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Tom (Freddie Cunliffe), an alienated 15 year old boy, finds the that opportunity for close observation of his father, after their move from London to rural Devon and the birth of a new baby, reveals a world run through with darkness and pain. Tom is unable to reconcile the life he's known what he se …es with his own eyes, and blames his 18 year old sister, Jessie (Lara Belmont). Both Tom and Jessie struggle to find some path to truth and sanity as the human forces around them work in polarity with their isolation to either assist them, or destroy them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | father daughter incestevilsadismdysfunctional familylonelinessangerincestfeardrinkingpregnancyrapeinfidelitymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | london englandcampfireenglandrural settingtaxibicyclerestaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipolder woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipbabyphotographerteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | incest rapedevon englandfamily secretrape of a childrape of a minoranal rapenude photographtaking a photographburning oneselfchanging a diapertear on cheekdistrustmasochismbreast feedingsodomy …alienationsufferingmoralityworking classsexual abusepickup trucktrustpubdirectorial debutchildbirthcountrysidestorytellingliarpainchild abusetoiletstabbingmale pubic hairvoyeurbritishbathroomcafecar crashliesecretundressingdrinkcameracar accidentunderwearbeatingtelephone callmale full frontal nudityphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novelnuditysex (See All) |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpregnancyinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipbabyphotographermother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | trustchildbirthchild abusecafelieundressingdrinkcameraunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
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 …ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | dysfunctional familyincestfeardrinkingrapemurderdeath |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbeach |
Characters: | photographerbrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | sexual abusepubliarchild abusevoyeurcafecar crashliesecretundressingdrinkcameracar accidentunderwearbeating …telephone callphotographfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novel (See All) |
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that th …ey can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | father daughter incestevilsadismlonelinessangerincestfeardrinkingpregnancyrapedeathmurder |
Locations: | taxi |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | anal rapemasochismsodomysufferingsexual abusepainmale pubic hairvoyeurdrinkbeatingphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity …sex (See All) |
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devou …tly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyangerincestdrinkingpregnancyinfidelitymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipolder woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipteenage boyteenage girlbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | alienationchild abusestabbingmale pubic hairundressingdrinkunderwearbeatingphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de …tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydrinkingpregnancyinfidelitymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | babybrother sister relationshipteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | nude photographdistrustpickup trucktruststorytellingstabbingvoyeurcafeliesecretundressingdrinkbeatingtelephone callphotograph …cigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditynuditysex (See All) |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang …er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | father daughter incestangerincestdrinkingpregnancyinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | breast feedingsexual abusepickup truckpainliedrinkcar accidentbeatingtelephone callphotographfemale nuditybased on novelsex |
Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him and sedate him to avoid committing suicide, and as his only …companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell, the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. But then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. Nevertheless, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death? (Read More)
Themes: | father daughter incestlonelinessangerincestfeardrinkingpregnancydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxibicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | babybrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | trustpaintoiletstabbingbathroomcafesecretundressingdrinkcamerabeatingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nudity |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | feardrinkingrapemurderdeath |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipbabyphotographerbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | working classpickup truckliartoiletstabbinglieundressingdrinkcamerabeatingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingmale nuditynudity |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, … even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | incestdrinkingrapeinfidelitymurder |
Locations: | bicyclehospital |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipsister sister relationshipbabyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | breast feedingliesecretdrinkcameracar accidentunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial …journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | father daughter incestsadismdysfunctional familyincestfeardrinkingrapedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipphotographerbrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family secretanal rapesodomytrustchild abusebathroomcar crashsecretundressingdrinkcameracar accidentbeatingtelephone callphotograph …cigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novel (See All) |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hi …s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | angerdrinkinginfidelitymurder |
Locations: | london englandbicycle |
Characters: | father son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | working classtrustpubstorytellingchild abuseundressingdrinkunderwearbeatingphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditybased on novelsex |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con …vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | lonelinessangerdrinkingpregnancyinfidelitymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclerestauranthospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pickup truckpaintoiletvoyeurbathroomcafesecretdrinkcar accidentunderwearbeatingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudity …female nuditymale nudity (See All) |
