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After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there. But, when his wife, Annie, commits suicide and is sent to hell, Chris ignores Albert's warnings and β¦journeys there to save her. Upon arrival, Chris finds that rescuing Annie will be more difficult than he'd imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlifegriefredemptionfuneralreligionmarriagesuicidedeath |
Locations: | lakechurch |
Characters: | doctor patient relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | soul mateloss of childloss of husbandscene based on paintingtitle from hamlet's soliloquy by shakespearewoman paintertitle based on shakespearewalking on watertrippyhusband wife reunionfemale artistmotivationalgondolaparadiserainbow β¦sailboatmental breakdownfamily reunionshipwreckwedding ceremonyillusiondead boysoulheavenmourningreincarnationmental institutionjumping from heightasian womanlosshappinessheavy raindeath of husbandunderwaterangelsearchwidowpaintingcar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback (See All) |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneralmarriagesuicidedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandfamily reunionmourninglossdeath of husbandwidowpaintingvoice over narrationflashback |
Malena is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malena in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is pres β¦umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneralmarriagedeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandsoulmourningdeath of husbandwidowvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlifegrieffuneralmarriagedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of childgondolalosswidowcigarette smokingflashback |
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)
Themes: | griefredemptionreligionmarriagesuicidedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandmourninglossdeath of husbandwidowcar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashback |
The middle-class couple Linda Hanson and Jim Hanson live a wasted and routine relationship with their two daughters in their comfortable house in the suburbs. On a Thursday morning, the local sheriff visits Linda and tells her that her husband died in a car accident on the previous day. On the next β¦morning, when Linda awakes, she finds Jim safe and sound at home. When she awakes on the next morning, she realizes that her days are out of order, but her family and friends believe she is insane. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneralmarriage |
Locations: | lakechurch |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | loss of husbandmourningheavy raindeath of husbandcar accidentflashback |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | afterlifegrieffuneraldeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | rainbowheavenheavy raincar accidentcigarette smokingflashback |
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: | grieffuneralmarriagedeath |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mourningreincarnationdeath of husbandwidowcigarette smokingflashback |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | afterliferedemptionfuneraldeath |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | shipwreckheavensearchpaintingvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
A troubled young boy, Oskar, is trying to cope with the loss of his father. Oskar starts lashing out at his mother and the world. Until a year later, he discovers a mysterious key in his father's belongings and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock, just as he used to when his father β¦ was alive. On this journey he is bound to meet a lot of people and learn a lot about himself and his family, but will he ever find the lock? (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneraldeath |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandmourninglosssearchvoice over narrationbased on novelflashback |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a cafe with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initia β¦tes a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. (Read More)
Themes: | griefreligionmarriagedeath |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandmourningdeath of husbandsearchvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashback |
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Conf β¦ronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionmarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandfamily reunionmourningdeath of husbandwidowbased on novelflashback |
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit β¦s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneralreligionmarriagesuicidedeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | wedding ceremonyheavy rainpaintingcigarette smokingflashback |
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)
Themes: | griefredemptiondeath |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of childmourninglosscar accidentbased on novelflashback |
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)
Themes: | griefmarriagedeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of childmotivationalmental breakdownlosspaintingflashback |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Themes: | griefredemptionfuneralmarriagedeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mental breakdownfamily reunioncar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashback |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
Themes: | death |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | sailboatheavenpaintingcar accident |
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patie β¦nts. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralreligionsuicidedeath |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | heavenheavy raindeath of husbandangelcigarette smoking |
The first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. 'Blue' is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, f β¦ree of personal commitments, belongings, grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie and draws her back to the land of the living. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneral |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | mourninglossdeath of husbandwidowcar accidentcigarette smoking |
It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to β¦ tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. (Read More)
Themes: | griefredemptionfuneralsuicidedeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mourningheavy rainangelcar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house vio β¦lently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it? (Read More)
Themes: | griefdeath |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of childloss of husbandsailboat |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi β¦ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionmarriagedeath |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | underwatersearchwidowcar accidentbased on novelflashback |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel β¦ Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlifegriefsuicidedeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | loss of childmental breakdownlosssearchwidowpaintingbased on novelflashback |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | funeralmarriagedeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family reunionmourninghappinessdeath of husbandwidowcigarette smoking |
