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Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive β¦ at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "chief protector of Aborigines," A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | wildernesshopetheftracismescapekidnapping |
Mood: | affectionhigh schoolrain |
Locations: | campfiretruckaustraliarural settingdeserttrain |
Characters: | australian aboriginalgrandmother granddaughter relationshipcousin cousin relationshipaustraliansingle mothersister sister relationshipbabynurseteenage girlmother daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | biracial childrabbit proof fencegirls' dormitorydomestic servantwestern australiaperth australiafreight trainstolen generationhalf castemother child reunionre educationchildren's homegovernment officialchicken coopracial injustice β¦social criticismseparation from familyconstablebreedingemotional abusetrackingcaged humanslide projectorodysseysettlerculturalclothes linetrackerbigotaboriginesocial injusticestreambiracialcolonialismlizardoutbackfenceaboriginalindigenousdormitoryphysical abusechildhood memoryranchcapturerainstormchild's point of viewmourningrailway stationcompassionservanthunterrace relationscageidentityrunawaywhippingjourneysearchbirdchild abusesurvivalsubjective cameraprayeranimal in titlehorsesongbased on bookcryingvoice over narrationbased on true storyshowerthree word titlesingingflashback (See All) |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count β¦ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Themes: | theftracismescapekidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretruckaustraliadesert |
Characters: | australian aboriginalaustralianmother daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | biracial childtrackeroutbackaboriginaldormitoryranchrainstormmourningbirdchild abusehorsesongvoice over narrationsingingflashback |
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: | hopeescapekidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsingle mothernursepolice |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | chicken coopranchrailway stationcagesearchprayersongcryingvoice over narrationbased on true storyshowersingingflashback |
This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Themes: | racismescape |
Locations: | rural settingtrain |
Characters: | sister sister relationship |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | mother child reunionracial injusticeseparation from familyphysical abuserainstormrace relationssearchchild abuseprayerhorsevoice over narrationthree word title |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro β¦ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | racism |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | trucktrain |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabynurseteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | social criticismbiracialranchrailway stationservantrace relationssubjective cameraprayerhorsesongcryingsinging |
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | theft |
Locations: | australiadeserttrain |
Story: | western australiaperth australiaaborigineoutbackranchrace relationshorsecryingbased on true storysinging |
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.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | wilderness |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretruckrural settingdeserttrain |
Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | freight trainjourneysearchbirdprayerhorsebased on bookcryingvoice over narrationbased on true storyshowerthree word titlesingingflashback |
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forc β¦ed to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiredesert |
Story: | separation from familytrackingrainstormhunterwhippingjourneysearchbirdhorsecryingvoice over narration |
In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he's captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon's flight and C β¦arver's hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls? (Read More)
Themes: | wildernesstheftescape |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiredeserttrain |
Characters: | babyteenage girl |
Story: | trackingtrackersearchsurvivalsubjective cameraprayerhorsecryingflashback |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, β¦not the answering of them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | australiarural setting |
Characters: | teenage girlpolice |
Story: | constableaboriginestreamlizardservantjourneysearchbirdprayerhorsesongcryingvoice over narrationsingingflashback |
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Cres β¦t Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthen, and ultimately heals her. (Read More)
Themes: | wildernesshope |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiredesert |
Characters: | single mothernursemother daughter relationship |
Story: | streamhunterjourneyprayerhorsebased on bookcryingbased on true storyshowersingingflashback |
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: | independent film |
Themes: | racism |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfireaustralia |
Characters: | australian aboriginal |
Story: | trackeraboriginecapturecagewhippingsearchprayerhorsesongcryingsinging |
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series β¦of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find." (Read More)
Themes: | theftracismescape |
Locations: | campfirerural settingtrain |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipbabypolice |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | racial injusticewhippingjourneysearchprayercryingsinging |
New England, 1630: William and Katherine try to lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a β¦ family unraveling within their own sins, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | wildernesskidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfirerural setting |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabyteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | searchsubjective cameraprayerhorsesongcryingsinging |
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)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | fencechild's point of viewservantsearchsubjective cameraprayersongcryingshowersinging |
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese β¦ airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. (Read More)
Themes: | theftracismescape |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | nurse |
Story: | separation from familycolonialismdormitorycapturechild's point of viewrace relationssurvivalsongcryingbased on true storysinging |
While exploring g uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary fronjitiersman Hugh Glass sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home while avoiding natives on their own hunt. Grief-stricken and fuel β¦ed by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald, the former confidant who betrayed and abandoned him. (Read More)
Themes: | wildernessescapekidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfire |
Story: | trackerrainstormhuntersearchbirdsurvivalsubjective camerahorsebased on bookbased on true storyflashback |
Follows the life of 'Karen Blixen' (qv), who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
Locations: | campfiretrain |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | domestic servantcolonialismrailway stationhunterbased on bookvoice over narrationbased on true storysinging |
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: | kidnapping |
Locations: | campfiretruckdeserttrain |
Characters: | police |
Story: | freight trainranchcapturejourneyprayerhorse |
This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith.