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: | independent film |
Themes: | evilfeardeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfireenglandrural setting |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | breast feedingdirectorial debutstabbingliesecretundressingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditynudity |
In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his inte …ntion. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | sadismlonelinessangerfeardrinkingdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | burning oneselfmasochismsufferingliarpainchild abusecafelieundressingdrinkunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudity …female nuditybased on novelnuditysex (See All) |
Lucia is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucia begins to discover the dark corners of her past rela …tionship, as if they were forbidden passages of a novel which the author now, from afar, allows her to read. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpregnancyinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | restaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | babyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | nude photographchildbirthtoiletstabbingmale pubic hairvoyeursecretdrinkcar accidentunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity …male nuditysexnudity (See All) |
Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimund …a after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her; later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula. They return to Madrid, and after a hard day of work, Raimunda meets her daughter completely distraught at the bus stop waiting for her. When they arrive home, Paula tells her mother that she killed her unemployed father Paco, who was completely drunk and tried to rape her. While Raimunda hides his body, Sole calls her to tell that their beloved aunt Paula has died. The next morning, Sole travels alone to the funeral, and when she returns to Madrid, she finds her mother hidden in the trunk of her car. She brings Irene to her apartment, where secrets from the past are disclosed. (Read More)
Themes: | father daughter incestlonelinessangerincestdrinkingrapeinfidelitydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | rural settingrestauranthospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family secrettrustliarchild abusestabbingliesecretdrinktelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditysex |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac …kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | sadismdysfunctional familyincestdrinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | campfirerural settingtaxirestaurant |
Characters: | teenage boybrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | alienationsufferingcountrysidestorytellingliarmale pubic haircafelieundressingdrinkunderwearphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nudity …sex (See All) |
Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. They hold them for 120 days, subjecting them to all manner of torture, perversion and degradation.
Themes: | evilsadismrapedeathmurder |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlteenager |
Story: | anal rapemasochismsodomysufferingsexual abusestorytellingpainstabbingmale pubic hairvoyeurunderwearmale full frontal nudityfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity …based on novelsex (See All) |
Themes: | feardrinkingrapedeath |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbeach |
Characters: | photographerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | sufferingtrustpaincafecar crashundressingdrinkcameraunderwearbeatingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity …nuditysex (See All) |
Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | evilsadismangerfeardrinkingrapedeathmurder |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | teenage girlbrother brother relationship |
Story: | anal rapealienationsexual abusepubcountrysidepainvoyeurbathroomdrinkcar accidentunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingfemale nuditybased on novel …sex (See All) |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her …separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyangerincestfeardrinkinginfidelitydeath |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family secretsufferingpickup truckstorytellingliarpainchild abuseliesecretdrinktelephone callphotographcigarette smoking |
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who … have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familylonelinessangerfearpregnancyinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | london englandbicyclehospital |
Characters: | babybrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sufferingmoralitypickup truckcountrysideliarpainstabbingliebeatingtelephone callphotographsex |
The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply...or do they? The youngest son is trying to live up to the father's expectations. He is running a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest …son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is a anthropologist. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without argument. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. By the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets a nervous look on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why the oldest sister killed herself. (Read More)
Themes: | father daughter incestdysfunctional familyincestdrinkingpregnancyrapemurder |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family secretsexual abusechild abusebathroomsecretdrinkunderwearbeatingtelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysex |
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 …he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | feardrinkingdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | babybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | distrustbreast feedingsufferingtrustpainchild abusetoiletbathroomcafeundressingdrinkunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smoking …female nudity (See All) |
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 c …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: | father daughter incestsadismincestfeardrinkingdeath |
Locations: | rural settingbicycle |
Characters: | babyteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | distrustbreast feedingsufferingsexual abusetrustpainchild abusedrinkunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingfemale nuditynuditysex |
