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Victor Novarski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport till the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people whβ¦o work there until he can leave. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water black comedy |
Themes: | unrequited love surveillance unfaithfulness theft extramarital affair wedding adultery ghost money infidelity |
Locations: | canada kitchen elevator airport taxi airplane snow hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | airplane stewardess chinese security guard thief musician policeman police |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | immigration agent fast food restaurant surveillance camera illegal immigrant jfk international airport queens new york city stranded at an airport airport terminal snack food italian restaurant u.s. department of homeland security loosely based on a true story border protection man without a country reference to burger king blinding light β¦u.s. customs security risk reference to stevie wonder building contractor go between trekkie drug smuggler potato chip stuck croissant legality meet cute homeland security military coup illegality reference to napoleon albanian prescription asian indian motivational queens new york city fictional country pager juggler visa renovation interpreter times square manhattan new york city marriage engagement cop killer coward flight attendant passenger convention united states of america kgb language barrier bathrobe department store hamburger razor falling saxophone x ray jazz music suit men's bathroom escalator construction worker autograph promotion romania bureaucracy translator asylum bookstore card playing english senator construction site shoes pills janitor promise passport apple goat walkie talkie security camera vandalism medicine shaving tv news cia refugee manipulation product placement suitcase pay phone immigration news report no opening credits man with glasses immigrant toilet eating montage woman manhattan new york city handcuffs book painting arrest watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call based on true story panties title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking two word title kiss (See All) |
Okwe is an illegal Nigerian immigrant leading a hard life and struggling to survive in London's underground. He works as a hotel receptionist in the night time and as he has a doctor degree he practices some medicine, during the day, in a very odd way. Besides that he must constantly escape from Immβ¦igration officers. One day Okwe discovers by chance an illegal scheme of surgeries is being lead by Juan, his boss in the hotel. Juan quickly comes up with a tempting proposal: if Okwe accepts to perform the illegal surgeries he makes a lot of money and gets legalized situation in the U.K. Can Okwe keep his moral values intact? (Read More)
Themes: | theft money |
Locations: | kitchen airport taxi hotel new york city |
Characters: | chinese security guard thief policeman police |
Story: | immigration agent surveillance camera illegal immigrant language barrier janitor passport security camera medicine refugee immigration immigrant toilet panties photograph cigarette smoking |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark β¦question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | kitchen elevator airport snow hotel bar new york city |
Characters: | thief police |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | surveillance camera bookstore security camera tv news manipulation news report man with glasses eating woman manhattan new york city book arrest watching tv food cell phone β¦telephone call photograph cigarette smoking two word title kiss (See All) |
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detaiβ¦l and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance unfaithfulness extramarital affair adultery ghost money infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airport taxi airplane hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | airplane stewardess |
Story: | surveillance camera security risk reference to napoleon english passport tv news cia suitcase no opening credits eating book arrest watching tv computer food β¦cell phone telephone call title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking kiss (See All) |
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: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airport taxi hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | surveillance camera times square manhattan new york city men's bathroom passport security camera shaving manhattan new york city book computer panties photograph cigarette smoking kiss |
David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. Day in and day out he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other people's money with no escape in sight. The only glimmer of excitement is his fliβ¦rtatious work crush Kelly Campbell who soon lures him into the scheme of a lifetime. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash...only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. With the bandits blowing the millions on lavish and ridiculous luxuries, they leave behind a glaring trail of evidence. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hilarious hit man, Mike McKinney, and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | surveillance money |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane hotel bar |
Characters: | security guard thief police |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | surveillance camera stuck pager department store walkie talkie security camera manipulation pay phone news report no opening credits montage handcuffs painting arrest watching tv β¦based on true story photograph (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 qβ¦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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | wedding money |
Locations: | kitchen elevator taxi airplane hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | chinese |
Story: | surveillance camera building contractor department store card playing construction site passport tv news cia suitcase eating woman manhattan new york city handcuffs watching tv computer β¦food cell phone telephone call photograph kiss (See All) |
In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the coβ¦mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane snow hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | police |
Story: | kgb bureaucracy translator passport cia news report no opening credits handcuffs painting arrest watching tv telephone call based on true story photograph cigarette smoking |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a cafe with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiaβ¦tes a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. (Read More)
Locations: | airport taxi airplane restaurant new york city |
