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The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by β¦ the love of his mother. Several years later, he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. He slowly begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free. (Read More)
Subgenre: | rock musicaladult animationcult film |
Themes: | police brutalitypoetrygriefinsanitydepressiondeath of fatherweddingadulteryrapedrugssurrealism |
Mood: | avant gardenightmaregore |
Locations: | train tunnelcatholic churchenglandlos angeles californiacarhotelswimming poolschooltrain |
Characters: | self mutilationteacherdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | anti conformitybody shavingdead ratkangaroo courttelevision smashingabusive teacherjukebox musicaltalking anustalking vaginaanimated segmentsanti nazismgenital monsterwindow smashinginsane manpink floyd β¦hallucinogenic drugtraumatic childhoodphantasmagoriabased on albumanti authorityrock operameat grindergenitalsanti racismpsychological tormentoverprotective motheranti fascismprogressive rockpart animatedphallusneo nazismanti socialmidnight movieleafgallowssome scenes animatedgroup name in titleconformitybricklootingbritish renaissancemiserygroupiepart live actionangstair raidwormscorpionmegaphonepsychedelicfemale genitaliavery little dialogueneo nazicorporal punishmentwallskinheadcartoon on tvbigotryanimated sequencebackstagehippierock concertpart animationplaygroundremote controlrock starhammerbulletdestructionshavingriotflowerloss of fatherratsadnessisolationcrosscourtprankfantasy sequencepuppetracial slurtrialjudgenonlinear timelinename in titletelevisioncolor in titlehallucinationrock musicmaskcatwatching tvfiretelephone callmale nuditybloodviolenceflashbacksex (See All) |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force β¦performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | poetryinsanityweddingdrugssurrealism |
Locations: | los angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | television smashinghallucinogenic druggroup name in titlebackstagehippierock concertrock starriotfantasy sequencetrialjudgenonlinear timelinehallucinationrock musicmask β¦watching tvfiremale nudityflashbackbloodsex (See All) |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a β¦nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | depressiondrugs |
Locations: | englandhotel |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | window smashingbritish renaissancegroupiehippierock starriotfantasy sequencenonlinear timelinerock musicfiremale nuditysexblood |
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)
Subgenre: | rock musical |
Themes: | police brutalitydepressiondrugssurrealism |
Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | jukebox musicallootingmegaphoneanimated sequencehippiehammerriotsadnesscrossfantasy sequencetelevisionwatching tvfiretelephone callmale nudity β¦blood (See All) |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Themes: | poetrydeath of fatheradulterydrugs |
Locations: | los angeles californiacarhotelswimming pool |
Characters: | teachermother son relationship |
Story: | progressive rockgroupierock concertrock starloss of fatherrock musicwatching tvtelephone callsex |
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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanitydeath of fathersurrealism |
Mood: | avant gardenightmare |
Locations: | train |
Story: | phallusrock concertloss of fatherisolationcrossfantasy sequencepuppethallucinationfireflashbacksexblood |
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madl β¦y in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. (Read More)
Themes: | adulterydrugs |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | los angeles californiaswimming poolschool |
Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | cartoon on tvflowercrosscourttrialjudgenonlinear timelinecolor in titlewatching tvfiresexviolencebloodflashback |
The first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. 'Blue' is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, f β¦ree of personal commitments, belongings, grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie and draws her back to the land of the living. (Read More)
Themes: | griefadulterysurrealism |
Locations: | carswimming pool |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | ratcrosscourttrialjudgetelevisioncolor in titlecatwatching tvtelephone callsex |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has β¦fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanitydeath of fatherrapesurrealism |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | hotelschool |
Characters: | self mutilationteachermother son relationship |
Story: | brickwormcrossracial slurnonlinear timelinetelevisionfiretelephone callbloodflashbackviolence |
The Beatles--the world's most famous rock and roll band--travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul's unconventional grandfather from various misadventures and drummer Ringo goes missing just before the crucial concert β¦. (Read More)
Subgenre: | rock musicalcult film |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | englandhoteltrain |
Story: | backstagerock concertrock starshavingtelevisionrock music |
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to β¦ create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mock-up of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counselling him. His second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years β¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | griefinsanitydepressiondeath of fatheradulterysurrealism |