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love …s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | feardeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxibicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | alienationmoralitymale pubic hairvoyeurcafeliesecretundressingunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity …based on novel (See All) |
The bitter, cynical and lonely Barbara Covett is a tough and conservative teacher, near to retirement, who is loathed by her colleagues and students. In the loneliness of her apartment, she spends her spare time writing her journal, taking care of her old cat Portia and missing her special friend Je …nnifer Dodd. When Sheba Hart joins the high-school as the new art teacher, Barbara dedicates her attention to the newcomer, writing sharp and unpleasant comments about her behavior and clothes. When Barbara helps Sheba in a difficult situation with two students, the grateful Sheba invites her to have lunch with her family. Sheba introduces her husband and former professor Richard Hart, who is about twenty years older than she; her rebellious teenager daughter Polly; and her son Ben that has Down's Syndrome. Barbara becomes close to Sheba, but when she accidentally discovers that Sheba is having an affair with the fifteen year-old student Steven Connolly, Barbara sees the chance to manipulate and get closer to Sheba, hiding the secret from the school headmaster. When Portia dies and Sheba does not stay with Barbara in the veterinary office to see Ben in a theater play, Barbara plots a Machiavellian revenge against Sheba, creating a scandal and consequent turmoil in their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | lonelinesspregnancyinfidelity |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipphotographerteenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | moralitytrustchild abusevoyeurliesecretdrinkbeatingtelephone callcigarette smokingbased on novelsex |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | lonelinessincestfeardrinking |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | photographerteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | sufferingsexual abusepickup trucktrustpainchild abusebathroomcafesecretdrinkcameracar accidentbeatingtelephone callphotograph …based on novel (See All) |
In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been …behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and 'Charles Bronson,' his superstar alter ego, took center stage. Inside the mind of Bronson - a scathing indictment of celebrity culture. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | sadismangerdrinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | babymother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | masochismsufferingpaintoiletmale pubic haircafeundressingdrinkunderwearbeatingtelephone callmale full frontal nudityphotographcigarette smokingfemale nudity …male nuditynudity (See All) |
An emotionally fragile woman recently released from a mental hospital for self mutilation goes to school to gain secretarial skills to gain employment. She has an alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother who are clueless as to who she really is which a tormented soul who really wants to find somet …hing with which she can find success. She is a great secretary and finds a job with a unique, old fashioned, but off center in charge boss with a somewhat sadistic sexual proclivity. She grows and evolves and so does he. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | sadismdysfunctional familyangerfeardrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxirestauranthospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | taking a photographburning oneselfmasochismsufferingpaintoiletcafedrinkunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditynudity …sex (See All) |
A triumphant epic of survival and a tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on earth. Our heroine is Liz (Dakota Fanning), carved from the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, hunted by a vengeful Preacher (Guy Pearce) - a diabolical zealot and he …r twisted nemesis. But Liz is a genuine survivor; she's no victim - a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve. Fear not. Retribution is coming. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | father daughter incestsadismdysfunctional familyincestfeardrinkingpregnancyrapemurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | tear on cheeksexual abusecountrysidechild abusestabbingvoyeurdrinkbeatingphotographfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditynuditysex |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familylonelinessangerdrinkingpregnancyinfidelitydeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclerestauranthospital |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | trustliarpaintoiletbathroomcafeliedrinkcar accidentunderwearphotograph |
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a … good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter. (Read More)
Themes: | evilsadismlonelinessfeardrinkingpregnancyrapedeathmurder |
Locations: | taxirestaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sexual abusepubtoiletmale pubic haircafedrinkcameraunderwearbeatingmale full frontal nuditycigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditynudity |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h …is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | dysfunctional familylonelinessdrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipbabybrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | trustdirectorial debutstorytellingliarpainvoyeurbathroomcafeliedrinkunderweartelephone callcigarette smokingfemale nuditysex |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | lonelinessangerdrinkingpregnancyinfidelitydeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | london englandtaxibicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipbabybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pubcafesecretdrinktelephone callcigarette smoking |
Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Subgenre: | coming of ageindependent film |
Themes: | feardrinkingdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfirerestaurantbeach |
Characters: | photographerteenage boybrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | child abusecafedrinkcameraunderweartelephone callphotograph |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al …ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingrapeinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | babyphotographerbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | countrysidemale pubic hairvoyeurcafeliesecretundressingdrinkcameracar accidentunderwearbeatingtelephone callmale full frontal nudityphotograph …cigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novelnudity (See All) |
