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Three twisted tales from the seamy side of Scotland and the mind of Irvine Welsh. The Granton Star Cause: in the same day a young Leith lad is dumped by his football team, his girlfriend and his parents, arrested and beaten up by the police and turned into a fly by God, whom he meets in a pub. The S …oft Touch: a man is too soft to do anything when his wife moves in with the thug upstairs. The Acid House: while tripping on acid, Coco Bryce is struck by lightning, causing him to switch bodies with a newborn baby. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | police brutalityvengeanceunfaithfulnessdysfunctional familydrug usetheftextramarital affairdeceptionweddingdancedrunkennesstorturedrinkingpregnancyadultery …jealousyinfidelitymarriagesurrealismrevengelovemurder (See All) |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lustreference to godthiefbabydancerpolicemannurseprostitutebrother sister relationshipsingertattoodoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship …mother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice (See All) |
Story: | fly on the wallwedding cakewedding receptionmarriage engagementsmashing telephonehole in ceilingextension cordreference to dolly partonamyl nitratetriptychchild as adultacid the drugadult as childpregnant brideacid trip …lagerdepiction of godreference to friedrich nietzschewombembryoholding cellpsychedeliaphone bookobscenityscreenplay adapted by authormirror ballpublic phonehooliganbrother in lawbirthmarkbride and groomrebirthcrotch grabfisticuffswhite trashflylsdbreast feedingdefecationmusclemanabusive fatherbilliardsdelusionanimated sequenceinsectkaraokeplaygroundgrocery stores&msadomasochismvandalismflyingpot smokingsupermarkettwenty somethingpubchildbirthkicked in the facelightningpassionfired from the joblocker roomtransformationtoiletfootballambulanceconcertstrap on dildosoccermale pubic hairhallucinationhandcuffsneighborbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvslow motion sceneurinationfoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callshowersingingmale full frontal nuditydancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novelnudityfightflashbacksex (See All) |
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)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdysfunctional familytheftextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | thiefdancerpolicemanprostitutebrother sister relationshipdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | wedding cakewedding receptionmarriage engagementbride and groomfootballambulancesoccerbeerdrinkwatching tvtelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smokingfight …nuditysex (See All) |
After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug usedeceptiondancedrunkennessdrinkingmurderloverevenge |
Characters: | dancersingertattoo |
Story: | flyanimated sequencegrocery storesupermarketfired from the jobtoiletfootballsoccerbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvslow motion sceneurinationfood …underwearbeatingtelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smokingmale nuditynudityfightflashback (See All) |
Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later David is a wheelchair … basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. (Read More)
Themes: | vengeancedrug usetheftextramarital affairdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagemurderrevenge |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lustthiefbabypolicemannurseprostitutesingerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | childbirthtoiletsoccermale pubic hairdrinkwatching tvunderwearshowersingingmale full frontal nuditydancingfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novelfight |
Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry with Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working in the wedding preparations she meets Luce, wedding's florist, unexpectedly falling in love to her and discovering what is having love feeling to another woman. Unable to stop her Rachel me …ets Luce a few times hiding it to her family, specially her mother Tessa because she contracted Luce. At the same time that Heck tries to win the affection of his parents-in-law, above all the eccentric father-in-law Ned, Rachel tries following with the daily life and marriage with her husband, but the love and passion she feels for Luce causes a secret affair between both women, and a doubt in Rachel about the life she wants for herself. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagelove |
Characters: | babydancerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptionbride and groomgrocery storeplaygroundtwenty somethingpassiontoiletdrinkurinationfoodtelephone calldancingsex |
Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hand …s of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug useweddingdancedrunkennesstorturedrinkingpregnancymarriagemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | dancernurseprostitutesingerdoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | wedding cakewedding receptionbride and groomsupermarketlocker roomfootballmale pubic hairbeerdrinkwatching tvurinationunderwearbeatingtelephone callshower …singingmale full frontal nuditydancingmale nudityfight (See All) |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, … even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lustbabypolicemansingerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | breast feedingvandalismconcertbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvurinationunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been …behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and 'Charles Bronson,' his superstar alter ego, took center stage. Inside the mind of Bronson - a scathing indictment of celebrity culture. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | theftdrinkingmurderlove |
Characters: | thiefbabydancerpolicemansingertattoohusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | mirror balldefecationanimated sequences&mvandalismkicked in the facetoiletmale pubic hairhandcuffsdrinkslow motion sceneunderwearbeatingtelephone callsinging …male full frontal nuditydancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityfightflashbacknudity (See All) |
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 …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: | unfaithfulnessdysfunctional familydrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymurder |
