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Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: β¦ Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O'Hara, a talented young actress who's accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an "All About Eve"-type deception in order to steal a good role away from her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodramatragedycult film |
Themes: | drug addictionabortionalcoholismunfaithfulnesscancerdrug usedivorceextramarital affairangerdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Mood: | behind the scenes |
Locations: | nightclub singernew englandnightclubparis francesnowswimming poolrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipsecretaryactresslawyerwriternursebrother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | price of famebreast canceraspiring actressporn actresspsychiatric nursemalignant tumorpress agentincurable diseasecouturieractor shares last name with characterunderstudyambitious womandrug rehabmastectomyopening night β¦pill poppingthree storiesunfaithful boyfriendback stabbingcosmeticssit upstelethonsanitariumpsychedeliaeffeminacylaw firmshowgirlglamourgarbage canbroadway manhattan new york cityshow businessfencingtemptationalleyhairdressernervous breakdownice skatingbackstagecynicismcameocommercialhollywood californiaexercisejoggingfamewigdrug addicttheatermodelmontagegay slurreportermanhattan new york citytelevisiontearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by characterbased on novelsex (See All) |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early β¦flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug usedivorceextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | nightclubsnowswimming poolnew york city |
Characters: | actressbrother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | price of fameshow businessbackstagefamewigmontagereportertearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
A documentary on the life of 'Amy Winehouse' (qv), the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
Themes: | alcoholismunfaithfulnessdrug usedivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Mood: | behind the scenes |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationship |
Story: | drug rehabnervous breakdownbackstagefamedrug addictmontagereportermanhattan new york citytearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by character |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy β¦ neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesscancerextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | actresswritermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | breast cancermastectomyjogginggay slurtearslettercryingtelephone call |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri β¦ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | abortionunfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | nightclubsnowrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | unfaithful boyfriendmodelmontagemanhattan new york citytearsdrinkcryingsinging |
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is β¦to take her parts and her fiance, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiance shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrunkennessdrinkinginfidelity |
Mood: | behind the scenes |
Locations: | snowrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | actresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | price of fameunderstudyambitious womanbroadway manhattan new york citybackstagecynicismwigtheatermanhattan new york citydrinkcryingtelephone calltitle spoken by character |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe β¦s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedycult film |
Themes: | drug usedrinkinginfidelity |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | secretaryactresslawyerwriternursemother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | nervous breakdowncynicismhollywood californiagay slurreportertelevisiontearsdrinkcryingtelephone callsex |
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 β¦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)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | drug addictionalcoholismunfaithfulnesscancerdrug usedivorceextramarital affairangerdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cynicismwigdrug addicttearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsinging |
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 β¦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: | tragedy |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug usedivorceextramarital affairangerdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | lawyersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | drug addictdrinksongtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by characterbased 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 β¦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: | melodramatragedy |
Themes: | drug addictionabortionalcoholismunfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairangerdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | snowswimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | lawyernursemother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | drug addicttearsdrinkcryingtelephone callsinging |
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 β¦concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | snowrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | ice skatingjoggingmanhattan new york citytearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
The story of Ray Charles, music legend. Told in his adult live with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood which included losing his brother and then his sight, his rise as pianist in a touring band, his writing his own songs and running his own band an β¦d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addictionunfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | nightclubparis franceswimming poolbeach |
Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | drug addictmontagereportermanhattan new york citytearsdrinksongcryingsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
Themes: | drug addictiondivorcedrinkingmarriage |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | actresswritersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | price of fameporn actresspill poppingdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | divorcedrunkennessdrinkingmarriage |
Locations: | paris francesnowrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | actresslawyerwriternursemother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | broadway manhattan new york citymontagemanhattan new york citytearsdrinkcryingtelephone callsex |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
Themes: | abortiondrinkingsuicide |
Locations: | snowrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | secretarybrother sister relationshipsingerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | show businessalleymanhattan new york citydrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by character |
John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. W β¦hen they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantbeach |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | joggingtearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In β¦ the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | drug addictiondrug usedrunkennessdrinking |
Locations: | snowrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lawyersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | drug rehabgarbage canalleydrug addictmontagemanhattan new york citytearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by character |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr β¦eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug usedivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | nightclubrestaurant |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hairdresserdrug addictmontagegay slurtearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. β¦As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | nightclubbeach |
