Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother's disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homes…ick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off. (Read More)
Themes: | devil, panic, greed, grief, insanity, guilt, obsession, corruption, anger, seduction, incest, art, fear, money, religion, marriage, suicide |
Mood: | allegory, satire, gore |
Locations: | city, slum, usa, courtroom, apartment, wheelchair, elevator, nightclub, snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, chinese, catholic, bible, lust, christianity, jewish, christian, priest, baby, photographer, dancer, student, nurse, teacher, singer |
Period: | winter, 1990s |
Story: | law firm, jury trial, law, gunshot wound, boxing ring, demon rape, personification of satan, case, judicial system, reference to satan, gainesville florida, street vendor, street market, the devil, deal with the devil, attorney, time lapse photography, panic attack, teacher student relationship, florida, loss of wife, legal trial, holy bible, chinatown manhattan new york city, boxing match, city park, newspaper headline, implied incest, supernatural power, manhattan new york city, it was all a dream, church service, male crying, crying man, crying woman, rape victim, panties pulled down, troubled marriage, black panties, white panties, committing suicide, new york city, woman squeezing another woman's breast, justice department, muder, gland, da, bilocation, ovary, jinn, recess, decorating, seven deadly sins, prime suspect, brother sister sex, kosher, shredder, notepad, touching someone's breasts, elitism, coaching, elite, cheque, virtuality, fury, sex offender, washroom, judiciary, judicial, camel toe, morphing, mugger, satanist, gala, perjury, alibi, bloody body of a child, satan, oath, spectator, metropolis, lucifer, sex on the floor, flamenco, murder suspect, mural, courthouse, holy water, globe, subculture, blasphemy, sinister, antichrist, tycoon, doorman, sex with a minor, child molester, acoustic guitar, rite, groping, vanity, document, business card, mugging, press, arena, glass, quarrel, brooklyn bridge, southern u.s., lawsuit, jury, satanism, abandonment, dead dog, mental breakdown, korean, temptation, murder of family, metaphor, villain played by lead actor, testimony, ethics, pervert, music band, sin, marital problem, black magic, passionate kiss, ambiguous ending, voodoo, balcony, homeless man, evidence, pride, pedophile, senator, toe sucking, spanish, intrigue, remote control, sexual desire, morality, ambition, reality, homicide, mythology, goat, audience, time, loss, jogging, rage, street, wound, fireplace, underground, occult, italian, power, female removes her clothes, witness, ring, beaten to death, businessman, microphone, breaking the fourth wall, public nudity, gunshot, bartender, ritual, tongue, hit by a car, scantily clad female, animal, trial, mental illness, judge, female pubic hair, subway, boxing, throat slitting, video camera, single mother, candle, bra, newspaper, reporter, alcohol, voyeur, hallucination, demon, bathroom, running, reference to god, tears, held at gunpoint, book, painting, bare butt, sex in bed, arrest, watching tv, computer, slow motion scene, shot in the head, mirror, car accident, dream, beating, crying, teenage girl, rape, pistol, panties, surprise ending, cult film, three word title, knife, party, singing, photograph, dancing, african american, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, based on novel, bare breasts, sex scene, police, gun, murder, dog, blood, death |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | guilt, obsession, fear, money, marriage, suicide |
Locations: | courtroom, church, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, baby, photographer, dancer |
Story: | law, single mother, case, perjury, courthouse, jury, testimony, marital problem, evidence, pride, remote control, attorney, bartender, trial, judge, running, tears, bare butt, arrest, watching tv, computer, mirror, beating, crying, rape, knife, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, dog, murder, gun, blood, police, death |
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Themes: | panic, greed, insanity, anger, fear, money |
Mood: | satire, gore |
Locations: | apartment, nightclub, bar |
Characters: | lust, lawyer |
Story: | manhattan new york city, black panties, new york city, washroom, vanity, business card, villain played by lead actor, pervert, ambiguous ending, homeless man, remote control, reality, rage, street, fireplace, female removes her clothes, businessman, bartender, scantily clad female, mental illness, video camera, bra, voyeur, running, held at gunpoint, bare butt, sex in bed, watching tv, shot in the head, mirror, car accident, dream, beating, crying, rape, pistol, panties, surprise ending, cult film, knife, party, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, based on novel, sex scene, police, murder, gun, death, dog, blood |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
Themes: | devil, corruption, incest, religion |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | city, elevator, snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | bible, lust, lawyer, priest, baby, nurse, singer |
Story: | case, law firm, deal with the devil, supernatural power, manhattan new york city, new york city, washroom, lucifer, rite, satanism, music band, black magic, voodoo, attorney, audience, time, law, occult, ring, microphone, gunshot, bartender, ritual, candle, bra, hallucination, demon, running, tears, mirror, dream, crying, teenage girl, pistol, panties, surprise ending, cult film, singing, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, based on novel, sex scene, blood, death, murder, dog |
