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Roberta, Teeny, Samantha and Chrissy have been busy growing up, but they always remembered the promise they made to be there for each other. Now they're together again to relive the greatest summer of their lives.
| Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | murder investigationwritingchildhooddivorcepregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | sewerbicyclesmall towncemetery |
| Characters: | childhood friendwaitressactresswriterdoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | year 1970year 1991summer1970s1990s |
| Story: | childhood friendschildhood memoryfirst brareading by flashlightschwinn bicyclereference to rush limbaughstealing clothingreference to nintendodrive in theatrebinding breastsbird poopreference to mtvtwinkiemouth to mouth resuscitationphotocopier …truth or darelemonadetarotindianateenage girl in underwearfriendship between girlsswinginggynecologisttreehousefriendship between womenfemale friendshipcoca colatween girltomboytombstonefemale bondingseancepubertynarrated by charactertractor12 year oldgiving birthfortune tellerfirst kissduct tapeswingrainstormatticnostalgiabloody nosetelescopetold in flashbackwalkie talkieteen angstpsychicloss of motherreunionbraceletlightningcigarette smokingargumentlibraryskinny dippingsmokinggraveyardbasketballbraflashlightbedroomnewspaperswimmingtitle directed by femalevoice over narrationthree word titlef ratedflashbackdogkiss (See All) |
The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares. As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. T …o keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | childhood friendfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer |
| Story: | teenage girl in underwearfriendship between girlsfriendship between womenfemale friendshiptween girlfirst kissteen angstloss of mothercigarette smokingbravoice over narrationf rated |
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)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | writingchildhoodfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall town |
| Characters: | childhood friendwriterdoctorfriendfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer1970s |
| Story: | schwinn bicycletween girltomboyfirst kissloss of motherargumentbasketballswimmingkiss |
It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about them …selves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of age |
| Themes: | writingchildhoodfriendship |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | childhood friendwriterfriendfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer |
| Story: | childhood memorytreehousenarrated by character12 year oldnostalgiacigarette smokingbedroomvoice over narrationthree word titleflashbackdog |
Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened … that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall town |
| Characters: | friendfamily relationships |
| Period: | year 19911990s |
| Story: | childhood memorydrive in theatretween girlrainstormbloody nosecigarette smokinglibraryflashlightbedroomvoice over narrationflashbackkissdog |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by … 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | childhoodpregnancy |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall towncemetery |
| Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | childhood memorytreehouse12 year oldgiving birthswingatticgraveyardflashlightnewspaperswimmingvoice over narrationdogflashbackkiss |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
| Themes: | divorcepregnancyfriendship |
| Characters: | actresswriterdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | mouth to mouth resuscitationtold in flashbacklightningcigarette smokingbrabedroomtitle directed by femalevoice over narrationthree word titlekissflashback |
Three best friends get together and bury a box, making a pact to open it at midnight at their high school graduation. In the small town in Georgia that they live in, things soon change. One is little miss perfect, one is an engaged prom queen, and the other is a pregnant outcast. On the night of the …ir graduation, they open the box and they strike up a conversation. Suddenly, one brings up the topic of her going to Los Angeles for a record contract audition. They all decide to go together and they leave. With a little money, they set out on the road with a guy named Ben. When one of them tells the other a rumor that he might be a homicidal maniac, they are all scared of him. When they reach Los Angeles, Lucy (Britney Spears) falls in love with Ben and against her father's wishes, she stays and she goes to the audition. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | writingpregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | childhood friendfamily relationships |
| Story: | childhood friendsfriendship between girlsfriendship between womenfemale friendshipfemale bondingrainstormtitle directed by femalef ratedkiss |
In a dreary Florida beach resort village, luscious-limbed lifeguard Raymond is the main attraction for girls. Teenager buddies Claire and Hailey became experts on him by observation, but never dared actually approach him, and after this closing summer season will be separated as one's parents move t …o Australia. Then they find a storm washed up in a pool a sassy mermaid, who promises them a wish if they help her prove to Neptune love exists, and Raymond is the only creature resembling a love-god. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall town |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Period: | summer |
| Story: | friendship between girlstomboyfemale bondingteen angstargumentswimmingtitle directed by femalef ratedkiss |
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits t …hem. (Read More)
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Characters: | waitressdoctor |
| Period: | 1970s1990s |
| Story: | childhood memorytween girlfirst kissbraceletf ratedflashbackkiss |
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales … clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1970s1990s |
| Story: | twinkiephotocopiertreehousecoca colatombstonereunionargumentgraveyardvoice over narrationdogkissflashback |
Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancee of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, h …er husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | small towncemetery |
| Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | childhood memorytombstonefirst kissrainstormreunionlightningargumentgraveyardnewspaperthree word titledogflashbackkiss |
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.
| Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1970s1990s |
| Story: | rainstormtold in flashbackloss of motherlightningcigarette smokingflashlightvoice over narrationthree word titledogflashback |
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)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | bloody noseteen angstcigarette smokingargumentgraveyardbedroomtitle directed by femalef ratedflashbackkiss |
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 t …hat went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter. (Read More)
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall towncemetery |
| Characters: | childhood frienddoctorfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | treehousereunionlightninggraveyardflashlightthree word titledogkiss |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole …rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | waitressdoctorfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | gynecologistcigarette smokingnewspapertitle directed by femalef ratedkiss |
This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man, who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Bobby, Carol, and Sully) share their lives. Carol … and Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss "by which all others will be measured". Bobby lives with his mother, a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder, who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the "lowmen", who were seeking him. The two share a summer's adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully also changes everyone. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall town |
| Characters: | childhood friendfriend |
| Story: | childhood memorytween girlfirst kissnostalgiapsychickissflashback |
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can' …t be a better life. Unfortunately, Jenna realizes that this is not what she wanted. The only one that she needs is her childhood best friend, Matt, a boy that she thought destroyed her party. But when she finds him, he's a grown up, and not the same person that she knew. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of age |
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Characters: | childhood friendfriend |
| Story: | tween girlteen angstlibrarykiss |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorcepregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | actressfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer |
| Story: | reunioncigarette smokinggraveyardswimmingtitle directed by femalef ratedflashbackkiss |
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)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | doctorfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | tombstonerainstormtelescopereunionlightningcigarette smokinggraveyardnewspaperswimmingvoice over narrationflashbackdogkiss |
When two pre-teens named Hallie and Annie meet through their summer camp, their two lives are rattled when they realize that they are identical twins. With parents, British mother aka famous dress designer Elizabeth and American father, a wine maker named Nick, living in two different sides of the u …niverse, the girls decide to make an identity swap in hopes of spending time with their other parent. The girls later choose to aware their guardians of the swap while at a hotel in NYC, which late reunites the divorced pair and sends them back into remarriage with each other. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Period: | summer1990s |
| Story: | stealing clothingtween girlreunionskinny dippingswimmingtitle directed by femalethree word titlef rateddog |
Takaki and Akari are two classmates in elementary school. During their time together they have become close friends. Their relationship is tested when Akari moves to another city because of her parents' jobs. Both of them struggle to keep their friendship alive, as time and distance slowly pulls the …m apart. When Takaki finds out that he is moving further away, he decides to visit Akari one last time. (Read More)
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Period: | summer1990s |
| Story: | childhood friendsnarrated by characterfirst kisslibraryvoice over narrationdogkiss |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
| Themes: | childhooddivorcepregnancy |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall towncemetery |
| Characters: | waitressdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | childhood memoryindianatombstonetractornewspaperflashbackkiss |
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | childhood |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | childhood memorynarrated by characterrainstormteen angstlightningbedroomvoice over narrationflashback |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental …ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | childhooddivorcefriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Characters: | doctorfriendfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1970s1990s |
| Story: | tombstonepubertycigarette smokingbraflashlightnewspapertitle directed by femalevoice over narrationf ratedflashbackkissdog |
Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their university graduation. We see them every year on the anniversary of that date - July 15th. Emma is smart but success doesn't come quickly for her, whereas for Dexter, success and women come very easily. Through the years they grow apart as their lives take …different directions and they meet other people. But as they grow apart from those other people and their lives start taking opposite directions again, Emma and Dexter find that they belong with each other. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | bicycle |
| Characters: | writerfriend |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | told in flashbackloss of motherskinny dippingswimmingtitle directed by femalef ratedkissflashback |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | writingfriendship |
| Characters: | writerdoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | year 19911990s |
| Story: | childhood memorytruth or dare12 year oldfirst kisslibrarybedroomvoice over narrationflashbackkiss |
'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)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | writingpregnancy |
| Characters: | writerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | tween girltomboygiving birthreuniontitle directed by femalef rated |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind …, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | small towncemetery |
| Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | treehousetombstonefirst kissgraveyardflashlight |
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: | friendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Characters: | doctorfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer1990s |
| Story: | rainstormtold in flashbackreunionargumentnewspaperswimmingvoice over narrationflashbackkiss |
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love …s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | writingdivorcefriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Characters: | friendfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1970s1990s |
| Story: | cigarette smokinglibraryskinny dippinggraveyardbraswimmingvoice over narrationkissflashback |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | divorcefriendship |
| Locations: | bicycle |
| Characters: | waitresswriterfriend |
| Story: | friendship between womenfemale bondingnostalgiacigarette smokinglibrarynewspaperswimmingvoice over narrationf ratedkiss |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al …ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationfriendship |
| Characters: | childhood friendwaitressdoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | childhood memorywalkie talkiecigarette smokingskinny dippingsmokingnewspaperswimmingdogflashback |
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.