Characters: | reference to godbabypolicemanbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | white trashplaygroundpot smokingkicked in the facelightninghandcuffshallucinationbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvurinationfoodbeatingtelephone call …cigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditynuditysex (See All) |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babypolicemansingerdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | marriage engagementadult as childplaygroundchildbirthconcertdrinkunderweartelephone callsingingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityfightflashbacksex |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitysurrealismmurder |
Characters: | reference to godbabydancerpolicemanbrother sister relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | crotch grabdefecationsupermarketchildbirthdrinkwatching tvslow motion scenefoodunderwearbeatingshowerdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity …based on novelflashbacknuditysex (See All) |
Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of … honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingdrunkennessdrinkingjealousymarriage |
Characters: | dancersingerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | wedding cakewedding receptionmarriage engagementbride and groomtwenty somethingpublocker roomvomitingdrinkfoodunderweartelephone callshowersingingdancing …sex (See All) |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr …eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagemurderlove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipsingertattoodoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptiongrocery stores&mtoiletconcertmale pubic hairbeerdrinkwatching tvfoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callshowersinging …male full frontal nuditydancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityfightsex (See All) |
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel …responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usedancelovesurrealism |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to godpolicemannursetattoodoctorfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | defecationdelusionplaygrounds&msadomasochismvandalismpot smokingfired from the joblocker roomtoilethallucinationbeervomitingwatching tvfood …telephone callfemale nuditymale nudityflashback (See All) |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set u …p the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptiondrunkennessdrinkingpregnancymarriagelove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babydancerpolicemannursebrother sister relationshipsingerdoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | supermarketambulancesoccermale pubic hairneighborbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvfoodbeatingsingingdancingfemale nuditymale nudity …flashback (See All) |
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Star …ting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usetheftweddingdrinkingpregnancyadulterymarriagelove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lustthiefbabyprostitutetattoodoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptionpot smokingsupermarketchildbirthbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvfoodunderweartelephone callshowercigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity …based on novelfightsex (See All) |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat …e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdysfunctional familyextramarital affairweddingdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | dancermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptionmarriage engagementmirror ballbride and groombeerdrinkwatching tvfoodtelephone callshowerdancingcigarette smokingfemale nudity |
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is …short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug useweddingdancedrunkennessdrinkingpregnancylove |
Characters: | reference to goddancerpolicemansingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | phone bookbride and groomlsdpot smokinghallucinationvomitingdrinkslow motion sceneurinationfoodunderwearsingingmale full frontal nuditydancingcigarette smoking …female nuditymale nuditynudityflashback (See All) |
The plot revolves around a young married woman whose mundane life takes a turn for the worse when she strikes up a passionate and illicit affair with an oddball discount-store stock boy who thinks he's Holden Caulfield.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug usetheftextramarital affairdeceptiondrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | thiefbabyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | twenty somethingbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvbeatingmale full frontal nuditycigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashback |
Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot h …im, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug usepregnancyadulteryjealousylovesurrealism |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babydancerpolicemanprostitutebrother sister relationshipsingerdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | acid the druglsdbreast feedingflyingpot smokingchildbirthfired from the jobtoilethallucinationfoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callsingingdancing …cigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysexflashback (See All) |
In Johannesburg, a small time criminal, Tsotsi, is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. After a series of violent gang hits, Tsotsi hijacks a car. However, whilst driving, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat. He brings the baby to his house in the slum. The next si …x days bring about a change in him that couldn't be foreseen. (Read More)
Themes: | theftdrunkennessdrinkingmurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | thiefbabydancerpolicemanfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | mirror ballbreast feedingdefecationinsectlightningbeervomitingdrinkfoodunderwearbeatingdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity …based on novelflashbackfight (See All) |
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingpregnancymurderlove |
Characters: | reference to godbabydancerpolicemanprostitutesingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | locker roomtoiletneighbordrinkunderwearbeatingtelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditysexfight |
Two friends, John (played by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), crash weddings to pick up women. One day they crash the wedding of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken). Instead of short-term flings they end up being invited to the Clearys' island estate, … and potentially meet the loves of their lives... (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | lustreference to goddancerprostitutetattoofather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding cakewedding receptionbride and groomcrotch grabwhite trashtoiletbeervomitingdrinkfoodunderwearbeatingtelephone calldancingfemale nudity …male nudity (See All) |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev …eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelovemurderrevenge |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | dancernurseprostitutehusband wife relationship |
Story: | s&msadomasochismpassionvomitingdrinkwatching tvurinationfoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callshowerdancingcigarette smokingfemale nudity …male nuditybased on novelflashbacksexfight (See All) |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagerevenge |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to godbabydancersingerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptionneighborbeervomitingdrinkfoodtelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditynuditysexfight …flashback (See All) |
In rural Tennessee, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She's the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in remindi …ng Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae's boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usedeceptionweddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancymarriagelove |
Characters: | lustdancerprostitutesingertattoomother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | bride and groomwhite trashgrocery storesupermarketconcerthallucinationbeervomitingdrinkslow motion scenefoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callsinging …dancingcigarette smokingfemale nudityflashbacknudityfight (See All) |
Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly l …eads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. (Read More)
Themes: | drug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkinginfidelitylovemurder |
Characters: | dancertattoopolice |
Story: | crotch grabdelusionanimated sequencepot smokingtwenty somethingpassionsoccerneighborbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvtelephone calldancingfemale nudity …male nuditybased on novelsexflashback (See All) |
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying t …o get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | drug usetheftdeceptiondrunkennessdrinkingpregnancymurder |
Characters: | thiefdancerpolicemanprostitutetattoohusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | grocery storepot smokingtwenty somethingbeerdrinkwatching tvurinationfoodbeatingdancingcigarette smokingfight |
A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to freekicks in the Final. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg, the film follows two 18 year olds with their hearts set on a future in professional socc …er. Heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough when your parents want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boyfriend and learn to cook the perfect chapatti. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionweddingdancedrinkingpregnancyjealousymarriage |
Characters: | dancerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptionmarriage engagementbride and groomtwenty somethinglocker roomfootballsoccerdrinkwatching tvfoodunderweartelephone calldancingfight |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | drinkingpregnancylove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babypolicemannursebrother sister relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | birthmarkinsectflyinglightningambulancehallucinationhandcuffsneighborbeerdrinkslow motion scenetelephone callcigarette smokingflashbacksex |
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: | independent film |
Themes: | vengeanceunfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagelovemurderrevenge |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to godpolicemannursetattoodoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | toiletambulancevomitingdrinkwatching tvfoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callsingingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashback |
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: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | lustbabysingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptiontwenty somethinghallucinationdrinkwatching tvunderweartelephone calldancingmale nudityfight |
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted h …is relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Deputy Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancymarriage |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to godbabydancernursesingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptiongrocery storesupermarkettoiletdrinkwatching tvunderweartelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smokingfightflashback |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al …ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityunfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairweddingtorturedrinkingadulteryinfidelitylovemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babypolicemannursebrother sister relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | playgroundmale pubic hairdrinkwatching tvslow motion scenefoodunderwearbeatingtelephone callshowermale full frontal nuditycigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novel …nudityflashbackfight (See All) |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairdancedrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to goddancerpolicemanprostitutedoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pot smokingtoiletsoccervomitingdrinkwatching tvslow motion scenetelephone calldancingcigarette smokingflashbacksexfight |
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 …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: | police brutalityunfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to godthiefdancerpolicemanbrother sister relationshiptattoomother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | grocery storeplaygroundhandcuffsdrinkurinationfoodunderweartelephone callshowerdancingmale nudityflashbacknudityfightsex |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr …ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
