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A Russian Jewish father emigrates to America in 1923, with a promise to send for his mother and young daughter when he is settled. When his village is burned in a pogrom, his mother is killed and his daughter is separated from other youngsters who make it to the port to emigrate. She ends up on a sh …ip bound for England, where she is renamed Suzie and raised by a British family. Many years later, Suzie's talent for singing and dancing sees her accepted into a Paris dance troupe where she is befriended by Lola, a fellow dancer from Moscow. Cesar, a handsome brooding gypsy who works with the troupe later becomes her lover. Lola pursues Dante, an egotistical tenor who is performing in the area. All is well until the Nazis march into Paris, and Suzie's Russian Jewish background places her in danger. She must decide whether to leave Cesar and her friends and continue the search for her father in America. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | holocaustadoptionhollywoodtheatrefilmmakingbetrayalmoneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | americacampfirerussiashipenglandvillagebicyclenightclubbathtubparis franceairplanechurchschooltrainrestaurant …barhospital (See All) |
Characters: | germanrussianjewjewishdancernursesoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1920s1930sworld war two |
Story: | german invasion of polandnazi persecutiongypsy musicgerman occupationtheatre productionship sinkingtheatre audienceopera companymusical filmmakinghorse wranglerhorse carriagewhite horseadoptive father adopted daughter relationshippre waradoptive mother adopted daughter relationship …ethnic identitytrick ridingbenito mussolininazi invasionreunited familypogromfoster parentbook burningocean linertenorgoodbyegold coinshowgirlpersecutionfilm studiocabaretlandladyeiffel tower parisaccordionemigrationhorseback ridingviolinistgunfirebonfirepolandevacuationbackstageintrigueanti semitismbombinggypsyviolinwatching a movieitalianrefugeecrosschristmas treepassiondrowningunderwater scenebathimmigrantoperaorphansurvivalswimmingreference to jesus christprayercafesecretcamerahorseunderweartitle directed by femalesongcryingfiresingingphotographdancingf ratedbloodsexviolencekiss (See All) |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayaldeath |
Locations: | bicyclebathtubparis francechurchschooltrainrestaurant |
Characters: | germanrussianjewjewishnursebrother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationship |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | german occupationpersecutionviolinistanti semitismbombingviolinwatching a moviebathorphanreference to jesus christprayersecretunderwearsongcrying …singingphotographblood (See All) |
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity …works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina. (Read More)
Themes: | filmmakingmoneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | villageairplanechurchtrainrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | dancersingerfamily relationships |
Period: | 1920s1930s |
Story: | theatre audiencehorseback ridingviolinistviolinwatching a movieoperaprayercafehorsesongcryingfiresingingphotographdancing …sex (See All) |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta …y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and di… (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | betrayaldeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfirebicyclenightclubbathtubairplanechurchtrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | germandancernursesinger |
Period: | 1930sworld war two |
Story: | theatre audiencegunfireevacuationwatching a movieitalianrefugeecrosspassionbathswimmingprayercafecameraunderwearsong …cryingfiresingingphotographdancingbloodkiss (See All) |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Themes: | moneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfireshipenglandbathtubairplaneschoolbar |
Characters: | dancersingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1930sworld war two |
Story: | horseback ridingevacuationbombingwatching a moviecrossdrowningunderwater scenebathswimminghorsesongfiresingingphotographdancing …sexviolencebloodkiss (See All) |
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunte …ers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipenglandbicycleairplanetrainbarhospital |
Characters: | germandancernursesoldierfather son relationship |
Period: | 1920sworld war two |
Story: | theatre audiencebombingwatching a moviedrowningunderwater sceneprayercameraunderwearcryingfirephotographdancingkisssexblood |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr …ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
Themes: | theatrefilmmakingdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipbicyclebathtub |
Characters: | germandancersoldierbrother sister relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | theatre audiencebombingrefugeeunderwater sceneswimminghorseunderwearfiredancingsexkiss |
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fell …ow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking. (Read More)
Themes: | theatrebetrayalmoneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipbathtubtrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | dancer |
Story: | theatre productiontheatre audiencebackstagepassionoperaorphanprayercafehorseunderwearcryingphotographdancingkissviolence …bloodsex (See All) |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a …rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
Themes: | theatrefilmmaking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | englandbathtubairplanetrainrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | jewishdancernursesingerchildrenfather daughter relationship |
