In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous…ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
| Themes: | regret, tragedy, cancer, depression, lesbianism, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | england, elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | maid, homosexuality, writer, doctor |
| Period: | 1920s, 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | flower shop, depressed woman, redheaded woman, manic depression, woman with glasses, party planning, birthday party, lesbian wife, animal burial, multi protagonist, self determination, fake nose, dissociative identity disorder, three women, book editor, middle age romance, women in society, flour, falling out a window, pulitzer prize source, serendipity, borderline personality disorder, family abandonment, bipolar disorder, multiple time frames, world war two veteran, lamb, year 1941, dying words, homosexual subtext, stream, artificial insemination, bechdel test passed, hopelessness, angst, based on novel, true love, lesbian mother, episodic structure, mental breakdown, stone, publisher, multiple storyline, novel, reflection, melancholy, rose, medication, despair, feminist, housewife, loss of son, railway station, gay parent, cowboy hat, babysitter, egg, birthday cake, poet, flower, ex husband ex wife relationship, flowers, ring, reading, drowning, bird, mental illness, driving, nonlinear timeline, woman, single mother, cooking, bisexual, telephone, river, bed, rural setting, water, letter, los angeles california, female protagonist, pregnancy, based on book, lesbian kiss, new york city, party, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, two word title, f rated, kiss |
An emotionally broken woman, Kathy, suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned. Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a sympathetic sheriff's deputy comes to the aid of Kathy and becomes intimately involved in her situation. Soon, Behrani, a proud emigr…ant Iranian and his family move into the house only to find their new lives burdened by harassment from Lester and Kathy as they attempt to reclaim her former home. The once prosperous colonel denies Kathy's pleas for he knows his recent purchase promises a profitable return and a better future for his adolescent son and his wife. But latent consequences lie beneath Behrani's well intentioned plan as Kathy's emotions spiral out of control and her actions spark a tragic chain of events that will leave no resident unscathed in the House of Sand and Fog. (Read More)
| Themes: | tragedy, depression, suicide |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | maid |
| Story: | depressed woman, family abandonment, based on novel, melancholy, medication, loss of son, ring, bird, nonlinear timeline, woman, letter, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome…d. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | writer |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | birthday party, based on novel, flowers, bird, woman, single mother, cooking, rural setting, letter, female protagonist, party, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated, kiss |
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she stumbles in on her husband Frank, kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the …friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | maid, homosexuality |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | redheaded woman, housewife, railway station, gay parent, bisexual, telephone, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship |
Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evely…n learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny. (Read More)
| Themes: | suicide, friendship |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | based on novel, lesbian mother, multiple storyline, feminist, gay parent, woman, river, female protagonist, party, title spoken by character, mother son relationship |
Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the Am…erican southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | homosexuality, writer |
| Period: | 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | based on novel, poet, ex husband ex wife relationship, driving, bisexual, river, letter, pregnancy, new york city, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
| Themes: | tragedy, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Period: | 1920s, 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | birthday party, multiple time frames, world war two veteran, based on novel, melancholy, railway station, nonlinear timeline, woman, new york city, party |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree…dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer, friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Period: | 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | birthday party, based on novel, housewife, woman, single mother, pregnancy, new york city, party, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
| Themes: | tragedy, depression, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | maid |
| Story: | bechdel test passed, loss of son, birthday cake, woman, los angeles california, female protagonist, title spoken by character, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o…f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | tragedy, depression, friendship |
| Period: | 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | woman with glasses, birthday party, birthday cake, reading, telephone, letter, based on book, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, two word title, f rated, kiss |
A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, …and the mysterious night club Silencio. (Read More)
| Themes: | regret, lesbianism, suicide |
| Story: | borderline personality disorder, bechdel test passed, cowboy hat, mental illness, nonlinear timeline, woman, bisexual, telephone, los angeles california, female protagonist, lesbian kiss, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, two word title, f rated |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer |
| Locations: | elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | woman with glasses, based on novel, nonlinear timeline, woman, telephone, bed, water, letter, pregnancy, based on book, new york city, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, two word title, f rated, kiss |
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)
| Themes: | suicide, friendship |
| Characters: | maid, doctor |
| Story: | redheaded woman, stream, based on novel, stone, flower, flowers, reading, bird, woman, rural setting, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, f rated, kiss |
Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter Antia, who reveals that this one is living in Switzerland married and with three children. With the heart b…roken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates with her sending a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Xoan, a Galician fisherman. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between the family, the job and the education of Antia until a fatal accident changes their lives. Slowly decaying in a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia goes missing suddenly after a vacation with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her missing... (Read More)
| Themes: | depression, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | despair, loss of son, birthday cake, flowers, drowning, woman, single mother, cooking, telephone, letter, pregnancy, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated, kiss |