Themes: | theftweddingdrunkennesstorturedrinkingpregnancymarriagesurrealismlovemurderrevenge |
Characters: | thiefbabydancerprostitutebrother sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | hooliganchildbirthvomitingdrinkurinationunderweardancingfemale nuditybased on novelfightsex |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental …ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug usetheftweddingtorturedrinkinginfidelitymarriagemurdersurrealismlove |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | reference to godthiefdancerpolicemanprostitutedoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | birthmarkgrocery storesupermarkettwenty somethingtoilethallucinationneighborbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvfoodtelephone callshowerdancing …cigarette smokingfightflashback (See All) |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdancepregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelove |
Characters: | babydancerprostitutebrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding receptionchildbirthfoodsingingdancingbased on novelsex |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a …nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingmarriagemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babydancerpolicemansingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | sadomasochismvandalismtoiletconcertbeervomitingbeatingsingingdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditynuditysexfight |
Cat and mouse. Jonathan McQuarry is an auditor in Manhattan, moving from office to office checking their books. While working late, a smooth and well-dressed man named Wyatt Bose chats Jonathan up, offers him a joint, and soon they're pals. When their cell phones are accidentally swapped, Jonathan a …nswers Wyatt's phone to a series of women asking if he's free tonight. Jonathan discovers it's a sex club: busy powerful people meet each other anonymously in hotels. Jonathan falls for one of the club members, whom he knows only as "S," whom he's also seen on a subway. When she goes missing, patterns emerge and Jonathan faces demands involving violence and lots of money. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usetheftdeceptiondrinkinglovemurder |
Characters: | lustthiefdancerpolicemansingerpolice |
Story: | delusionpot smokinglocker roomambulancedrinkwatching tvfoodunderweartelephone callshowersingingdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditysex |
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend, Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small …Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | drug usetheftdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancymurderrevenge |
Characters: | thiefdancerpolicemanprostitutebrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipspolice |
Story: | acid the drugwhite trashlsdpot smokingvomitingdrinkwatching tvurinationunderwearbeatingtelephone calldancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity …nudity (See All) |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa …chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitydrug usedancedrunkennesspregnancyjealousymarriagesurrealismlovemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | dancerpolicemannurseprostitutebrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshippolice |
Story: | psychedelialsdbilliardsanimated sequenceflyingpubconcertwatching tvslow motion sceneurinationbeatingtelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smoking …female nuditymale nudityfight (See All) |
The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuernos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life …, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesstheftextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitylovemurder |
Characters: | reference to godthiefpolicemanprostitutebrother sister relationshiptattoofather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshippolice |
Story: | s&mhandcuffsbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvfoodunderwearbeatingshowercigarette smokingfemale nudity |
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)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | lustdancerbrother sister relationshipsingerdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | white trashpot smokingsupermarketpassionmale pubic hairbeervomitingdrinkurinationfoodunderweartelephone callshowersingingdancing …cigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysexnudity (See All) |
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devou …tly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdysfunctional familydrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagelovemurder |
Characters: | prostitutemother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | abusive fatherpot smokingmale pubic hairbeerdrinkurinationfoodunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudityflashback |
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: | unfaithfulnessdrug usedancedrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitylove |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | lsdpot smokinglightningconcertbeervomitingdrinkwatching tvurinationfoodunderweartelephone callsingingdancingcigarette smoking …female nuditysex (See All) |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingpregnancyadulteryjealousyinfidelity |
Characters: | reference to godbabydoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pot smokingpubfootballbeerdrinkwatching tvurinationfoodtelephone callcigarette smoking |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagelove |
Characters: | babydancernurseprostitutesingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | wedding receptionbride and groomtwenty somethingpassionfired from the jobdrinkwatching tvfoodtelephone callshowersingingdancingcigarette smoking |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar …ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairweddingdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | babydancerprostitutebrother sister relationshipsingerdoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | bride and groombilliardschildbirthdrinkslow motion scenefoodsingingdancingfemale nuditybased on novelnuditysex |