Mood: | avant garde |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | remote controldestructionshavingratsadnessfantasy sequencenonlinear timelinewatching tvfiremale nudityviolencesexblood |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me β¦dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police brutalityinsanitydeath of fatherrapesurrealism |
Mood: | nightmaregore |
Characters: | self mutilationhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | traumatic childhoodscorpionanimated sequencepart animationriotfantasy sequencetelevisionhallucinationfiresexflashbackviolenceblood |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his β¦ mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity. (Read More)
Themes: | drugs |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | catholic churchhotelschool |
Characters: | teachermother son relationship |
Story: | angstcorporal punishmentskinheadbigotrycrosscourtprankfantasy sequenceracial slurhallucinationwatching tvtelephone callmale nuditysexblood |
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Archor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begi β¦ns to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drugssurrealism |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | car |
Story: | hallucinogenic drugmegaphonepsychedelichippiehammerflowerfantasy sequencehallucinationcatmale nudityflashbackblood |
Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly l β¦eads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. (Read More)
Themes: | insanitydrugs |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Story: | cartoon on tvanimated sequencehippieprankfantasy sequencewatching tvtelephone callmale nuditysexflashbackblood |
A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the β¦woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | griefinsanitydepressionsurrealism |
Mood: | avant gardegore |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | self mutilationhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | angstvery little dialoguesadnesshallucinationmale nudityflashbacksexbloodviolence |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and β¦disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police brutalityinsanitydepressiondeath of father |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | psychological tormentriotloss of fatherratsadnessisolationfantasy sequencetelevisionhallucinationmaskwatching tvfiretelephone callflashbackviolence β¦blood (See All) |
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 β¦ 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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police brutalityinsanityrapedrugssurrealism |
Mood: | avant garde |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | psychological tormentphallusanti socialprankfantasy sequencecolor in titlemaskcatmale nudityviolenceblood |
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: | poetrygriefadultery |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | los angeles californiacartrain |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | anti conformityhippieshavingflowerisolationnonlinear timelinewatching tvfiretelephone callmale nudityflashbacksexviolenceblood |
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar pr β¦odigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | los angeles californiaschool |
Characters: | teacher |
Story: | anti authoritygroupierock concertrock starrock musictelephone call |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl β¦e his affairs. (Read More)
Themes: | griefinsanitydeath of father |
Characters: | teacher |
Story: | remote controlloss of fathersadnessnonlinear timelinehallucinationwatching tvtelephone callflashbacksex |
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: | poetrygriefdeath of fatherwedding |
Locations: | hotelswimming pooltrain |
Characters: | teacherdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | hammerloss of fathercrossnonlinear timelinecatfiretelephone callflashbackblood |
Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and wa β¦ter and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | death of fatherdrugssurrealism |
Mood: | nightmaregore |
Locations: | carschooltrain |
Characters: | teacherdoctormother son relationship |
Story: | anti conformityanti authoritymegaphoneanimated sequencetelevisionhallucinationcatfiretelephone callviolencebloodflashback |
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mon β¦days, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherdrugs |
Locations: | cartrain |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | lootingrock concertrock starrattelevisionhallucinationrock musicwatching tvmale nuditybloodsexviolence |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto β¦p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatheradultery |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | cartoon on tvloss of fathercourttrialhallucinationwatching tvfiretelephone callflashbackviolenceblood |
Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot h β¦im, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | death of fatheradulterydrugssurrealism |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | doctormother son relationship |
Story: | psychedelicbackstageflowernonlinear timelinehallucinationfiretelephone callmale nuditysexflashbackviolenceblood |
David Wagner is a kid whose mind is stuck in the 1950s. He's addicted to a classic 50's sitcom television show called "Pleasantville". Pleasntville is a simple place, a place where all of its citizens are swell and simple-minded folks, a place where the word "violence", and life outside of Pleasantv β¦ille, is unbeknown to its inhabitants; things are perfect down in Pleasantville. One evening, the life of David and his obnoxious sister Jennifer take a bizarre turn when an eccentric repairman hand them a supposed magical remote. After a quarrel between the siblings, they inexplicably zap themselves into the world of "Pleasantville". Now, David and Jennifer must adjust to a 50s lifestyle of repressed desires and considerably different societal values while trying to find their way home. (Read More)
