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In 1938, the young girl Liesel Meminger is traveling by train with her mother and her younger brother when he dies. Her mother buries the boy in a cemetery by the tracks and Liesel picks up a book, "The Gravediggers Handbook", which was left on the grave of her brother and brings it with her. Liesel … is delivered to a foster family in a small town and later she learns that her mother left her because she is a communist. Her stepmother, Rosa Hubermann, is a rude but caring woman and her stepfather, Hans Hubermann, is a simple kind-hearted man. Liesel befriends her next door neighbor, the boy Rudy Steiner, and they go together to the school. When Hans discovers that Liesel cannot read, he teaches her using her book and Liesel becomes an obsessed reader. During a Nazi speech where the locals are forced to burn books in a bonfire, Liesel recovers one book for her and the Mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann witnesses her action. Meanwhile Hans hides the Jewish Max Vandenburg, who is the son of a deceased friend that saved his life in the war, in the basement of his house and Liesel becomes his friend. One day, Rosa asks Liesel to deliver laundry to the Mayor and Ilsa invites Liesel to go to her library and tells that she can visit her to read whenever she wants. But in times of war there are many threats and the lives of Liesel, her family and friends will never be the same. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | starvationholocaustdeath of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | school bullynazi germanysnowtrain |
| Characters: | crying girlteenage girlsoldiergirlteacherteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1938year 1939year 1943year 1942year 1941year 1945world war two |
| Story: | snowball fightanti communistbook burningkilled in explosionadoptive father adopted daughter relationshipadoptive mother adopted daughter relationshipreference to jesse owensstrict motherkristallnachtsiren the alarmfoot racelearning to readadoptive fatherchalkchalkboard …snowballsignsole survivorair raidtracksnowmanbomberilliteracysoupnarratorloss of brotherolympicsbombinghidingcommunistreference to adolf hitlerwhat happened to epilogueloss of motherloss of fatherbasementdiaryreadinglibraryvoice oversearchbridgeriverdead bodyrunningbombbookvoice over narrationfirethree word titleexplosiontitle spoken by characterbased on novel (See All) |
On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survival. They live, not only with the fear of discovery, contending with neighboring Soviet parti …sans and knowing whom to trust but also take the responsibility of looking after a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. Women, men, children, the elderly and the young alike are all hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold and unforgiving forests in the darkest times of German-occupied Eastern Europe. (Read More)
| Themes: | starvationholocaustdeath of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1942year 1941world war two |
| Story: | air raidhidingcommunistwhat happened to epilogueriverbombbookexplosion |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
| Themes: | starvationdeath of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | girlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Period: | year 1945world war two |
| Story: | air raidbombingreadingdead bodyrunningbombvoice over narrationfirethree word titleexplosionbased on novel |
The feature film directed by Elem Klimov, shot in the genre of military drama. The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the story is a Belarusian boy, who witnesses the horrors of the Nazi punitive action, turning from a cheerful teenager into a gray-haired old ma …n for two days. (Read More)
| Themes: | holocaustdeath of mother |
| Characters: | teenage girlsoldiergirlteenage boymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1943world war two |
| Story: | bombingcommunistreference to adolf hitlerdead bodybombfireexplosion |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | death of mother |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1939year 1942world war two |
| Story: | bomberbombinghidingriverdead bodyrunningbombvoice over narrationfireexplosiontitle spoken by character |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied tro …ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
| Themes: | starvationholocaustdeath of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | teacherfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | reference to jesse owensbomberbombinghidingcommunistreference to adolf hitlerriverdead bodybombbookexplosion |
In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally deranged prisone …rs and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal splits the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison. (Read More)
| Themes: | starvation |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Story: | air raidbomberbombinghidingreference to adolf hitlerwhat happened to epiloguebridgeriverrunningbombfiretitle spoken by character |
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)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | teenage girlsoldiergirlteacherteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | snowballair raidbombinghidingcommunistbasementreadingdead bodyrunningbookvoice over narrationexplosion |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | hidingreadingsearchdead bodyrunningbookvoice over narrationfirethree word titletitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped paj …amas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. (Read More)
| Themes: | starvationholocaustdeath of mother |
| Locations: | nazi germanytrain |
| Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | readingsearchrunningbookbased on novel |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr …aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteacherteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | loss of motherloss of fathervoice overrunningbookvoice over narrationfirebased on novel |
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores …these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender. (Read More)
| Themes: | holocaustdeath of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | nazi germanysnow |
| Characters: | teenage girlsoldiergirlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1942year 1945world war two |
| Story: | air raidbombingwhat happened to epiloguebridgedead bodyfireexplosion |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
| Themes: | starvation |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | air raidbombinghidingcommunistreadingsearchrunningbombbook |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads en …ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | loss of motherloss of fatherreadingvoice overdead bodyrunningbookfireexplosionbased on novel |
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunte …ers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." (Read More)
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Period: | year 1942year 1941world war two |
| Story: | air raidbombingreference to adolf hitlerreadingbombfireexplosiontitle spoken by character |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha …nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of father |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteenage boyhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | hidingreadinglibrarysearchriverdead bodyrunningbookvoice over narrationfireexplosion |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife … is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of father |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | trackbomberolympicsbombingreference to adolf hitlerwhat happened to epiloguesearchriverdead bodyrunningbombexplosiontitle spoken by character |
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Toget …her, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess deal with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Locations: | school bully |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteacherteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | foot racebridgerunningthree word titlebased on novel |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdeath of father |
| Characters: | soldierteacherfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | air raidbombinghidingsearchbridgeriverdead bodyrunningbombfireexplosion |
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlf …riend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience. (Read More)
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteacherteenage boy |