Story: | theatre audiencehorseback ridingwatching a movieunderwater scenebathreference to jesus christprayercafecamerahorseunderwearsongfiresingingphotograph …dancingsex (See All) |
The feature film directed by Elem Klimov, shot in the genre of military drama. The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the story is a Belarusian boy, who witnesses the horrors of the Nazi punitive action, turning from a cheerful teenager into a gray-haired old ma …n for two days. (Read More)
Themes: | holocaustdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | russiavillageairplane |
Characters: | germandancersoldierbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | german occupationgunfireanti semitismbombingrefugeesurvivalcamerahorsecryingfirephotographdancingkissviolence |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Themes: | moneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipbicyclebathtubairplaneschooltrainhospital |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | bombingbathorphansurvivalswimmingcamerahorsesongcryingfiresingingphotographblood |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied tro …ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
Themes: | holocaustbetrayalmoneymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycleairplanetrain |
Characters: | germanrussianjewjewishdancerbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | gold coinaccordionbombingrefugeecrossunderwater scenereference to jesus christprayersecretcamerasongcryingsingingphotographdancing …bloodviolencekiss (See All) |
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How … do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? (Read More)
Themes: | moneydeath |
Locations: | nightclubparis franceairplanechurchtrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | germandancerbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | theatre productiongoodbyecrosscafecameraunderwearsongsingingphotographdancingsexkiss |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | bathtubchurchbarhospital |
Characters: | jewjewishdancersingerfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | polandanti semitismgypsycrossbathorphanreference to jesus christsecretsongsingingphotographdancingf ratedkisssex |
During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escap …e. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Locations: | villageairplanetrainbar |
Characters: | germanrussianjewnursesoldiersinger |
Story: | theatre productiontheatre audiencegunfireanti semitismcrosschristmas treeimmigrantreference to jesus christprayerhorsesongfiresingingphotographkiss |
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19t …h century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin." (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipengland |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | accordionviolinistgypsyviolinitalianpassionorphanprayersecretfirephotographsexblood |
Themes: | adoptionmoneydeath |
Locations: | bathtubrestaurant |
Characters: | dancersingerfather daughter relationship |
Story: | theatre audiencewatching a moviepassionunderwater sceneswimmingreference to jesus christprayercafecameraunderwearsongcryingsingingphotographdancing …sexkissbloodviolence (See All) |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recru …itment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayaldeathmurder |
Locations: | campfirerussiabicyclebathtubchurchrestaurant |
Characters: | russianjewjewishdancerbrother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | theatre productionpre warviolinistbackstageintrigueviolinwatching a moviecafesecretdancingsexviolence |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha …nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
Themes: | theatrefilmmakingdeath |
Locations: | bathtubparis franceschooltrainrestaurant |
Characters: | dancerfather son relationship |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | theatre audiencefilm studioeiffel tower parisbonfiregypsywatching a moviepassionbathorphancafesecretcameracryingfirephotograph …dancing (See All) |
1900. Danny Boodmann, a stoker on an American passenger liner, Virginian, finds a baby abandoned on the ship. He names the child Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' and raises the child as his own until his death in an accident on the ship. The child never leaves the ship and turns out … to be a musical genius, especially when it comes to playing the piano. As an adult he befriends a trumpet player in the ship's band, Max Tooney. After several years on the ship Max leaves, and tells the story of 1900 to the owner of a music store. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | ship |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Period: | 1920s1930s |
Story: | ocean linergoodbyeaccordionitalianchristmas treeimmigrantorphansecretcryingdancingkiss |
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job - for which he needs a bike - hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the bicycle. Ricci finally manages to locate the thief but with no proo …f, he has to abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep his job. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclechurchrestaurant |
Characters: | germandancersingerchildrenfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | accordionviolinitaliancrossdrowningswimmingprayercafeunderwearsongcryingsingingdancing |
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)
Themes: | theatremoneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfireshipvillagebathtubrestauranthospital |
Characters: | dancernursesingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1920s |