Characters: | policeman police |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | asian indian passport goat tv news cia suitcase man with glasses montage manhattan new york city arrest watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call β¦photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Themes: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airport airplane snow hotel bar |
Characters: | airplane stewardess |
Story: | passenger escalator suitcase eating montage woman computer food cell phone telephone call photograph kiss |
In Connecticut, lonely widowed Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New Yβ¦ork University, where he is to give a lecture about a paper on which he is co-author. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna arrives at the apartment from Michigan. He invites her to stay in Tarek's room and while trying to get Tarek released, Walter and Mouna get close to each other and he finds reasons to feel life can be exciting and worth living again. (Read More)
Locations: | elevator airport taxi restaurant new york city |
Characters: | musician policeman police |
Story: | illegal immigrant queens new york city times square manhattan new york city saxophone jazz music asylum shaving immigration man with glasses immigrant manhattan new york city handcuffs book arrest food β¦cell phone telephone call photograph kiss (See All) |
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: | surveillance money |
Locations: | elevator snow |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | surveillance camera pager kgb escalator bookstore tv news cia manipulation eating painting arrest watching tv computer food cell phone β¦based on true story title spoken by character photograph kiss (See All) |
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, anβ¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness theft extramarital affair wedding adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | taxi hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | thief policeman police |
Story: | marriage engagement autograph construction site shoes pills arrest watching tv telephone call photograph cigarette smoking kiss |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and maβ¦ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
Themes: | theft money |
Locations: | airport taxi hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | thief policeman police |
Story: | illegal immigrant times square manhattan new york city men's bathroom tv news product placement pay phone news report immigrant manhattan new york city handcuffs arrest watching tv cell phone telephone call panties β¦title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enorβ¦mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | theft wedding money |
Locations: | elevator taxi snow hotel |
Characters: | thief policeman police |
Story: | fictional country visa coward refugee pay phone no opening credits immigrant eating montage book painting arrest food telephone call title spoken by character β¦photograph cigarette smoking kiss (See All) |
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: | theft money |
Locations: | elevator airport taxi airplane hotel |
Story: | illegality united states of america bureaucracy bookstore passport tv news refugee montage woman book painting arrest computer telephone call based on true story β¦photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American⦠humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | wedding money |
Locations: | elevator airport airplane hotel bar new york city |
Characters: | security guard |
Story: | jfk international airport queens new york city times square manhattan new york city united states of america escalator passport tv news suitcase pay phone man with glasses toilet eating woman manhattan new york city handcuffs painting β¦arrest watching tv food telephone call photograph (See All) |
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of thaβ¦t time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | airport airplane hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | airplane stewardess policeman police |
Story: | pager renovation flight attendant escalator english shoes promise pay phone montage arrest watching tv food telephone call cigarette smoking two word title β¦kiss (See All) |
John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. Wβ¦hen they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | kitchen restaurant |
Story: | illegal immigrant language barrier manipulation immigration immigrant eating woman watching tv food cell phone telephone call kiss |
In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets oβ¦f cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | illegal immigrant u.s. customs queens new york city visa x ray passport medicine immigrant toilet telephone call photograph |
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdeβ¦red. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance unfaithfulness theft extramarital affair adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airplane snow hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | security guard |
Story: | united states of america walkie talkie security camera suitcase pay phone montage woman cell phone title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking two word title |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken⦠behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | theft wedding money |
Locations: | snow hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | thief musician |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | shoes pay phone toilet eating woman book watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call panties photograph cigarette smoking kiss |
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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance extramarital affair adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane snow hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | security guard thief police |
Story: | motivational flight attendant department store product placement suitcase pay phone toilet montage manhattan new york city handcuffs arrest based on true story photograph cigarette smoking |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | unfaithfulness theft extramarital affair wedding adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airplane restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | thief policeman |
Story: | surveillance camera men's bathroom pills promise passport security camera pay phone no opening credits eating montage woman manhattan new york city handcuffs arrest watching tv β¦food telephone call based on true story panties title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking kiss (See All) |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is thβ¦e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance unfaithfulness extramarital affair adultery infidelity |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane restaurant bar |
Story: | surveillance camera pager convention construction site tv news cia product placement pay phone news report no opening credits book cell phone telephone call title spoken by character photograph β¦cigarette smoking (See All) |
