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Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against …their better judgment to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days. (Read More)
| Themes: | alcoholismabusepovertymurderfriendship |
| Locations: | fishing boatbar shootoutcaribbeannightclubboathotelbar |
| Characters: | alcoholiclustsinger |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | wolf whistlefishing linegunshot woundpiano playerautomatic riflecharter boatpatrol boatboat captainlounge singerstreet shootoutpistol whipreference to charles degaullereference to brazildelirium tremensmap on screen …stray bulletlighting a cigarette for a womanlighting someone's cigarettefirst aid kitremoving a bulletbox of matcheswhistleringenuemartiniquehiccupswest indiesvichyhired gungangrenesource musicfirst aidfrench resistancewoundednursingstowawayexpatriategestapofamous linetickettommy gunorchestral music scorelighting a cigarettetitle same as booklimpbullet woundwhistlingwhistledockpickpocketsidekickchloroformjobmisogynycellarlanternsongwriterfoglove at first sightnicknamerepetition in titlefaintingtrustevil manfugitivegunshotfemme fatalefishingislandpianocafeinterrogationriflekissinggunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss (See All) |
The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit letters that …will help them escape to America. But when Ilsa, a former lover of Rick's, and her husband, show up to his cafe one day, Rick faces a tough challenge which will bring up unforeseen complications, heartbreak and ultimately an excruciating decision to make. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | nightclubhotelbar |
| Characters: | singer |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | piano playerreference to charles degaullevichysource musicfrench resistancegestapofamous linepickpocketfogevil manpianocafepistol |
Boss Spearman, Charley Waite, Mose Harrison and Button freegraze their cattle across the vast prairies of the West, sharing a friendship forged by a steadfast code of honor and living a life unencumbered by civilization. When their wayward herd forces them near the small town of Harmonville, the cow …boys encounter a corrupt sheriff and kingpin rancher who govern the territory through fear, tyranny and violence. Boss and Charley find themselves inextricably drawn towards an inevitable showdown, as they are forced to defend the freedom and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly vanishing. Amidst the turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for the loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and warm spirited Sue Barlow, a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | bar shootoutbar |
| Story: | gunshot woundstreet shootoutpistol whiphired gunlimpbullet woundchloroformtrustevil mangunshotcaferiflegunfightface slapshootout …pistolbased on novelkiss (See All) |
Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. Th …e mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?. (Read More)
| Locations: | fishing boatboathotel |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | gangrenetommy guntitle same as bookislandinterrogationriflegunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolbased on novelkiss |
1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole an …d Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy? (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | bar shootouthotelbar |
| Story: | gunshot woundstreet shootoutpistol whiplimpbullet woundsidekicktrustpianocaferiflegunfightface slapshootoutpistolcigarette smoking …based on novelkiss (See All) |
James Bond (007) is Britain's top agent and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal CIA agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons" and a trio of assassins, …known as the three blind mice. Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | fishing boatcaribbeannightclubhotelbar |
| Story: | patrol boatwest indiesfamous lineevil manislandgunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
Frank McCloud travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. His friend's widow, Nora Temple, and wheelchair bound father, James Temple manage the hotel and receive him warmly, but the three of them soon find themselves virtual pri …soners when the hotel is taken over by a mob of gangsters led by Johnny Rocco who hole up there to await the passing of a hurricane. Mr. Temple strongly reviles Rocco but due to his infirmities can only confront him verbally. Having become disillusioned by the violence of war, Frank is reluctant to act, but Rocco's demeaning treatment of his alcoholic moll, Gaye Dawn, and his complicity in the deaths of some innocent Seminole Indians and a deputy sheriff start to motivate McCloud to overcome his Hamlet-like inaction. (Read More)
| Themes: | alcoholismmurder |
| Locations: | fishing boatboathotelbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicsinger |
| Story: | orchestral music scoredockfoggunshotislandface slappistol |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied tro …ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | singer |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | patrol boatremoving a bulletgestapobullet woundwhistlingchloroformtrustfugitivepianointerrogationriflegunfightmachine gunshootoutcigarette smoking …kiss (See All) |
A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with seven, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of thirt …y bandits who will arrive wanting food. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | bar shootout |
| Story: | gunshot woundstreet shootouthired gunorchestral music scoreevil manriflegunfightface slapshootoutpistolkiss |
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | nightclubhotelbar |
| Story: | gunshot woundpistol whipbullet woundfugitivegunshotinterrogationriflegunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
John Smith is an amoral gunslinger in the days of Prohibition. On the lam from his latest (unspecified) exploits, he happens upon the town of Jericho, Texas. Actually, calling Jericho a town would be too generous--it has become more like a ghost town, since two warring gangs have 'driven off all the … decent folk.' Smith sees this as an opportunity to play both sides off against each other, earning himself a nice piece of change as a hired gun. Despite his strictly avowed mercenary intentions, he finds himself risking his life for his, albeit skewed, sense of honor.... (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | bar shootouthotelbar |
| Characters: | alcoholic |
| Story: | hired guntommy gunevil mangunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingkiss |
This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets … Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | nightclubhotelbar |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whiptommy gunlove at first sightevil mancafeinterrogationriflegunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingkiss |
In the third movie of Rodriguez's "Mariachi" trilogy, a Mexican drug lord pretends to overthrow the Mexican government, and is connected to a corrupt CIA agent who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government.
