotographcharacter name in title …two word titleflashback (See All) |
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 wifegriefmemorysuicidedeath |
| Locations: | train stationseatrainhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boywriterhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | being followedhousekeeperretirementfollowing someonebooklettertitle spoken by characterphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
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: | death of wifegriefangerdeath |
| Locations: | tunnelhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boysoldierdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | graveambulancemirrortitle spoken by characterphotographflashback |
A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence … of Alfredo, Salvatore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditional film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young boy's dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world outside. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | train stationtrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | audiencesheepcinemafilm within a filmgravetheaterwidowflashback |
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
| Themes: | griefmemorydeath |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherwritersoldierdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | swimmingbookmirrorphotographflashback |
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
| Themes: | griefangerdeath |
| Locations: | train stationtunnelrural settingtrainrestauranthospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Story: | retirementbridgebooktitle spoken by characterphotograph |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefdeath |
| Locations: | englandjapan |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipasianjapanesedoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | harmonicawatching a moviestorytellingpoisonwidowold manswimmingtitle spoken by characterphotographflashback |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho …w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | motherwritersoldierdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | buggyoil lamphorse and wagonfireplacevoice overold manletterbased on novel |
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. …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: | memory |
| Locations: | train stationtrainbeach |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherlittle boywriterdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | being followedfollowing someonecinemafilm within a filmmirrorphotographflashback |
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)
| Themes: | surveillancememorysuicidedeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | detectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | private detectivegravestonebeing followedmelancholyretirementfollowing someonegravemirrortitle spoken by characterbased on novelflashback |
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlf …riend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience. (Read More)
| Themes: | angermemorydeath |
| Locations: | tunneltrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipdetective |
| Story: | business cardvoice overbridgelettertitle spoken by characterphotographbased 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: | griefmemorydeath |
| Locations: | seatrainbeach |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipsoldierdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | audiencewatching a moviewidowletterphotographcharacter name in title |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af …fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
| Themes: | suicide |
| Locations: | rural settingtrainbeach |
| Characters: | writersoldierhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1910s |
| Story: | watching a moviecinemacountrysidebridgeswimminglettertitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novel |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
| Themes: | death of wifememorydeath |
| Locations: | japanrural settingtrainbeach |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipjapanesedoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | old ageretirementwidowold manletterphotograph |
After The Ruin, a colorless equalitarian society is formed without memories and everyone follows rules established by the Chief Elder and the Elders. The population uses drugs to stay happy and on the day of the graduation, the teenagers leave their childhood and are assigned to a career chosen by t …he Elders. Jonas lives with his parents and has two best friends, Fiona and Asher, and he feels different from his friends. He is assigned to be the Receiver of Memories and he is trained by his mentor, The Giver, who gives memories of the world before The Ruin. Jonas learns emotions such as love and fear and the concept of family. When he discovers that the baby Gabriel that he loves as a brother will be eliminated, he decides to change his society but the Chief Elder will do anything to stop him. (Read More)
| Themes: | memorydeath |
| Locations: | searural settinghospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boysoldier |
| Story: | beeaudiencelossuniformold manbooktitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novelflashback |
"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth ce …ntury into a three-hour time-frame. (Read More)
| Themes: | angersuicidedeath |
| Locations: | japan |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherjapanesesoldierhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | miscarriagefametheaterletterphotographbased on novelflashback |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen …ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefangermemory |
| Locations: | london englandenglandhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boydoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | memory lossnotebookambulancelettermirrorphotographbased on novelflashback |
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfi …eld pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifegriefsuicidedeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipdetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | forged signaturemagnifying glasssonretirementstorytellingambulancebooktitle spoken by characterphotographflashback |
