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On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. β¦A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. (Read More)
Themes: | end of friendship wealth fashion cannibalism greed break up rivalry paranoia anger travel deception drunkenness betrayal revenge friendship |
Mood: | ambivalence rain |
Locations: | san francisco california sex in a bathroom office police station nightclub snow restaurant |
Characters: | jewish american betrayal by friend boyfriend girlfriend relationship go go girl chinese american girlfriend interracial relationship best friend jewish lawyer brother brother relationship |
Period: | zip line year 2003 2000s |
Story: | computer hacker woman in bra and panties harvard university young entrepreneur fraternity pledge fraternity party breaking up with girlfriend twin brother palo alto california computer crash laptop computer fire extinguisher reference to victoria's secret reference to teddy roosevelt corrupting influence of capitalism β¦reference to irving berlin sarcasm taken literally freshman year school newspaper intellectual property anti materialism reference to cole porter cambridge massachusetts falling into a pool cracking stanford university boat race algorithm dialogue driven storyline social awkwardness business tycoon reference to disneyland friendless college roommate asthma inhaler disloyalty private club cracker doorknob wild party opportunist creator deposition elitism privilege blown cover competitiveness harvard business partner social network strip poker drinking game indifference rudeness rich kid investment rowing underage sex intern check blog hacking noise dialogue driven reference to google identical twins playing a video game business card creation macguffin interracial kiss hazing popularity entrepreneur narcissism facebook crew fraternity lawsuit billionaire dual role lecture website bong hacker marijuana joint dormitory contract arrogance lying psychotic geek misogyny alienation police raid raised middle finger insult e mail rowboat job interview interracial friendship underage drinking interracial romance ambition scene during opening credits reference to adolf hitler what happened to epilogue loyalty nerd class differences pub racing twin chicken manipulation prank college student champagne character repeating someone else's dialogue cigar smoking pantyhose false accusation apology nonlinear timeline internet cocaine montage california new york bra competition classroom vomiting arrest computer slow motion scene cell phone based on book fire based on true story panties three word title lesbian kiss interracial sex cigarette smoking bare chested male sex (See All) |
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world ('Harrison Ford (I)' (qv) and 'Gary Oldman (I)' (qv)) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing β¦to destroy each other. A young superstar ('Liam Hemsworth' (qv)), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth greed rivalry paranoia anger deception drunkenness betrayal friendship revenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | office nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | computer hacker entrepreneur e mail job interview scene during opening credits class differences manipulation champagne cigar smoking nonlinear timeline montage arrest slow motion scene cell phone cigarette smoking β¦bare chested male (See All) |
1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, Johnβ¦ny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger? (Read More)
Themes: | greed drunkenness friendship revenge |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship jewish lawyer brother brother relationship |
Period: | year 2003 |
Story: | underage sex bong marijuana joint raised middle finger underage drinking scene during opening credits what happened to epilogue character repeating someone else's dialogue nonlinear timeline montage california arrest slow motion scene cell phone based on true story β¦cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are drugged out geniuses with lots of ideas but they can never seem to get their act together. But when they come up with the idea to create a porn site - and charge for it (the first ever site to do so), their idea may be too lucrative for them to handle. Straight-laced⦠business man, Jack Harris, is brought in to team up with them and turn their profitable idea into a legit business. Making money in the pornography industry is pretty easy, but staying true to yourself when surrounded by that much wealth, luxury, sex, crime and temptations, is much harder. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth greed paranoia deception betrayal |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | lawyer |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | laptop computer entrepreneur contract raised middle finger interracial friendship what happened to epilogue character repeating someone else's dialogue nonlinear timeline internet cocaine slow motion scene cell phone based on true story cigarette smoking bare chested male β¦sex (See All) |
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Themes: | wealth fashion cannibalism greed break up rivalry paranoia anger deception drunkenness friendship revenge |
Locations: | office nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | jewish american boyfriend girlfriend relationship lawyer |
Story: | woman in bra and panties harvard university business card narcissism alienation scene during opening credits champagne cigar smoking cocaine montage new york bra cell phone fire panties β¦cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggeβ¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | greed paranoia anger deception drunkenness betrayal friendship revenge |
Locations: | police station nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship interracial relationship jewish brother brother relationship |
Story: | reference to google crew marijuana joint police raid interracial friendship scene during opening credits manipulation cigar smoking cocaine montage arrest computer cell phone fire cigarette smoking β¦bare chested male (See All) |
This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or coβ¦mpletely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down... (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | office snow |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | computer hacker palo alto california intern business card website lying e mail ambition cigar smoking apology nonlinear timeline internet classroom computer slow motion scene β¦based on true story (See All) |
Two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in ovβ¦er their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia anger deception drunkenness betrayal friendship revenge |