While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a stran…ge man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation. (Read More)
Themes: | panic, guilt, obsession, seduction, fear |
Locations: | city, apartment, elevator |
Characters: | lust |
Story: | panties pulled down, black panties, white panties, new york city, prime suspect, case, murder suspect, mental breakdown, villain played by lead actor, sexual desire, homicide, female removes her clothes, witness, ring, scantily clad female, mental illness, female pubic hair, subway, throat slitting, bra, voyeur, hallucination, bathroom, running, bare butt, sex in bed, mirror, beating, rape, panties, surprise ending, cult film, three word title, photograph, bare breasts, death, murder, police |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling hab…its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. This is why Michael Clayton (2007) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | insanity, guilt, corruption, money, suicide |
Locations: | usa, city, apartment, elevator, snow, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, baby |
Story: | law firm, law, case, lawsuit, attorney, deal with the devil, panic attack, loss of wife, legal trial, manhattan new york city, troubled marriage, new york city, document, mental breakdown, temptation, testimony, ethics, marital problem, ambiguous ending, intrigue, remote control, ambition, power, hit by a car, mental illness, video camera, running, tears, book, arrest, watching tv, computer, mirror, dream, crying, surprise ending, party, photograph, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, death, murder, police |
Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men re…sponsible should be brought to justice. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, anger |
Locations: | courtroom, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lust, lawyer, dancer, nurse |
Story: | jury trial, judicial system, attorney, rape victim, panties pulled down, white panties, case, judiciary, judicial, courthouse, jury, testimony, law, witness, public nudity, bartender, scantily clad female, trial, judge, female pubic hair, reporter, voyeur, bare butt, arrest, watching tv, mirror, car accident, rape, panties, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, police |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu…dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
Themes: | panic, obsession, fear, suicide |
Locations: | apartment, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lust, lawyer, priest, photographer, dancer, student, nurse, teacher, singer |
Story: | white panties, spectator, rite, metaphor, spanish, reality, audience, time, microphone, bartender, ritual, hit by a car, scantily clad female, female pubic hair, bra, reporter, voyeur, tears, bare butt, arrest, computer, slow motion scene, crying, rape, panties, singing, photograph, blood |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t…o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
Themes: | religion |
Locations: | courtroom, snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, priest, catholic, bible, christianity, christian, dancer |
Story: | reference to satan, law firm, the devil, supernatural power, holy water, rite, jury, testimony, homicide, occult, witness, ritual, hit by a car, trial, mental illness, judge, hallucination, demon, watching tv, car accident, teenage girl, surprise ending, knife, photograph, dancing, death, father son relationship, mother son relationship, murder, police |
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Themes: | panic, grief, guilt, anger, fear |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | elevator, church, hospital |
Characters: | photographer, nurse |
Story: | metropolis, document, business card, press, korean, loss, beaten to death, subway, video camera, bra, reporter, running, tears, arrest, watching tv, slow motion scene, car accident, beating, crying, panties, photograph, cigarette smoking, blood, death, dog, murder |
When a judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland is forced to defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client Jeff McCullaugh because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma. This is why ...and… Justice For All. (1979) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, corruption, anger, suicide |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judge, jury trial, judicial system, attorney, law, case, judiciary, judicial, oath, mural, courthouse, jury, testimony, ethics, evidence, time, jogging, wound, witness, gunshot, trial, mental illness, video camera, reporter, running, tears, book, rape, arrest, car accident, panties, photograph, african american, death, blood |
"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit…ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)
Themes: | devil, panic, insanity, fear, religion |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | apartment, church, hospital |
Characters: | bible, christianity, christian, priest, nurse, teacher |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | personification of satan, reference to satan, teacher student relationship, newspaper headline, supernatural power, satan, lucifer, blasphemy, homeless man, ritual, hit by a car, hallucination, demon, held at gunpoint, shot in the head, car accident, beating, crying, surprise ending, cult film, knife, photograph, cigarette smoking, police, blood, death, gun, murder |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | corruption, anger, fear |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | courtroom, apartment, nightclub, church, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, catholic, priest, photographer |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | case, judicial system, attorney, newspaper headline, judicial, judiciary, press, jury, testimony, evidence, remote control, audience, street, power, microphone, bartender, trial, mental illness, judge, video camera, reporter, running, watching tv, computer, beating, surprise ending, knife, party, singing, photograph, murder, cigarette smoking, based on novel, death, police, blood |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woma…n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
