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Pepas's lover, Ivan, leaves her and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. In her search for Ivan, she confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she is. Meanwhile; Candela, her friend, is afraid the police might be looking for her because of her ex-boyfriend, a muslim terrorist …, and his criminal activities. As the plot develops, it is revealed that everyone's lives are more intertwined than they could have ever expected. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulterybetrayalinfidelityfriendshiplove |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | taxi driverspainapartmentairporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | actressactorfemale protagonistfriendpolice |
| Story: | taxi rideapartment buildingthrowing a telephone out a windowburning bedmadriddubbingsleeping pillbroken windowtelephone boothnervous breakdownlong titlefrustrationwomanizerphone boothfarce …man with glassessuicide attemptrevolverfiretelephone callchasephotographgun (See All) |
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulterybetrayalinfidelitylovefriendship |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | taxi driverspainapartmentairporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | female protagonistfriendpolice |
| Story: | taxi rideapartment buildingthrowing a telephone out a windowburning bedsleeping pillbroken windowtelephone boothnervous breakdownlong titlefrustrationwomanizerphone boothfarcesuicide attemptrevolver …firetelephone callchasephotographgun (See All) |
In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose …his license and his dream job. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | taxi ridefirechase |
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along …Lola's run. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulterylove |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | female protagonistpolice |
| Story: | apartment buildingtelephone boothphone boothtelephone callchasephotographgun |
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women al …l around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection. (Read More)
| Themes: | lovefriendship |
| Mood: | affection |
| Characters: | actressactorfriend |
| Story: | frustrationwomanizerfarcetelephone call |
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director 'Edward D. Wood Jr. (I)' (qv) is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker … is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films. (Read More)
| Themes: | lovefriendship |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | apartmenttaxi |
| Characters: | actressactorfriend |
| Story: | phone boothsuicide attempt |
In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?
| Themes: | betrayalinfidelityfriendship |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | friend |
| Story: | apartment buildingdubbingbroken windowfrustrationman with glassestelephone callphotographgun |
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a …KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelityfriendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaxi |
| Characters: | friend |
| Story: | phone boothrevolvertelephone callchasephotographgun |
The Japanese ambassaor is visiting Marseilles to view the city police's anti-gang tactics. During the visit, however, he is kidnapped by a group working for the Japanese yakuza. Young officer Emilien is determined to rescue the ambassador and officer Petra (his girlfriend), who was also kidnapped, a …nd restore the honor of his department. Once again, speed demon taxi-driver Daniel (from the first Taxi movie) is called upon to save the day with his high-speed driving skills. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverairporttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | chase |
Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancee left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, dire …ct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra's fidelity for the moments Michelle's moods swing toward him? Can this end well? (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelitylove |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Story: | taxi rideapartment buildingsuicide attempttelephone callphotograph |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame …lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayal |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | man with glassesrevolverchasephotograph |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a …n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | airporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | actressactorfriendpolice |
| Story: | revolverfirechasephotographgun |
Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a ces …spool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew. (Read More)
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmenttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | man with glassessuicide attemptrevolvergun |
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11 year old kid is insecure abo …ut the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmenttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | apartment buildingman with glassestelephone callgun |
Two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in ov …er their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayalfriendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaximotorcycle |
| Story: | man with glassesfiretelephone callchasephotograph |
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in …the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the building who Baxter himself fancies. In turn, Sheldrake has no idea of Baxter's own interest in Fran. And Fran, who is in love with Sheldrake, has no idea that she is only the latest in a long line of Sheldrake's mistresses, that Sheldrake has no intention of leaving his wife for her, and that the apartment belongs to Baxter, who she likes as a friend. As some of these facts come to light on Christmas Eve, one of the three makes a unilateral decision. That decision sets off a series of events over the … (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelitylove |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmenttaxi |
| Characters: | friend |
| Story: | sleeping pillphone boothsuicide attempttelephone callphotographgun |
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: | lovefriendship |