Locations: | nightclub snow restaurant |
Characters: | jewish american boyfriend girlfriend relationship interracial relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | business partner entrepreneur website contract what happened to epilogue nonlinear timeline internet montage arrest slow motion scene cell phone fire based on true story cigarette smoking bare chested male |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Themes: | paranoia anger deception |
Locations: | san francisco california |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | computer hacker laptop computer fire extinguisher hacker e mail manipulation internet california bra arrest computer |
On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and unβ¦derhanded schemes, his decisions eventually threaten the livelihood of his scrupulous father. Faced with this dilemma, Fox questions his loyalties. (Read More)
Themes: | greed rivalry betrayal revenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | office snow restaurant |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | business tycoon e mail ambition class differences manipulation cigar smoking montage arrest computer cell phone cigarette smoking bare chested male sex |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | wealth rivalry drunkenness friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | snow restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend lawyer |
Story: | laptop computer website e mail champagne cigar smoking internet montage bra computer cell phone three word title cigarette smoking sex |
Nicky Spurgeon is an extremely accomplished con man who takes an amateur con artist, Jess, under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession of being a liar and a cheater for a living, he realizes that deception and love are things that don't go together. They β¦split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy. (Read More)
Themes: | rivalry deception drunkenness betrayal revenge friendship |
Locations: | nightclub snow restaurant |
Characters: | interracial relationship |
Story: | woman in bra and panties interracial kiss billionaire interracial romance scene during opening credits character repeating someone else's dialogue montage slow motion scene cell phone interracial sex bare chested male |
Based on the true story of Daniel Lugo ('Mark Wahlberg (I)' (qv)) a Miami bodybuilder who wants to live the American dream. He would like to have the money that other people have. So he enlists the help of fellow bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal ('Anthony Mackie' (qv)) and ex-convict, Christian bodybuildeβ¦r Paul Doyle ('Dwayne Johnson (I)' (qv)). Their kidnapping and extortion scheme goes terribly wrong since they have muscles for brains and they're left to haphazardly try to hold onto the elusive American dream. (Read More)
Themes: | greed deception drunkenness revenge friendship |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship interracial relationship jewish |
Story: | lying police raid raised middle finger interracial friendship what happened to epilogue manipulation character repeating someone else's dialogue cigar smoking nonlinear timeline cocaine montage arrest slow motion scene cell phone fire β¦based on true story panties three word title interracial sex bare chested male (See All) |
Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy 'James Hunt (II)' (qv) (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver 'Niki Lauda' (qv) (Bruhl). The stoβ¦ry follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die. (Read More)
Themes: | break up rivalry |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship brother brother relationship |
Story: | competitiveness marijuana joint raised middle finger insult what happened to epilogue racing champagne character repeating someone else's dialogue nonlinear timeline new york vomiting slow motion scene fire based on true story cigarette smoking β¦bare chested male (See All) |
This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gaβ¦tes. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication's system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth paranoia deception betrayal friendship |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend best friend |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | entrepreneur billionaire website interracial friendship character repeating someone else's dialogue internet montage competition arrest computer |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fouβ¦r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth break up rivalry anger betrayal revenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend |
Story: | dialogue driven storyline dialogue driven apology nonlinear timeline internet bra computer slow motion scene panties cigarette smoking |
Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in a nuclear power plant in China. This opportunity will reunite him witβ¦h an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as an arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life. (Read More)
Themes: | deception betrayal |
Locations: | nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship interracial relationship |
Story: | computer hacker interracial kiss hacker police raid e mail interracial friendship character repeating someone else's dialogue computer slow motion scene cell phone interracial sex bare chested male |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miserβ¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia anger deception betrayal friendship revenge |
Locations: | police station nightclub snow restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship lawyer |
Story: | narcissism bong police raid manipulation character repeating someone else's dialogue false accusation cocaine montage bra arrest slow motion scene cell phone fire panties bare chested male β¦sex (See All) |
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist ('Daniel Craig (I)' (qv)), as he investigates the disappearance of a wealthy patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lβ¦isbeth Salander ('Rooney Mara' (qv)). As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | deception revenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police station snow |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | computer hacker lawsuit hacker character repeating someone else's dialogue computer slow motion scene panties lesbian kiss cigarette smoking bare chested male |
Themes: | break up anger friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police station restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship best friend lawyer brother brother relationship |