Themes: | corruption, anger, money |
Locations: | courtroom, apartment, wheelchair, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, nurse |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | case, judicial system, law, newspaper headline, judicial, judiciary, oath, business card, lawsuit, jury, evidence, attorney, beaten to death, bartender, judge, held at gunpoint, arrest, beating, photograph, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, based on novel, blood, dog, murder |
Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.
Themes: | corruption, anger, seduction, fear, marriage |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | church, bar |
Characters: | lust, singer |
Story: | rape victim, sex offender, child molester, sexual desire, homicide, loss, rage, fireplace, beaten to death, gunshot, bartender, hit by a car, scantily clad female, candle, voyeur, bathroom, computer, slow motion scene, mirror, car accident, beating, crying, teenage girl, rape, panties, cult film, knife, party, singing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, based on novel, death, dog, murder, blood, gun |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden. This is why The Wolf Of Wall Stree…t (2013) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | greed, guilt, corruption, incest, fear, money, marriage, suicide |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | courtroom, elevator, bar |
Characters: | lust, lawyer, dancer, teacher |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | street, newspaper headline, manhattan new york city, troubled marriage, white panties, new york city, courthouse, brooklyn bridge, villain played by lead actor, evidence, attorney, female removes her clothes, businessman, microphone, breaking the fourth wall, judge, subway, female pubic hair, single mother, candle, newspaper, reporter, running, reference to god, bare butt, sex in bed, arrest, watching tv, slow motion scene, mirror, car accident, beating, rape, panties, party, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bare breasts, sex scene, gun, dog, blood |
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to …give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery. (Read More)
Locations: | wheelchair, elevator, hospital |
Characters: | chinese, baby, photographer, singer |
Story: | newspaper headline, new york city, case, gala, spectator, globe, press, remote control, goat, ring, microphone, gunshot, newspaper, reporter, bathroom, running, held at gunpoint, painting, watching tv, computer, shot in the head, crying, pistol, cult film, knife, singing, dancing, death, dog, murder, police, gun |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi…ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
Themes: | anger, incest, marriage |
Locations: | nightclub, snow, bar, hospital |
Characters: | baby, photographer |
Period: | winter |
Story: | newspaper headline, rite, metaphor, marital problem, remote control, audience, time, wound, bartender, ritual, single mother, candle, bra, newspaper, reporter, tears, computer, car accident, dream, crying, rape, panties, three word title, party, photograph, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, based on novel, sex scene, death |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Themes: | guilt, art, money |
Locations: | courtroom, elevator |
Characters: | jewish, lawyer, baby, dancer, singer |
Story: | law firm, crying man, crying woman, lawsuit, pride, remote control, attorney, trial, judge, newspaper, reporter, hallucination, running, tears, book, painting, arrest, computer, mirror, crying, singing, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, murder, death |
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world ('Harrison Ford (I)' (qv) and 'Gary Oldman (I)' (qv)) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing …to destroy each other. A young superstar ('Liam Hemsworth' (qv)), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away. (Read More)
Themes: | panic, greed, anger, seduction, fear |
Locations: | apartment, wheelchair, elevator, nightclub, bar, hospital |
Characters: | nurse |
Story: | time lapse photography, manhattan new york city, new york city, brooklyn bridge, intrigue, time, jogging, power, bartender, hit by a car, subway, held at gunpoint, arrest, watching tv, slow motion scene, car accident, pistol, surprise ending, party, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, father son relationship, based on novel, death, murder, blood |
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. This is why 21 Grams (2003) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | grief, guilt, anger, religion, marriage, suicide |
Locations: | snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | bible, christian, lawyer, nurse, teacher |
Story: | evidence, time, loss, law, microphone, gunshot, hit by a car, voyeur, bathroom, reference to god, tears, sex in bed, watching tv, computer, car accident, beating, crying, pistol, panties, knife, party, singing, photograph, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, death, blood, murder, police, gun |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa…st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Themes: | corruption, money, suicide |
