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A troubled girl (Emanuel) becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor (Linda), who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. In offering to baby-sit Linda's newborn, Emanuel unwittingly enters a fragile, fictional world, of which she becomes the gatekeeper.
Subgenre: | teen romance |
Themes: | death in childbirthgriefdepression |
Locations: | two on a bicyclebicycletrain |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipstepmother stepdaughter relationshipsingle motherbabyfemale protagonistteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | visiting a gravedigging a gravesingle womanodd neighborunderwater scenenew neighborbaby monitorbirthday partysubway traingrieving daughterlooking at the starsdrug storelying on the groundgermophobegrieving mother β¦husband wife estrangementstore clerkpassing outintergenerational friendshiplesbian subtextgravestonebabysittingmoving inteenage daughterclimbing through a window18 year oldfemale friendship17 year oldfemale bondinggardeningco workershopliftingmental institutionteenage protagonistburialloss of wifebreaking and enteringbabysitterclaim in titleloss of motherunderwaterdatedollgravegraveyarddream sequencefour word titlewomanneighborbirthdaycharacter name in titlef rated (See All) |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion β¦s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Characters: | babyteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | underwater scenebirthday partylesbian subtext18 year oldburialgravegraveyardneighborbirthdayf rated |
A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker lik β¦e his grandfather. (Read More)
Subgenre: | teen romance |
Locations: | two on a bicyclebicycletrain |
Characters: | female protagonistteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | intergenerational friendshipdolldream sequence |
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.
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | visiting a gravebirthday partysubway traingravestoneloss of mother |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind β¦, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthgrief |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | gravestoneco workerdollgravegraveyardneighborcharacter name in title |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree β¦dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Characters: | single motherbaby |
Story: | birthday partyloss of wifeloss of motherdatewomanneighbor |
Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women. But when he meets Jen Kornfeldt, a beautiful, fun-loving computer tech recovering from a bad break-up, he finds true love...and β¦ happily trades international intrigue for domestic bliss. Three years later, Spencer and Jen are still enjoying a picture-perfect marriage - that is, until the morning after Spencer's 30th birthday. That's when Spencer and Jen learn he's the target of a multi-million dollar hit. Even worse, the hired killers have been stalking the happy couple for years, and could be anyone: friends, neighbors, the grocery store clerk, even that crabby old guy shuffling across the street. Now Spencer and Jen are on the run for their lives. As their suburban paradise turns into a paranoid game of dodge-the-bullet, they must find out who wants Spencer dead and why, all the while trying to save their marriage, manage his in-laws, keep up neighborly appearances ... and just plain survive. (Read More)
Characters: | babyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | underwater scenebaby monitorbirthday partystore clerkco workerneighborbirthday |
While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon has a dreadful nightmare involving a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy over the phone. Casey is haunted by this boy, and when she goes to the ophthalmologist, he asks if she has a twin brother or sister. She ask β¦s her father and discovers that her mother lost a son that died in the womb. Casey suspects that she is haunted by the spirit of her brother. She finds a letter addressed to a woman called Sofi Kozma and a creepy picture at home that belonged to her mother. She goes with Romy to a retirement home to meet Sofi, a survivor of the experiments during the Holocaust. But Sofi tells Casey that she had never met her mother and later calls Casey to tell her she is in great danger. (Read More)
Locations: | train |
Characters: | babyfemale protagonistboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | baby monitorbabysittingbabysitterloss of motherdream sequencewoman |
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, β¦ have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirth |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | babyfemale protagonistfather daughter relationship |
Story: | underwater sceneloss of wifeloss of motherunderwaterf rated |
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 β¦aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
Themes: | griefdepression |
Characters: | single mother |
Story: | babysitterloss of motherdollgravegraveyardneighbor |
Amal is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her β¦ but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes. (Read More)
Characters: | female protagonistteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthday partyteenage protagonistdatebirthdayf rated |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Themes: | grief |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipbabyteenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationship |
Story: | loss of wifeloss of mothergraveneighborcharacter name in title |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome β¦d. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | single motherfemale protagonistfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthday partyburialbreaking and enteringgraveyardwomanf rated |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of hel β¦p... (Read More)
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | passing out17 year oldgardeningbabysitterdatewoman |
A woman goes on vacation with her friends after her husband and daughter encounter a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.
Themes: | grief |
Characters: | female protagonist |
Story: | underwater scenefemale bondingunderwaterdollwomanf rated |
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
Subgenre: | teen romance |
Characters: | female protagonistteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | teenage protagonistfour word titlewomanbirthdayf rated |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o β¦f The Beatles. (Read More)
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | babyteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | birthday partygravestoneshopliftinggraveyardbirthdayf rated |
At a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, Grace is a young counselor trying to do her best for kids who often have been pulled from the worst kinds of home situations. Even then, life is not easy as Grace and her colleagues care for kids who are too often profoundly scarred, even as they try β¦to have lives of their own. Now, things are coming to a head as Grace readies for marriage even as some her charges are coming to major turning points in their lives. To cope, Grace will have to make difficult perceptions and decisions that could put her career, and more importantly her charges, at dire risk. (Read More)
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | two on a bicyclebicycle |
Characters: | babyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | co workerbreaking and enteringloss of motherdatebirthday |
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along β¦Lola's run. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | female protagonistboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | subway trainwomancharacter name in titlef rated |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshippolice |
Story: | birthday partygravestoneco workershopliftingdategraveyarddream sequencebirthday |
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is β¦both Simons exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simons horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. (Read More)
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | subway trainco workerdategravewomanneighbor |
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.