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | bar shootoutnightclubbar |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | piano playerstreet shootouthired gungunshotpianocaferiflegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingkiss |
In the middle of World War II, in turbulent 1942, a plane flies over Morocco and drops a Royal Canadian Air Force paratrooper who comes in to land on a drop zone, somewhere in the desert dunes outside Casablanca. Just in time before anyone notices him, the fearless Wing Commander Max Vatan gets in a … car and heads to the town with orders to meet Parisian Marianne Beausejour, a skillful member of the French Resistance. On a mission to assassinate the German Ambassador in Casablanca, the two operatives must convince every one of their true feelings as a married couple, while in the background, they need to make the necessary preparations for the critical soiree. Without delay, after the success of this suicide mission, Max and Marianne flee together to England with plans on marrying and making a family, regardless of the war. Instead, heavy clouds of distrust and suspicion threaten their relationship, when Max receives a call from the Secret Service Division to inform him that his beloved wife is actually an impostor. In disbelief, with a terrible task in his hands and crushed under a devastating dilemma, Max must find the courage to seek for answers in the perilous streets of bombarded London, regardless of the outcome. In the end, amid duty and love, who shall live and who shall die? (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | nightclubhotel |
| Characters: | alcoholic |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | street shootoutfrench resistancetommy gunfemme fatalepianocafeinterrogationriflegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingkiss |
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 fin …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: | murder |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | singer |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | lighting a cigarette for a womanwhistlingcellarlanternfogtrustrifleface slapmachine gunpistolcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous …in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
| Themes: | alcoholismpovertyfriendshipmurder |
| Characters: | alcoholicsinger |
| Story: | nursingfamous lineorchestral music scoretitle same as bookwhistlingchloroformfogfaintingfemme fatalerifleface slappistolbased on novelkiss |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M …idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
| Themes: | povertymurder |
| Locations: | hotelbar |
| Story: | gunshot woundautomatic riflestreet shootoutpistol whipbullet woundfugitivegunshotriflegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th …e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
| Themes: | abusemurder |
| Locations: | fishing boatnightclubboatbar |
| Story: | jobfugitivegunshotinterrogationriflegunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
A violent Hong Kong action film, this is the story of an assassin, Jeffrey Chow (aka Mickey Mouse) who takes one last job so he can retire and care for his girlfriend Jenny. When his employers betray him, he reluctantly joins forces with Inspector Lee (aka Dumbo), the cop who is pursuing him. Togeth …er, the new friends face the final confrontation of the gangsters out to kill them. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | gunshot woundlounge singerremoving a bullethired gunjobnicknameriflegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as a Swiss bank account, the number of which is impla …nted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is - and why he is being hunted. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | fishing boathotel |
| Story: | gunshot woundwoundedbullet woundfugitivegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolbased on novel |
Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he's a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man w …ar against those who have done him wrong. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | bar shootoutnightclubbar |
| Story: | jobislandpianointerrogationgunfightmachine gunshootoutpistol |
Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). When he wakes up …with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and make the deal with him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | fishing boat |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whipbullet woundpickpocketnicknamefugitivepianocafeinterrogationgunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | gunshot woundtommy guntitle same as bookgunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolbased on novel |
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit …and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present, Whit's new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff's precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed... (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | nightclubhotel |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | lighting someone's cigarettelighting a cigarettejobfemme fatalefishingcafeface slapcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunte …ers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | fishing boatboatbar |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | wolf whistlewhistlefaintingmachine gunpistolkiss |
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Mo …rocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | alcoholicsinger |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | tommy gunpickpocketchloroformcellarlanternfaintinggunshotriflegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistol |
In German-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movi …e premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | bar shootoutbar |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | street shootoutnicknameevil maninterrogationgunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolkiss |
It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, w …hose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | nightclubhotelbar |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whiptommy gunfemme fataleinterrogationriflemachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingkiss |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Characters: | alcoholicsinger |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | whistlingdocklanternfishingislandriflepistolcigarette smokingkiss |
James Bond continues on his fourth mission, with his aim to recover two stolen warheads. They have been taken by the evil SPECTRE organization. The world is held hostage and Bond heads to Nassau. Here, he meets the beautiful Domino and is forced into a thrilling confrontation with SPECTRE agent Emil …io Largo, on board his boat, the Disco Volante. Will 007 prevent the killing of millions of innocent victims? (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | nightclubboathotel |
| Story: | gunshot woundevil manfemme fataleislandriflegunfightshootoutpistolbased on novel |