Themes: | hopetheft |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfirerural settingtrain |
Characters: | babymother daughter relationship |
Story: | fencecapturebirdprayerhorsesingingflashback |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | hopetheft |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | babypolice |
Story: | lizardchildhood memorymourningjourneysearchchild abusesurvivalprayercryingvoice over narrationflashback |
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: | independent film |
Themes: | hopeescape |
Mood: | affectionhigh school |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsingle motherpolice |
Story: | rainstormsurvivalvoice over narrationthree word titleflashback |
Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labor of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the movie) β¦ they find employment on a farm in the Texas panhandle. When the harvest is over the young, rich and handsome farmer invites them to stay because he has fallen in love with Abby. When Bill and Abby discover that the farmer is seriously ill and has only got a year left to live they decide that Abby will accept his wedding proposal in order to make some benefit out of the situation. When the expected death fails to come, jealousy and impatience are slowly setting in and accidents become eventually inevitable. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | campfirerural settingtrain |
Characters: | police |
Story: | freight trainranchchild's point of viewrailway stationrunawaysurvivalhorsevoice over narrationthree word title |
When two pre-teens named Hallie and Annie meet through their summer camp, their two lives are rattled when they realize that they are identical twins. With parents, British mother aka famous dress designer Elizabeth and American father, a wine maker named Nick, living in two different sides of the u β¦niverse, the girls decide to make an identity swap in hopes of spending time with their other parent. The girls later choose to aware their guardians of the swap while at a hotel in NYC, which late reunites the divorced pair and sends them back into remarriage with each other. (Read More)
Characters: | single mothersister sister relationshipteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | lizardchild's point of viewservantidentitybirdhorsebased on bookthree word title |
A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.
Locations: | truckrural setting |
Characters: | nurseteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | ranchanimal in titlehorse |
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newport's ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives, who have no personal property concept, turn hostile after a 'theft' is 'punished' violently on the spot. During an arm β¦ed exploration, Smith is captured, but spared when the chief's favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads for the stranger who soon becomes her lover and learns to love their naive 'savage' way of harmonious life. Ultimately he returns to the grim fort, which would starve hadn't she arranged for Indian generosity. Alas, each side soon brands their own lover a traitor, so she is banished and he flogged as introduction to slavish toiling. Changes turn again, leading Smith to accept a northern-more mission and anglicized Pocahontas, believing him dead, becoming the mother of aristocratic new lover John Rolfe's son. They'll meet again for a finale in England. (Read More)
Themes: | theft |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | separation from familysettlercapturerainstormwhippingbirdprayercryingvoice over narrationbased on true storythree word title |
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity β¦works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina. (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | teenage girl |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | mourningrailway stationprayerhorsesongcryingvoice over narrationshowersinging |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Themes: | theft |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | trucktrain |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | birdsurvivalhorsesongcryingvoice over narrationbased on true storythree word titlesingingflashback |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s β¦eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
Themes: | racism |
Locations: | trucktrain |
Characters: | teenage girl |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | railway stationrace relationsjourneyprayerhorsesongbased on true storythree word titlesinging |
'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Themes: | theftescape |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfire |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | journeysearchhorsesongcryingvoice over narrationsingingflashback |
Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boy β¦friend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing. (Read More)
Themes: | theft |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | single mothersister sister relationshipteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | clothes linefencechild abusesubjective cameraanimal in titlehorsecryingsinging |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta β¦y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and diβ¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | theftescape |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretruckdeserttrain |
Characters: | nurse |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | colonialismcapturecompassionsubjective cameraprayersongcryingshowersingingflashback |
Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant 'T.E. Lawrence' (qv) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his s β¦uperior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port. (Read More)
Locations: | campfiretruckdeserttrain |
Characters: | nurse |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | servantjourneysubjective camerahorsesongcryingbased on true storysingingflashback |
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and β¦ the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. (Read More)
Themes: | hopeescapekidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiredesert |
Characters: | baby |
Story: | capturecagewhippingjourneysurvivalsubjective camerahorseflashback |
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hi β¦de Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter. (Read More)
Themes: | hopetheft |
Locations: | truckrural setting |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipbabymother daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | physical abuseservantwhippingchild abusesongcryingvoice over narrationsinging |
Themes: | hopeescape |
Locations: | campfiredesert |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