Locations: | courtroom, apartment, church, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, photographer, singer |
Story: | judicial system, jury, case, judiciary, judicial, courthouse, lawsuit, attorney, law, gunshot, trial, judge, candle, bathroom, arrest, computer, slow motion scene, beating, surprise ending, knife, singing, photograph, african american, cigarette smoking, gun, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, based on novel, blood, death, murder |
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
Themes: | guilt, art, money, religion |
Mood: | allegory |
Locations: | city, snow, church |
Characters: | bible, christianity, priest, singer |
Period: | winter |
Story: | temptation, goat, power, public nudity, ritual, judge, candle, voyeur, hallucination, running, reference to god, tears, book, painting, bare butt, arrest, slow motion scene, dream, beating, crying, rape, knife, singing, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, blood, murder, dog, death |
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)
Themes: | guilt, fear, money, suicide |
Locations: | courtroom, snow, church, bar |
Characters: | student, lust, lawyer, teacher |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | teacher student relationship, law, trial, new york city, courthouse, sex with a minor, vanity, testimony, pride, morality, time, microphone, scantily clad female, judge, female pubic hair, bra, voyeur, tears, book, sex in bed, mirror, crying, teenage girl, photograph, cigarette smoking, father son relationship, mother son relationship, based on novel, sex scene, gun, dog, death, police, murder |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The… one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes but all four of the guards who abused them. Michael had long mapped out a plan even before Tommy and John saw Nokes, but that sighting and its aftermath alters the plan. Beyond the precarious position Tommy and John place themselves into, Michael has the most to lose even if the plan succeeds. Most of the plan implementation is left to Shakes who has to enlist the machine of Hell's Kitchen, including mob boss King Benny, and their childhood friend, social worker Carol Martinez, who currently is John's girlfriend. Beyond co-opting aging lawyer Danny Snyder, who admits he may not be the best choice as an alcoholic who is no longer near the top of his game, the plan is threatened by a key piece, the need for an unreproachable figure to perjure him or herself, that person who Michael and Shakes hopes will be Father Bobby. Father Bobby, even if he knew of the abuse, may not be able to do his friends this enormous favor of an illegal nature, he who has to balance the morality of the situation in his own mind in deciding what to do. (Read More)
Themes: | corruption, marriage |
Locations: | courtroom, wheelchair, snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, lawyer, priest, teacher, singer |
Period: | winter |
Story: | judicial system, manhattan new york city, new york city, judiciary, judicial, perjury, courthouse, jury, testimony, ethics, pedophile, attorney, morality, time, italian, witness, trial, judge, subway, candle, newspaper, reporter, bathroom, tears, book, arrest, watching tv, slow motion scene, beating, crying, rape, singing, photograph, african american, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, murder, gun, police, death |
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, workin…g together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths. This is why The Black Dahlia (2006) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | corruption, greed, obsession, suicide |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | lust, jewish, photographer, dancer, nurse, singer |
Story: | boxing match, newspaper headline, white panties, case, press, dead dog, pride, ambition, homicide, bartender, scantily clad female, boxing, throat slitting, newspaper, voyeur, painting, slow motion scene, beating, pistol, panties, three word title, knife, singing, photograph, dancing, african american, cigarette smoking, police, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, based on novel, bare breasts, death, blood, murder |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser…ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | obsession, corruption, anger, fear, money |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | courtroom, city, apartment, nightclub, snow, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, priest, singer |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | manhattan new york city, new york city, brooklyn bridge, villain played by lead actor, homeless man, time, street, underground, power, beaten to death, public nudity, trial, judge, throat slitting, bra, held at gunpoint, bare butt, arrest, slow motion scene, shot in the head, beating, pistol, panties, surprise ending, cult film, knife, party, dancing, african american, husband wife relationship, death, gun, blood, police, murder |
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: | grief, guilt, obsession, corruption, suicide |
Locations: | elevator, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, baby, photographer, nurse |
Story: | case, street market, time, loss of wife, prime suspect, perjury, alibi, document, dead dog, reality, homicide, loss, law, video camera, newspaper, running, tears, bare butt, arrest, watching tv, computer, slow motion scene, mirror, car accident, beating, crying, rape, photograph, police, cigarette smoking, murder, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, based on novel, death, blood, gun, dog |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken… behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | grief, guilt, money, art, marriage, suicide |