After the abduction and presumed death of Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, Mack receives a letter and suspects it is from God, asking him to return to The Shack where Missy may have been murdered. After contemplating it, he leaves his home to go to The Shack for the first time sin β¦ce Missy's abduction and an encounter that will change his life forever. (Read More)
Themes: | religiondeath |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | walking on waterillusionasian womanvoice over narrationbased on novelflashback |
Once a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting Spaniards in Africa, Solomon met the Devil's Reaper and discovered he was bound for hell. Barely escaping, he soon renounced violence to atone for his past sins, seeking out redemption in a life of peace. That is until the followers of sorcerer Malachi β¦kidnap a Puritan girl, Meredith Crowthorn, and brutally slaughter her family before his very eyes, forcing Solomon to take up arms and return to his violent ways once more to rescue her. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionfuneralreligiondeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | illusionsouljumping from heightheavy rainflashback |
Seeing reflections of Mumbai under the red light, Talaash is a tale of love lost, fatal attraction and above all the quest to solve a perfect crime. Suspense at its core, Talaash explores Mumbai's underbelly like never before. Aamir Khan plays an investigation officer, Inspector Shekhawat who receiv β¦es a phone call early in the morning informing him about death and an accident and how everything starts to unfold from there. The case turns into a life altering chase for Inspector Shekhawat when he is forced to reel under the repercussions of a broken married life with his wife Roshni played by Rani Mukherji and come face to face with his suppressed grief. Being on his investigational quest and fighting it out with personal struggle, Inspector Shekhawat meets a sex worker Rosie played by Kareena Kapoor who further adds shades of mystery to the puzzle. What looks like a simple car accident investigation turns into a haunting mystery as further investigations show many anomalies stringed to the death of the victim. (Read More)
Themes: | griefdeath |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | loss of husbandunderwaterwidowcar accidentflashback |
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 β¦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: | griefmarriagedeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | rainbowsailboatmourningdeath of husbandwidowvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashback |
A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Speci β¦al Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy. (Read More)
Themes: | funeraldeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | heavy raindeath of husbandsearchcar accidentflashback |
To escape an abusive boyfriend, without announcing her plans in advance, Jean Gilkyson takes her young daughter Griff to the Wyoming ranch of her father-in-law, Einar. Jean and Einar are disaffected, as he blames her for the death of his son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitc β¦h, who was attacked by a bear, and Einar does not know that he has a granddaughter. While Mitch heals and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving Griff. (Read More)
Themes: | griefredemptiondeath |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of childdeath of husbandcar accidentcigarette smoking |
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present-day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, descending to earth in search of her own 6 messengers to write a brand new testament and change the s β¦tatus quo. (Read More)
Themes: | religiondeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | walking on waterheavenhappinesssearchpaintingcar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Themes: | funeraldeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandmental breakdowndeath of husbandcar accidentcigarette smokingflashback |
Elizabeth Masterson, a dedicated doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and goes into a coma. Meanwhile, a landscape architect named David Abbott moves to San Francisco and, coincidentally, into E β¦lizabeth's apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth's spirit haunts him. She doesn't remember who she is, who her family is or what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, David agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love with one another and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlife |
Characters: | doctor patient relationshipdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | soul mateheavencar accidentbased on novelflashback |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo β¦idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbanddeath of husbandpaintingcar accidentbased on novel |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int β¦ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
Themes: | afterliferedemptionsuicidedeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | loss of husbanddead boyheavy raindeath of husbandcigarette smokingflashback |
Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides, a high-desert landscape dotted by old tires, burned-out cars, and abandoned sofas. He gets a job in a pizza joint. By chance, Zia learns that Desiree offed herself a few months after he did β¦, and she's looking for him. He sets off with Eugene (an electrocuted Russian rocker) to find her, and they pick up a hitchhiker, Mikal, who's looking for the People in Charge, believing she's there by mistake. They're soon at the camp of Kneller, where casual miracles proliferate. They hear rumors of a miraculous king. Can Zia find Desiree? Then what? Where there's death there's hope. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlifefuneralsuicidedeath |
Characters: | father son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | angelsearchcar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashback |
Grief, recovery, and human contact. Brian is a great guy - a sweet father, a good husband, and a loyal friend to his boyhood pal Jerry who's a junkie. When tragedy strikes, Jerry tries to help Brian's wife and children cope, and Audrey, Brian's widow, tries to help Jerry kick the habit. Loss and add β¦iction are stubborn. The story starts on the day of the funeral, with Brian appearing in flashbacks. A neighbor's divorce, a dinner party that includes a young woman from the Narcotics Anonymous group Jerry attends, and thinking back to a fire in Brian and Audrey's garage give the story texture. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneraldeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | loss of husbandwidowcigarette smokingflashback |
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 β¦eads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralsuicidedeath |
Story: | paradisejumping from heighthappinessvoice over narrationbased on novelflashback |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as β¦he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlifegriefredemptionreligionmarriagedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | dead boymourningcigarette smoking |
Pete Sandich and buddy Al Yackey are daredevil aerial forest-fire fighters. Pete finds True Love with Dorinda but won't give up the job. When he takes one risk too many, Dorinda faces deep grief and cannot easily put her life back together.
