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Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn't fully understand: Love. Michael Cera becomes the object of her affection. Weaving together reality and fantasy, Paper Heart combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling to get at mo β¦dern romance. (Read More)
Subgenre: | documentary filmmakingfake documentarymockumentaryindependent film |
Themes: | falling in lovebreak updatingdivorcetravelfilmmakingweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | paris francelos angeles californiatexasmotelfrancecourtroommotorcyclerestaurantbeachbarnew york city |
Characters: | divorce lawyerasian girlbiologistpolice chasestand up comedianasian americanprofessorinterracial relationshiplawyermusicianchildren |
Story: | wedding chapelbiker barlittle rock arkansasoklahoma citynashville tennesseeatlanta georgiapsychic readinglas vegas nevadaamarillo texaslubbock texasfirst datebiology professorgirl with glassespalm springs californiaguitar playing β¦camera crewwedding coordinatorwedding ceremonywedding dressstreet interviewsame sex couplehigh school sweetheartslong term relationshiptest of lovetarot readingcn toweractor shares last name with characterhooded sweatshirtinstant messagingalbuquerque new mexicohome movie footageblendertarget shootingmenufrench friesharley davidsonchemistsongwritingtorontomusical instrumentmusic storearkansasoklahomagiraffesinger songwriterelvis impersonatorhoodieinterracial couplenevadavideo footagebroken heartchapelchimpanzeepuppetrygeorgiamarried coupletennesseetrue loveharmonicalost loveeiffel tower parisplaying poolstage showholding handswritten by starscene after end creditslioninterracial romancepool tablezooplaygroundgrocery storeveteranbikerhome moviehappinessactor playing himselfsupermarketpizzagay couplepsychicfireworkslaptopdateglassesactor shares first name with characterstorytellingfantasy sequencemicrophoneno opening creditsjudgemontagecalifornianew yorkguitarcamerasingingcigarette smokingkissinterview (See All) |
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: | datingdivorcemarriagefriendship |
Locations: | paris francelos angeles californiarestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | professorlawyer |
Story: | instant messagingbroken hearttrue lovegrocery storedatemontagecigarette smokingkiss |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In β¦ the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
Subgenre: | documentary filmmaking |
Themes: | break upfriendship |
Locations: | motorcyclerestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | interracial relationshiplawyermusician |
Story: | interracial coupleinterracial romancepool tablehome moviegay coupledatemicrophonemontageguitarsingingcigarette smokingkiss |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a β¦n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | filmmakingfriendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiamotelcourtroommotorcyclerestaurantbeachbar |
Story: | playing poolpool tablegrocery storeplaygroundsupermarketstorytellingfantasy sequencejudgecaliforniasingingcigarette smoking |
Robbie Hart is singing the hits of the 1980s at weddings and other celebrations. He also can keep the party going in good spirit, he knows what to say and when to say it. Julia is a waitress at the events where Robbie performs. When both of them find someone to marry and prepare for their weddings, β¦it becomes clear that they've chosen wrong partners. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in loveweddingfriendship |
Locations: | bar |
Story: | guitar playingsongwritingnevadabroken heartactor playing himselfdatesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 20 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction β¦ and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There's a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovebreak updatingdivorcemarriage |
Locations: | paris francefrancerestaurantbar |
Story: | eiffel tower parisholding handsplaygroundfireworksstorytellingmontageguitarcamerasingingcigarette smoking |
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 β¦ler Pooh-Bear. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiamotelmotorcyclebeachbar |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | broken heartplaying poolgrocery storebikerfantasy sequencemontagecaliforniaguitarcigarette smoking |
Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tr β¦ies to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingfilmmakingfriendship |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | interracial relationshipmusician |
Story: | girl with glassesguitar playingtorontomusic storehoodieholding handspsychicmontageguitarsingingkiss |
Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything--and in some cases, two of everything. Despite his impressive client list, a formidable win record, the respect of his peers and an ironclad contract (the Massey pre-nup) named after him, he's reached a crossroads in his life. Sat β¦ed on success, boredom has set in and he's looking for new challenges. All that changes when Miles meets his match in the devastating Marylin Rexroth. Marylin is the soon-to-be ex-wife of his client Rex Rexroth, a wealthy real estate developer and habitual philanderer. With the help of hard charging private investigator Gus Petch, she has Rex nailed and is looking forward to the financial independence a successful divorce will bring. But thanks to Miles' considerable skills, she ends up with nothing. Not to be outdone, Marylin schemes to get even and as part of her plan, quickly marries oil tycoon Howard Doyle. Miles and his unflappable associate, Wrigley, unwittingly dig themselves in deeper and deeper as they go head-to-head with Marylin. Underhanded tactics, deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marylin and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes. (Read More)