Story: | intriguecrossorphanswimmingcafehorsesongcryingfiresingingdancingkiss |
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and una …mbitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | moneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebathtubairplanechurchtrainrestauranthospital |
Characters: | germansingerchildrenfather son relationship |
Story: | theatre productionwhite horserefugeepassionbathcafehorsesongcryingfiresingingkissviolence |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped paj …amas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. (Read More)
Themes: | holocaust |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | germanjewjewishdancerbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | pogromanti semitismwatching a movieprayersecretsongcryingsingingdancing |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. …As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
Themes: | filmmaking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclubtrainbar |
Characters: | dancernursesinger |
Period: | 1920s |
Story: | showgirlfilm studioitaliancrosspassionunderwater scenecameraunderwearsongcryingsingingphotographdancingf ratedsex …kiss (See All) |
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
Themes: | moneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclubchurchrestaurantbar |
Characters: | dancersingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | eiffel tower parisreference to jesus christprayercafeunderwearsongcryingsingingdancingbloodsexkissviolence |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li …ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia… (Read More)
Themes: | betrayaldeath |
Locations: | englandbathtubairplanechurchtrainrestauranthospital |
Characters: | nursebrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1930sworld war two |
Story: | horseback ridingevacuationbombingwatching a moviepassionbathcafesongcryingfiresingingphotographf ratedsexblood …kiss (See All) |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife … is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Themes: | betrayalmoneymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycleparis franceairplanetrainrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | germanjewjewishdancersingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | eiffel tower parisgunfirebombingrefugeeprayercafesecretunderwearsongcryingsingingphotographdancingsexblood …violence (See All) |
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.
Themes: | moneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | russiaairplane |
Characters: | dancersoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1930sworld war two |
Story: | bonfireevacuationbombingorphanswimmingcryingfiresingingphotographdancingblood |
The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California presents miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview, a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if need b …e. His business partner/son (H.W.) is, in reality, an "acquired" child whose true biological single-parent father (working on one of Daniel's rigs) died in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is one in a pair of twins whose family farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, a local preacher and a self-proclaimed faith healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a pipeline to the coast, and as Eli tries to build his own religious empire. (Read More)
Themes: | adoptionmoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | campfirechurchtrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationship |
Period: | 1920s1930s |
Story: | crossunderwater sceneorphanswimmingreference to jesus christprayercafehorseunderwearsongcryingfiresingingphotographblood …violence (See All) |
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: | moneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplanetrainrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | nursesoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1920s1930sworld war two |
Story: | horseback ridingchristmas treeimmigrantswimmingprayercafehorsesongcryingsingingbloodkiss |
Malena is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malena in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is pres …umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | villagebicycleairplaneschooltrain |
Characters: | dancersoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | bombingwatching a movieprayerunderwearsongcryingsingingphotographdancingsexbloodkiss |
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: | theatre |
Locations: | paris francetrain |
Characters: | germansoldiersingerfather daughter relationship |
Period: | 1920s1930s |
Story: | theatre audiencebook burningeiffel tower pariswatching a movieswimmingcafesongsingingkiss |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayalmoneymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | villagebicycleairplaneschoolrestaurantbar |
Characters: | dancersoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | evacuationbombingrefugeesurvivalcafecamerasongcryingfiresingingphotographdancingsexviolenceblood …kiss (See All) |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working …but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayalmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | englandbicyclenightclubparis franceschoolrestaurantbar |
Characters: | jewjewishdancersingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | eiffel tower parisviolinistanti semitismviolincafesecretcameratitle directed by femalesongcryingsingingdancingf ratedsexkiss |
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)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | moneydeathmurder |