| Locations: | spainapartmentairporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | actressactorfemale protagonistfriend |
| Story: | photograph |
Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together.. …. until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayalinfidelityfriendship |
| Characters: | friendpolice |
| Story: | telephone boothnervous breakdownfrustrationrevolverfiretelephone call |
Victor Novarski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport till the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people wh …o work there until he can leave. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelityfriendship |
| Locations: | airporttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | man with glassestelephone callphotograph |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi …s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayal |
| Locations: | apartmenttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | telephone boothphone boothrevolvertelephone callchasephotograph |
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day. With a little help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsess …ively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another young woman calling herself Lisa whom, unknown to Matthew, is an actress named Alex and may hold the key to Lisa's disappearance, and discovery. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayallovefriendship |
| Locations: | apartmentairport |
| Characters: | actressfriend |
| Story: | frustrationphone booth |
A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, …and the mysterious night club Silencio. (Read More)
| Themes: | infidelity |
| Locations: | airporttaxi |
| Characters: | actressfemale protagonist |
| Story: | frustrationman with glassestelephone callphotographgun |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra …cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulterybetrayalinfidelity |
| Locations: | spainapartmentairporttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | womanizerphone boothrevolverchasephotograph |
Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on …the novel. (Read More)
| Themes: | lovefriendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverairporttaxi |
| Characters: | friend |
| Story: | farceman with glassesphotograph |
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 … neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelitylovefriendship |
| Locations: | taxi |
| Characters: | actressfriend |
| Story: | man with glassestelephone call |
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)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayal |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmenttaxi |
| Story: | suicide attemptfiretelephone callchasephotographgun |
Famous symbologist on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unlea …shing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayallove |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | actressactorpolice |
| Story: | chasephotograph |
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship …deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. (Read More)
| Themes: | love |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Story: | apartment buildingtelephone boothphone boothtelephone callchasegun |
When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help … of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayalfriendship |
| Locations: | taxi drivertaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | actorpolice |
| Story: | taxi rideman with glassestelephone callphotographgun |
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 …tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelityfriendshiplove |
| Characters: | actressactorfemale protagonistfriend |
| Story: | man with glassestelephone callgun |
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: | adulteryinfidelity |
| Characters: | actressactor |
| Story: | womanizerphone boothsuicide attempttelephone callchasephotograph |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set u …p the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. (Read More)
| Themes: | love |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmenttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | nervous breakdownfarce |
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an out-of-work girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realiz …ation that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | apartmentairporttaxi |
| Characters: | female protagonist |
| Story: | firechasephotograph |
Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970's hindi film industry, who is in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where the fire has escaped control, and they become friends. His hopes seems to be coming true, but shortly thereafter he finds out that she is marrie …d to a film producer, Mukesh Mehra, and is expecting his child. He then watches in horror as Mukesh, after luring her in an abandoned studio, sets it on fire to prevent a financial loss and protect his career. Om attempts to rescue her in vain, and he eventually is killed. 30 years later, Om has reincarnated as the only son of a Bollywood actor, Rajesh Kapoor, and is himself an actor. His memories start to return when he meets with his widowed mother, Bela, from his previous birth. He also meets with Mukesh and together they decide to make a movie 'Om Shanti Om'. Om then hires a look-alike of Shantipriya, and hopes to force a confession out of Mukesh - but things go awry and Om finds his life endangered once again. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayallove |
| Locations: | motorcycle |
| Characters: | actressactorfriend |
| Story: | fire |
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | friendshiplove |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | actressactorfriend |
| Story: | womanizertelephone callphotographgun |
Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his met …tle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayallovefriendship |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Characters: | friendpolice |
| Story: | apartment buildingfrustrationphone boothrevolvertelephone callgun |