It's 2003. Thirty-eight-year-old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationships with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on… life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family losses. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress, hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death, and Hal's new outlook on life during that time, will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to take care of who was originally Hal's very needy Jack Russell terrier, Arthur. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer, depression, friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | homosexuality, doctor |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | flower shop, medication, gay parent, flowers, reading, nonlinear timeline, los angeles california, new york city, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar… is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)
| Themes: | tragedy, suicide |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | maid |
| Story: | birthday party, rose, medication, babysitter, birthday cake, driving, woman, single mother, bed, pregnancy, party, title spoken by character, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated, kiss |
In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity… as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | woman with glasses, bechdel test passed, based on novel, publisher, ex husband ex wife relationship, woman, single mother, cooking, female protagonist, new york city, husband wife relationship, f rated, kiss |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri…ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
| Themes: | regret, friendship |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | flower shop, birthday party, flower, woman, single mother, river, pregnancy, lesbian kiss, new york city, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh…ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer |
| Locations: | elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | based on novel, novel, cowboy hat, ex husband ex wife relationship, nonlinear timeline, woman, los angeles california, new york city, party, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship |
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
| Themes: | friendship |
| Story: | based on novel, rose, flower, ex husband ex wife relationship, bird, woman, cooking, telephone, bed, water, based on book, new york city, party, husband wife relationship, f rated, kiss |
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: | cancer, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | manic depression, based on novel, rose, medication, ring, reading, mental illness, woman, letter, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, f rated, kiss |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen…ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
| Themes: | tragedy, friendship |
| Locations: | england, elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | based on novel, housewife, loss of son, ex husband ex wife relationship, mental illness, telephone, bed, letter, female protagonist, pregnancy, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Story: | birthday party, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, based on novel, medication, mental illness, woman, letter, female protagonist, lesbian kiss, new york city, f rated |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro…ss two generations. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Period: | 1920s, 1940s |
| Story: | birthday party, lamb, based on novel, railway station, cowboy hat, flowers, reading, water, letter, pregnancy, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit…s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)
| Themes: | tragedy, cancer, depression, suicide |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | birthday party, cowboy hat, bird, nonlinear timeline, pregnancy, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, kiss |
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new respo…nsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | woman with glasses, birthday party, family abandonment, based on novel, ex husband ex wife relationship, woman, single mother, cooking, new york city, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
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: | tragedy |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | pulitzer prize source, based on novel, babysitter, bird, driving, single mother, telephone, river, rural setting, pregnancy, party, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly …wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Period: | 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | woman with glasses, birthday party, pulitzer prize source, driving, cooking, female protagonist, mother son relationship |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl…e his affairs. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | pulitzer prize source, reflection, melancholy, egg, reading, mental illness, nonlinear timeline, new york city, party, title spoken by character, f rated, kiss |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole…rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | woman with glasses, flowers, single mother, cooking, telephone, letter, female protagonist, pregnancy, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated, kiss |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i…nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
| Characters: | maid, doctor |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | flower shop, based on novel, flowers, ring, reading, bird, river, water, letter, pregnancy, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho…w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
| Characters: | maid, writer, doctor |
| Story: | based on novel, publisher, feminist, rural setting, letter, female protagonist, pregnancy, new york city, party, husband wife relationship, f rated |
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
| Themes: | tragedy, suicide |
| Locations: | england |
| Characters: | homosexuality |
| Period: | 1920s, 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | multiple time frames, despair, railway station, nonlinear timeline, woman, title spoken by character |
| Themes: | suicide, friendship |
| Story: | based on novel, medication, railway station, drowning, bird, river, water, pregnancy, new york city, party, title spoken by character, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
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: | suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | based on novel, loss of son, flower, drowning, woman, telephone, rural setting, letter, female protagonist, new york city, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated, kiss |
It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to… tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. (Read More)
| Themes: | depression, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | england |
| Characters: | maid, homosexuality |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | based on novel, rose, flower, ex husband ex wife relationship, reading, drowning, woman, los angeles california, party, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, kiss |
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)
| Themes: | suicide, friendship |
| Characters: | writer |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | based on novel, woman, river, rural setting, letter, pregnancy, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, kiss |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri…te with. (Read More)
| Themes: | depression |
| Characters: | writer, doctor |
| Story: | birthday party, based on novel, birthday cake, poet, flowers, reading, bed, pregnancy, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
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.
