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John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. This might have to do with John's secret: he has another personality no one knows about, a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day. Then, in a moment, β¦ everything changes... (Read More)
Themes: | childhood traumaadoptionmental illnessdeceptionfuneraldrinkingpoliticsmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | town mayorschool busmotelrural settingkitchenbicyclesmall towntrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | funeral directorlittle boymayorsingle motherphotographerpolicemangirlprostituteboyhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | reading a newspaperlincoln nebraskasafe deposit boxtoy airplanebasement officereading to a childbank clerkbank accountflashback montagemotel roomphotograph in newspaperbicycle tripnewspaper headlineriding a bicycletrain derailment β¦train wreckcandy barbird loose inside a housesmall town americanapolitical adviserwomen's shelterburning a corpsetire swingcabooseholding head underwaterboutonnieredissociative identity disorderbaseball cardpicture frametrailer houseincest subtextplumbingsilopolitical rallytown name in titlefictional townworking momtire ironrailroad crossingporchgender bendersecret lifeclothes lineillegitimate sonnebraskaframed photographman in dragcheckschizophrenichiding placenervousnessbackyardpondlistening to a radiorazorsplit personalitylooking out a windowdouble lifefencewomen's rightsshynessboxnotehit on the headfaked deathgrocery storecelebrationfalse identitybreakfasttoydresstransvestitecross dressingelectionbasementwigbankreadingsuitcasekeychild abusepoliticiandinereatingmontagedisguisecookingnewspaperneighborcafeanimal in titlebookundressingdrinkcamerafoodunderwearfiretelephone callcigarette smokingone word titlesexbloodflashback (See All) |
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: | mental illnessdrinkingmoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | motelbicycletrainrestaurant |
Characters: | mayorphotographergirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reading a newspapermotel roomplumbingdouble lifecross dressingwigsuitcasepoliticianeatingdisguisenewspaperneighborcafeundressingdrink β¦camerafoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingbloodflashback (See All) |
Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delig β¦ht when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies club as well as the bank president where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice some odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local paper about a man who marries and then murders rich widows. When two strangers appear asking questions about him, she begins to imagine the worst about her dearly beloved uncle Charlie. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionfuneraldrinkingmoneymurder |
Locations: | bicyclesmall towntrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | photographerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reading a newspaperbank accountporchlistening to a radiodouble lifebreakfastbankreadingsuitcasenewspaperneighborcafebookdrinkcamera β¦foodtelephone call (See All) |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's β¦ not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdeceptiondeathmurder |
Locations: | trainrestaurant |
Characters: | mayorsingle motherphotographerpolicemangirlprostituteboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reading a newspapernewspaper headlinelistening to a radiobreakfastreadingdinereatingnewspapercafecamerafoodtelephone callcigarette smokingone word titleblood β¦flashback (See All) |
Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor's son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oli β¦ver find so much of each other's needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects. (Read More)
Themes: | adoptiondrinkingmoney |
Locations: | school busbicyclebar |
Characters: | single motherprostituteboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | bank clerknewspaper headlinelooking out a windowfencebreakfastbanksuitcaseeatingmontagenewspaperneighborbookdrinkfoodtelephone call β¦cigarette smokingbloodsex (See All) |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads en β¦ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | school busrural settingkitchentrainbar |
Characters: | girlboy |
Story: | train derailmenttrain wreckcandy barlistening to a radiofalse identitywigreadingsuitcaseeatingbookdrinkfoodfirecigarette smokingflashback β¦bloodsex (See All) |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | funeraldrinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | school busbicycle |
Characters: | little boyphotographerpolicemangirlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | notebreakfastreadingsuitcaseeatingmontageneighborbookdrinkcamerafoodfiretelephone callcigarette smokingflashback β¦blood (See All) |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo β¦k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsmurderdeath |
Locations: | school busrestaurantbar |
Characters: | mayorphotographerpolicemangirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper headlinenoteelectionbasementchild abusedinermontagenewspapercafebookdrinkcameraunderweartelephone callcigarette smoking β¦one word titleblood (See All) |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife β¦ is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Themes: | funeraldrinkingpoliticsmoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | kitchenbicycletrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | girlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | safe deposit boxbank accountlistening to a radioboxgrocery storecelebrationtoytransvestitecross dressingbankeatingcookingcafedrinkfood β¦underweartelephone callcigarette smokingone word titlebloodflashbacksex (See All) |
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced β¦with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | trainbar |
Characters: | single motherpolicemangirlboy |
Story: | newspaper headlinelistening to a radiolooking out a windowhit on the headreadingeatingnewspaperneighborbookundressingdrinkfoodunderwearfiretelephone call β¦cigarette smokingblood (See All) |
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: | mental illnessdeceptiondrinkingmoney |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | mayorsingle motherphotographergirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | reading a newspapernewspaper headlinelistening to a radiogrocery storesuitcasekeyeatingmontagenewspapercafebookdrinkcamerafoodfire β¦telephone callcigarette smoking (See All) |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hi β¦s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdrinkingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenbicycletrain |
Characters: | little boyprostitutehusband wife relationship |
Story: | schizophrenickeychild abusenewspaperanimal in titleundressingdrinkunderwearcigarette smokingone word titleflashbacksexblood |
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, prep β¦aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Locations: | kitchenrestaurant |
Characters: | single mothergirlboy |
Story: | grocery storetoyeatingmontagecookingneighborcafedrinkfoodfiretelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