Locations: | campfireshipvillagebicyclebathtubairplanerestaurantbar |
Characters: | jewnursebrother sister relationshipsingerchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | horseback ridingunderwater scenesurvivalprayercafesecrethorsesongcryingsingingphotographf ratedbloodkiss |
Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is insp …ired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down. (Read More)
Themes: | hollywoodfilmmaking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplanerestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | dancernurse |
Period: | 1920s1930s |
Story: | theatre audiencefilm studiobackstagewatching a moviecafecameracryingfirephotographdancingkiss |
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a … covert operative. Or so Barris said. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | bathtubairplanerestaurantbar |
Characters: | jewjewishdancerbrother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationship |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | theatre audienceintriguebathreference to jesus christsecretcamerasongsingingphotographdancingviolencebloodkisssex |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | theatredeath |
Locations: | barhospital |
Characters: | dancersingerfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | theatre productionwatching a moviecrossunderwater sceneswimmingreference to jesus christsecrettitle directed by femalesongcryingsingingphotographdancingf ratedkiss …sex (See All) |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac …kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | moneydeathmurder |
Locations: | campfirebathtubairplanechurchrestaurantbar |
Characters: | germandancersingerfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | accordionbonfireintrigueitaliandrowningbathcafehorseunderwearsongcryingsingingphotographdancingsex …kissviolence (See All) |
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores …these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender. (Read More)
Themes: | holocaustbetrayaldeathmurder |
Locations: | bicycleairplanehospital |
Characters: | germanrussianjewjewishdancernursesoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | accordiongunfireevacuationanti semitismbombingrefugeesurvivalsongcryingfiresingingphotographdancingkissblood …violence (See All) |
Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | russianjewjewishbrother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pogromtenoraccordionanti semitismviolinbathorphansurvivalcryingfirekiss |
In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half- …broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycleairplanechurchbarhospital |
Characters: | dancernursebrother sister relationshipsingerfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | theatre audienceviolinistviolincrosspassionreference to jesus christunderwearsongcryingfiresingingdancingviolenceblood |
"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth ce …ntury into a three-hour time-frame. (Read More)
Themes: | theatrebetrayaldeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | soldiersinger |
Period: | 1920s1930sworld war two |
Story: | theatre audienceevacuationoperasongcryingfiresingingphotographf ratedkisssexblood |
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: | theatredeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | shipnightclubchurchbarhospital |
Characters: | dancernursesoldierbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | theatre audiencelandladycrossunderwater sceneimmigrantswimmingtitle directed by femalesongcryingfiresingingphotographdancingf ratedkiss …blood (See All) |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their q …uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclenightclubairplanerestaurantbar |
Characters: | jewjewishdancersingerfather daughter relationship |
Story: | evacuationcrosspassionreference to jesus christcafesecretunderwearsongfiresingingphotographdancingf ratedkissblood …sex (See All) |
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: | moneydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycleparis francetrainrestaurant |
Characters: | jewjewishdancernursebrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | swimmingcafesecretcameraunderwearsongcryingsingingphotographdancingkissbloodviolence |
Biopic of billionaire 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA a …s a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph 'Owen Brewster (I)' (qv) accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with actress 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv). From an early age however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness. (Read More)
Themes: | filmmakingmoney |
Locations: | nightclubairplanehospital |
Characters: | dancerbrother sister relationshipsingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1920s1930sworld war two |
Story: | theatre audiencebonfirewatching a moviebathcamerasongfiresingingphotographdancingbloodkiss |
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: | holocausttheatremoneymurderdeath |
Locations: | bicycleairplane |
Characters: | germanjewjewishdancersingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | theatre audiencepersecutionanti semitismrefugeesongcryingsingingphotographdancing |
Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets a …bout living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind... (Read More)
Themes: | moneydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclenightclubtrainrestaurantbar |
Characters: | dancernursesingerchildrenfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | theatre audiencewatching a moviepassioncafecamerasongcryingsingingdancing |