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M Night Shyamalan's The Villiage revolves around a desolate town in Pennsylvania. The residents of this town live by strict rules - They are not to leave the village or the monsters beyond their boundaries will surely attack them. Lucius and Ivy have an attraction - a strong one. But when Noah - a mβ¦an with an intellectual disability and whom also has feelings for Ivy, finds out that the two are In love, Noah attacks Lucius. He will die if brave Ivy (who is blind) does not breach the borders and find help to save Lucius. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | mythology wealth blindness greed hope death of father funeral wedding dance fear jealousy murder death |
Mood: | murder suicide myth |
Locations: | school teacher new england pennsylvania town rural setting woods village forest |
Characters: | professor single mother sister sister relationship student teacher brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 21st century 1890s 19th century 2000s |
Story: | wedding ceremony climbing up a wall community meeting mysterious creature death of child wedding gown living in fear grief counseling wildlife reserve stabbed with knife fire wood school room writer cameo visually impaired person hole in the ground β¦female slaps male mentally challenged person skinning foot race covered in mud throwing a rock berry walking cane yellow pact seclusion park ranger city country contrast oath feast hide and seek custom locked in a room orchestral music score rite red blind woman autumn bell wall twist ending tombstone dead animal hiding in a closet death of loved one director cameo ceremony newspaper clipping blood on shirt death of sister siren falling to death box lantern fog infection superstition plot twist bravery guard celebration community ladder bride sheep victim stabbed in the stomach loss of loved one killing an animal jeep medicine fireplace death of son character says i love you death of brother flower basement isolation written and directed by cast member costume grave creature ritual drawing coffin child cult stabbed in the chest stabbed to death stabbing lie secret slow motion scene face slap surprise ending chase singing title spoken by character photograph dancing bare chested male flashback blood (See All) |
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Themes: | death murder |
Locations: | forest |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | death of child ceremony infection stabbed in the stomach killing an animal character says i love you ritual cult stabbed in the chest stabbed to death stabbing slow motion scene face slap surprise ending photograph β¦bare chested male blood flashback (See All) |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival maβ¦gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral fear murder death |
Locations: | woods forest |
Characters: | father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Period: | 1890s 19th century |
Story: | tombstone twist ending lantern fog guard loss of loved one killing an animal fireplace character says i love you death of brother costume coffin secret surprise ending title spoken by character β¦photograph bare chested male blood flashback (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)
Themes: | wealth greed wedding jealousy murder death |
Characters: | sister sister relationship brother sister relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | wedding gown oath tombstone death of sister siren lantern guard ladder bride grave drawing coffin stabbed to death stabbing secret β¦face slap chase singing title spoken by character photograph bare chested male flashback blood (See All) |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediateβ¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | greed death of father fear death murder |
Characters: | father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | hide and seek hiding in a closet newspaper clipping siren lantern fireplace grave drawing coffin stabbed in the chest stabbed to death secret slow motion scene surprise ending chase β¦singing title spoken by character photograph flashback blood (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: | wealth death of father funeral wedding jealousy death |
Characters: | teacher doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | wedding ceremony rite ceremony bride medicine death of son ritual coffin child secret photograph dancing flashback |
New England, 1630: William and Katherine try to lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a⦠family unraveling within their own sins, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | death of father fear murder death |
Locations: | new england rural setting woods village forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | lantern death of son death of brother isolation grave stabbing lie secret singing bare chested male blood |
A new film is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
Themes: | fear jealousy murder death |
Characters: | brother sister relationship father daughter relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | seclusion hiding in a closet director cameo newspaper clipping blood on shirt falling to death bravery stabbed in the stomach basement isolation costume coffin stabbed in the chest stabbed to death secret β¦surprise ending chase photograph bare chested male blood (See All) |
Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn β¦that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | death of father fear death murder |
Locations: | town woods village forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | red death of sister bravery creature ritual stabbed in the chest stabbed to death slow motion scene surprise ending chase dancing blood flashback |
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⦠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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | fear death murder |
Locations: | rural setting woods village forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | death of child covered in mud lantern fog superstition fireplace death of son basement grave drawing coffin child secret slow motion scene photograph β¦blood flashback (See All) |
The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road, and the mysterious cemetery in the woods behind the house. The Creed's neighbours are reluctant to talk about the cemetery, and for good rβ¦eason too. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral murder death |
Locations: | new england rural setting woods |
Characters: | brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | orchestral music score dead animal death of sister death of son death of brother grave coffin child secret surprise ending photograph blood flashback |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Themes: | funeral wedding dance murder |
