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A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy mar …ried couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal clerk. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of wifedrug usedrunkennessdrinkingchristmasdeathmurder |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | log cabinoceanlakewoodsforestchurchrestaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | self destructivenessalcoholicwaitressartistpriestdetectivestudentserial killerteenage boysingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | mail carriermail truckhair losspiano playerspiked drinkhouse catbeating oneselfchristmas presentchristmas treeheart bypass surgerypostal clerkrenting a roomlunch wagonbowling pinbobble head doll …reference to ted bundyford pickupbanging head against wallmetabolismpet rabbitwatching videorest stopbead curtainjob applicationmailroombirdhousepostal workerwashing a carinhalerpickleshooting uppark rangerpacific northwestgas chamberhigh school footballvancouver british columbia canadacrossword puzzlefootball coachpassing outmurder of wifetoaddigging a gravecornwoman smokertai chipost officetenantoregonmailflaskasthmabillboardloss of daughterconfessionalstonenarrated by characterhairholding handslaughingthirty somethingsalesmanseasideshovelhome movieamerican footballspiderhammertape recorderfaintingpickup truckheart attackrunawaycabinmissing personpoisonliarfbisuburbclownportraitconfessiondrowningsearchpainterswimmingprayerhallucinationpianocollegecafebeerliepaintingarrestdrinkcatwatching tvunderwearbeatingsongvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smokingbased on novelviolencefightblooddog (See All) |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of wifedrug usedrunkennessdrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | lakewoodsforestchurchrestaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | waitressteenage boysingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playerchristmas treewashing a carhome moviespiderpoisonfbisearchswimmingprayerpianocafearrestdrinkwatching tv …underwearbeatingvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smokingdogbloodfightviolence (See All) |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmas |
| Locations: | lakerestaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | waitressartiststudentsingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | christmas presentchristmas treeflaskthirty somethingliarpainterswimmingcollegecafeliepaintingdrinkwatching tvsongvoice over narration …singingcigarette smoking (See All) |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmasdeathmurder |
| Locations: | lakerestaurantbar |
| Characters: | serial killerteenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | christmas treemailroomgas chamberpost officetape recorderpickup truckfbiconfessionsearchcafepaintingarrestdrinkwatching tvunderwear …cigarette smokingbloodviolence (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: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | artistpriestteenage boysingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | passing outoregonhome moviefaintingliarconfessiondrowningsearchpainterhallucinationcafebeerliepaintingdrink …watching tvunderwearsongsingingcigarette smokingviolencefightdog (See All) |
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: | death of wifedrug usedrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | lakewoodsforestrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | waitressdetectiveserial killermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | murder of wifemailmissing personconfessionsearchswimmingcafeliearrestdrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novel …violencebloodfightdog (See All) |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set u …p the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | teenage boysingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | picklebillboardhome moviefaintingheart attackcabinliarconfessionbeerliearrestdrinkwatching tvbeatingsong …voice over narrationsingingviolence (See All) |
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmasmurderdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | lakebeachbar |
| Characters: | detectiveteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | christmas treelunch wagonpassing outspiderrunawayswimmingliedrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelblood …violencefightdog (See All) |
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingchristmasdeathmurder |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | singermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | prayerpianocafearrestdrinkunderwearbeatingsongsingingcigarette smokingdogfightviolenceblood |
In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his inte …ntion. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of wifedrug usedrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | restaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | self destructivenessteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playerspiked drinkpassing outmissing personliarsearchhallucinationpianocafebeerliedrinkwatching tvunderwearcigarette smoking …based on noveldogbloodviolence (See All) |
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: | drunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | woodsforestchurchbeach |
| Characters: | artistpriestsingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | shovelliarconfessionpainterswimmingprayerhallucinationbeerliepaintingarrestdrinkcatbeatingvoice over narration …singingbloodviolencedog (See All) |
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfi …eld pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedrug usedrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | restaurantbar |
| Characters: | detectivemother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | rest stoppickup truckmissing personliardrowningsearchprayercafebeerliearrestdrinkunderwearbeatingdog …fight (See All) |
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: | drinkingchristmasmurderdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | lakechurchbar |
| Characters: | waitressfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | christmas treepickup truckcabinliarprayerbeerliearrestdrinkwatching tvbeatingcigarette smokingdogfightblood …violence (See All) |
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | lakerestaurantbar |
| Characters: | artistfather son relationship |
| Story: | mailhome moviepickup truckpainterprayercafebeerpaintingdrinkunderwearcigarette smokingdogfight |
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, prep …aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingdeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | waitressartiststudentsingermother daughter relationship |
| Story: | crossword puzzletai chihome moviepickup truckrunawaysearchcafedrinkwatching tvsongvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smoking |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for …ever. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedrunkennessdrinkingchristmasmurderdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | christmas treeflasksalesmanamerican footballliarhallucinationcafebeerliedrinkwatching tvunderwearcigarette smokingdogblood |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drinkingdeath |
| Locations: | beachbar |
| Characters: | studentteenage boysingermother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pickup truckportraitdrowningpainterswimminghallucinationpaintingdrinkwatching tvunderwearsongsingingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
In the third movie of Rodriguez's "Mariachi" trilogy, a Mexican drug lord pretends to overthrow the Mexican government, and is connected to a corrupt CIA agent who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government.