Characters: | actresswriternursesingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | showgirlglamourreportertearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
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: | abortiondrug usedrunkennessdrinkingmarriagesuicide |
Locations: | paris franceswimming poolrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerwriternursebrother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | joggingwigmanhattan new york citytearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsinging |
"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth ce β¦ntury into a three-hour time-frame. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addictiondrug useangerdrunkennessdrinkingmarriagesuicide |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | singerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | famedrug addicttheatertearsletterdrinksongcryingsingingbased on novelsex |
Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a yo β¦ung, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | writernursesingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | aspiring actressjoggingmanhattan new york citytearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an β¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnesscancerdivorceextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeach |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cosmeticsdrug addicttearsdrinkcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
Adult film director Jack Horner is always on the lookout for new talent and it's only by chance that he meets Eddie Adams who is working as a busboy in a restaurant. Eddie is young, good looking and plenty of libido to spare. Using the screen name Dirk Diggler, he quickly rises to the top of his ind β¦ustry winning awards year after year. Drugs and ego however come between Dirk and those around him and he soon finds that fame is fleeting. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug usedrinkingadulterymarriage |
Mood: | behind the scenes |
Locations: | nightclubswimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | actresslawyersinger |
Story: | porn actresscommercialfamewigmontagegay slurtearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsinging |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force β¦performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug addictionalcoholismdrug useangerdrunkenness |
Locations: | nightclubparis francebeachnew york city |
Characters: | lawyersinger |
Story: | psychedelianervous breakdownbackstagefamedrug addicttheaterreportertearscryingsingingsex |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin β¦d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | snowswimming poolrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerwriternursesingermother daughter relationship |
Story: | manhattan new york citytearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsinging |
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a β¦ covert operative. Or so Barris said. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | snowswimming poolrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsinger |
Story: | alleycameofamegay slurmanhattan new york citytelevisiondrinksongsingingsex |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | secretarylawyersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cynicismsongsingingsex |
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | snowswimming poolbeach |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipbrother sister relationship |
Story: | cynicismmontagetearsdrinkcryingtelephone callbased on novel |
Seventeen year old Jason Slocumb, Jr. - Igby to most that know him - comes from east coast old money, the second son of self-absorbed and controlling Mimi Slocumb and medically-diagnosed schizophrenic Jason Slocum, Sr., the latter who has for several years been institutionalized in a Maryland psychi β¦atric facility. While Igby's economics-studying Columbia-attending older brother Ollie Slocum has embraced and aspires to continue their wealthy life, Igby has rebelled against it, considering his brother a fascist (although he could soften that label to Republican). Because of Jason's situation, Mimi has largely left the role of male role model for Ollie and Igby to their godfather, D.H. Banes. Igby's rebellion has led to him being kicked out of one prep school after another, the latest, a military academy, from which Igby escapes before he can graduate. As such, Mimi and D.H. arrange for Igby to live in New York with Ollie for the summer while working for D.H. renovating some of his properties, before Mimi arranges for yet another strict school for the fall so that Igby can at least graduate. Igby is largely able to hide out for most of the summer with the help of Rachel, D.H.'s younger heroin addict mistress, and Sookie, a slightly older waitress with who he falls in love. An issue with Sookie and the aftermath of a joint mission with Ollie leads to Igby having a clearer picture of what his immediate future will look like. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesscancerdrug useextramarital affairangerdrinkingadulteryinfidelitysuicide |
Locations: | restaurantbeachnew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | breast cancermastectomypill poppingnervous breakdownwigdrug addictmodelmanhattan new york citytearsdrinkcryingtitle spoken by charactersex |
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drunkennessdrinking |
Locations: | nightclubrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | actresssinger |
Story: | aspiring actresscameohollywood californiamontagegay slurtearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a β¦rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug addictiondrug usedivorcedrunkennessdrinkinginfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | nursesingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | price of famedrug addictmontagereportermanhattan new york citydrinksongtelephone callsingingsex |
Fired in disgrace, kids show host Randolph Smiley finds himself out on the street, while his replacement Sheldon Mopes, finds himself on the fast track to success with a new hit show as the proud purple rhino Smoochy. But things take a turn for the worst when Sheldon finds out that some of the peopl β¦e that he works with, and some he doesn't know he's working for, are all in it for the money. Meanwhile, Randolph is slowly turning insane with his only thoughts focusing on killing Smoochy and getting back to his life of luxury. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | drug useangerdrunkennessdrinking |
Locations: | nightclubsnowrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | singer |
Story: | show businessice skatingdrug addictmontagemanhattan new york citytelevisiondrinksongtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling hab β¦its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdivorcedrinkingsuicide |
Locations: | snowrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | secretarylawyerbrother sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | law firmbroadway manhattan new york citytemptationnervous breakdowncommercialmanhattan new york citytearsdrinkcryingtelephone calltitle spoken by character |
Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together β¦ as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | secretarywriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tearsletterdrinkcryingsex |
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordin β¦ary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancee's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismunfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | nightclubparis francerestaurant |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipbrother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cosmeticscommercialtearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingbased on novel |
In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?