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal whβ¦o has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover? (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance extramarital affair money infidelity |
Locations: | kitchen elevator airport restaurant bar |
Characters: | policeman police |
Story: | surveillance camera homeland security prescription cop killer translator pills product placement news report no opening credits man with glasses eating montage handcuffs arrest watching tv β¦computer food cell phone telephone call panties title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking two word title kiss (See All) |
A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country β¦odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. (Read More)
Themes: | theft wedding |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane snow hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | thief |
Story: | apple suitcase pay phone eating woman computer food cell phone telephone call panties kiss |
SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.
Themes: | surveillance theft money |
Locations: | elevator airport airplane snow hotel bar new york city |
Characters: | chinese security guard |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | surveillance camera illegal immigrant prescription visa x ray promise passport security camera tv news cia refugee montage watching tv computer cell phone β¦telephone call based on true story title spoken by character photograph kiss (See All) |
Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specificallβ¦y Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness theft extramarital affair adultery infidelity |
Locations: | kitchen elevator hotel restaurant |
Characters: | security guard thief police |
Story: | surveillance camera department store escalator product placement no opening credits man with glasses toilet handcuffs book arrest watching tv computer cell phone photograph cigarette smoking |
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)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | adultery |
Locations: | elevator taxi hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | times square manhattan new york city shoes man with glasses eating montage woman manhattan new york city book computer food cell phone telephone call panties photograph kiss |
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.
Locations: | airport airplane hotel |
Characters: | security guard thief police |
Story: | senator passport medicine manipulation pay phone news report woman handcuffs arrest watching tv computer photograph |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to aβ¦n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness theft extramarital affair adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | elevator taxi hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | security guard thief policeman police |
Story: | eating watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call cigarette smoking kiss |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as β¦he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | snow restaurant bar |
Characters: | chinese policeman police |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | illegal immigrant construction worker construction site pills medicine tv news immigrant toilet eating montage arrest watching tv food cell phone telephone call β¦title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking kiss (See All) |
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the coβ¦de to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | theft money |
Locations: | elevator airport airplane hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | chinese thief policeman police |
Story: | united states of america razor men's bathroom escalator shaving no opening credits toilet eating book painting arrest watching tv computer food cell phone β¦telephone call title spoken by character photograph kiss (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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | elevator airport taxi airplane snow hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | security guard |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | convention translator product placement no opening credits man with glasses montage handcuffs arrest cell phone telephone call based on true story title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hiβ¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery infidelity |
Locations: | airport airplane hotel bar |
Characters: | police |
Story: | united states of america hamburger falling promise shaving pay phone woman watching tv telephone call two word title kiss |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicatβ¦e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery infidelity |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane restaurant bar new york city |
Story: | marriage engagement eating book watching tv food cell phone telephone call photograph cigarette smoking kiss |
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 Alβ¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airport restaurant bar |
Characters: | policeman police |
Story: | surveillance camera falling passport walkie talkie tv news man with glasses eating arrest watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call photograph cigarette smoking |
After the Kingsman headquarters are blown up by a psychotic criminal named Poppy Adams. The surviving agents find their way to an allied secret organisation based in Kentucky, named Statesman. The two agencies must now work together in order to save the world and take down the so called 'Golden Circβ¦le'. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance wedding |
Locations: | taxi airplane snow bar new york city |
Characters: | security guard |
Story: | hamburger walkie talkie security camera shaving manipulation product placement suitcase pay phone news report no opening credits man with glasses toilet montage handcuffs painting β¦arrest watching tv computer cell phone title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | airport taxi hotel restaurant new york city |
Characters: | policeman police |
Story: | falling autograph pills manipulation pay phone man with glasses eating watching tv food telephone call based on true story panties title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking β¦kiss (See All) |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of teβ¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | elevator airport taxi airplane snow hotel new york city |
Characters: | airplane stewardess policeman police |
Story: | surveillance camera flight attendant pills medicine suitcase woman handcuffs watching tv food telephone call |
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 paβ¦st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance theft money |
Locations: | taxi restaurant bar |
Characters: | security guard thief policeman |
Story: | manipulation pay phone news report toilet eating montage woman arrest computer food cell phone telephone call photograph cigarette smoking |
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.