| Themes: | death of wifedrunkennessdrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | churchbar |
| Characters: | waitresssingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | piano playermurder of wifeconfessionaltape recorderpickup truckfbiconfessionprayerpianocafedrinkwatching tvunderwearsingingcigarette smoking …bloodviolencefightdog (See All) |
When Sam Merrick is beaten up by local bully George Tooney, Sam's older brother Rocky and his friends Clyde and Marty plan to pretend it's Sam's birthday to "invite" George on a boat trip in which they would dare him to strip naked, jump in the lake, and run home naked. But when Sam, his girlfriend …Millie, Rocky, and Clyde see George as not much of a bad guy, they want to call off the plan, but Marty refuses. Will the plan go ahead as planned? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | lakewoodsforestbar |
| Characters: | studentteenage boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | oregonpickup truckliardrowningbeerliedrinkbeatingcigarette smokingbloodviolence |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr …eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedrug usedrunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | restaurantbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicsingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | piano playerholding handsliarpianocafebeerliedrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingsongvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smoking …fightbloodviolence (See All) |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
| Themes: | drinkingdeath |
| Locations: | lakerestaurantbar |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | tenantmailshovelpickup truckheart attackcafebeerpaintingdrinkwatching tvdog |
The new flatmate of three preexisting roommates turns up mysteriously dead but in possession of a large sum of money. When the roommates decide to keep it for themselves, their action sets in motion a destructive chain of events that spiral out of control.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | woods |
| Characters: | priestdetective |
| Story: | digging a gravehome moviehammerliarliedrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingvoice over narrationviolencebloodfight |
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: | death of wifedrunkennessdrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | studentteenage boysingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playerflasklaughingtape recorderpianocollegecafebeerliedrinkunderwearsongsingingcigarette smokingblood |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by … 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | oceanwoodsforestchurchrestaurantbeach |
| Characters: | waitresspriestfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playerfaintingliarsuburbclowndrowningsearchswimmingprayerpianocafeliepaintingarrestcat …voice over narrationfightdog (See All) |
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: | drinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicwaitresssingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | mailasthmahome movieamerican footballrunawayprayercafearrestdrinkbeatingsongsingingcigarette smokingbased on novelfight …blood (See All) |
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madl …y in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmasdeathmurder |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | restaurantbeach |
| Characters: | artistteenage boysingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | runawaypoisonpainterswimmingcafebeerpaintingarrestdrinkwatching tvunderwearvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelviolence …bloodfight (See All) |
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced …with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | lakewoodsforestbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicserial killerfather son relationship |
| Story: | tape recorderliarsuburbdrowningswimmingbeerliearrestdrinkcatunderwearcigarette smokingbased on novelblooddog |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an …d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of wifedrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | oceanchurchrestaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | priestfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | heart attackliarsearchswimmingcafebeerliearrestdrinkwatching tvsingingcigarette smokingfight |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hi …s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of wifedrunkennessdrinkingmurder |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | murder of wifeshovelspiderhammerhallucinationdrinkcatunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novelblood |
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: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | lakerestaurant |
| Characters: | studentsingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | shovelhome moviemissing personsearchswimmingcollegecafedrinkunderwearsongsingingcigarette smokingviolencedogblood |
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: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmasdeath |
| Locations: | restaurantbar |
| Characters: | waitresspriestteenage boysingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | christmas presentchristmas treepassing outfaintingswimmingprayercafedrinkcatbeatingsongsingingcigarette smokingbased on noveldog …fightblood (See All) |
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: | drunkennessdrinking |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | artistpriestmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | mailconfessionalholding handssalesmanliarsuburbconfessionpainterhallucinationcafeliepaintingdrinkwatching tvvoice over narration …cigarette smokingfightdog (See All) |
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Star …ting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant. (Read More)
| Themes: | drug usedrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | self destructivenessartistmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | shooting upcrossword puzzlepickup truckpainterswimmingcafebeerliepaintingdrinkwatching tvunderwearvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novel …fightblood (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: | drinkingchristmasdeath |
| Locations: | churchrestaurant |
| Characters: | prieststudentsingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playermailfaintingliarconfessionsearchprayerpianoliearrestdrinkunderwearsongsingingcigarette smoking …fightblood (See All) |
To escape an abusive boyfriend, without announcing her plans in advance, Jean Gilkyson takes her young daughter Griff to the Wyoming ranch of her father-in-law, Einar. Jean and Einar are disaffected, as he blames her for the death of his son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitc …h, who was attacked by a bear, and Einar does not know that he has a granddaughter. While Mitch heals and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving Griff. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | log cabinrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | waitressmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | loss of daughterpickup truckrunawayliarcafeliedrinkcatunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingfightviolence |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s …eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