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 β¦f The Beatles. (Read More)
Themes: | funeraldrinkingmoneydeath |
Locations: | bicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | little boygirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | listening to a radiolooking out a windowreadingeatingmontagecafebookdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingsexflashbackblood |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped paj β¦amas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. (Read More)
Locations: | kitchenbicycletrain |
Characters: | little boygirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | toy airplanelistening to a radiofencereadingeatingnewspaperneighborbookundressingfoodtelephone callcigarette smoking |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | motelrural settingsmall townbar |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper headlinetown name in titlebreakfasttransvestitecross dressingbankeatingnewspaperundressingfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
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)
Themes: | mental illnessdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | motelkitchenrestaurantbar |
Characters: | little boyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reading a newspapercheckgrocery storetoysuitcaseeatingmontagenewspapercafeundressingdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smoking β¦one word titlesex (See All) |
Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and β¦ two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs investigate famous crimes, and she finds that they believe Ben is innocent. Libby needs money and, in return, accepts to revisit the slaughter of her family and comes up to the painful revelations and the ultimate truth. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclerestaurantbar |
Characters: | photographergirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper headlinenotehit on the headbreakfastdressbasementchild abuseeatingcookingnewspaperbookdrinkcamerafoodtelephone call β¦cigarette smokingbloodsexflashback (See All) |
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: | funeraldrinkingmurder |
Locations: | rural settingsmall towntrain |
Characters: | photographergirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | trailer houselooking out a windowtransvestitewigbanknewspaperbookundressingdrinkcamerafiretelephone callcigarette smokingflashbackblood |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental β¦ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Themes: | funeraldrinkingpoliticsmurderdeath |
Locations: | bicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | policemangirlprostituteboy |
Story: | political rallyrazorwomen's rightsgrocery storeelectionbasementreadingsuitcasekeyeatingcookingnewspaperneighborcafebook β¦drinkfoodtelephone callcigarette smokingone word titleflashbackblood (See All) |
Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys β¦ and dating hometown beauty Lana; however, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | rural settingkitchensmall townbar |
Characters: | single motherpoliceman |
Story: | lincoln nebraskanebraskadouble lifetransvestitecross dressingdisguisenewspaperundressingdrinkcigarette smokingsexflashback |
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.
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Locations: | rural settingsmall towntrainrestaurantbar |
Story: | railroad crossingpondgrocery storereadingsuitcasedinercafebookdrinkcameraunderweartelephone callcigarette smoking |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: β¦ truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Themes: | adoptionfuneraldrinking |
Locations: | trainrestaurant |
Characters: | little boypolicemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reading to a childfenceshynessnotereadingeatingneighborcafebookdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callone word titlesex |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de β¦fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
Themes: | funeraldrinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | bicyclesmall townrestaurantbar |
Characters: | girlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper headlineriding a bicycleporchlooking out a windowbreakfastbasementsuitcasedinereatingnewspapercafedrinkfoodunderwearflashback |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha β¦nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Locations: | trainrestaurant |
Characters: | little boyphotographerpolicemangirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | train derailmenttrain wreckhiding placenotetoyreadingkeymontagenewspapercafebookdrinkcamerafiretelephone call β¦one word titleflashback (See All) |
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart β¦his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdrinkingmoney |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | backyardlooking out a windowfencebreakfastbankreadingkeyeatingcookingbookdrinkfoodunderweartelephone call |
Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened β¦ that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share. (Read More)
Themes: | childhood traumadrinkingmoney |
Locations: | motelbicyclesmall townbar |
Characters: | little boysingle motherphotographergirlprostituteboy |
Story: | motel roombaseball cardshynesstoyreadingkeychild abuseundressingdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingflashbackblood |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind β¦, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessfuneraldrinkingdeath |
Locations: | rural settingsmall townrestaurant |
Characters: | girlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | schizophrenicshynessreadingeatingneighborcafedrinkfoodtelephone callsex |
Themes: | adoptiondrinkingmoneydeath |
Locations: | motelrestaurant |
Characters: | photographerpolicemanprostitutehusband wife relationship |
Story: | nervousnessdinereatingcafeundressingdrinkcamerafoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingone word titleflashbacksexblood |
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fell β¦ow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdeceptiondrinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | trainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | prostitutehusband wife relationship |
Story: | bank accountfaked deathfalse identitybreakfastbanksuitcasecafedrinkunderwearsexbloodflashback |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessfuneraldrinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | policemangirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | riding a bicyclepondreadingsuitcaseeatingcafefoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingflashbackblood |
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 β¦d. (Read More)
Themes: | politicsdeath |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclesmall townbar |
Characters: | mayorsingle mothergirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | suitcaseeatingmontagecookingcafefoodfireone word titleflashbacksex |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Themes: | funeraldrinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | small townrestaurantbar |