| Characters: | writer, doctor |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | reading, bird, nonlinear timeline, single mother, telephone, river, bed, rural setting, pregnancy, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar…ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
| Characters: | maid, doctor |
| Story: | birthday party, based on novel, birthday cake, flowers, reading, woman, bed, letter, female protagonist, party, husband wife relationship, f rated, kiss |
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports r…eporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; grandparents, together for years, face a crisis; and, an "I Hate Valentine's Day" dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight? (Read More)
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | flower shop, true love, babysitter, flower, flowers, bed, los angeles california, mother son relationship, f rated, kiss |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's… not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | mental breakdown, medication, despair, loss of son, railway station, reading, mental illness, woman, single mother, telephone, los angeles california, female protagonist, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, f rated |
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apoc…alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer, suicide, friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | writer, doctor |
| Story: | falling out a window, based on novel, publisher, multiple storyline, despair, ring, nonlinear timeline, telephone, letter, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, two word title, f rated, kiss |
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. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer, suicide |
| Locations: | elevator, hotel |
| Story: | manic depression, birthday party, bipolar disorder, mental breakdown, medication, birthday cake, reading, mental illness, new york city, party, title spoken by character, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be…fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer, suicide |
| Locations: | elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | homosexual subtext, based on novel, drowning, woman, rural setting, pregnancy, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship |
Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn't possibly be right for one another... or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies. One awkward turn at 18, one missed opportunity... and life sends them hurling… in different directions. But somehow, across time, space and different continents, the tie that binds them cannot be undone. Will they find their way back to one another, or will it be too late? Based on Cecelia Ahern's bestselling novel "Where Rainbows End", LOVE, ROSIE is a modern comedy-of-errors tale posing the ultimate question: Do we really only get one shot at true love? (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | england, elevator, hotel |
| Characters: | maid |
| Story: | based on novel, true love, single mother, letter, female protagonist, pregnancy, party, husband wife relationship, two word title, kiss |
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...
| Themes: | friendship |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | pulitzer prize source, based on novel, flowers, woman, cooking, bisexual, rural setting, letter, female protagonist, lesbian kiss, title spoken by character |
Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper co…nnection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes. (Read More)
| Themes: | regret, tragedy, friendship |
| Characters: | homosexuality |
| Story: | lamb, gay parent, cowboy hat, cooking, bisexual, telephone, river, rural setting, pregnancy, new york city, title spoken by character, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, two word title, kiss |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s…oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
| Themes: | cancer |
| Period: | 1920s, 1950s, 1940s |
| Story: | rose, poet, nonlinear timeline, woman, letter, female protagonist, new york city, two word title, f rated, kiss |
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the… Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | writer |
| Story: | middle age romance, flowers, woman, single mother, letter, female protagonist, pregnancy, new york city, party, f rated, kiss |
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