| Themes: | drinking |
| Locations: | lakechurchbar |
| Characters: | studentteenage boysingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | mailflaskhome movieprayercollegearrestdrinkunderwearbeatingsongsingingfightdogviolence |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
| Themes: | death of wifedrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | churchbeach |
| Characters: | priestsingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playershovelhammerliarpainterprayerpianoliedrinkunderwearbeatingsongsingingcigarette smokingdog …fightviolenceblood (See All) |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, … even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingmurder |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | waitressartistsingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | salesmanclownpainterbeerliedrinkwatching tvunderwearcigarette smokingblooddog |
Mort Rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly divorce from his wife of ten years, Amy. Alone and bitter in his cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named John Shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming Rainey stole his story. Mort says he can prove the st …ory belongs to him and not Shooter, but while Mort digs around for the magazine which published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen around Shooter. Mort's dog dies, people begin to die, and his divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. It seems that Shooter has Mort over a barrel, but perhaps Mort has his own ideas on how to resolve all the problems that plague him lately. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | lakewoodsrestaurant |
| Characters: | detective |
| Story: | digging a gravecornpost officeshovelfaintingcabinhallucinationcafedrinkunderwearvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on noveldogfight …blood (See All) |
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's ste …ady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). (Read More)
| Themes: | christmasdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | lakerestaurant |
| Characters: | alcoholicwaitressteenage boysingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | piano playerchristmas presenthigh school footballflaskamerican footballpickup truckcollegecafebeerwatching tvsongsingingcigarette smokingbased on novelfight |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only …companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
| Themes: | death of wifedrinkingdeathmurder |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | singermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | passing outmurder of wifehammertape recorderfaintingprayerhallucinationcafedrinkwatching tvbeatingsongvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smoking …bloodviolencedogfight (See All) |
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a … good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter. (Read More)
| Themes: | drunkennessdrinkingchristmasdeathmurder |
| Locations: | restaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | serial killersingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | christmas treepostal workerheart attackswimmingpianocafebeerdrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingsongsingingcigarette smokingdog …bloodviolence (See All) |
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: | death of wifedrug usedrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | oceanwoodsforestrestaurantbeachbar |
| Characters: | waitresssingerfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | woman smokertape recorderprayerpianocafearrestdrinkcatsongsingingcigarette smokingbased on noveldogbloodfight |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con …vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | teenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | loss of daughterthirty somethingpickup truckheart attackswimmingprayercafedrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smokingblood |
A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a traveling carnival globe of death and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady, New York, desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes) who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt r …ider's son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an ambitious police officer, Avery Cross, (Bradley Cooper) looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. The sweeping drama unfolds over fifteen years as the sins of the past haunt the present days lives of two high school boys wrestling with the legacy they've inherited. The only refuge is found in the place beyond the pines. (Read More)
| Themes: | drug usedrinkingdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | forestchurchrestaurant |
| Characters: | waitressstudentteenage boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | tape recorderpickup truckrunawaysearchprayercafearrestdrinkwatching tvbeatingcigarette smokingdogbloodviolence |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de …tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingdeathmurder |
| Locations: | restaurantbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicwaitressdetectivefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | holding handspickup truckprayerhallucinationcafebeerliedrinkwatching tvbeatingcigarette smokingviolenceblooddog |
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 b… (Read More)
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicartistpriestteenage boysingerfather son relationship |
| Story: | confessionalamerican footballliarconfessionswimmingcafeliearrestdrinkwatching tvbeatingsongvoice over narrationsingingcigarette smoking …fightviolence (See All) |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads en …ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | death of wifedrug usedrinkingdeath |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | singerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | shooting upfaintingpickup truckheart attackswimmingprayerhallucinationpianopaintingdrinkbeatingsongsingingcigarette smokingbased on novel …blood (See All) |
Two Irish brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he comes to catching the … Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingmurderdeath |
| Locations: | churchrestaurantbar |
| Characters: | priestdetective |
| Story: | confessionaltape recorderfbisuburbconfessionprayercafedrinkcatwatching tvunderwearvoice over narrationcigarette smokingfightviolence …blood (See All) |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his … mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | drug usedrunkennessdrinkingdeathmurder |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | churchrestaurant |
| Characters: | self destructivenessprieststudentteenage boy |
| Story: | confessionalconfessionswimmingprayerhallucinationcafearrestdrinkwatching tvunderwearbeatingvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelblood …fight (See All) |
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