Characters: | teacherdoctormother son relationship |
Story: | conformitybigotryremote controlflowercourttelevisioncatwatching tvfiresexviolence |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanityadulterysurrealism |
Mood: | avant gardegore |
Locations: | los angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | megaphonenonlinear timelinetelevisionwatching tvtelephone callbloodflashbackviolencesex |
Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "S β¦hining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanitysurrealism |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | teacherdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | cartoon on tvisolationracial slurhallucinationblood |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police brutalitydeath of fatherdrugs |
Mood: | nightmaregore |
Locations: | los angeles californiacarschool |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | loss of fatherracial slurwatching tvviolencebloodflashback |
The outcast teenager Carrie White is bullied by her classmates at high school. Her mother, Margaret White, is a pious and paranoid woman that sees sin everywhere and the need of self-inflicting punishment. When Carrie has her first period, she does not understand what is happening to her and her cla β¦ssmates humiliate her in the changing room. The spiteful Chris Hargensen videotapes Carrie with her cell phone and posts it on the Internet. Their teacher Ms. Desjardin punishes the students, but when Chris challenges her, she is suspended and consequently is banned from the prom. Meanwhile, Carrie discovers that she has telekinesis and learns how to control her ability. Sue Snell, one of the girls that tormented Carrie, feels bad and asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to invite Carrie to go with him to the prom to make up for what she did to Carrie. But Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan plot an evil prank with her friends to seek vengeance for Carrie. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrydepressionrapesurrealism |
Mood: | nightmaregore |
Locations: | carswimming poolschool |
Characters: | self mutilationteacherdoctor |
Story: | destructionsadnesscrossprankfirebloodviolence |
Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only on β¦e who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanitydepressionrape |
Mood: | nightmaregore |
Locations: | carswimming pool |
Characters: | doctormother son relationship |
Story: | midnight movieanimated sequenceplaygroundfantasy sequencehallucinationwatching tvtelephone callviolencesexbloodflashback |
Unable to cope with reality and the difficulty that comes with it, 18 year old Susanna, is admitted to a mental institution in order to overcome her disorder. However, she has trouble understanding her disorder and therefore finds it difficult to tame, especially when she meets the suggestive and un β¦predictable Lisa. (Read More)
Themes: | insanityadulterydrugs |
Characters: | self mutilationdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | hippieshavingracial slurtelevisioncatmale nuditysex |
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: | depressionrapedrugs |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | schooltrain |
Characters: | teachermother son relationship |
Story: | wormremote controlcourttrialhallucinationwatching tvtelephone callmale nudityviolenceflashbackblood |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor β¦mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Themes: | poetrywedding |
Locations: | hotelswimming pooltrain |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | animated sequencepart animationrattrialjudgenonlinear timelinecattelephone callmale nudityviolenceflashbackbloodsex |
This is England: Mods, New Romantics, and Skinheads are the major youth sub-cultures of this very English summer of 1983 and young 12-year-old Shaun is left wandering aimlessly alone and lost during the start of his school holidays, until his chance meeting with Woody and his fun and friendly Skinhe β¦ad pack. Finding a new lease of life; girls, parties, Ben Sherman shirts, Doc Martin boots and shaven hairstyles young Shaun is welcomed, life during this summer holiday has got a whole lot better. That is until Combo arrives on the scene bitter, dangerous, racist, militant and psychotic life for young Shaun has just approached his first major crossroads. This is England is a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life through the eyes of young Shaun and his new gang, and dealing with the bitterness of outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War; Thatcher's Britain: Did we ever have it so good? When you see Shaun, ask Him. (Read More)
Themes: | death of father |
Locations: | englandswimming poolschool |
Characters: | teachermother son relationship |
Story: | corporal punishmentneo naziskinheadracial slurwatching tvtelephone callmale nudityviolenceblood |
Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but alon β¦g with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanitydrugs |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | doctormother son relationship |
Story: | hallucinogenic drugpsychological tormentangstsadnessracial slurtelevisionhallucinationwatching tvmale nudity |
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)
Themes: | drugs |
Locations: | los angeles californiaswimming pool |
Characters: | teacher |
