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An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love life β¦ and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who have been angered by his forthright opinions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | jewish americancolleague colleague relationshipex husband ex wife relationshipemployer employee relationshiphostage |
Story: | suspicious packagehate speechhate maildallas texasradio station managerradio call in showradio producerradio phone inradio studioradio show hostradio talk showradio programradio hosttalk radioradio broadcast β¦radio djradio stationtelephone conversationtelephone callcharacter is recognized by a member of the publicreference to national enquirerdeath of main characterthrowing a drink in someone's facebeing asked for an autographcaught cheating on wifethrowing a drink on someonehanging up on someonereflection in a windowfemale assistantreference to the bee geesends with deathreference to lucille ballcorporate controlreference to larry kinghaving picture takenmental issuesreference to keith richardsmetal headselling outcamera flashnight jobreference to princeprovocativeracial humorcritique of capitalismreference to ted bundyshock jockreference to bruce springsteenreference to the holocauststicking out one's tonguecrankcry for helpbooingloudmouthreference to the vietnam warreference to mick jaggergiving the fingerrantbomb threatparanoidmale with long hairreference to charles mansonanonymitypepsi coladead ratsingle locationcoworker relationshipnazi flagneo nazismclose up of mouthintrospectionconspiracy theoristheadsetstore clerkantiheroclothing storefreedom of speechmain character shotpackagenight timedialogue driventailorriskactress shares first name with charactercinema veritebased on real personn wordstrong languagekiss on the lipsreference to the beatlesneo naziname callingparking lotdeath of protagonistethnic slurdeath threatco workerheadphoneshatredfancheating husbandrapistwomanizeraudienceshot in the stomachreference to adolf hitlerhatelove interesttragic eventactor shares first name with characterracial slurcontroversyradiotelephoneshot to deathbased on playbased on true storytitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingbased on noveltwo word titleflashback (See All) |
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiphostage |
Story: | radio stationreference to mick jaggermain character shotdeath threatheadphonesfantragic eventradioshot to deathbased on novel |
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)
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Characters: | jewish american |
Story: | n wordstrong languageneo naziethnic slurdeath threathatredreference to adolf hitlerhateracial slurcontroversyshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingflashback |
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when β¦ let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965 and dies a Muslim martyr. (Read More)
Themes: | racismdeathmurder |
Story: | main character shotdeath of protagonistdeath threathatredhatetragic eventracial slurcontroversyshot to deathtitle spoken by charactertwo word titleflashback |
After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Dejected and remorseful, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Parry, a former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. The β¦DJ seeks redemption by helping Parry in his quest to recover an item that he believes is the Holy Grail and to win the heart of the woman he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | radio phone inradio show hostradio hosttalk radioshock jockreference to adolf hitlertragic eventradiotitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingflashback |
Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970's college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving β¦ husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio. (Read More)
Story: | talk radioradio djshock jockreference to the beatlesaudienceracial slurcontroversyradiobased on true storytwo word titlebased on novel |
John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Rick β¦y is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationship |
Story: | conspiracy theoristn wordethnic slurdeath threathatredhatetragic eventracial slurtelephoneshot to deathcigarette smoking |
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | telephone conversationtelephone callnazi flagethnic slurdeath threatracial slurtelephoneshot to deathbased on noveltwo word title |
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ens β¦uing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest, and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (Read More)
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiphostage |
Story: | telephone callends with deathkiss on the lipsethnic slurtragic eventracial slurtelephoneshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' m β¦erry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Story: | telephone callneo nazismneo naziracial slurcontroversytelephonecigarette smokingtwo word title |
Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss, Joe Cabot, to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with the intention that they won't get too close and will concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is β¦ going to be a success. But, when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members, and two of them are killed in the subsequent shootout, along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | deathmurder |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | radio djn wordstrong languagedeath of protagonistshot in the stomachracial slurcontroversyshot to deathcigarette smokingtwo word titleflashback |
David Kirmani,a medical professional, lives in an apartment with his sweetheart, Erica Bain, a radio host, and his dog. They usually take the dog out for a stroll in nearby Central Park and let him run and fetch. One day while at the park they let the dog run without a leash, and when he does not re β¦turn or respond to their calls, they frantically search for him. They eventually find him being held by three men who want a reward. When David refuses, they start to molest Erica and David intervenes. Two of the men assault the couple, while the third uses a camcorder to film this incident. Erica is knocked unconscious, and regains her senses several days later in a hospital. She is told the shocking news that David was killed and the dog is missing. A traumatized Erica returns home to try and regain her life. She also visits the police station but does not get much help. Fearful of a repeat of this type of incident, she gets an unlicensed gun and carries it with her all the time. One day she witnesses some youths terrorizing subway passengers, forcing them to get off at the next station. When they approach her, she shoots them dead. She uses her gun several more times, always gunning down people committing violent crimes. One day she is summoned to the police station to identify a man who may have been responsible for David's death and the assault on herself. She does recognize him, but refuses to identify him. Subsequently she finds out his whereabouts and plans to avenge her loβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationship |
Story: | radio call in showradio phone inradio talk showradio hostradio stationtelephone callradioshot to deathcigarette smokingflashback |
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of β¦ one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of associate Shelly Barnes, an FBI agent, his friend Frank Parks, and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigates some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand. (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Story: | suspicious packagetelephone callreference to ted bundycry for helpbomb threatpackagedeath threatrapistshot to deathtitle spoken by characterflashback |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationship |
Story: | dallas texastelephone callshot in the stomachhatetelephoneshot to deathbased on playtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word title |
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfi β¦eld pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Story: | radio talk showtelephone callcry for helppackageethnic slurracial slurtelephonebased on true storytitle spoken by characterflashback |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | main character shotethnic slurshot in the stomachlove interestracial slurtelephoneshot to deathcigarette smoking |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston β¦police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a speβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | racismdeathmurder |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | telephone calltailorn wordethnic slurhatredreference to adolf hitlerlove interesttragic eventracial slurtelephoneshot to deathcigarette smokingbased on novel |
A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders' home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the help of Munna's sidekick, Circuit, while Munna is busy β¦romancing Jahnvi elsewhere. Munna, who is now masquerading as a Professor specializing in the life of Mahatma Gandhi, must now battle his very own forces and the builder - but he has one ally on his side - none other than the great man - Mahatma Gandhi himself. Only trouble is that Munna may have problems convincing everyone about this presence - as he is apparently is the only one who can see and hear him. (Read More)
Story: | radio show hostradio hostradio stationtelephone callradiotelephone |
This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans an β¦d Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something that is part of his life and sees it as a part of the community. What begins as a simple complaint by one of his customers, Buggin Out - who wonders why he has only pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall when most of his customers are black - eventually disintegrates into violence as frustration seemingly brings out the worst in everyone. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Story: | reference to princeheadphoneshatetragic eventracial slurcontroversyradiotitle spoken by character |
1983. Tom Highway is a well-decorated career military man in the United States Marine Corps, he who has seen action in Korea and Vietnam. His current rank is Gunnery Sergeant. His experiences have led him to become an opinionated, no nonsense man, who is prone to bursts of violence, especially when β¦he's drunk, if the situation does not suit him, regardless of the specifics or people involved. Because of these actions, he has spent his fair share of overnighters behind bars. Close to retirement, one of his last assignments, one he requested, is back at his old unit at Cherry Point, North Carolina, from where he was transferred for insubordination. He is to train a reconnaissance platoon. His superior officer, the much younger and combat inexperienced Major Malcolm Powers, sees Highway as a relic of an old styled military. Highway's commanding officer, Lieutenant Ring, the platoon leader, is also a younger man who has no combat experience, but is academically inclined and happy-go-lucky. Highway finds that his team is a rag-tag bunch of slackers, who includes wannabe rock musician Stitch Jones, with who Highway had an inauspicious earlier meeting. The men in the platoon, who truly believe Highway is crazy, hate him, and don't understand why they have to follow his harsh training regimen when the United States is not currently at war. The major, who is all about efficiency regardless of combat readiness, has the same views of Highway. He is clear that he sees Highway's platoon sβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshiphostage |
Story: | telephone callreference to the vietnam wargiving the fingerethnic slurhatredhateracial slurradioshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word title |
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 19 β¦72 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood. (Read More)
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | tailorn worddeath of protagonistethnic slurtragic eventracial slurtelephoneshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word title |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately β¦try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Story: | telephone callhatredrapistaudiencereference to adolf hitlershot to deathbased on true storytitle spoken by characterflashback |
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of running a n β¦ightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world of violence and mistrust. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | main character shotdeath of protagonistethnic slurlove interesttragic eventracial slurshot to deathbased on novelflashback |
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: | murderdeath |
Story: | n wordethnic slurhatredhateracial slurcontroversyshot to deathcigarette smokingflashback |
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: | texas |
Story: | radio broadcasttelephone calln wordaudienceradiobased on true story |
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas β¦ for the two unlikely lovers. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismdeath |
Story: | packagehatetragic eventracial slurcontroversycigarette smokingtwo word title |
Disc jockey Dave Garver attracts the amorous attentions of a demented fan named Evelyn Draper. Evelyn lets Dave pick her up at a bar; later at her apartment Evelyn admits that she is the cooing caller who repeatedly asks Dave to play the Erroll Garner classic "Misty." From then on, the film is a les β¦son in how one casual date can turn your whole life around. Evelyn stalks Dave everywhere, ruins his business lunch, assaults his maid, mutilates his house and all of his belongings, and finally threatens to butcher his girlfriend Tobie Williams. You'll never be able to hear that song again without looking over your shoulder. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | colleague colleague relationship |