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: | dysfunctional familylonelinessdrinkingdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbeach |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipsister sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family secretpickup truckliartoiletcafeliesecretdrinkcar accidentunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelsex |
Santiago's father, Hernan Munez, smuggled his penniless Mexican family over the US border to seek a better, albeit modest future in L.A. Eldest son Santiago dreams of more, like native Angelinos, then joining Hernan's gardening firm. His change arrives when a British ex-pro spots him as an exception …al soccer natural and promises he can arrange a real British talent scout to check him out. Although that falls trough and dad forbids it, Santiago accepts grandma's savings to try out with English premier league club Newcastle. Despite his asthma, he gets in and befriends the freshly transferred, desperately undisciplined bad boy star scorer, party animal Gavin Harris, who becomes his bothersome house-mate, a recipe for trouble and yet each's salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | london englandenglandtaxirestaurantbeachhospital |
Characters: | babyphotographerteenage boybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pubcafedrinkcameraunderweartelephone callphotographsex |
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancy |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipteenage boybrother sister relationshipteenage girlbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | nude photographchildbirthliarliecameraunderweartelephone callphotographmale nudity |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen …ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | angerfearpregnancyinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandenglandhospital |
Characters: | babyteenage boymother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | distrusttrustliarbritishbathroomliesecretcameracar accidentbeatingtelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditybased on novel …nuditysex (See All) |
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 't …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: | father daughter incestsadismdysfunctional familyincestfeardeath |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipteenage boybrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | masochismalienationliarchild abusemale pubic hairliesecretundressingunderwearbeatingtelephone callmale full frontal nudityfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity …sexnudity (See All) |
After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not … to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons. (Read More)
Themes: | lonelinessangerincestfeardrinkinginfidelity |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sodomysufferingsexual abusepickup truckchild abusesecretdrinkunderwearbeatingcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditysexnudity |
To escape an abusive boyfriend, without announcing her plans in advance, Jean Gilkyson takes her young daughter Griff to the Wyoming ranch of her father-in-law, Einar. Jean and Einar are disaffected, as he blames her for the death of his son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitc …h, who was attacked by a bear, and Einar does not know that he has a granddaughter. While Mitch heals and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving Griff. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclerestauranthospital |
Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationshipfamily relationshipsteenager |
Story: | pickup truckliarcafeliesecretdrinkcar accidentunderwearbeatingphotographcigarette smokingsex |
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: | angerfeardrinkingpregnancydeathmurder |
Locations: | rural settingtaxibicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipphotographerbrother sister relationshipteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | distrusttrustcountrysidechild abusestabbingliesecretdrinkcameratelephone callphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelsex |
In an era when the country's first line of defense, intelligence, is more important than ever, this story opens the CIA's infamous closed doors and gives an insider's view into the Agency: how trainees are recruited, how they are prepared for the spy game, and what they learn to survive. James Clayt …on might not have the attitude of a typical recruit, but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country - and he's just the person that Walter Burke wants in the Agency. James regards the CIA's mission as an intriguing alternative to an ordinary life, but before he becomes an Ops Officer, James has to survive the Agency's secret training ground, where green recruits are molded into seasoned veterans. As Burke teaches him the ropes and the rules of the game, James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla, one of his fellow recruits. But just when James starts to question his role and his cat-and-mouse relationship with his mentor, Burke taps him for a special assignment to root out a mole. As the suspense builds toward a gripping climax, it soon becomes clear that the CIA's old maxims are true: "trust no one" and "nothing is what it seems." (Read More)
Themes: | angerdrinkingdeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxibicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | pickup trucktruststorytellingliarpaintoiletcafecar crashliesecretdrinkcar accidentunderwearbeatingphotograph …sex (See All) |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | feardrinkingpregnancymurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxibicyclerestaurant |
Characters: | photographerbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | distrusttrustcafesecretundressingdrinkcameraunderweartelephone callphotographcigarette smokingfemale nudity |
Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later David is a wheelchair … basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpregnancyrapeinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | babymother son relationship |
Story: | sufferingsexual abusechildbirthtoiletmale pubic hairliedrinkcameraunderwearmale full frontal nudityphotographfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novel |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Themes: | drinkingpregnancyrapeinfidelitymurder |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | babybrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | distrustchildbirthstabbinglieundressingdrinkunderwearbeatingphotographcigarette smokingfemale nuditymale nuditybased on novelsexnudity |