Story: | lawsuit dormitory contract psychotic scene during opening credits college student apology vomiting slow motion scene panties interracial sex cigarette smoking bare chested male sex |
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: | fashion break up rivalry anger betrayal friendship |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | indifference job interview twin champagne apology montage bra computer cell phone panties |
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him and Vinceβ¦nt's girlfriend Carmen on a tour through the country to work the pool halls. However, Vincent's tendency to show off his talent and by doing so warning off the players and losing money, soon leads to a confrontation with Eddie. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth anger |
Locations: | police station snow restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend |
Story: | playing a video game arrogance twin cocaine montage competition computer panties cigarette smoking sex |
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 friβ¦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: | drunkenness friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclub snow restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship chinese american interracial relationship best friend |
Story: | arrogance interracial friendship interracial romance apology montage vomiting cell phone fire panties lesbian kiss interracial sex cigarette smoking |
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club's trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as hiβ¦s best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth friendship |
Story: | harvard university fraternity pledge harvard rowing hazing fraternity rowboat class differences arrest computer |
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Themes: | anger |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | woman in bra and panties interracial kiss scene during opening credits what happened to epilogue loyalty manipulation character repeating someone else's dialogue arrest slow motion scene based on true story panties cigarette smoking bare chested male |
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the⦠capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the Government after all... (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia deception drunkenness betrayal revenge friendship |
Locations: | san francisco california office snow restaurant |
Story: | computer hacker business card macguffin hacker police raid scene during opening credits college student montage arrest computer |
In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation⦠of Hanssen's sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O'Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O'Neill's wife resents Hanssen's intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film's story. Can O'Neill help catch red-handed "the worst spy in history" and hold onto his personal life? (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia deception drunkenness betrayal |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | office snow |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | hacker lying what happened to epilogue loyalty manipulation internet arrest computer cell phone based on true story |
In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?
Themes: | greed anger deception drunkenness betrayal friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | san francisco california |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend best friend |
Story: | disloyalty rudeness narcissism misogyny insult ambition champagne bra sex |
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial β¦journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. (Read More)
Themes: | greed drunkenness revenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | jewish lawyer brother brother relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | computer hacker business tycoon reference to google hacker contract misogyny e mail rowboat pantyhose false accusation apology montage computer fire panties β¦cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Cole is an aspiring DJ who spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James, who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, wheβ¦n Cole starts falling for James' much younger girlfriend, Sophie. With Cole's forbidden relationship intensifying and his friendships unraveling, he must choose between love, loyalty, and the future he is destined for. (Read More)
Themes: | greed drunkenness friendship |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend best friend |
Story: | narcissism marijuana joint raised middle finger ambition loyalty character repeating someone else's dialogue apology vomiting slow motion scene fire bare chested male |
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Themes: | paranoia anger |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Period: | year 2003 2000s |
Story: | cambridge massachusetts blown cover lecture e mail reference to adolf hitler twin cigar smoking false accusation apology internet montage computer cell phone based on true story |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Themes: | paranoia anger drunkenness betrayal revenge friendship |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship brother brother relationship |
Story: | marijuana joint underage drinking character repeating someone else's dialogue cocaine california vomiting arrest slow motion scene three word title cigarette smoking bare chested male |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI traβ¦cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Themes: | travel deception betrayal revenge |
Locations: | snow restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship lawyer |
Story: | underage sex job interview what happened to epilogue nerd champagne character repeating someone else's dialogue nonlinear timeline montage california bra classroom vomiting arrest based on true story cigarette smoking β¦bare chested male (See All) |
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlfβ¦riend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience. (Read More)
Themes: | break up anger |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend brother brother relationship |
Story: | underage sex business card nonlinear timeline bra classroom vomiting slow motion scene cell phone based on book fire panties sex |
A romantic drama set in New York City during the summer of 2001, where Tyler, a rebellious young man, meets Ally through a twist of fate. Her spirit helps him heal after a family tragedy, though soon the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.