Locations: | school teacher town rural setting |
Characters: | father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | lantern death of son flower costume coffin stabbing lie secret face slap chase singing photograph dancing bare chested male blood β¦flashback (See All) |
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnapβ¦s Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | death of father fear death murder |
Locations: | rural setting woods forest |
Characters: | student brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | death of child plot twist stabbed in the stomach killing an animal fireplace death of son death of brother stabbed in the chest stabbing slow motion scene surprise ending chase photograph blood flashback |
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requirβ¦ing genuine courage. (Read More)
Themes: | mythology death of father fear death murder |
Locations: | woods village forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship father daughter relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | lantern guard medicine grave creature ritual drawing stabbed in the chest stabbed to death stabbing title spoken by character dancing flashback blood |
Themes: | mythology hope death of father funeral fear jealousy murder death |
Locations: | woods village forest |
Characters: | brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | covered in mud bell director cameo bravery guard creature ritual stabbed in the chest stabbed to death slow motion scene surprise ending chase title spoken by character bare chested male flashback β¦blood (See All) |
Four childhood friends, Jonesy, Beaver, Pete and Henry all share a special secret. Each year, they take a trip into Maine woods. This year is different. A blizzard occurs, and they recover a man found wandering around. Unbeknownst to them,this wandering individual isn't the only being to be found. Nβ¦ow they must act fast to stop the outbreak developing and to prevent the world from its doom (Read More)
Themes: | death murder |
Locations: | rural setting woods forest |
Characters: | professor student teacher mother son relationship |
Story: | seclusion dead animal infection victim fireplace creature drawing stabbed in the chest lie secret slow motion scene surprise ending chase singing title spoken by character β¦photograph bare chested male blood flashback (See All) |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stuβ¦dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding fear |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | student teacher doctor father daughter relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | wedding gown walking cane custom rite bride costume ritual slow motion scene singing title spoken by character photograph flashback blood |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | funeral fear death |
Locations: | village |
Characters: | brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | death of child grief counseling red grave drawing slow motion scene surprise ending chase title spoken by character photograph bare chested male flashback |
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hiβ¦de Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter. (Read More)
Themes: | blindness greed hope jealousy murder death |
Locations: | town rural setting |
Characters: | professor student teacher brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | city country contrast bell fog celebration community victim secret singing title spoken by character photograph blood |
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slavβ¦e Esca (Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth. (Read More)
Themes: | death of father funeral |
Locations: | woods village forest |
Story: | death of child bell wall guard killing an animal ritual stabbed in the chest stabbed to death slow motion scene surprise ending title spoken by character bare chested male blood |
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | fear murder death |
Locations: | school teacher new england woods forest |
Characters: | student teacher brother sister relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | hiding in a closet blood on shirt fireplace drawing stabbed in the chest stabbed to death slow motion scene surprise ending chase title spoken by character dancing blood |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | greed hope fear murder death |
Locations: | woods village forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship |
Story: | death of child bravery guard fireplace flower creature stabbed in the chest slow motion scene face slap surprise ending chase bare chested male flashback blood |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Themes: | wealth death of father funeral wedding death |
Characters: | professor brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | blood on shirt siren stabbed in the stomach killing an animal character says i love you grave coffin slow motion scene photograph blood flashback |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has β¦fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
Themes: | death of father funeral jealousy murder death |
Locations: | town woods forest |
Characters: | professor student teacher brother sister relationship father daughter relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | bravery killing an animal medicine basement drawing coffin stabbed in the chest stabbing surprise ending bare chested male flashback blood |
Awakening in an elevator, remembering nothing of his past, Thomas emerges into a world of about thirty teenage boys, all without past memories, who have learned to survive under their own set of rules in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies. With a new β¦boy arriving every thirty days, the group has been in "The Glade" for three years, trying to find a way to escape through the Maze that surrounds their living space (patrolled by cyborg monsters named 'Grievers'). They have begun to give up hope when a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change with the boys dividing into two factions: those willing to risk their lives to escape and those wanting to hang onto what they've got and survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | hope fear death murder |
Locations: | forest |
Story: | death of child falling to death infection community killing an animal creature stabbed in the chest stabbed to death slow motion scene surprise ending bare chested male blood flashback |
Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent sβ¦howdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents' murder... Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano. (Read More)
Themes: | blindness dance murder death |
Locations: | town village forest |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | lantern stabbed in the stomach written and directed by cast member cult stabbed in the chest stabbed to death stabbing slow motion scene dancing bare chested male blood flashback |