Locations: | canada airport taxi airplane snow hotel bar |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | men's bathroom promise tv news cia suitcase eating montage woman watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call based on true story title spoken by character β¦photograph two word title kiss (See All) |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sevβ¦eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery infidelity |
Locations: | elevator airplane restaurant bar |
Story: | croissant razor card playing shaving product placement eating woman watching tv computer food telephone call photograph cigarette smoking kiss |
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had⦠no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | elevator taxi snow new york city |
Characters: | policeman police |
Story: | department store escalator shoes tv news toilet eating montage manhattan new york city book watching tv food telephone call photograph kiss |
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: | surveillance |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | security guard |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | times square manhattan new york city senator construction site security camera vandalism product placement news report man with glasses montage handcuffs painting arrest computer photograph |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | elevator snow restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | musician policeman |
Story: | men's bathroom pay phone no opening credits eating manhattan new york city handcuffs arrest food telephone call title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking |
Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other⦠hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss. (Read More)
Locations: | kitchen taxi restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | musician policeman |
Story: | motivational shoes tv news man with glasses eating montage manhattan new york city painting arrest watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call title spoken by character β¦photograph (See All) |
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughteβ¦r. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited love money infidelity |
Locations: | elevator bar new york city |
Characters: | musician policeman police |
Story: | pager men's bathroom card playing pills pay phone toilet montage manhattan new york city book arrest watching tv telephone call title spoken by character photograph cigarette smoking β¦kiss (See All) |
Jacob Pederson lives in shanty surroundings in Bombay, India, and assists in the running of Anand Orphanage and School. He had attempted a number of projects to assist orphans, including child prostitutes - all quite in vain. He has adopted a young male orphan, Pramod, and takes special care of him.⦠With growing pressure on the facilities, which is on the verge bankruptcy, the orphanage receives an offer of funding from wealthy Danish citizen, Jorgen, which may put an end to its problems. In order to obtain the money, Jacob must travel to Copenhagen, meet with Jorgen, get financial assistance, and be back to celebrate Pramod's 8th birthday. He sets forth, is received by Christian Refner, an employee and future son-in-law of Jorgen. Jacob is shown all possible courtesy and even housed in a posh apartment. He subsequently meets with Jorgen, shows him video-tapes and submits that a few Kroner could really save several lives which would otherwise succumb to minor illnesses and infections. Jorgen views the videos, but does not display much interest. He invites Jacob to attend his daughter's wedding. Jacob does attend the ceremony, is introduced to Helene, Jorgen's wife; the bride, Anna; and Jorgen's twins - Martin and Morten. After the wedding ceremony, Christian makes a speech. Quite unconventionally, Anna also decides to make a speech - it is this speech that will shatter Jacob's world, slowly make him realize that this invitation to Copenhagen was a ploy to not only ensnare him⦠(Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulness extramarital affair wedding adultery money infidelity |
Locations: | airport taxi hotel restaurant |
Story: | airport terminal pills promise medicine eating book watching tv computer food cell phone telephone call photograph cigarette smoking kiss |