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Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Subgenre: | family tragedymelodrama |
Themes: | break updysfunctional familycancerparanoiaextramarital affairangerweddingescapedrunkennesspregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelove …friendshipdeath (See All) |
Mood: | wedding nighttearjerkermoving |
Locations: | swimming poolairporthotelrestaurantbeachnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | mother in law son in law relationshipgrandmother grandson relationshipprofessorsingle motherbabyteacherbrother brother relationshipchildrendoctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
Story: | lincoln nebraskadinner partybirthday partyrenoir paintingdes moines iowacystsuffocatingmedical treatmentvaccinationpossessivenessgrocery shoppingsmotheringrebellious daughterspit takedying young …cribnebraskanecktietumorsuitordeathbedopposites attracthouston texaschick flickfamous scorewakedomineering motherbankerdrunkardbachelorbrooklyn bridgeloss of daughterrestroomparenthoodcafeteriaworld trade center manhattan new york cityreckless drivingseparationhousekeeperastronauthousewifecompassionwomanizerloss of wifeblockbusterpot smokingsupermarketterminal illnessflirtingpremarital sexloss of motherloss of fatherdateconvertibleprologuewidowwomanswimmingmanhattan new york cityneighborcollegemarijuanaface slapcar accidentfondlingpartybased on novelsex (See All) |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi …m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | break updysfunctional familyextramarital affairweddingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | swimming poolairporthotel |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | birthday partyfamous scorehousewifeblockbusterdateconvertiblewomancollegeface slappartybased on novel |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri …ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | extramarital affairdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathfriendship |
Locations: | restaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | single motherbabydoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday partybrooklyn bridgewomanizerpot smokingflirtingpremarital sexwidowwomanmanhattan new york citymarijuanaparty |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathlove |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | mother in law son in law relationshipprofessorsingle motherbrother brother relationshipdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | suitorfamous scoreblockbusterpremarital sexloss of motherwidowface slapbased on novel |
The story of Ray Charles, music legend. Told in his adult live with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood which included losing his brother and then his sight, his rise as pianist in a touring band, his writing his own songs and running his own band an …d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairweddingdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathlove |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelbeachhospital |
Characters: | single motherbabybrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
Story: | birthday partyhouston texaspot smokingpremarital sexloss of mothermanhattan new york citymarijuanasex |
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 …ss two generations. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | weddingdrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendshipdeathlove |
Locations: | swimming poolairporthotelrestauranthospital |
Characters: | mother in law son in law relationshipgrandmother grandson relationshipbabychildrendoctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | birthday partyfamous scorewakeblockbusterconvertibleswimmingneighborpartybased on novel |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo …idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | weddingescapepregnancymarriagelovefriendship |
Mood: | tearjerker |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | birthday partychick flickloss of wifepremarital sexloss of motherloss of fatherdateface slapcar accidentpartybased on novel |
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | dysfunctional familyangerescapedrunkennessjealousydeathfriendshiplove |
Locations: | airporthotelnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfriendfamily relationships |
Period: | 1950s1940s1960s |
Story: | birthday partyfamous scorewakeblockbusterloss of motherwomanfondlingpartybased on novel |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con …vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | extramarital affairangerdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | swimming poolrestauranthospital |
Characters: | professorteacherdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | dinner partybirthday partywakeloss of daughterhousewifewidowswimmingface slapcar accidentfondlingparty |
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harr …owing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaangerweddingmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | professorbabyteacherdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
Story: | necktiefamous scoreblockbusterflirtingwomancollegeface slapparty |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairweddingdrunkennessadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendshiplove |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | professorbabyteacherfriendmother daughter relationship |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | housewifewomanswimmingmanhattan new york citycollege |
Themes: | break upextramarital affairangerpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelrestauranthospital |
Characters: | teacherbrother brother relationshipdoctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | birthday partywomanizerpot smokingwomanmanhattan new york citycollegemarijuanasex |
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 …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: | melodrama |
Themes: | cancerparanoiaextramarital affairangerescapedrunkennessinfidelitymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | hotelrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | domineering motherloss of daughterloss of wifeterminal illnesswomancar accidentpartybased on novel |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Themes: | extramarital affairweddingdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Mood: | wedding night |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | bachelorworld trade center manhattan new york cityhousekeepercar accidentsex |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy … neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | break upcancerextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitylovefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | supermarketprologuewomanneighborparty |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, …who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
Themes: | drunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagelove |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelhospital |