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | childhooddivorcepregnancy |
| Characters: | writerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | cigarette smokingnewspaperswimmingflashbackdog |
When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever … had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | doctorfriendfamily relationships |
| Story: | tombstoneloss of motherlightningcigarette smokingargumentgraveyardbraflashlightswimming |
A man about forty years of age tells the story from when he was a teenager in upscale suburban Detroit of his and three of his friends' fascination with the mysterious and doomed Lisbon sisters. In 1974, the sisters were seventeen year old Therese, sixteen year old Mary, fifteen year old Bonnie, fou …rteen year old Lux, and thirteen year old Cecilia. Their fascination still remains as they try to piece together the entire story. The sisters were mysteries if only because of having a strict and overprotective upbringing by their father, who taught math at the girls' private co-ed school, and overly devout Catholic mother, who largely dictated the household rules. The story focuses primarily on two incidents and the resulting situations on the girls' lives. The first was an action by Cecilia to deal with her emotions over her life. And the second was the relationship between Lux - the sister who pushed the boundaries of the household rules most overtly in doing what most teenagers want to do - and Trip Fontaine, he who could have any girl he wanted but wanting solely Lux. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of ageindependent film |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer1970s |
| Story: | tween girltombstonetelescopeteen angstcigarette smokinggraveyardtitle directed by femalevoice over narrationf ratedflashbackkiss |
Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life … and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | waitressfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | friendship between womenfemale friendshipfemale bondingcigarette smokingsmokingf rated |
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughte …r. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | divorcefriendship |
| Locations: | bicycle |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer1990s |
| Story: | narrated by charactercigarette smokingnewspaperswimmingvoice over narrationdogkiss |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int …ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
| Themes: | childhood |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | waitressdoctor |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | childhood memoryswingingswingcigarette smokinggraveyardflashlightflashbackkissdog |
Occasionally in the 15 years since summer camp, Adam and Emma cross paths. When he discovers that an ex-girlfriend is living with his dad, he gets drunk, calls every woman in his cell phone contact list, and ends up passed out naked in her living room. By this time, she's a medical resident in L.A. …and he's a gopher on a "Glee"-like TV series, hoping to be a writer. She guards her emotions (calling her father's funeral "a thing"), so after a quick shag in the moments she has before leaving for the hospital, she asks if he wants a no-strings-attached, sex-only relationship, without romance or complications. A prescription for fun or for disaster? (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | childhood friendwaitresswriterdoctorfriendfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer1990s |
| Story: | graveyardbrathree word titlef rateddogkissflashback |
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)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | actresswriterdoctorfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | rainstormsmokingbravoice over narrationf rateddogflashbackkiss |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
| Themes: | murder investigation |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1970s |
| Story: | first kisslightningcigarette smokingflashlightvoice over narrationthree word titlef rateddogflashbackkiss |
Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba …, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone. (Read More)
| Themes: | childhoodfriendship |
| Characters: | childhood frienddoctorfriend |
| Story: | told in flashbackwalkie talkieloss of motherreunionswimmingkissflashback |
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
| Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | writingdivorcefriendship |
| Characters: | writerfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | teenage girl in underwearfriendship between girlsteen angstbravoice over narrationflashbackkiss |
In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortes, the twenty-som …ething wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
| Themes: | divorcefriendship |
| Characters: | childhood friendwriterdoctorfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | summer |
| Story: | cigarette smokingskinny dippingbraflashlightbedroomswimmingvoice over narrationdogkiss |
Lucia is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucia begins to discover the dark corners of her past rela …tionship, as if they were forbidden passages of a novel which the author now, from afar, allows her to read. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancyfriendship |
| Characters: | waitresswriterfriend |
| Story: | giving birthcigarette smokingskinny dippingswimmingkissflashbackdog |
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found deca …pitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents". (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | bicyclesmall towncemetery |
| Characters: | actressdoctorhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | tombstonerainstormbloody nosewalkie talkiecigarette smokinggraveyardflashlightvoice over narrationflashbackdogkiss |
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very l …ittle after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle, and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age filmcoming of age |
| Themes: | writingdivorcefriendship |
| Locations: | bicyclecemetery |
| Story: | teen angstlibrarysmokingbasketball |
Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper co …nnection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorcepregnancyfriendship |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | summer1970s |
| Story: | childhood memorylightningcigarette smokingskinny dippingswimmingflashbackdogkiss |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationwritingdivorce |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | year 1970year 19911970s1990s |
| Story: | rainstormcigarette smokingflashlightnewspaper |
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