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In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous g …irl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | period filmindependent film |
| Themes: | inheritancepoetryobsessionadulteryjealousymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | russialakerural settingsnow |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipcousin cousin relationshipsoldiersingerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1820s19th century |
| Story: | horse drawn sleigh carriageprovincial settingvictorian fashionserfdomshawlviolin playervictorian agesaint petersburglakesidesurname as titlecandlelighttormentwindmillballerinaestate …dockfortune tellerice skatingorchestrapoetduelcoffincandleliebookletterhorsetitle directed by femalepartydancingcharacter name in titleone word titleflashback (See All) |
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageabil …ity of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery John Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. (Read More)
| Themes: | inheritancepoetrymarriage |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | estatecandleletterhorsepartydancing |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg …eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
| Themes: | inheritanceobsessionjealousymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | rural settingsnow |
| Characters: | singerfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | coffincandleletterhorsepartydancing |
'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: | marriagedeath |
| Locations: | rural settingsnow |
| Characters: | soldiersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | ice skatingcandlelettertitle directed by femalepartydancing |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionadulteryjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | ice skatingorchestracoffinliepartyone word titleflashback |
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in … love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever? (Read More)
| Themes: | inheritancefriendship |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | friend |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | estatecandlebookletterhorsedancingcharacter name in titleflashback |
The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appoin …ted husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriagedeath |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipcousin cousin relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | estatecandlebookletterhorsepartydancingcharacter name in title |
Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the wedding by accusing Her …o of infidelity. In the end, though, it all turns out to be "much ado about nothing." (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | jealousymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipcousin cousin relationshipsingerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | duelliehorsepartydancing |
This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith.
| Themes: | jealousyfriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | rural settingsnow |
| Characters: | soldierfriendmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | victorian fashionvictorian agebookletterhorseflashback |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, …not the answering of them. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | poetryobsessiondeathfriendship |
| Locations: | lakerural setting |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipsingerfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | estatebookhorsepartyflashback |
'Antonio Salieri' (qv) believes that 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' (qv)'s music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. He began his career as a devout man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God' …s rewards for his piety. He's also content as the respected, financially well-off, court composer of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. But he's shocked to learn that Mozart is such a vulgar creature, and can't understand why God favored Mozart to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is ready to take revenge against God and Mozart for his own musical mediocrity. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | obsessionjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1820s19th century |
| Story: | orchestracandleletterhorsedancingcharacter name in titleone word titleflashback |
The protagonist Elizabeth Bennett is a witty, sarcastic, somewhat stubborn young lady who really has an opinion about quite a lot including why she would not marry simply because of it is expected of her. Mr. Guy Darcy is a shy, rich, man who defiantly believes there is such a thing as superior birt …h. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriage |
| Locations: | lakerural setting |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsoldiermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | estateletterdancing |
In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. An …na meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they feel attracted by each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose to Kitty, who is the younger sister of her sister-in-law Dolly. Anna satisfactorily resolves the infidelity case of her brother and Kitty invites her to stay for the ball. However, Anna Karenina and Vronsky dance in the ball, calling the attention of the conservative society. Soon they have a love affair that will lead Anna Karenina to a tragic fate. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulterymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | russiasnow |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | saint petersburgbookhorsedancingcharacter name in title |
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: | marriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | lakerural setting |
| Characters: | singerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | estatebookletterpartydancingcharacter name in titleflashback |
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: | adulteryjealousymarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | lakerural setting |
| Characters: | soldiersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | coffinlettercharacter name in title |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be …fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionjealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | estatecharacter name in titleone word titleflashback |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e …xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
| Themes: | poetryadulterydeathfriendship |
| Characters: | singerfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | estateorchestrapoetcandleletterdancing |
Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman's stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing … voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband's urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulterymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | lakerural settingsnow |
| Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | lakesidedockcandleparty |
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: | poetrydeath |
| Locations: | russiarural settingsnow |
| Characters: | soldiersingerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | bookdancingone word titleflashback |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar …ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulterymarriagedeath |
| Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | orchestracoffincandleletterhorsetitle directed by femalepartydancingcharacter name in title |
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alte …rnative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protege and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionadulteryjealousy |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Story: | candlelightestateduelhorsedancingcharacter name in title |