Characters: | professorteacherdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1950s1940s |
Story: | reckless drivingdatewidowswimmingcollegeface slapcar accidentbased on novelsex |
Nineteen-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the club, thanks to his stylish moves on the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, Tony fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his fam …ily's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Nor can he find satisfaction at his dead-end job at a small paint store. However, things begin to change when he spies Stephanie Mangano in the disco and starts training with her for the club's dance competition. Stephanie dreams of the world beyond Brooklyn, and her plans to move to Manhattan just over the bridge soon change Tony's life forever. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | drunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagelovefriendship |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | new york cityhospital |
Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipbrother brother relationshipfriendmother son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | world trade center manhattan new york cityblockbusterpremarital sexmanhattan new york citymarijuanacar accidentsex |
Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will be over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spir …ited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairangerweddingdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | babyfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partycollegemarijuanacar accidentfondlingparty |
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 … 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)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | angerjealousymarriagefriendshipdeathlove |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | restaurantnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | mother in law son in law relationshipchildrenfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wakeloss of daughterworld trade center manhattan new york cityloss of wifemanhattan new york citycollegesex |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous …ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerpregnancyfriendship |
Locations: | hotelnew york city |
Characters: | single motherdoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1950s1940s |
Story: | birthday partyhousewifewomanpartybased on novel |
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps …it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyparanoiaextramarital affairangerweddingdrunkennessjealousylove |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1940s1960s |
Story: | manhattan new york city |
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 …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)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | dysfunctional familyparanoiaextramarital affairangerdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitylovedeathfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeach |
Characters: | single motherteacherfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | domineering mothercompassionpremarital sexswimmingpartybased on novelsex |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | drunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagefriendshiplovedeath |
Locations: | restaurantbeachnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | professorbabyteacherdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | opposites attractbachelorflirtingdatemanhattan new york citypartysex |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an …d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familycancerextramarital affairweddingadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelrestaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | doctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | tumordateswimmingsex |
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who … have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familycancerextramarital affairangerpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipbabyteacherbrother brother relationshipdoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of wifeloss of motherprologuewomanswimmingsex |
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new respo …nsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. (Read More)
Themes: | angermarriagefriendship |
Locations: | restaurantnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | single motherdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | birthday partyseparationblockbustersupermarketpremarital sexwomanmanhattan new york cityneighborbased on novel |
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked …out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents. (Read More)
Themes: | break upparanoiajealousymarriage |
Locations: | hotelbeachnew york city |
Characters: | doctor |
Period: | 1940s1960s1970s |
Story: | opposites attractreckless drivingflirtingpremarital sexdateconvertiblewomancar accidentsex |
Brian Wilson is the creative soul of the Beach Boys, but he paid a heavy price for his talent. That especially shows during his peak artistic years in the 1960s, as his inner demons and obsessions trying to please his abusive father drive him to a mental breakdown that would plague him for years. In … the 1980s, with Brian barely functional under the domination of the unscrupulous Dr. Landy, Brian meets and falls in love with Melinda Ledbetter. As their relationship grows, she observes Brian's crippling subservience to the abusive psychotherapist with growing alarm. Ultimately, she must take action with a love willing to stand up to oppression she cannot ignore. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaangermarriagefriendshiplovedeath |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeach |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipdoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1960s1970s |
Story: | housekeepercompassionpot smokingconvertibleprologuewomanswimmingmarijuanaface slapparty |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | dysfunctional familyparanoiaextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | restaurantnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | single motherbabybrother brother relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | cafeteriareckless drivingloss of mothermanhattan new york cityface slapcar accident |
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: | angerdrunkennessadulteryinfidelityfriendshiplove |
Locations: | swimming poolhotelnew york city |
Characters: | teacherfriendmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | domineering motherpot smokingpremarital sexloss of fatherprologueswimmingmarijuanapartysex |
John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. W …hen they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantbeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | housekeeperflirtingconvertiblewomancollegesex |
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.