| Story: | libraryvoice overbridgeriverrunningfiretitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | soldierhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | bombingreference to adolf hitlerreadingriverdead bodyrunningbookfire |
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, … escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteacherteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | readingbookvoice over narrationthree word titleexplosiontitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | starvation |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | diaryreadingsearchbridgeriverrunningbookvoice over narrationfirethree word titletitle spoken by character |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | what happened to epiloguebasementsearchbridgedead bodyrunningbombbooktitle spoken by character |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af …fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | soldiermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | book burningbridgeriverrunningvoice over narrationthree word titleexplosiontitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
In 1944 falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess …, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | death of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | soldiergirlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | chalkhidingloss of motherreadingbookvoice over narrationexplosion |
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)
| Themes: | death of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | teenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | loss of motherloss of fatherdiarylibrarybased on novel |
The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command o …f the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination. (Read More)
| Characters: | soldiergirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1945world war two |
| Story: | air raidbomberolympicsreadingbombbookvoice over narrationfireexplosion |
ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces …in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers (played by Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.i (Read More)
| Themes: | death of mother |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teacherteenage boyfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1938year 1942world war two |
| Story: | hidingreference to adolf hitlerloss of motherbasementdead bodybombexplosiontitle spoken by character |
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love …s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlteacherteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | learning to readilliteracyreadinglibrarybookvoice over narrationfirebased on novel |
In German-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movi …e premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history. (Read More)
| Themes: | holocaust |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | reference to jesse owenssole survivorreference to adolf hitlerbasementsearchbombvoice over narrationfireexplosion |
In World War II, the fall of Stalingrad will mean the collapse of the whole country. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, taking them out one by one, thus hurting the morale of the German troops. The … political officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to give his countrymen some hope. But Vassili eventually start to feel that he can not live up to the expectations on him. He and Danilov fall in love with the same girl, Tanya, a female soldier. From Germany comes the master sniper Konig to put an end to the extraordinary skilled Russian sniper. (Read More)
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | soldiergirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | bombingcommunistreference to adolf hitlerwhat happened to epiloguedead bodyfireexplosion |
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | readingsearchrunningbookexplosion |
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness …, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of father |
| Characters: | girlteacherfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | hidingsearchriverrunningbombvoice over narrationfireexplosion |
'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
| Themes: | death of father |
| Characters: | soldiergirlteenage boyfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | searchbridgedead bodyrunningvoice over narrationfire |
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: | death of mother |
| Characters: | soldierhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1941world war two |
| Story: | bombingcommunistbasementfireexplosionbased on novel |
During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escap …e. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... (Read More)
| Themes: | starvation |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | soldiergirlteachermother daughter relationship |
| Story: | snowball fightcommunistsearchbookfirethree word title |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
| Themes: | death of mother |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | crying girlgirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | hidingloss of motherrunningbookvoice over narrationfirebased on novel |
In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he's captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon's flight and C …arver's hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls? (Read More)
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlsoldiergirlfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | what happened to epiloguesearchriverdead bodyrunningfire |
A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's …use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. (Read More)
| Characters: | soldierteachermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | chalkbomberbombingcommunistreadingsearchdead bodyrunningbombfireexplosion |
The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson, they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed … as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito. He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden and an American, Shears, to blow up the bridge. (Read More)
| Themes: | starvation |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | bridgerivertitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sl …oth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Themes: | death of father |
| Locations: | snowtrain |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirl |
| Story: | voice oversearchriverdead bodyvoice over narrationtitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step in a fateful journey of unexpected events.
| Themes: | death of father |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteenage boyfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | hidingsearchriverdead body |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, …not the answering of them. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlteacherteenage boyhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | what happened to epiloguereadingsearchdead bodybookvoice over narrationbased on novel |
This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | girlfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | illiteracyloss of motherloss of fathersearchvoice over narrationthree word titletitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such …activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion. (Read More)
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | illiteracybombingreference to adolf hitlerbombexplosion |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li …ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia… (Read More)
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 1939world war two |
| Story: | bombingreadinglibrarysearchdead bodyvoice over narrationfiretitle spoken by characterbased on novel |
1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased …gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | coming of age |
| Locations: | nazi germany |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Period: | year 1945world war two |
| Story: | reference to adolf hitlerbombfireexplosiontitle spoken by character |
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: | death of father |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | teenage girlgirlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | loss of brotherloss of fatherfireexplosiontitle spoken by character |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of motherdeath of father |
| Locations: | snow |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | learning to readcommunistloss of motherreadingsearchrunningbombbookfirethree word titlebased on novel |
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