Themes: | anger |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship best friend brother brother relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | fire extinguisher hazing college student new york classroom vomiting arrest cigarette smoking bare chested male |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bostoβ¦n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia deception drunkenness betrayal friendship revenge |
Locations: | office police station nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | lawyer brother brother relationship |
Story: | what happened to epilogue loyalty manipulation character repeating someone else's dialogue nonlinear timeline cocaine arrest based on book based on true story cigarette smoking |
Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club. Soon afterward, Max, his good friend and financial partner, comes along with an offer Nick can't β¦refuse: A historical and priceless French scepter has been discovered while being smuggled into the country. It is now under massive surveillance in the Montreal Customs House, and soon to be returned to France. Nick has to team up with Max's man inside, the young, talented and aggressive thief Jack Teller to get the precious item. Only one question remains: Who will trick whom out of their share? (Read More)
Themes: | deception betrayal |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship interracial relationship |
Story: | computer hacker laptop computer macguffin hacker rowboat interracial romance champagne cell phone fire bare chested male |
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert daβ¦ta, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them? (Read More)
Themes: | wealth break up deception drunkenness betrayal friendship |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship lawyer |
Story: | computer hacker disloyalty hacking e mail loyalty apology internet montage arrest computer cell phone three word title bare chested male sex |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) β¦is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
Themes: | anger deception drunkenness betrayal friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclub restaurant |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | what happened to epilogue manipulation champagne character repeating someone else's dialogue cigar smoking pantyhose false accusation nonlinear timeline montage arrest slow motion scene fire based on true story panties cigarette smoking β¦bare chested male (See All) |
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from β¦a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. (Read More)
Themes: | greed drunkenness betrayal revenge friendship |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | best friend |
Story: | harvard university cambridge massachusetts harvard reference to google lecture arrogance nonlinear timeline competition slow motion scene based on book based on true story |
Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull "10s" every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don't compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves alβ¦one in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women. (Read More)
Themes: | break up friendship |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | laptop computer facebook marijuana joint manipulation college student character repeating someone else's dialogue classroom computer slow motion scene bare chested male sex |
In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven yeβ¦ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Themes: | rivalry paranoia deception drunkenness betrayal |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend interracial relationship lawyer |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | contract manipulation character repeating someone else's dialogue false accusation new york arrest slow motion scene cell phone bare chested male |
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Archor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begiβ¦ns to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia deception betrayal friendship |
Locations: | office police station |
Story: | check marijuana joint scene during opening credits manipulation cigar smoking false accusation cocaine california vomiting arrest cell phone cigarette smoking bare chested male |
We like Florence: she's considerate, sweet, pretty, and terrific with kids and dogs. She's twenty-five, personal assistant to an L.A. family that's off on vacation. Her boss's brother comes in from New York City, fresh from a stay at an asylum, to take care of the house. He's Roger, a forty-year-old⦠carpenter, gone from L.A. for fifteen years. He arrives, doesn't drive, and needs Florence's help, especially with the family's dog. He's also connecting with former band-mates - two men and one woman with whom he has a history. He over-analyzes, has a short fuse, and doesn't laugh at himself easily. As he navigates past and present, he's his own saboteur. And what of Florence? is Roger one more responsibility for her or something else? (Read More)
Themes: | anger drunkenness friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | best friend jewish brother brother relationship |
Story: | check narcissism champagne pantyhose apology cocaine montage california bra computer cell phone panties cigarette smoking bare chested male sex |
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 sβ¦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)
Characters: | lawyer brother brother relationship |
Story: | harvard university cambridge massachusetts harvard check rowboat college student montage competition classroom arrest fire based on true story three word title sex |
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, workinβ¦g together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth greed deception drunkenness friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police station nightclub |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship girlfriend jewish |
Story: | underage drinking ambition reference to adolf hitler class differences champagne slow motion scene based on true story panties three word title lesbian kiss cigarette smoking bare chested male |
Dade Murphy was a hacker even as a kid in Seattle. He got arrested for the computer virus that he planted and was banned from using any computer until the age of 18.Then he moves to New York to meet a group of hackers. He also falls in love with Kate Libby.
Themes: | rivalry |
Story: | computer hacker laptop computer hacker police raid prank character repeating someone else's dialogue internet arrest computer cigarette smoking bare chested male |
High school teacher, Rainer Wegner, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He's less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more iβ¦nvested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves? (Read More)
Themes: | betrayal friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | school newspaper playing a video game website insult e mail apology montage classroom vomiting arrest computer cell phone based on true story cigarette smoking bare chested male β¦sex (See All) |
Since Malibu brat Poppy Moore's mom passed away, she has pushed her rich, usually absent dad Gerry shamelessly. When his patience wears out, she's shipped off to her mother's former English boarding school for girls, Abbey Mount. On her first day she makes enemies of most dorm mates, especially domiβ¦nant lacrosse school captain Harriet, and the school's principal Mrs. Kingsley. Unwilling to accept the strict regime, she decides to misbehave and take the blame for everyone until she's dismissed. The school only appealing feature for her is Kingsley's dashing son Freddie. When the dream prince transfers his favor from ambitious, uptight Harriet to unruly Poppy, that changes everything. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth rivalry friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | best friend |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | rich kid popularity insult e mail underage drinking prank apology california vomiting fire |
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 madlβ¦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: | wealth paranoia anger drunkenness friendship revenge |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship lawyer |
Story: | check manipulation nonlinear timeline cocaine california bra classroom arrest computer fire panties cigarette smoking sex |