Michael, the son of a funeral director grows indifferent to his father and joins a Seminary. On his way to the course completion, he is overwhelmed by a strong lack of faith. His religious beliefs are further jolted when he sees a young girl haplessly dying in a road accident for whom he reluctantly … performs the ritual to absolve her sins. His mentor still believes in him and urges him to go to Italy to take an exorcism course hoping that he it would strengthen his faith in Christianity. In Italy he attends a session from Father Xavier who soon becomes aware of his skepticism. As a result he sends him to an eminent Jesuit exorcist, Father Lucas, whose ways though questionable are quite effective. He witnesses the exorcism of a sixteen year old girl but still seems unconvinced. Father Lucas explains to him that it takes multiple sessions over a long stretch of time to completely free a victim from the demon. Despite witnessing some supernatural occurrences during the aforesaid exorcism, Michael is as skeptical as ever. After the second exorcism, the girls condition becomes quite critical as she is moved to a hospital. She soon dies and the demon finds a new victim. As the moment of reckoning draws near, Micheal may be the only hope left but first he must overcome his own doubts and apprehensions in order to fight and destroy the ominous forces. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefsuicidedeath |
| Locations: | hospital |
| Characters: | little boydetectivedoctor |
| Story: | horse and wagonritemiscarriagesongraveambulancelettertitle spoken by characterphotographtwo word titleflashback |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei …ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
| Themes: | griefdeath |
| Locations: | rural settingrestauranthospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | police inspectorlosswidowbridgeambulanceold manlettermirrorphotographflashback |
SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries …to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifegriefangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | tunneltrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipsoldier |
| Story: | some scenes in black and whitegravestonelosswatching a moviefilm within a filmgravetitle spoken by characterphotographtwo word title |
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 …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: | angermemorydeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | mother son relationshiplittle boydetectivehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | magnifying glassshockbeing followedsonwatching a moviefireplacevoice overbookmirrorphotographflashback |
In 1999, retired Argentinian federal justice agent Benjamin Esposito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. That case is the brutal rape and murder of Liliana Coloto. In addition to seeing the extreme grief of the victim's husband Ricardo Morales, Benjamin, his assistan …t Pablo Sandoval, and newly hired department chief Irene Menendez-Hastings were personally affected by the case as Benjamin and Pablo tracked the killer, hence the reason why the unsatisfactory ending to the case has always bothered him. Despite the department already having two other suspects, Benjamin and Pablo ultimately were certain that a man named Isidoro Gomez is the real killer. Although he is aware that historical accuracy is not paramount for the novel, the process of revisiting the case is more an issue of closure for him. He tries to speak to the key players in the case, most specifically Irene, who still works in the justice department and who he has always been attracted to but never pursued due to the differences in their ages and social classes. The other issue is that Gomez is still at large, no one aware if he is alive or dead. But as Pablo at the time mentioned that passion is one thing that cannot be changed in behavior, Benjamin learns now that that premise still holds true. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifesurveillancegriefangermemorydeath |
| Locations: | train stationtrain |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipwriterhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | police inspectorinspectornotebookmelancholyretirementgravebookletterphotographbased on novelflashback |
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability t …o put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him. (Read More)
| Themes: | memorysuicidedeath |
| Locations: | restaurantbeachhospital |
| Characters: | detectivedoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | memory losspolice inspectorhit by a trainbusiness cardharmonicaold manphotographflashback |
1903 London. Renowned playwright 'J.M. Barrie (I)' (qv) (James)'s latest effort has garnered less than positive reviews, something he knew would be the case even before the play's mounting. This failure places pressure on James to write another play quickly as impresario Charles Frohman needs anothe …r to replace the failure to keep his theater viable. Out for a walk with his dog in part to let his creative juices flow, James stumbles upon the Llewelyn Davies family: recently widowed Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (the daughter of now deceased author 'George L. Du Maurier' (qv)) and her four adolescent sons. James and the family members become friends, largely based on he and the boys being able to foster in each other the imagination of children, James just being the biggest among them in this regard. Sylvia also welcomes James into their lives, he who becomes an important and integral part of it. Among the six of them, the only one who does not want to partake is Sylvia's third, Peter Llewelyn Davies, who is still grieving the reality of their lives, where his father was there one day planning an outing for the family, and gone the next. Two other people who don't appreciate James in the Llewelyn Davies' lives are: his wife, Mary Barrie, who always feels the need to be the responsible one in their relationship and who feels threatened by his friendship with an unmarried woman; and Emma du Maurier, Sylvia's overbearing mother, who sees him as an obstacle to Sylvia moving on with her l… (Read More)
| Themes: | griefdeath |
| Locations: | london englandenglandhospital |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherlittle boywriterdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | buggysheepcountrysidetheaterwidowtwo word title |
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