Story: | radio stationtelephone callfanwomanizerradiotitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingflashback |
In Los Angeles, a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D. detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrup β¦t. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a 24-hour period. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | main character shotn wordrapistaudienceshot in the stomachracial slurshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word title |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callrapistreference to adolf hitlerhatecigarette smokingflashback |
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | deathmurder |
Characters: | jewish american |
Story: | reference to ted bundyethnic slurheadphoneshatredrapistracial slurcontroversytelephoneshot to deathcigarette smokingtwo word titlebased on novel |
"The Believer" explores a Jewish student's private journey to understand the meaning of Judaism in his life. Set in New York City, the Plot follows a morally confused young adult struggling with the conflict between his beliefs and his heritage. "The Believer" examines themes of religion, family, an β¦d self-loathing. It is a psychological examination into the forces of intolerance, both on the individual and society as a whole. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Story: | neo nazihatredreference to adolf hitlerhateracial slurbased on true storyflashback |
Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up th β¦rough the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Story: | ethnic slurdeath threatshot in the stomachtragic eventactor shares first name with characterracial slurbased on true storytitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingbased on novel |
This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Ev β¦e, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn't been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to T, their beautiful 4 year old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come easy. He crosses paths with friends, family, and strangers, each exchange showing us that there is much more to Oscar than meets the eye. But it would be his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the entire nation to be witnesses to the story of Oscar Grant. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Story: | telephone calln worddeath of protagonisttragic eventracial slurtelephonebased on true storytitle spoken by charactertwo word titleflashback |
1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased β¦gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | main character shotdeath of protagonistethnic slurhatredreference to adolf hitlershot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to beco β¦me one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | deathmurder |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshiphostage |
Story: | conspiracy theoristethnic slurshot in the stomachracial slurshot to deathbased on true storytitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word titleflashback |
Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
Themes: | racismdeath |
Story: | n wordhatredhateracial slurshot to deathbased on true story |
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship β¦deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | telephone callends with deathcinema veritetragic eventcontroversytelephone |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just β¦when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Story: | telephone callstrong languagename callingparking lotethnic slurdeath threatheadphoneslove interestracial slurtelephoneshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word titleflashback |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh β¦ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshiphostage |
Story: | hatredrapistshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (an infamous bounty β¦ hunter) and Chris Mannix (a man who claims to be Red Rock's new sheriff). Lost in a blizzard, the bunch seeks refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery. When they arrive they are greeted by unfamiliar faces: Bob, who claims to be taking care of the place while Minnie is gone; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; Joe Gage, a cow puncher; and confederate general Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travelers come to learn that they might not make it to Red Rock after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismdeathmurder |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | n worddeath threatshot in the stomachhateracial slurshot to deathcigarette smokingflashback |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser β¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | telephone callmain character shotethnic slurhatredracial slurtelephoneshot to deathtitle spoken by characterflashback |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develo β¦ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | telephone callheadsetn wordethnic slurhatredtragic eventracial slurshot to deathcigarette smokingtwo word titleflashback |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M β¦idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshiphostage |
Story: | ethnic slurdeath threatracial slurshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Story: | telephone callreference to ted bundyreference to the beatlesname callingwomanizertelephonetitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingflashback |
Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a ces β¦spool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew. (Read More)
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Story: | rantn wordethnic slurhateracial slurcontroversyshot to deathtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingtwo word title |
Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 1 β¦2 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple pie. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | neo nazismneo nazirapistreference to adolf hitlertragic eventracial slurtelephonecigarette smoking |
A German dentist buys the freedom of a slave and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of the slave's wife who belongs to a ruthless plantation owner.
Themes: | racismmurderdeath |
Locations: | texas |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | n wordethnic slurshot in the stomachracial slurshot to deathcigarette smokingtwo word titleflashback |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) β¦is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Story: | telephone conversationkiss on the lipsdeath threatcheating husbandtelephoneshot to deathbased on true storycigarette smokingtwo word titleflashback |
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Themes: | racismmurder |
Story: | n wordshot in the stomachracial slurshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbased on novelflashback |
A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of d β¦rugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Story: | radio talk showdeath threatracial slurcontroversytwo word title |