Themes: | divorceweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiamotelcourtroomrestaurant |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | wedding chapellas vegas nevadajudgeguitarcamerasingingkiss |
Eighty-six-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy, in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa". Jackass characters Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane β¦ hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places, and situations that give new meaning to the term "childrearing". The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding |
Locations: | motelmotorcyclerestaurantbar |
Story: | biker barblendertennesseewritten by stargrocery storebikermicrophonecamerainterview |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi β¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | break updivorceweddingmarriage |
Locations: | los angeles californiabar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | wedding dressfrench frieschimpanzeezoodatekiss |
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician β¦. (Read More)
Locations: | texasmotelbar |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | nashville tennesseesongwritingplaygroundmicrophoneguitarcamerasingingcigarette smokinginterview |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a β¦rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
Themes: | break updivorcefilmmakingmarriage |
Locations: | motorcyclerestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | musicianchildren |
Story: | giraffeharmonicaplaygroundmicrophonemontagecaliforniaguitarcamerasingingcigarette smokinginterview |
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is β¦short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in loveweddingfriendship |
Locations: | courtroombarnew york city |
Characters: | interracial relationship |
Story: | oklahomanevadaharmonicahappinessfantasy sequencemicrophonejudgesingingcigarette smoking |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa β¦chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovemarriagefriendship |
Locations: | beachbarnew york city |
Characters: | professorinterracial relationshiplawyer |
Story: | interracial coupleplaying poolpool tableveteranfantasy sequencemicrophoneno opening creditsmontagecaliforniaguitarsingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on β¦the novel. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | paris francecourtroomnew york city |
Story: | little rock arkansastennesseeeiffel tower parismontagesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to β¦ rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. (Read More)
Locations: | los angeles californiabarnew york city |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | songwritingtrue lovehappinessstorytellingmicrophonecamerasingingcigarette smokingkissinterview |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | divorceweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | professorinterracial relationshiplawyer |
Story: | interracial romanceactor shares first name with characterjudgenew yorkcameracigarette smokinginterview |
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | interracial relationshipmusician |
Story: | songwritingtennesseeeiffel tower parisplaying poolpool tablemicrophonesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦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: | divorceweddingmarriage |
Locations: | motelmotorcyclebeachbarnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerchildren |
Story: | wedding ceremonywedding dresstrue loveplaying poolpool tablemontagekiss |
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | motelcourtroomrestaurant |
Story: | supermarketstorytellingfantasy sequencejudgemontagesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early β¦flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
Themes: | divorcefilmmakingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiabarnew york city |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | las vegas nevadamicrophoneno opening creditsmontageguitarcamerasingingcigarette smokingkiss |
It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the mome β¦nt he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? (Read More)
Themes: | datingfilmmakingweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | motelrestaurantbar |
Characters: | children |
Story: | first datewedding ceremonyhappinessdatestorytellingmontagekiss |
Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie. Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out toge β¦ther and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage. Dean, a high school drop out, comes from a broken home, where he never really had a mother figure. He never saw himself getting married or having a family despite falling in love at first sight with Cindy. He doesn't have any professional ambition beyond his current work - which he enjoys since he feels he can knock off a beer at 8 o'clock in the morning without it affecting his work - although Cindy believes he has so much more potential in life. Cindy also comes from a dysfunctional family, with her own mother and father not setting an example of a harmonious married or family life. One of her previous serious relationships was with Bobby Ontario, that relationship which has a profound affect on many aspects of her marriage to Dean. Dean and Cindy head off on an overnight getaway together without Frankie, the getaway which may provide a clearer picture if their marriage can survive its many issues. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovedivorceweddingmarriage |
Locations: | motelrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | first datewedding ceremonyhoodiemarried couplehome moviefireworksjudgemontagesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, John β¦ny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | motelrestaurantbar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | palm springs californiaactor shares last name with characteralbuquerque new mexicoplaying poolhome moviemontagecaliforniacigarette smokinginterview |
To ease their roommate through a relationship-induced depression, Christina Walters and Courtney Rockcliffe take her out on the town. During their attempts to find her "Mr. Right Now", Christina meets Peter Donahue. Missing her opportunity with him that night, Christina is talked into pursuing him t β¦o his brother's wedding. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovebreak updatingweddingfriendship |
Story: | wedding dressbikerfantasy sequencemontagesingingkiss |
A woman misses the 1:30 train from New York to Boston and a street musician spends the night trying to help her make it back home before her husband does. Throughout the night they learn a lot about one another and eventually find a romance.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | marriage |
Locations: | barnew york city |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | psychic readingholding handspsychicnew yorksingingkiss |
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | break updatingfriendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurantbarnew york city |
Story: | las vegas nevadapizzastorytellingmontagesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦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: | divorceweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | texasmotelcourtroomrestaurantbarnew york city |
Story: | wedding dressharmonicaplaying poolpool tablegrocery storefireworksjudgesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
In rural Tennessee, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She's the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in remindi β¦ng Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae's boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | motelrestaurantbar |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | wedding dresstennesseeholding handsgrocery storesupermarketmontageguitarsingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an β¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | divorceweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | motelrestaurantbeachbar |
Story: | wedding ceremonywedding dressdatesingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Camden College. Sean Bateman is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He's also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to "fellow" dealer Rupert Guest, as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde is, β¦technically, a virgin. She's saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson, who's left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara, has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton, who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen, who's dating Candice to prove to Paul that he's not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | dating |
Locations: | paris francemotorcyclerestaurant |
Characters: | professor |
Story: | eiffel tower parisplaying pooldatefantasy sequencemontageguitarsingingcigarette smokingkiss |
A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country β¦odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovetravelwedding |
Locations: | restaurantbeachbar |
Story: | wedding dressdatestorytellingmicrophonecamerasingingkiss |
After a blind date gone horribly wrong, Jim and Lauren agree they never, ever want to see each other again. Well, that's all about to change when the two find themselves and their respective families (including children) all stuck together in one suite at an African Safari vacation spot.
Themes: | travelfriendship |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | children |
Story: | girl with glassesgiraffeliondatesingingkiss |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in love |
Locations: | texasmotelmotorcyclerestaurantbar |
Story: | first dateoklahomaholding handspool tableplaygroundbikerpizzastorytellingcigarette smoking |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | weddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | paris francelos angeles californiamotelcourtroomrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | home movie footagehome moviejudgecamerasingingcigarette smokingkiss |
We like Florence: she's considerate, sweet, pretty, and terrific with kids and dogs. She's twenty-five, personal assistant to an L.A. family that's off on vacation. Her boss's brother comes in from New York City, fresh from a stay at an asylum, to take care of the house. He's Roger, a forty-year-old β¦ carpenter, gone from L.A. for fifteen years. He arrives, doesn't drive, and needs Florence's help, especially with the family's dog. He's also connecting with former band-mates - two men and one woman with whom he has a history. He over-analyzes, has a short fuse, and doesn't laugh at himself easily. As he navigates past and present, he's his own saboteur. And what of Florence? is Roger one more responsibility for her or something else? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiamotelrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | musicianchildren |