Subgenre: | melodramacult film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useangerdrunkennessdrinkinginfidelitysuicide |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
Story: | breast cancergarbage cantemptationalleyjoggingtelevisiontearsdrinkcryingtelephone callsex |
Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to β¦ rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. (Read More)
Themes: | cancerdrug useangerdrunkenness |
Locations: | swimming poolnew york city |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | nervous breakdownbackstagelettersongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by character |
The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | drug addictiondrug usedrinkingsuicide |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiplawyernursemother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cynicismdrug addictdrinktitle spoken by charactersex |
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "phil β¦istines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerwriternursebrother sister relationshipsingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingsex |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar β¦ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | paris france |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | wigmontagetearsletterdrinksongcryingsingingbased on novelsex |
In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity β¦ as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices. (Read More)
Themes: | divorceangeradultery |
Locations: | paris francerestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipwritermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | couturierambitious womanglamourmodelmontagemanhattan new york citytearscryingtelephone callbased on novel |
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, β¦ even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismunfaithfulnesscancerdrug useextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | nightclubswimming pool |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | tearsdrinkcryingtelephone callsex |
Although cheerful, friendly, intelligent, well-dressed, authentic and wealthy, Charlie Bartlett has problems. With his father gone and his mother loopy and clueless, he's been expelled from every private school for his victimless crimes. Now he's in a public school getting punched out daily by the s β¦chool thug. He ever longs to be popular - the go-to guy - and the true crux of his troubles is that he invariably finds the means to this end, whatever that might be. At Western Summit High, he makes peace with his tormentor by going into business with him - listening to kids' problems and selling them prescription drugs. Charlie's a hit, but attraction to Susan (daughter of the school's laissez-faire principal), new security cameras on campus, a student's overdose, and Charlie's open world view all converge to get him in serious trouble. Can this self-made physician possibly heal himself and just be a kid? (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismunfaithfulnessdrug usedivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
Characters: | writersingermother daughter relationship |
Story: | backstagemontagetearsdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigat β¦e further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedycult film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriagesuicide |
Locations: | nightclubparis francesnownew york city |
Characters: | writernursesingerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | price of fameshowgirlfamewigmontagereporterletterdrink |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdivorceextramarital affairdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitysuicide |
Locations: | snowswimming poolrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerwriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reportertearsdrinkcryingtelephone call |
Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other β¦ hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss. (Read More)
Subgenre: | melodrama |
Themes: | angerdrinkingmarriage |
Locations: | nightclubrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lawyersingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | montagegay slurmanhattan new york citytearsletterdrinksongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will be over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spir β¦ited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | abortionunfaithfulnessdrug useextramarital affairangerdrunkennessdrinkingadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | actresssingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | unfaithful boyfriendtearsdrinkcryingtelephone call |
A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place β¦the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | abortiondrug usedivorcemarriage |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | lawyersingerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | winter |
Story: | effeminacycommercialmontagetearssongcryingtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by charactersex |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedycult film |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairangerdrinkingadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | actresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | hollywood californiatelevisiontearsdrinkcryingtelephone calltitle spoken by charactersex |