Subgenre: | teen romance |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | teenage boy |
Story: | subway trainintergenerational friendshipteenage protagonistfour word titlewoman |
For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends β¦ must find a way to escape the horrors, that seem to be only a few steps behind. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipfemale protagonistteenage boyteenage girl |
Story: | underwater sceneteenage protagonistdateneighbor |
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 β¦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)
Locations: | train |
Characters: | stepmother stepdaughter relationshipbabyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | birthday partyburialgravegraveyardbirthdaycharacter name in title |
Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, PAPER TOWNS is a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears - leaving behi β¦nd cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving. Ultimately, to track down Margo, Quentin must find a deeper understanding of true friendship - and true love. (Read More)
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipteenage boyteenage girl |
Story: | new neighborbreaking and enteringneighbor |
The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
Themes: | griefdepression |
Characters: | female protagonist |
Story: | visiting a graveloss of wifewomanbirthdayf rated |
A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Themes: | depression |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | babyboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | underwater scenemental institutionneighborbirthday |
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 β¦ss two generations. (Read More)
Locations: | train |
Characters: | babyteenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthday partypassing outbabysittingburialgraveyardneighborbirthday |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous β¦ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
Themes: | depression |
Characters: | single motherfemale protagonist |
Story: | birthday partybabysitterwomanf rated |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | underwater scenebreaking and enteringneighborbirthdayf rated |
Adele is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. She dreams of something more. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adele's friends reject due β¦to her sexuality, and by association most begin to reject Adele. Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself openly. Together, Adele and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality, and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship. (Read More)
Characters: | female protagonistteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthday party18 year oldco workerteenage protagonistdatewomancharacter name in titlef rated |
Jill Johnson is being forced to babysit at a BIG house all by herself for exceeding her telephone minutes. Then all of a sudden a stranger calls making these weird remarks. Jill decides to call the police to trace the call. Jill is freaked out when she finds out that the call is coming from inside t β¦he house! Jill runs in a hurry trying to get the children and leave. Will Jill make it out of the house in time? Will she live? Well you just have to watch the movie to find out! (Read More)
Characters: | teenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | underwater scenebabysittingclimbing through a windowbabysittercharacter name in title |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | grief |
Characters: | babyfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | underwater sceneloss of wifegravegraveyardneighbor |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: β¦ truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Locations: | train |
Characters: | babyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | co workerloss of motherdollgravegraveyardneighborcharacter name in title |
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.
Characters: | female protagonistboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | birthday partylesbian subtextfemale bondingwomanneighborf rated |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel β¦ Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthgrief |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | loss of wifeloss of motherdollgravegraveyardwoman |
SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries β¦to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Read More)
Subgenre: | teen romance |
Themes: | grief |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationship |
Story: | gravestoneclimbing through a windowgravegraveyard |
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.
Characters: | single motherbabyfemale protagonistboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | climbing through a windowshopliftingbreaking and enteringwomancharacter name in title |
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed β¦ mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying convenience store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this guardian angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape. (Read More)
Themes: | grief |
Characters: | single motherteenage boyteenage girlpolice |
Story: | birthday partygravestonefour word titlebirthdaycharacter name in title |
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted h β¦is relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Deputy Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. (Read More)
Characters: | babyteenage girlfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthday partyburialbabysittergraveyardbirthday |
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and una β¦mbitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirth |
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | babyteenage girlpolice |
Story: | gardeningburialloss of wifegrave |
For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The β¦ only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money... (Read More)
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipsingle motherteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshippolice |
Story: | new neighborteenage protagonistneighbor |
Manuela is a hard-working single mom who has raised her son Esteban by herself since the time he was born. On his 17th birthday they go to the theater and after the show, Esteban tries to get the main actress' autograph but is run down on the street and dies. Manuela is beside herself with grief and β¦ decides to return to Barcelona to tell the boy's transgender father Lola, about the death of the son he never knew he had. He is nowhere to be found but Manuela does find an old friend, Agrado and meets up with a pregnant nun, Rosa. Together they form a life and become fast friends - until tragedy strikes again. (Read More)
Themes: | grief |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | single motherbabyfemale protagonistteenage boyfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthdayf rated |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo β¦idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Characters: | teenage girlfather daughter relationship |
Story: | birthday party18 year oldloss of wifeloss of motherdatebirthday |
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 hi β¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | underwater scenebirthday partybreaking and enteringdatewoman |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's β¦ not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
Themes: | grief |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | single motherfemale protagonistpolice |
Story: | grieving motherburialgravewomanf rated |
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 β¦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: | grief |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | female protagonistteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshippolice |
Story: | gravestoneloss of wifewomanf rated |
Apartment concierge Cesar (Luis Tosar) is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara (Marta Etura) proves to be harder than the β¦ most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos (Alberto San Juan), shows up. (Read More)
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | womanneighbor |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Locations: | bicycletrain |
Characters: | teenage boyfather daughter relationship |
Story: | burialdollgravegraveyardneighbor |
Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several wh β¦o belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardener leaps into the fray and save him by outfighting half a dozen teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel soon find out the real motivator behind the boys' violent attitude in the form of their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to teach Daniel karate and arranges a fight at the all-valley tournament some months off. When his training begins, Daniel doesn't understand what he is being shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching him Karate. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | single motherteenage boyteenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | birthday partyintergenerational friendshipdateneighbor |