The death of a child in mysterious circumstances sparks a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, which start occurring in, of all places, a town called "Haven" that is located deep in the bowels of Bible belt country in the bayous of Louisiana. A former Christian missionary turned⦠religious phenomena debunker and her top open minded student turned personal assistant are sent to investigate. (Read More)
Themes: | death murder |
Locations: | town |
Characters: | student brother sister relationship |
Story: | death of child blood on shirt stabbed in the stomach death of brother basement child cult stabbed in the chest secret surprise ending chase photograph blood |
Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and⦠two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs investigate famous crimes, and she finds that they believe Ben is innocent. Libby needs money and, in return, accepts to revisit the slaughter of her family and comes up to the painful revelations and the ultimate truth. (Read More)
Themes: | fear death murder |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | sister sister relationship brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | dead animal newspaper clipping death of sister stabbed in the stomach killing an animal fireplace basement ritual cult stabbed to death stabbing lie secret face slap chase β¦photograph dancing bare chested male flashback blood (See All) |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, β¦not the answering of them. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | myth |
Locations: | school teacher town rural setting |
Characters: | student teacher brother sister relationship doctor husband wife relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | falling to death lantern flower child slow motion scene face slap singing photograph bare chested male blood flashback |
After young Katniss Everdeen agrees to be the symbol of rebellion, the Mockingjay, she tries to return Peeta to his normal state, tries to get to the Capitol, and tries to deal with the battles coming her way...but all for her main goal: assassinating President Snow and returning peace to the Distriβ¦cts of Panem. As her squad starts to get smaller and smaller, will she make it to the Capitol? Will she get revenge on Snow or will her target change? Will she be with her "Star-Crossed Lover," Peeta, or her long-time friend, Gale? Deaths, bombs, bow and arrows, a love triangle, hope... What will happen? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | hope wedding fear murder death |
Locations: | woods forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship doctor |
Story: | death of child death of loved one death of sister bravery guard loss of loved one creature stabbed in the chest stabbed to death slow motion scene chase photograph dancing |
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he drβ¦eams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | funeral murder death |
Locations: | woods |
Characters: | student teacher doctor husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | red siren superstition grave stabbed in the chest stabbed to death surprise ending title spoken by character photograph blood flashback |
In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with hers. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs, and the criminals propose that he give them his kidβ¦ney plus ten millions Won to obtain a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery. His anarchist revolutionary girlfriend Cha Young-mi convinces him to kidnap Yossun, the daughter of his former employer Park, who owns Ilshin Electronics. However, a tragedy happens, generating revenge and a series of acts of violence. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral murder death |
Characters: | brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | death of child death of loved one blood on shirt death of sister stabbed in the stomach death of son coffin stabbed in the chest stabbed to death stabbing face slap photograph bare chested male blood |
When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 23 different personalities, they have to work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will try to stop them.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | death of father funeral fear murder death |
Locations: | woods forest |
Characters: | doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | climbing up a wall locked in a room twist ending director cameo victim basement drawing surprise ending chase title spoken by character dancing bare chested male flashback blood |
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'tβ¦he sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina disturbs the domestic balance. (Read More)
Themes: | dance fear death |
Characters: | sister sister relationship brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | throwing a rock yellow seclusion hide and seek dead animal ceremony superstition celebration killing an animal ritual lie secret slow motion scene face slap singing β¦title spoken by character dancing bare chested male blood (See All) |
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers". Leo arrests Mei, β¦only to have Jin breaking her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem... (Read More)
Themes: | wealth blindness death of father jealousy murder death |
Locations: | woods village forest |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | visually impaired person autumn bravery secret slow motion scene surprise ending chase singing dancing blood |
In the middle of the night, a guard working the night shift at the morgue located deep in the woods has a terrible car accident, and as a result, he is now in a coma, suffering multiple skull injuries and fractures. But what made the guard panic and leave his post in the first place? Furthermore, acβ¦cording to the register, the body of Mayka Villaverde, a beautiful well-off businesswoman, is mysteriously missing from the morgue. Presumably, Mayka died of a heart attack, nevertheless, who signed the death certificate with the autopsy pending? In the end, when in forensic medicine the principle of: "every death is a homicide until proven otherwise" is a basic general rule, finding out who is behind this case shrouded in mystery is going to be an arduous task. (Read More)
Themes: | wedding murder death |
Locations: | woods forest |
Characters: | professor sister sister relationship student brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | wedding ceremony plot twist guard bride medicine surprise ending chase photograph bare chested male flashback |
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cβ¦ruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth death of father dance fear jealousy death |