Police ambush and kill several gang members in Los Angeles. Gang members make a pact of blood to strike back at police, and conduct a siege on the police station which is almost abandoned and due to be closed. Staff of the closing precinct and the criminals being held there while in transit must wor …k together to fight off the attacking gang members. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whiptommy gunbullet woundwhistlingriflegunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there …as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | alcoholic |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | lighting someone's cigarettelighting a cigarettedockcellargunshotislandinterrogationriflepistolcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | hotelbar |
| Characters: | alcoholic |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whipmisogynypianointerrogationgunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find … out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann in it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. (Read More)
| Themes: | poverty |
| Locations: | boathotel |
| Story: | source musicfamous lineorchestral music scorewhistlingfogfaintingislandriflemachine gunbased on novelkiss |
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the we …ather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure. (Read More)
| Locations: | fishing boatboatbar |
| Story: | fishingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly l …eads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | boathotel |
| Story: | gangrenetitle same as bookfishingislandmachine gunpistolbased on novelkiss |
In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such …activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Characters: | singer |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | dockfishingislandriflemachine guncigarette smokingkiss |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | nightclubbar |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | evil manfugitivegunshotfishingislandshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with …each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | nightclubhotel |
| Characters: | singer |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | nursingdocklove at first sightfaintingtrustpianorifleface slapbased on novelkiss |
Several British agents have been murdered and James Bond is sent to New Orleans, to investigate these mysterious deaths. Mr. Big comes to his knowledge, who is self-producing heroin. Along his journeys he meets Tee Hee who has a claw for a hand, Baron Samedi the voodoo master and Solitaire a tarot c …ard reader. Bond must travel to New Orleans, and deep into the Bayou. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | caribbeanboat |
| Story: | west indiesstowawayevil manfishingislandshootoutpistolbased on novelkiss |
David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVit …o). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Story: | gunshot woundfemme fataleinterrogationriflegunfightface slapshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese … airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | boathotel |
| Characters: | singer |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | piano playerorchestral music scoredockfaintingpianoface slapbased on novelkiss |
MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's a football hooligan (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby has everything a man from the poor English fishing town of Grimsby could want - 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in northern England (Rebel … Wilson). There's only one thing missing in his life: his little brother, Sebastian. After they were adopted by different families as children, Nobby spent 28 years searching for him. Upon hearing of his location, Nobby sets off to reunite with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendshipmurder |
| Locations: | boathotelbar |
| Characters: | alcoholic |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whipticketfugitivefemme fatalefishinginterrogationgunfightmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
Hard-drinking journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more. Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat. Sanderson, a wealthy ent …repreneur, hires Paul to flack for a group of investors who plan to buy an island near the capital and build a resort. Sanderson's girl-friend, the beguiling Chenault, bats her eyes at Paul. His loyalties face challenges when he and Sala get in trouble with locals, when a Carnival dance enrages Sanderson, and when the paper hits the skids. Is the solution always alcohol? (Read More)
| Themes: | alcoholism |
| Locations: | caribbeanhotelbar |
| Characters: | alcoholic |
| Story: | jobislandcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
During WW2 a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, an American General, and take him to the nearest SS headquarters. Unknown to the Germans the General has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. The British decide that the General mu …st not be allowed to divulge any details of the Normandy landing at all cost and order Major John Smith to lead a crack commando team to rescue him. Amongst the team is an American Ranger, Lieutenant Schaffer, who is puzzled by his inclusion in an all British operation. When one of the team dies after the parachute drop, Schaffer suspects that Smith's mission has a much more secret objective. (Read More)
| Locations: | bar |
| Period: | 1940sworld war two |
| Story: | gestapolanternevil manriflegunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolbased on novelkiss |
Sexy, romantic comedy about a girl in her early 20s named Violet Sanford going to NYC to pursue a dream of becoming a songwriter. Violet gets a "day" job as a bar maid at a nightclub called Coyote Ugly. Coyote Ugly is the city's newest hot spot where the employees are a team of sexy, resourceful wom …en that provoke the clientele and press with their mischief. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | nightclubbar |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | jobsongwriterpiano |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston …police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spe… (Read More)
| Themes: | murderfriendship |
| Locations: | nightclubboathotelbar |
| Story: | street shootoutpistol whiptommy guntrustfemme fatalecafeinterrogationgunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smokingbased on novel |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | boathotelbar |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | gunshot woundstreet shootoutlanternfishingcaferiflemachine gunshootoutcigarette smokingkiss |
1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased …gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | street shootouttommy gunwhistleriflegunfightface slapmachine gunshootoutpistolcigarette smoking |
During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp. However, Ex-Lieutenant Kelly manages to reach the Colonel, get him drunk and learn that he is on a secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in France. K …elly is determined to get the gold and plans for himself and a few of his fellow soldiers to slip into enemy territory and steal the bullion. (Read More)
| Period: | world war two |
| Story: | street shootoutreference to charles degaulletommy gunwhistleinterrogationgunfightmachine gunshootout |
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