Story: | playgroundfantasy sequenceracial slurtrialjudgenonlinear timelinehallucinationwatching tvfirebloodviolenceflashbacksex |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al β¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitygriefdeath of fatherweddingadulteryrape |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | playgroundflowerratsadnessnonlinear timelinewatching tvtelephone callmale nudityviolencebloodflashback |
Erik is expelled from school for fighting. He ends up at a private boarding school where the senior students control the young ones. Erik finds a friend in Pierre, his room mate. The story revolves around Erik who just wishes to be left alone and graduate. He doesn't listen to what the seniors have β¦to say and they don't like it. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | death of fathersurrealism |
Locations: | swimming poolschooltrain |
Characters: | teachermother son relationship |
Story: | conformitycorporal punishmentrattelephone callmale nuditysexviolenceblood |
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: | griefinsanitydepressiondeath of father |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | overprotective mothersadnessjudgewatching tvtelephone callviolenceflashbacksex |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i β¦mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitydeath of father |
Locations: | england |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | british renaissancehippieriottrialjudgenonlinear timelinemale nudityviolence |
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates a β¦nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police brutalityrapesurrealism |
Locations: | los angeles californiahotelswimming pooltrain |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | riotracial slurtelevisionfirebloodflashbackviolencesex |
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that co β¦mmitted acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | death of fatherrape |
Locations: | los angeles californiacar |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | anti fascismneo naziskinheadbigotrybulletracial slurmale nudityflashbackviolenceblood |
It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to β¦ tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. (Read More)
Themes: | griefdepression |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | los angeles californiacar |
Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | scorpionbulletshavingflowerisolationfantasy sequencewatching tvtelephone callmale nuditybloodflashback |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only β¦companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanity |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | self mutilationdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | animated sequenceremote controlhammerfantasy sequencetelevisionhallucinationwatching tvtelephone callviolenceflashbackblood |
In Harlem, 1987. Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is an illiterate, overweight black girl. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see oth β¦erwise. Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch television and collect welfare through fraud (as she doesn't ever look for a job) and believes that education does nothing for Precious, who she would rather also collect welfare if only to bring money into the household. To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school. In dealing with the school's sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain, Precious begins to believe that she can have a future by learning how to read and write. Despite some devastating news from her mother following the birth of her child, Precious also begins to believe she can escape the grips of her abusive mother, who, up to this point, was Precious' only real support. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherrape |
Locations: | hotelswimming poolschool |
Characters: | teachermother son relationship |
Story: | remote controlcrossfantasy sequencetelevisioncatwatching tvflashbackviolence |
Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier TV series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and his partner Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) into the murder of night-shift waitress Teresa Banks in the small Washing β¦ton state town of Deer Meadow. When Desmond finds a mysterious clue to the murder, he inexplicably disappears. The film then cuts to one year later in the nearby town of Twin Peaks and follows the events during the last week in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) a troubled teenage girl with two boyfriends; the hot-tempered rebel Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and quiet biker James Hurley (James Marshall), her drug addiction, and her relationship with her difficult (and possible schizophrenic) father Leland (Ray Wise), a story in which her violent murder was later to motivate much of the TV series. Contains a considerable amount of sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | rapedrugssurrealism |
Mood: | avant gardegore |
Story: | television smashingsadnessnonlinear timelinehallucinationfiretelephone callsexviolenceblood |
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | adulterydrugs |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | conformitylootingbigotryriotracial slurmale nudityviolenceblood |
Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the three Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the ga β¦ng's mastermind, remains on the loose and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley's proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police brutalitypoetryrape |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | gallowsvery little dialoguebigotrycrossracial slurfireviolenceblood |