Locations: | school teacher town rural setting village |
Characters: | single mother teacher brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | custom dead animal falling to death ritual coffin face slap singing dancing blood |
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this⦠button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world, someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | blindness wedding death murder |
Characters: | teacher husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | locked in a room newspaper clipping box character says i love you basement child surprise ending title spoken by character photograph dancing |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeiβ¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | blindness funeral death |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | sister sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | death of child orchestral music score red blind woman ladder slow motion scene surprise ending chase photograph blood flashback |
When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever⦠had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | wealth death of father funeral murder death |
Locations: | school teacher |
Characters: | brother sister relationship doctor father daughter relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | tombstone death of loved one loss of loved one grave drawing stabbed to death stabbing blood |
One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately for the former, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing kill the counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | fear death murder |
Locations: | rural setting woods |
Story: | death of child orchestral music score dead animal death of loved one victim stabbed in the stomach jeep death of son cult stabbed to death stabbing slow motion scene surprise ending bare chested male |
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John ('Christian Bale' (qv)) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finβ¦ds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor. (Read More)
Themes: | death of father fear murder death |
Locations: | village |
Characters: | student father daughter relationship |
Story: | death of child hiding in a closet lantern fog celebration grave child stabbing lie slow motion scene face slap chase singing photograph blood β¦flashback (See All) |
Epic adventure Exodus: Gods and Kings is the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000β¦ slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. (Read More)
Themes: | hope death of father funeral wedding fear murder death |
Locations: | village |
Characters: | sister sister relationship brother sister relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | death of child dead animal guard sheep killing an animal death of son stabbed in the chest stabbed to death lie surprise ending chase bare chested male blood |
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling⦠that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | funeral fear murder death |
Locations: | new england woods forest |
Characters: | sister sister relationship father daughter relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | bell blood on shirt death of sister falling to death stabbed to death stabbing slow motion scene surprise ending chase photograph blood flashback |
The Draytons - David, Steff and their son Billy - live in a small Maine town. One night a ferocious storm hits the area, damaging their house. The storm is accompanied by a strange mist. David and Billy and their neighbour Brent Norton go into town. There they discover that the mist contains some frβ¦ightening creatures, creatures intent on killing humans. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | fear murder death |
Locations: | town rural setting |
Characters: | teacher |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | siren fog loss of loved one medicine creature stabbed in the chest stabbing face slap surprise ending title spoken by character blood |
After The Ruin, a colorless equalitarian society is formed without memories and everyone follows rules established by the Chief Elder and the Elders. The population uses drugs to stay happy and on the day of the graduation, the teenagers leave their childhood and are assigned to a career chosen by tβ¦he Elders. Jonas lives with his parents and has two best friends, Fiona and Asher, and he feels different from his friends. He is assigned to be the Receiver of Memories and he is trained by his mentor, The Giver, who gives memories of the world before The Ruin. Jonas learns emotions such as love and fear and the concept of family. When he discovers that the baby Gabriel that he loves as a brother will be eliminated, he decides to change his society but the Chief Elder will do anything to stop him. (Read More)
Themes: | greed wedding fear murder death |
Locations: | rural setting woods |
Characters: | brother sister relationship father daughter relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | death of child ceremony celebration community bride medicine secret singing title spoken by character dancing flashback |
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 askβ¦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)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | woods |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | death of child bell newspaper clipping superstition stabbed in the stomach loss of loved one ritual child stabbed to death stabbing surprise ending chase title spoken by character photograph bare chested male β¦blood flashback (See All) |
In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Humankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The childβ¦ren go to school at an army base in rural Britain, where they're subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua), thus forming a special bond. But when the base is invaded, the trio escape with the assistance of Sgt. Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | hope dance fear murder death |
Mood: | murder suicide |
Locations: | school teacher woods forest |
Characters: | teacher doctor |
Story: | blood on shirt infection creature slow motion scene surprise ending chase blood |
The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.
Themes: | funeral wedding death |
Characters: | brother sister relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | wedding ceremony hiding in a closet sheep jeep coffin lie surprise ending dancing bare chested male |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and β¦life will never be the same again. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral dance fear death |
Locations: | school teacher pennsylvania woods forest |
Characters: | student teacher doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | death of child oath basement coffin singing photograph dancing blood |