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19t …h century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin." (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | obsessiondeath |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | violin playerorchestracoffinletterflashback |
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: | poetryfriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | lakerural setting |
| Characters: | soldiersingerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | dockcandlebookletterdancingflashback |
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)
| Themes: | deathfriendship |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | windmillballerinacoffincandlebookletterpartydancing |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | lakesnow |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | ice skatingbookletterpartydancing |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome …d. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | rural settingsnow |
| Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | provincial settinglieletterpartydancingone word titleflashback |
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: | friendshipdeath |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipcousin cousin relationshipsingerfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | liebooklettertitle directed by femalepartydancingflashback |
Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly y …oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipfriend |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | estatehorsetitle directed by female |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s …eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
| Themes: | poetryjealousy |
| Locations: | lake |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | candlelightpoetbookletterhorsedancing |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
| Themes: | marriagedeathfriendship |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipsingerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | windmillcoffincandleliebookhorsedancingflashback |
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | deathfriendship |
| Locations: | lake |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipsingerfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | orchestraliehorsedancingone word title |
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enc …hanted. (Read More)
| Themes: | poetryobsessionjealousy |
| Locations: | lakesnow |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | windmillcandlehorsepartydancingcharacter name in titleflashback |
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How … do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? (Read More)
| Themes: | poetryobsessionmarriagedeath |
| Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | fortune tellerpoetliebookdancing |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro …ss two generations. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousymarriagedeathfriendship |
| Characters: | soldiersingerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | coffincandlebookletterhorsepartyone word title |
1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole an …d Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy? (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousyfriendshipdeath |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipfriend |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | windmillduelbookhorseone word title |
Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A ser …ies of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare. (Read More)
| Themes: | inheritancepoetrymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | poetcandlebookhorsedancingone word titleflashback |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous …in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousymarriagedeathfriendship |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsoldiersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | estateliebookletterhorsepartydancing |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
| Themes: | poetrymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipsingerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | coffinliebookletterpartydancingflashback |
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: | poetryfriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | coffincandleliebookletterdancingcharacter name in titleflashback |
Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to pro …duce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulterymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | estateorchestracandleletterhorsepartydancing |
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: | obsessionadulteryjealousymarriagedeath |
| Characters: | soldiersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | lieletterdancingcharacter name in titleone word title |
In World War II, the fall of Stalingrad will mean the collapse of the whole country. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, taking them out one by one, thus hurting the morale of the German troops. The … political officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to give his countrymen some hope. But Vassili eventually start to feel that he can not live up to the expectations on him. He and Danilov fall in love with the same girl, Tanya, a female soldier. From Germany comes the master sniper Konig to put an end to the extraordinary skilled Russian sniper. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousyfriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | russiasnow |
| Characters: | soldierfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | dockduelletterhorsedancingflashback |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
| Themes: | poetryadulterymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | russiasnow |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | poetcharacter name in title |
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who … have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryjealousymarriagefriendshipdeath |
| Locations: | lake |
| Characters: | friendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | tormentdockcoffinlietitle directed by femaleone word title |
The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men al …ike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine. But her affections are also coveted by the club's patron: the Duke. A dangerous love triangle ensues as Satine and Christian attempt to fight all odds to stay together but a force that not even love can conquer is taking its toll on Satine... (Read More)
| Themes: | poetryjealousy |
| Period: | 19th century |
| Story: | victorian fashionvictorian agewindmillpoetflashback |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr …ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriagedeathfriendship |
| Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipsoldierfriendhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | coffinliehorsepartydancingone word title |
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: | adulteryfriendship |
| Locations: | rural setting |
| Characters: | singerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | coffinliebooklettertitle directed by femaledancingflashback |
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and th …e two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for ten years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | russiasnow |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | shawlbookletterhorseone word titleflashback |
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)
| Themes: | adulteryjealousymarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | lakesnow |
| Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsingerfriendmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | liebookletterdancing |
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: | inheritancepoetryjealousymarriagedeathfriendship |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | soldierfriendmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | coffincandlebookletterflashback |
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