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After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for some payback to regain the two years he has lost. He is hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will s …oon face a longer prison sentence if he does not prove the truth to the police. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonacid bathransom notefake kidnappingbody in trunkunfaithful boyfriendrecovering alcoholicstrip searchsuitcase of moneyplaying footsiemarinacrooked coproad accidentbeach houselegs …sculptorunfaithful wifescampress conferenceheavy rainex convictshot in the shoulderfemme fataledouble crosstied to a chairbound and gaggedvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelone word titlesex (See All) |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | legsscamfemme fataledouble crosscigarette smokingone word titlesex |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to a …n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | scamex convictshot in the shoulderfemme fatalecigarette smokingbased on novel |
Sam Bowden ('Nick Nolte' (qv))is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver" type family-man. Max Cady ('Robert De Niro' (qv)) is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, a …nd he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonheavy rainex convicttied to a chairbound and gaggedcigarette smokingbased on novelsex |
The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by a …n ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Story: | fake kidnappingplaying footsieex convictfemme fataledouble crosscigarette smoking |
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)
| Themes: | extramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | suitcase of moneyunfaithful wifescamheavy rainex convictdouble crossvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri …ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful boyfriendunfaithful wifeheavy rainvoice over narrationcigarette smokingone word title |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) …is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | suitcase of moneyplaying footsiescampress conferencefemme fataledouble crossvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev …eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | playing footsiefemme fatalecigarette smokingbased on novelsex |
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murde …red. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonex convictshot in the shouldercigarette smokingbased on novel |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh …ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | writerteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifeheavy raindouble crosscigarette smokingbased on novel |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. …As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | legspress conferencevoice over narrationcigarette smokingone word titlesex |
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost …(Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonsuitcase of moneyex convictshot in the shoulderdouble crosscigarette smokingone word title |
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the … program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonmarinaheavy raindouble crosstied to a chairbound and gaggedvoice over narrationbased on novel |
Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's …prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful boyfriendfemme fataledouble crosssex |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston …police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spe… (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairprison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teenage girlhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonex convictshot in the shoulderfemme fataledouble crossbound and gaggedvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novel |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | press conferencefemme fatalevoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling acces …sory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifescamshot in the shouldersex |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con …vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonrecovering alcoholicex convictvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Ca …esar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in an unexpected way... (Read More)
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Story: | suitcase of moneyscamex convictfemme fataledouble crossbound and gagged |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifeshot in the shouldercigarette smoking |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme …to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessadulteryinfidelity |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | scamfemme fataledouble crossvoice over narrationbased on novel |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Characters: | writerteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | cigarette smoking |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou …r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifecigarette smokingone word title |
Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in a nuclear power plant in China. This opportunity will reunite him wit …h an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as an arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonex convictshot in the shoulderone word title |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Characters: | writerboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful boyfriendheavy raincigarette smokingsex |
Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up th …rough the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Story: | double crossvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelone word title |
The middle-aged stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolet and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange … of her freedom. Meanwhile Ordell asks the 56-year-old Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects of Ordell's intention and plots a complicated confidence game with Max to steal half a million dollars from Ordell. (Read More)
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Story: | release from prisonscamex convictdouble crosscigarette smokingbased on novel |
In New York, when the shy and lonely project manager of a design firm Matt Saunders meets Jenny Johnson in the subway, he invites her to date and have dinner with him. Jenny immediately falls in love for him, they have sex and she discloses her true identity to him, telling that she is the powerful …superhero G-Girl. After meeting his co-worker and friend Hannah Lewis, the needy Jenny becomes jealous, controlling and manipulative, and Matt follows the advice of his best friend Vaughn Haige and dumps her, breaking her heart. Jenny turns Matt's life into hell, while he has a romance with Hannah. However, the archenemy of G-Girl and former high school sweetheart of Jenny, Professor Bedlam, proposes Matt to lure Jenny to strip her superpowers. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | playing footsiefemme fatalesex |
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detai …l and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | beach housevoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and t …ry to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending.... (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | teenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | ex convictshot in the shouldercigarette smokingone word title |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull … it off? (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairprisonadultery |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifefemme fataledouble crosscigarette smoking |
Brothers - older Stephen and three years junior Bloom - have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, for who the intricacy of the story used in the con is as important as the positive outcome of the swindle. Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories, the character he … considers the anti-hero. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and who has a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom hits his mid-thirties, he wants to quit the business as he is losing his own identity to that of the characters he portrays; he doesn't know anymore what is real and what is make-believe. Stephen talks him into one last con, the mark to be the eccentric, lonely but beautiful New Jersey heiress, Penelope Stamp. Penelope's primary past-time in life is to, as she calls it, "borrow hobbies": when she sees something she likes, she learns how to do it solely through reading books. As the brothers go through their final con on Penelope, three main problems may occur to thwart the plan. First, the brothers' former mentor and now arch enemy, Diamond Dog, may exact his long awaited revenge on the brothers. Second, Penelope may end up being more unpredictable than all their former marks. And third, Bloom, who has let love slip by in his life, may fall for Penelope. But through the proces… (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | ransom notefake kidnappingbeach housedouble crosstied to a chairvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
| Themes: | prison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonheavy rainshot in the shouldervoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | bound and gaggedcigarette smoking |
Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more …each time. (Read More)
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | heavy rainfemme fataledouble crossbound and gaggedvoice over narrationone word title |
In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house overlooks L.A., is sweet, although it's unclear how lon …g she'll put up with him. Then Nikki meets Heather, a waitress. Is the player being played, or might this be love? What will Nikki discover? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Story: | unfaithful wifescamvoice over narrationone word title |
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dea …ler Pooh-Bear. (Read More)
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | ex convictshot in the shoulderdouble crossvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for th …eir marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifeex convictcigarette smoking |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat …e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | writerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | beach housecigarette smoking |
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
| Themes: | extramarital affairadultery |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | suitcase of moneyheavy rainshot in the shoulderdouble crosscigarette smoking |
After seven years in solitary, Jake Green is released from prison. In the next two years, he amasses a lot of money by gambling. He's ready to seek his revenge on Dorothy (Mr. D) Macha, a violence-prone casino owner who sent Jake to prison. He humiliates Macha in front of Macha's lieutenants, leaves …, and keels over. Doctors tell him he has a rare disease and will die in three days; Macha also puts a hit out on him. Loan sharks, Zack and Avi, demand Jake's cash and complete fealty in return for protection. Jake complies, and through narration and flashbacks, we watch him through at least three days of schemes, danger, and redemption. Who is his greatest enemy? (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Locations: | bar |
| Story: | release from prisonheavy rainex convictshot in the shouldervoice over narration |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther …Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadultery |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Story: | press conferenceheavy rainex convictcigarette smokingbased on novelsex |
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northea …st - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | release from prisonex convictdouble crossvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hots …hot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | unfaithful wifeone word title |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of hel …p... (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | recovering alcoholicplaying footsie |
After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not … to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelity |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | ex convictcigarette smokingsex |
An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again a …nd then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light. (Read More)
| Themes: | infidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | shot in the shoulderfemme fataledouble crossbound and gaggedcigarette smokingone word title |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge …ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
| Themes: | prison |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | heavy rainex convictfemme fataledouble crossbound and gaggedcigarette smoking |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th …e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | beach housedouble crosscigarette smokingone word title |
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