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancymarriage |
Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipsingle motherbrother brother relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partyparenthoodblockbustercollegeparty |
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughte …r. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyparanoiadrunkennessinfidelityfriendshiplove |
Locations: | beachnew york city |
Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | world trade center manhattan new york citypot smokingpremarital sexprologueswimmingmanhattan new york citycollegemarijuanapartysex |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | drunkennessmarriagedeathfriendship |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | hotelbeach |
Characters: | mother in law son in law relationshipgrandmother grandson relationshipbabyteacherchildrendoctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | loss of wifeterminal illnessloss of motherwidow |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairweddingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | restaurantbeachnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | babyteacherdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | widowmanhattan new york citypartysex |
Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
Themes: | break upwedding |
Locations: | restaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipchildrendoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | parenthoodreckless drivingloss of wifeloss of motherprologuewoman |
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the … events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerextramarital affairweddingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendshipdeathlove |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | professordoctorfriendhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | womanizerswimmingfondlingbased on novelsex |
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 …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)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | angerweddingdrunkennesspregnancyjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeathfriendship |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babybrother brother relationshipdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | deathbedopposites attractfamous scoreblockbusterflirtingloss of motherloss of fatherwidowwomanface slappartybased on novel |
Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman's stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing … voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband's urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairangeradulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | professorteacherfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | blockbusterwomanneighborcollegecar accidentparty |
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts … his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairdrunkennesspregnancyadulterydeath |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | friendmother son relationship |
Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
Story: | dying youngdeathbedpremarital sexwomanswimmingmanhattan new york citycar accident |
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 …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: | extramarital affairangerlovedeath |
Locations: | hotelrestaurant |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
Story: | famous scorewakeloss of daughterrestroomloss of wifeblockbusterpremarital sexwidowwomanfondling |
'Erin Brockovich-Ellis' (qv) is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation … for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation. (Read More)
Themes: | cancermarriage |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | single motherbabydoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | necktietumorpot smokingterminal illnessprologuewomanneighbormarijuanacar accidentsex |
In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortes, the twenty-som …ething wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerextramarital affairangerweddingdrunkennessadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagedeathfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolairporthotelrestaurantbeach |
Characters: | doctorfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | pot smokingsupermarketterminal illnessswimmingcollegemarijuanafondlingsex |
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, then she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pur …suing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyextramarital affairadulterymarriagelove |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | opposites attractchick flickblockbusterwidowwomanface slap |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairweddingdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendshipdeath |
Locations: | hotelbeachhospital |
Characters: | babyfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthday partywidowswimmingneighborface slapsex |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | weddingdrunkennesspregnancymarriagefriendshipdeathlove |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | birthday partypot smokingloss of motherswimmingmanhattan new york cityneighborcollegemarijuanaparty |
In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan …, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin's closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin's increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairdrunkennesspregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathfriendship |
Locations: | swimming poolairporthospital |
Characters: | childrendoctorfriendhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | vaccinationprologueswimmingcar accidentpartysex |
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Conf …ronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagelove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | deathbedpot smokingloss of fatherconvertiblewidowmarijuanabased on novel |
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly …wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences. (Read More)
Subgenre: | family tragedy |
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
Story: | birthday partyhousekeeperblockbusterwidowcar accident |
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's p …lan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | professorteacherhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | cafeteriawomanizerblockbusterpot smokingsupermarketcollegemarijuanacar accidentpartysex |