Locations: | apartment, nightclub, snow, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, jewish, dancer, nurse, teacher |
Story: | law firm, florida, city park, spectator, arena, metaphor, music band, remote control, attorney, law, ring, bartender, mental illness, video camera, bra, newspaper, tears, book, watching tv, computer, car accident, party, crying, panties, knife, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, based on novel, death, dog |
A day in the lives of a group of average teenage high school students. The film follows every character and shows their daily routines. However two of the students plan to do something that the student body won't forget.
Themes: | panic, anger, fear, suicide |
Characters: | photographer, student, teacher |
Story: | teacher student relationship, city park, homicide, time, rage, street, gunshot, video camera, bathroom, running, held at gunpoint, watching tv, car accident, teenage girl, pistol, photograph, father son relationship, death, murder, gun, blood, dog |
'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. This is why Erin Brockovich (2000) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | money, marriage |
Locations: | courtroom, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, baby |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | law firm, judicial system, law, car accident, case, judiciary, judicial, lawsuit, jury, attorney, loss, trial, judge, single mother, newspaper, tears, watching tv, crying, surprise ending, photograph, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
Mick Haller is a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln. When a wealthy Realtor is accused of assaulting a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him. The man claims that the woman is trying to get some money out of him. But when Haller looks at the evidence against him, he learns that this case… might be linked to an old case of his. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | usa, courtroom, elevator, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | case, perjury, courthouse, jury, evidence, homicide, witness, trial, judge, arrest, shot in the head, beating, rape, pistol, surprise ending, three word title, knife, photograph, mother son relationship, based on novel, sex scene, death, murder |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
Themes: | panic, fear |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | courtroom, nightclub, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, teacher, singer |
Story: | newspaper headline, southern u.s., jury, testimony, music band, evidence, remote control, gunshot, bartender, trial, judge, tears, held at gunpoint, painting, arrest, watching tv, computer, shot in the head, pistol, knife, singing, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, sex scene, murder, blood, police |
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. If he bears her child be…tween 11:00 PM and midnight on New Year's Eve, the world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist ex-cop named Jericho Cane, who no longer believes in God because of the murder of his wife and daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | devil |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | city, church, hospital |
Characters: | catholic, bible, christianity, priest, nurse |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | reference to satan, deal with the devil, loss of wife, new york city, morphing, satan, lucifer, groping, satanism, temptation, street, occult, subway, throat slitting, demon, shot in the head, beating, pistol, party, murder, police, blood |
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)
Themes: | grief, insanity, anger, seduction, marriage |
Locations: | courtroom, nightclub, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, singer |
Story: | loss of wife, manhattan new york city, new york city, mental breakdown, attorney, loss, mental illness, judge, tears, painting, arrest, watching tv, computer, dream, crying, teenage girl, three word title, singing, photograph, african american, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, gun, death |
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. This is why Lolita (1997) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, obsession, seduction, incest, money, marriage |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lust, priest, dancer, teacher, singer |
Story: | black panties, white panties, sex with a minor, pervert, pedophile, sexual desire, female removes her clothes, hit by a car, scantily clad female, voyeur, tears, sex in bed, slow motion scene, car accident, crying, teenage girl, rape, pistol, panties, dancing, african american, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, based on novel, police, gun, blood, murder, dog |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately …try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | grief, guilt, anger |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | catholic, bible, lawyer, priest |
Story: | legal trial, holy bible, crying man, document, southern u.s., jury, testimony, ethics, evidence, audience, time, loss, law, witness, microphone, gunshot, candle, reporter, tears, watching tv, dream, crying, teenage girl, rape, knife, singing, photograph, african american, death, father son relationship, mother son relationship, murder |
After Iggy's long-time girlfriend is murdered and the whole town agrees he is the killer, he awakens one morning with horns and the townspeople soon confess their sins. Once knowing the sins of the people, he is facing the true killer of his beloved girlfriend.