Story: | separation from familyrainstormcompassionwhippinghorsevoice over narrationflashback |
The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific β¦establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide de camp returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925. (Read More)
Themes: | racism |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretrucktrain |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
Story: | separation from familyindigenousjourneybirdsubjective camerahorsesongbased on bookbased on true storysingingflashback |
The teenager Sarah is forced by her father and her stepmother to babysit her baby brother Toby while they are outside home. Toby does not stop crying and Sarah wishes that her brother be taken by the Goblin King. Out of the blue, Toby stops crying and when Sarah looks for him in the cradle, she lear β¦ns that he wish was granted and the Goblin King Jarethhas taken him to his castle in the Goblin City in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah repents an asks Jareth to give Toby back; but the Goblin King tells that she has to rescue her brother before midnight, otherwise Toby will be turned into a goblin. Soon Sarah teams up with the coward goblin Hoggle, the beast Ludo and the knight Didymus and his dog Ambrosius in her journey. Will they rescue Toby in time? (Read More)
Themes: | kidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfire |
Characters: | babyteenage girl |
Story: | journeysearchchild abusesubjective camerasongcryingsinging |
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John ('Christian Bale' (qv)) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he fin β¦ds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretruck |
Characters: | teenage girl |
Story: | dormitorysurvivalsubjective cameraprayerhorsesongcryingvoice over narrationbased on true storysingingflashback |
Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 day β¦s of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go? (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | truckdeserttrain |
Characters: | babynurse |
Story: | dormitorysubjective cameraprayerhorsesongcryingvoice over narrationshowersingingflashback |
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: | racismescape |
Mood: | high school |
Characters: | nurseteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | physical abusechild abusebased on bookcryingvoice over narrationbased on true story |
After The Ruin, a colorless equalitarian society is formed without memories and everyone follows rules established by the Chief Elder and the Elders. The population uses drugs to stay happy and on the day of the graduation, the teenagers leave their childhood and are assigned to a career chosen by t β¦he Elders. Jonas lives with his parents and has two best friends, Fiona and Asher, and he feels different from his friends. He is assigned to be the Receiver of Memories and he is trained by his mentor, The Giver, who gives memories of the world before The Ruin. Jonas learns emotions such as love and fear and the concept of family. When he discovers that the baby Gabriel that he loves as a brother will be eliminated, he decides to change his society but the Chief Elder will do anything to stop him. (Read More)
Locations: | campfirerural settingdesert |
Characters: | babyteenage girl |
Story: | hunterjourneysearchbirdcryingvoice over narrationsingingflashback |
The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate jo β¦urney to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth. (Read More)
Themes: | hoperacismescapekidnapping |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsingle motherbabypolice |
Story: | compassioncagejourneysurvivalcryingsinging |
The story revolves around Nishimiya Shoko, a grade school student who has impaired hearing. She transfers into a new school, where she is bullied by her classmates, especially Ishida Shouya. It gets to the point where she transfers to another school and as a result, Shouya is ostracized and bullied β¦himself, with no friends to speak to and no plans for the future. Years later, he sets himself on a path to redemption. (Read More)
Mood: | high schoolrain |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipsingle mothersister sister relationshipteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | biracial childvoice over narrationthree word title |
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, 'Solomon Northup' (qv), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty personified by a malevolent slave owner, as well as unexpected kindness β¦es, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life. (Read More)
Themes: | racismkidnapping |
Story: | separation from familyodysseysocial injusticephysical abusewhippingsurvivalbased on true story |
Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets a β¦bout living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind... (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | trucktrain |
Characters: | babynursemother daughter relationship |
Story: | mourningservantsearchsubjective camerasongcryingvoice over narrationsingingflashback |
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | single motherteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | biracial childbiracialchildhood memoryhorsecryingsinging |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous β¦in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
Themes: | theft |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsister sister relationshipbabynurseteenage girlmother daughter relationship |
Story: | fencecapturemourningrailway stationservantprayerhorsesongcryingsinging |
"But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity." Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay Madame Zeroni. From then on his family was cursed with bad luck. One hundred years later Stanley Yelnats β¦IV is accused of stealing a pair of cleats from a major league baseball player and sent to Camp Green Lake (a dry lake bed in the middle of the desert). It never rains at Camp Green Lake, it hasn't for one hundred years. The secretive and mysterious Warden has each inmate spend every day digging one hole to "build character." But when an artifact from the famous "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they're digging because the Warden is looking for something. But what? And how is the mystery of Camp Green Lake connected to Stanley's family curse? (Read More)
Themes: | theftracismescape |
Mood: | high school |
Locations: | deserttrain |
Characters: | police |
Story: | lizarddormitorycapturerainstormhorseshowerflashback |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Themes: | hope |
Locations: | campfireaustraliatrain |
Characters: | australiannursemother daughter relationship |
Story: | mourningprayerhorsesongcryingbased on true storyshowerthree word titlesingingflashback |