LA cabbie Max Durocher is the type of person who can wax poetic about other people's lives, which impresses U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell, one of his fares, so much that she gives him her telephone number at the end of her ride. Although a dedicated man as seen through the efficie …ncy in which he does his work, he can't or won't translate that eloquence into a better life for himself. He deludes himself into believing that his now twelve year cabbie job is temporary and that someday he will own his own limousine service. He even lies to his hospitalized mother that he already owns one, with a further lie that he tells her as such primarily to make her happy, rather than the truth which is that he won't do anything to achieve that dream. One night, Max picks up a well dressed man named Vincent, who asks Max to be his only fare for the evening. For a flat fee of $600, plus an extra $100 if he gets to the airport on time - Vincent wants Max to drive him to five stops that evening. Max somewhat reluctantly agrees. Max learns the hard way at their first stop when a body falls from a third story apartment window and lands dead on top of his cab that Vincent is a contract hit man. Vincent's main goal, as per his current contract, is to kill five people, one at each of the stops, but he will not let others get in the way of that goal, even if it means killing them, including Max. As Vincent forces Max to continue driving him for the evening, Max tries slyly at every… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | apartment buildingman with glasses |
Unable to cope with reality and the difficulty that comes with it, 18 year old Susanna, is admitted to a mental institution in order to overcome her disorder. However, she has trouble understanding her disorder and therefore finds it difficult to tame, especially when she meets the suggestive and un …predictable Lisa. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelityfriendship |
| Locations: | taxi drivertaxi |
| Characters: | female protagonistfriend |
| Story: | suicide attempt |
Karol (Polish) marries Domininque (French) and moves to Paris. The marriage breaks down and Dominique divorces Karol, forcing him into the life of a metro beggar and eventually back to Poland. However, he never forgets Dominique and while building a new life for himself in Warsaw he begins to plot.. …. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | airport |
| Characters: | friendpolice |
| Story: | telephone boothphone boothsuicide attemptfiretelephone callgun |
Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible r …eality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | apartmentairport |
| Characters: | friend |
| Story: | apartment buildingtelephone call |
Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, was held siege by a bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Broo …klyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there's actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city's entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees' safety. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | airport |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | suicide attemptrevolverfiretelephone callgun |
Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a glo …bal crisis. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayalfriendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverairporttaximotorcycle |
| Characters: | female protagonist |
| Story: | telephone callchasephotograph |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and ma …ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayallovefriendship |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartmentairporttaxi |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | firetelephone callchasephotograph |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and …disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | betrayallove |
| Locations: | taxi driverapartment |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | apartment buildingphone boothrevolverfiretelephone callchasegun |
The story is centered on a microcosm of a post-apocalyptic society where food is so rare it's invaluable and is used as currency. The story centers on an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and he is in need of a new ma …intenance man since the original "mysteriously" disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher's intent is to have him work for a little while and then serve him to quirky tenants who pay the butcher in, of course, grain. The clown and butcher's daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father's plans by contacting the "troglodytes", a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground. The "trogs" are possibly the most sensible of the lot, as they see food as food and not money. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | love |
| Locations: | apartment |
| Story: | apartment buildingsuicide attempt |
As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona. Following h …is arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of international students. An Italian, an English girl, a boy from Denmark, a young girl from Belgium, a German and a girl from Tarragona all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelityfriendship |
| Locations: | spainapartment |
| Characters: | friend |
Amar and Prem are two rivals who belonging to middle-class families with no scope of future advancement. Both individually, without the knowledge of the other decide to take matters into their hands and find ways to get rich quickly. Chaos and acrimony result when both find each other at loggerheads … when both arrive to win the hand of the daughter of multi-millionaire Ram Gopal Bajaj amidst considerable upheavals when Shyam, the twin brother of Ram, decides to do away with Ram and assume his identity and thus take over the estate of the Bajaj family. (Read More)
| Themes: | lovefriendship |
| Locations: | airport |
| Characters: | actresspolice |
| Story: | frustrationphone boothrevolverphotograph |
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: | adulterybetrayalinfidelitylovefriendship |
| Locations: | spain |
| Characters: | female protagonistfriend |
| Story: | firetelephone callchasephotograph |
In London, the public relation Helen is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen: in one life, she stays with her … boyfriend Gerry, and in the other life, she finds that Gerry cheats her with Lydia and falls in love with James Hammerton. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulterybetrayalinfidelitylovefriendship |
| Locations: | taxi drivertaxi |
| Characters: | female protagonistfriend |
| Story: | telephone call |
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