Characters: | policemangirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | pondhit on the headeatingcafebookundressingdrinkfoodunderwearfirecigarette smokingone word titleflashbackbloodsex |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa β¦st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptiondrinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | motelsmall townrestaurantbar |
Characters: | photographerpolicemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | false identitydinereatingmontagedisguisecafedrinkcamerafoodfiretelephone callcigarette smokingsexblood |
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organiz β¦es gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsdeathmurder |
Locations: | kitchenrestaurantbar |
Characters: | little boymayorphotographerpoliceman |
Story: | newspaper headlinelooking out a windowelectionpoliticiancookingnewspapercafeundressingdrinkcameraunderweartelephone callone word titleflashbackblood |
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: | deceptiondrinkingdeath |
Locations: | motelrural settingkitchensmall townrestaurantbar |
Characters: | girlprostituteboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | grocery storedresschild abuseeatingmontagecafeanimal in titleundressingdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingbloodflashback |
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 β¦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: | funeraldrinkingmoneydeath |
Locations: | kitchenbicycletrainrestaurant |
Characters: | photographerpolicemangirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking out a windowbreakfasttoynewspaperneighborcafebookdrinkcamerafoodfiretelephone callflashbackblood |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | funeraldrinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | single motherphotographerpolicemangirlboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | trailer housenotedinereatingundressingdrinkcamerafoodtelephone callcigarette smokingone word titlebloodflashback |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Themes: | adoptiondrinkingmoneydeath |
Locations: | rural settingsmall towntrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | little boypolicemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | illegitimate soncheckschizophrenicnotereadingdinercookingcafebookundressingdrinkunderwearfiretelephone callcigarette smoking β¦flashbacksexblood (See All) |
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 β¦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: | drinkingpoliticsmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | motelbicyclerestaurantbar |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper headlinefencereadingsuitcasepoliticianeatingnewspapercafebookundressingdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smoking |
Kris is attacked one night, and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief's instructions to give him everything, even taking out loans. After the worms are extracted, she wakes up to find her life ruined. She's lost her job, her finances are de β¦stroyed. Years later, she meets Jeff whom she may have a lot in common with. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | bicycletrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | boyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking out a windowfencebankreadingeatingcafebookdrinkfoodtelephone callsexblood |
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: | drinkingmoney |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | little boypolicemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking out a windowreadingkeydinereatingcookingcafedrinkfoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingflashback |
At 16, Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his father's child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah, Nick meets Sheeni: for him, it's love at first sight. Nick has to figure out how to get his father a job in Ukiah, then how to get sent β¦ to live with his father, then how to get close to Sheeni, whose religious parents may want her sent away from temptation to a boarding school. There's also Sheeni's all-American boyfriend to contend with. Overwhelmed by the challenges, Nick's about to give up when he conjures an alter ego who whispers revolt into his ear. Nick is not altogether hapless, but can this end well? (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | trailer houseman in dragsplit personalitynotegrocery storebreakfastwigreadingeatingneighborcafebookundressingfoodunderwear β¦firetelephone callcigarette smokingsexflashback (See All) |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni β¦e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessfuneraldrinkingmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | photographerpolicemangirlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper headlinetrailer houseincest subtextlooking out a windowhit on the headcelebrationelectionsuitcaseeatingnewspaperundressingdrinkcamerafoodcigarette smoking β¦one word titleblood (See All) |
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Star β¦ting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdrinkingmoneydeath |
Locations: | kitchenrestaurant |
Characters: | girlprostitutehusband wife relationship |
Story: | bankreadingcookingcafebookundressingdrinkcamerafoodunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingone word titlesexblood |
The new flatmate of three preexisting roommates turns up mysteriously dead but in possession of a large sum of money. When the roommates decide to keep it for themselves, their action sets in motion a destructive chain of events that spiral out of control.
Themes: | drinkingmoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | holding head underwatertransvestitecross dressingsuitcasekeynewspaperdrinkcameraunderwearflashbackblood |
A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a d β¦angerous and quixotic journey into Mexico. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | motelkitchenbicyclesmall towntrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | policemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | motel roomlistening to a radiocookingneighborcafedrinkunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingbloodsex |
A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so cl β¦osely. (Read More)
Themes: | funeraldrinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | kitchenbicyclerestaurantbar |
Characters: | policemangirlboy |
Story: | fencehit on the headtoydressbasementkeydinernewspaperneighborcafebookdrinkcamerafiretelephone call β¦cigarette smokingflashbackblood (See All) |
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to β¦take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessdeceptionfuneralmoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | motelrural settingsmall town |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | dissociative identity disordersplit personalitycross dressingbasementbankdisguisenewspaperundressingunderweartelephone callone word titleflashbackblood |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | trainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | photographerpolicemangirlboy |
Story: | newspaper headlinefalse identitychild abusenewspapercafeundressingdrinkcameraunderweartelephone callbloodflashback |