Themes: | afterlifegrief |
Story: | heavenreincarnationangel |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken β¦ behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | griefmarriagesuicidedeath |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | death of husbandsearchwidowcar accidentvoice over narrationcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
Jackie is a portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then 'Jacqueline Kennedy (I)' (qv). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary d β¦ignity and poise, here we see a portrait of the First Lady as she fights to establish her husband's legacy and the world of "Camelot" that she created and loved so well. (Read More)
Themes: | grieffuneraldeath |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | loss of husbandmourningdeath of husbandwidowcigarette smokingflashback |
In late nineteenth century Vienna, renowned illusionist Eisenheim is reunited with the Duchess von Teschen when she is volunteered from the audience to participate in an illusion during one of his performances. Despite having not seen each other in fifteen years when they were teenagers, they almost ⦠immediately recognize each other as Eduard Abramovich and Sophie von Teschen, they who had a doomed romance at that time due to their class differences. The Duchess is soon to be wed to the Crown Prince Leopold in what would be for him a marriage solely in pursuit of power: overthrowing his father, the Emperor Leopold, as well as overtaking the Hungarian side of the empire. The Crown Prince is known to use violence against women if it suits his needs or purposes. As such, the Duchess, who realizes that she still loves Eisenheim and he her, can never leave the Crown Prince without it jeopardizing her life. After Eisenheim humiliates the Crown Prince at a private show which results in an incident between the Crown Prince and the Duchess, the battle between Eisenheim and the Crown Prince moves into the public performance realm, which many believe demonstrates Eisenheim's supernatural powers. Much of the work for the Crown Prince in the battle with Eisenheim is conducted by Chief Inspector Uhl, who would become the Chief of Police under the Crown Prince's reign. As such, Uhl may have ulterior motives in turning a blind eye to any unlawful act of the Crown Prince against Eisenheim or t⦠(Read More)
Themes: | afterlifemarriagesuicidedeath |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | illusionsoulsearchpaintingvoice over narrationcigarette smokingflashback |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Themes: | afterlifegriefreligionmarriagedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | soulmourningsearchpaintingvoice over narrationflashback |
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 β¦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: | death |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | motivationalreincarnationlosswidowpaintingvoice over narrationbased on novelflashback |
The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.
Themes: | funeralmarriagedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | wedding ceremonyheavy rain |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh β¦ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
Themes: | griefredemptionmarriagedeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | heavy rainpaintingcar accidentcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
Henry Roth lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore. Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feel the start of a serious relationship occurring. Approaching Lucy the next day, Henry is confused when β¦Lucy fails to recognize him. This is the moment Henry discovers that Lucy actually suffers from short term memory loss and can't remember each individual day. Henry won't let this stop him and is prepared to make her fall in love with him all over again, each and every day. (Read More)
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | paradisesailboatlosspaintingcar accidentflashback |
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue β¦more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | church |
Story: | shipwreckjumping from heightheavy rainsearchwidowcar accident |
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How β¦ do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? (Read More)
Themes: | religionmarriagesuicidedeath |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | rainbowreincarnationhappinesscigarette smoking |