Themes: | devil, anger, religion |
Locations: | church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | christianity, christian, lawyer, priest, nurse |
Story: | supernatural power, crying man, crying woman, murder suspect, blasphemy, temptation, sin, time, witness, ring, beaten to death, public nudity, gunshot, bartender, scantily clad female, candle, newspaper, reporter, hallucination, reference to god, watching tv, slow motion scene, shot in the head, crying, teenage girl, rape, photograph, cigarette smoking, father son relationship, mother son relationship, based on novel, bare breasts, sex scene, blood, murder, police, death |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto…p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
Themes: | incest, suicide |
Locations: | courtroom, wheelchair |
Characters: | lust, lawyer |
Story: | reference to satan, implied incest, supernatural power, arrest, white panties, satanist, murder suspect, southern u.s., jury, satanism, mental breakdown, intrigue, sexual desire, occult, female removes her clothes, witness, ritual, scantily clad female, trial, mental illness, single mother, candle, hallucination, bare butt, watching tv, dream, beating, panties, party, photograph, dancing, police, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, death, dog, murder, blood, gun |
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: | obsession, fear, money, marriage, suicide |
Locations: | courtroom, city, apartment, elevator |
Characters: | jewish, lawyer, photographer, dancer, student, nurse, singer |
Story: | time lapse photography, manhattan new york city, new york city, case, jury, dead dog, attorney, loss, florida, jogging, trial, mental illness, judge, subway, video camera, newspaper, running, tears, mirror, crying, panties, three word title, party, singing, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, sex scene, murder, dog, police, blood, gun, death |
Three years and 10 successful title defenses after beating Apollo Creed, with whom he has become great friends, a now wealthy Rocky Balboa is considering retirement. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to Clubber Lang, who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickey…. Rocky sinks into a depression, and Apollo decides to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang so Rocky can try to win the title back. This is why Rocky III (1982) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, anger, fear, marriage |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | priest |
Story: | boxing ring, boxing match, newspaper headline, crying man, gala, arena, ambiguous ending, rage, jogging, bartender, boxing, reporter, running, painting, arrest, watching tv, slow motion scene, beating, surprise ending, cult film, photograph, african american, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, death |
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: | panic, art, marriage |
Locations: | wheelchair, nightclub, snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, priest, dancer, student, nurse, teacher, singer |
Period: | winter |
Story: | newspaper headline, manhattan new york city, new york city, mural, acoustic guitar, music band, time, microphone, breaking the fourth wall, subway, single mother, newspaper, alcohol, running, arrest, watching tv, slow motion scene, beating, crying, three word title, party, singing, photograph, dancing, african american, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, gun, death, murder, police, blood |
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial …journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. (Read More)
Themes: | greed, obsession, incest, fear, religion, suicide |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | courtroom, snow, hospital |
Characters: | bible, jewish, lawyer, photographer |
Story: | case, computer, newspaper headline, rape victim, panties pulled down, black panties, mugging, jogging, businessman, microphone, gunshot, ritual, scantily clad female, trial, subway, video camera, newspaper, reporter, bathroom, running, held at gunpoint, sex in bed, watching tv, car accident, beating, crying, teenage girl, rape, panties, surprise ending, knife, photograph, cigarette smoking, murder, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, based on novel, sex scene, death, blood, gun |
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children wit…h big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. (Read More)
Themes: | greed, insanity, art, fear, money, marriage |
Locations: | courtroom, church, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, priest, photographer |
