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In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandbathtubparis francenew york city |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s1940s1970s1990s |
Story: | british royaltyking edward viiiking george vking george viking of englandroyal romancereference to duchess of windsorbois de boulognewindsor castleduke of windsortwo storiessotheby'sabused wifeabdicationabused woman β¦spouse abusebattered wifemarital abusewife abusereading a lettercannesgloveclotheswriting a letteranachronismstutteringwoman in lingeriedomestic abusepearl necklacewoman in bra and pantiestitle ends with periodjewelryabusive husbandauctionabbreviation in titlemiscarriagedivorceemedicationgossiproyaltyreference to adolf hitlerscandaldomestic violencekingmanhattan new york citytitle directed by femalebeatingdancingf rated (See All) |
England's Prince Albert must ascend the throne as 'King George VI' (qv), but he has a speech impediment. Knowing that the country needs her husband to be able to communicate effectively, Elizabeth hires Lionel Logue, an Australian actor and speech therapist, to help him overcome his stammer. An extr β¦aordinary friendship develops between the two men, as Logue uses unconventional means to teach the monarch how to speak with confidence. (Read More)
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | king edward viiiking george viking of englandreference to duchess of windsorduke of windsorabdicationstutteringdivorceeroyaltyreference to adolf hitlerkingdancing |
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romanti β¦c entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtubparis francenew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | 1920s1930s1940s |
Story: | miscarriagemanhattan new york citydancingf rated |
"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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtubparis france |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | anachronismjewelrygossiproyaltyscandalkingtitle directed by femaledancingf rated |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | pearl necklacemiscarriageroyaltykingdancing |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole β¦rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | wife abusewriting a letterabusive husbanddomestic violencetitle directed by femaledancingf rated |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto β¦p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | spouse abusemarital abusewife abuseabusive husbanddomestic violencebeatingdancingf rated |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandbathtubparis francenew york city |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | gossipscandaltitle directed by femaledancingf rated |
Follows the life of 'Karen Blixen' (qv), who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s |
Story: | glovedancing |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i β¦nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandbathtub |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1920s |
Story: | writing a lettergossipscandaldancing |
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 β¦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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | clothesscandalbeatingdancing |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandbathtubnew york city |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | woman in lingeriejewelrygossipdomestic violencemanhattan new york citybeatingdancing |
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 affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtubnew york city |
Characters: | dancer |
Period: | 1930s1940s1970s |
Story: | manhattan new york citydancing |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | manhattan new york citybeatingdancing |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev β¦eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtubparis france |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | pearl necklacemiscarriagebeatingdancing |
This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his childhood from prison. He remembers his lavish youth in the Forbidden City, where he was afforded every luxu β¦ry but unfortunately sheltered from the outside world and complex political situation surrounding him. As revolution sweeps through China, the world Pu-Yi knew is dramatically upended. (Read More)
Themes: | adultery |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s1940s |
Story: | abdicationroyaltydancing |
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: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | paris france |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1930s1940s1970s |
Story: | manhattan new york citydancing |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou β¦r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandnew york city |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | divorceemanhattan new york citydancing |
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts β¦ his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadultery |
Locations: | paris francenew york city |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s1940s1970s1990s |
Story: | manhattan new york citydancing |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woma β¦n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | abused wifemarital abusedomestic abuseabusive husbanddomestic violencebeating |
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926. Einar Wegener (played by Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) are a happily married couple. Both are artists, Einar preferring landscapes and she portraits. One day Einar poses for a portrait of Gerdas while wearing a dress. This is initially done as a lark β¦, as is the later attendance at a party dressed as a woman. However, Einar soon discovers that she is in fact a woman and over time prefers being Lili. At first she and Gerda try to have her situation "cured" but this leads nowhere (other than to many doctors trying to have Lili locked up as a pervert and/or lunatic). Her voyage of self-discovery will ultimately lead to her undergoing the first ever sex-change operation. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandparis france |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1920s1930s |
Story: | dancingf rated |
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Locations: | bathtubnew york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Period: | 1910s1920s1940s |
Story: | divorceereference to adolf hitlerdomestic violencedancing |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve β¦r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s1940s |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat β¦e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | dancer |
Story: | gossipscandaldancing |
County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferr β¦ed to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandbathtub |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | jewelrybeatingdancing |
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: | pregnancy |
Locations: | paris francenew york city |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | wife abuseabusive husbanddomestic violencemanhattan new york citydancing |
After five years in prison, Tony le Stephanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the β¦ gangster owner of the night-club L' Age d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress. (Read More)
Themes: | infidelity |
Locations: | london englandbathtubparis francenew york city |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | pearl necklacejewelrybeatingdancing |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree β¦dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1940s1970s |
Story: | manhattan new york city |
Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry with Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working in the wedding preparations she meets Luce, wedding's florist, unexpectedly falling in love to her and discovering what is having love feeling to another woman. Unable to stop her Rachel me β¦ets Luce a few times hiding it to her family, specially her mother Tessa because she contracted Luce. At the same time that Heck tries to win the affection of his parents-in-law, above all the eccentric father-in-law Ned, Rachel tries following with the daily life and marriage with her husband, but the love and passion she feels for Luce causes a secret affair between both women, and a doubt in Rachel about the life she wants for herself. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | auctiondancing |
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)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | wife abuseabusive husbandbeatingdancing |
This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Themes: | extramarital affair |
Locations: | bathtub |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s |
Story: | wife abusedomestic violencebeating |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s β¦oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadultery |
Locations: | paris francenew york city |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s1940s |
Story: | manhattan new york cityf rated |
Holden and Skylar are in love with each other. Skylar lives with a large and extended family on Manhattan. Her parents, Bob and Steffi have been married to each other for many years. Joe, a friend of theirs, who has a daughter, DJ, with Steffi. After yet another relationship, Joe is alone again. He β¦flees to Venice, and meets Von, and makes her believe that he is the man of her dreams. However, their happiness is fake all the way, and she returns to her previous husband. Steffi spends her time with charity work, and manages to break up Skylars and Holdens relation when she introduces Skylar to a released jailbird, Charles Ferry. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | paris francenew york city |
Characters: | dancer |
Story: | reference to adolf hitlermanhattan new york city |
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 β¦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: | pregnancyinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandparis france |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | writing a letterjewelrymiscarriagegossipscandaldancingf rated |
It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box anymore, so Captain Holmes gets his subo β¦rdinates to make his life a living hell. Meanwhile Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, who has a history of seeking external relief from a troubled marriage. Prew's friend Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson, and Prew begins falling in love with social club employee Lorene. Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the distance. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | miscarriagebeatingdancing |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a β¦nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
Locations: | london englandparis francenew york city |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | domestic violencemanhattan new york citybeatingdancing |
Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970's college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving β¦ husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancyadultery |
Locations: | bathtubnew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s1990s |
Story: | stutteringmiscarriagetitle directed by female |
Locations: | bathtubnew york city |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | domestic abuseabusive husbanddomestic violencebeatingdancing |
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Gallagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtubnew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | domestic violencemanhattan new york citybeating |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | dancerbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | divorceemanhattan new york citydancingf rated |
Biopic of billionaire 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA a β¦s a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph 'Owen Brewster (I)' (qv) accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with actress 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv). From an early age however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness. (Read More)
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | dancer |
Period: | 1910s1920s1930s1940s |
Story: | scandaldomestic violencemanhattan new york citydancing |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recru β¦itment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadultery |
Locations: | london englandbathtub |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | reference to adolf hitlerbeatingdancing |
Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A ser β¦ies of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | london englandnew york city |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | british royaltyroyaltykingmanhattan new york citydancing |
Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive hi β¦gh society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancy |
Locations: | paris francenew york city |
Story: | abusive husbandgossipscandal |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working β¦but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london englandparis france |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | auctiongossiptitle directed by femaledancingf rated |
Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to pro β¦duce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london england |
Story: | royaltyscandaldancing |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e β¦xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | dancerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | royaltyscandalkingdancing |
In 1767, the British Princess Caroline is betrothed to the mad King Christian VII of Denmark, but her life with the erratic monarch in the oppressive country becomes an isolating misery. However, Christian soon gains a fast companion with the German Dr. Johann Struensee, a quietly idealistic man of β¦the Enlightenment. As the only one who can influence the King, Struensee is able to begin sweeping enlightened reforms of Denmark through Christian even as Caroline falls for the doctor. However, their secret affair proves a tragic mistake that their conservative enemies use to their advantage in a conflict that threatens to claim more than just the lovers as their victims. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtub |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | royaltykingbeatingdancingf rated |
Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort, Conroy, since childhood, teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle, William IV's rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but, fol β¦lowing her accession at age eighteen, finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance on trusty Prime Minister Melbourne. Victoria is impressed by Albert's philanthropy which is akin to her own desire to help her subjects. However her loyalty to Melbourne, perceived as a self-seeker, almost causes a constitutional crisis and it is Albert who helps restore her self-confidence. She proposes and they marry, Albert proving himself not only a devoted spouse, prepared to take an assassin's bullet for her, but an agent of much-needed reform, finally endorsed by an admiring Melbourne. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | king of englandwindsor castleroyalty |
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 affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelity |
Locations: | bathtubnew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | manhattan new york city |