Story: | grocery storestorytellingmicrophonemontagecaliforniaguitarsingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Months after John's divorce, Ted and Tami-Lynn's marriage seems on the same road. To patch things up, Ted and Tami-Lynn plan to have a child with John's help, but their failed efforts backfire disastrously. Namely, Ted is declared property by the government and he loses all his civil rights. Now, Te β¦d must fight a seemingly hopeless legal battle with an inexperienced young lawyer to regain his rightful legal status. Unfortunately, between Ted's drunken idiocies and sinister forces interested in this situation to exploit him, Ted's quest has all the odds against him. (Read More)
Themes: | divorcemarriage |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | scene after end creditsgrocery storelaptopjudgeguitarsingingkiss |
Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other β¦ hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | courtroomrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | interracial relationshiplawyermusicianchildren |
Story: | music storepizzajudgemontageguitarsinging |
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 β¦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: | divorcetravel |
Locations: | paris francelos angeles californiamotelfrancecourtroomrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | atlanta georgiajudgemontagecaliforniasingingcigarette smoking |
When brought together at a family event, two exes find themselves oddly attracted to each other after ten years of divorce. Although the couple think that this affair will stay in a different state, it brings itself back to their own city and disrupts their personal lives. While the couple still mai β¦ntain other romances, they cannot help but to continue with their affair. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorcemarriage |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | first datedatecalifornia |
Reuben Feffer thinks he's found the love of his life but on his honeymoon he discovers her cheating on him with a scuba instructor. Reuben travels back home to get his life on track. On a night out with best pal, Sandy Lyle, Reuben discovers an old school friend, Polly Prince. Reuben feels a connect β¦ion straight away, and tries constantly to get her to like him. But it's not going to be easy for Reuben, especially when he spends his days calculating risks, and when someone unexpected turns up. (Read More)
Themes: | datingweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurantbeachbarnew york city |
Story: | pizzafireworksstorytellingmicrophonecamerasingingkiss |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | restaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | professormusician |
Story: | guitar playingstorytellingmicrophoneno opening creditsguitarsingingcigarette smoking |
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of tha β¦t time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. (Read More)
Themes: | falling in lovebreak updatingtravel |
Locations: | motorcyclerestaurantbar |
Story: | grocery storedatemontagecaliforniacameracigarette smokingkiss |
Peter is a composer and a likable sad sack who's devastated when his girlfriend of five years, Sarah Marshall, the star of a cheesy CSI-style crime show, dumps him. He weeps, he rails, he mopes. Finally, his step-brother Brian suggests Hawaii, so Peter heads for a resort on Oahu where, as he's check β¦ing in, he sees Sarah and her new beau, Aldous, a polymorphously perverse English rocker. The weeping and moping start again, until Peter is rescued by Rachel, a thoughtful hotel clerk who invites him to a luau and to hang out. Although he constantly runs into Sarah and Aldous, Peter starts to come alive again. Will Sarah realize what she's lost, and what about Rachel? (Read More)
Themes: | weddingfriendship |
Locations: | los angeles californiarestaurantbeachbar |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | broken heartlaptopactor shares first name with charactermicrophoneno opening creditscamerasingingkiss |
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children wit β¦h big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. (Read More)
Themes: | divorceweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | courtroomrestaurantbeachbarnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerchildren |
Story: | holding handsgrocery storesupermarketmicrophonejudgemontagecaliforniacameracigarette smokingkiss |
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | divorcefriendship |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | children |
Story: | french friesvideo footagegrocery storehome moviesupermarketcameracigarette smokingkiss |
An unnamed guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer/songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An unnamed girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day an β¦d takes care of her Mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets girl and they get to know each other as the girl helps the guy put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the guy and the girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | motorcyclerestaurantbeach |
Characters: | musician |
Story: | music storesinger songwriterlost lovehome movieguitarsingingcigarette smoking |
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 β¦ 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: | divorcemarriage |
Locations: | paris francelos angeles californiamotorcyclerestaurantbar |
Story: | happinessdateguitarcamerasingingcigarette smokingkiss |
Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime. Alex Whitman is a New Yorker sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes, and some serious chemistry brings them together for one nig β¦ht. But Alex doesn't see Isabel again until three months later, when he learns she is pregnant. On a whim and prayer, he proposes. However, there's more to marriage than a Vegas chapel and an Elvis impersonator, as Alex and Isabel soon learn. (Read More)
Themes: | break updivorceweddingmarriage |
Story: | las vegas nevadanevadachapelnew york |