Story: | newspaper headline, crying woman, new york city, lawsuit, jury, ethics, pride, italian, witness, microphone, trial, mental illness, judge, single mother, newspaper, reporter, hallucination, running, reference to god, tears, book, painting, watching tv, mirror, crying, photograph, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, dog |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rape…d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
Themes: | devil, panic, insanity, fear, marriage, suicide |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | lawyer, nurse |
Story: | the devil, time lapse photography, supernatural power, rape victim, satanism, mental breakdown, evidence, microphone, mental illness, throat slitting, video camera, reporter, hallucination, running, reference to god, tears, watching tv, computer, mirror, car accident, dream, crying, rape, pistol, surprise ending, knife, photograph, murder, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, death, police, blood, gun |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me…dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. This is why Natural Born Killers (1994) is one of the best movies like The Devil's Advocate (1997). (Read More)
Themes: | insanity, corruption, seduction, incest, fear, money |
Mood: | satire, gore |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | time lapse photography, newspaper headline, implied incest, rape victim, sex with a minor, villain played by lead actor, time, witness, ring, beaten to death, breaking the fourth wall, trial, throat slitting, reporter, hallucination, demon, held at gunpoint, book, arrest, slow motion scene, shot in the head, dream, beating, rape, pistol, panties, surprise ending, cult film, three word title, knife, singing, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, blood, police, death, murder |
Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and… two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs investigate famous crimes, and she finds that they believe Ben is innocent. Libby needs money and, in return, accepts to revisit the slaughter of her family and comes up to the painful revelations and the ultimate truth. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt, obsession, anger, seduction, fear, money, religion |
Locations: | nightclub, bar |
Characters: | lawyer, priest, photographer, dancer |
Story: | reference to satan, newspaper headline, crying man, satanist, satanism, murder of family, testimony, evidence, fireplace, occult, witness, gunshot, ritual, judge, newspaper, reference to god, book, watching tv, computer, mirror, teenage girl, knife, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, based on novel, murder, dog, blood, gun, police, death |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston …police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue. (Read More)
Themes: | panic, money, corruption, anger, seduction, fear, suicide |
Locations: | elevator, nightclub, snow, church, bar, hospital |
Characters: | bible, christian, photographer |
Story: | loss of wife, newspaper headline, crying man, crying woman, sin, ambition, time, florida, law, underground, italian, power, beaten to death, throat slitting, alcohol, held at gunpoint, painting, arrest, slow motion scene, shot in the head, car accident, dream, beating, teenage girl, pistol, surprise ending, three word title, knife, party, photograph, dancing, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, based on novel, sex scene, murder, blood, police, death |
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to… create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mock-up of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counselling him. His second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs. (Read More)
Themes: | grief, insanity, obsession, anger, art, marriage, suicide |
Mood: | allegory |
Locations: | city, nightclub, bar, hospital |
Characters: | singer |
Story: | manhattan new york city, black panties, white panties, new york city, metaphor, music band, remote control, reality, time, female removes her clothes, breaking the fourth wall, public nudity, scantily clad female, bra, voyeur, bathroom, tears, sex in bed, watching tv, dream, crying, panties, cult film, three word title, singing, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, blood, death, murder |
Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
Themes: | guilt, corruption, fear |
Locations: | city, hospital |
Characters: | jewish, dancer |
Story: | rape victim, panties pulled down, white panties, new york city, sex with a minor, brooklyn bridge, ambiguous ending, time, public nudity, scantily clad female, female pubic hair, reporter, voyeur, bathroom, shot in the head, mirror, teenage girl, rape, panties, cult film, dancing, based on novel, bare breasts, sex scene, gun, blood, murder, police, death |