Astronaut Spencer Armacoust was on a mission when he suddenly lost contact. When he got home, to friends he was the same, but to his wife he was different. She becomes pregnant, but as time progresses she begins to feel like the lives inside of her are not of this world.
Tags: alien, astronaut, change, depression, dirty-talk, escape, family, husband, marriage, mission, obscenity, outer-space, paranoid, possession, possession-by-alien, pregnancy, psycho-thriller, psychological-thriller, retirement, robbery, sex-in-public, suburbs, tragic-ending, venereal-disease, wife, woman-in-jeopardy
After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.
Tags: 1940s, 1960s, actor, airplane, animated-sequence, anti-semitism, autograph, banquet, bar, beach, beverly-hills-california, birthday, bittersweet, bookstore, break-up, breaking-the-fourth-wall, brooklyn-new-york, bumper-car, cafe, cannabis, car-accident, character-name-in-title, childhood-home, christmas, christmas-party, cocaine, cocktail-party, comedian, comedy-of-manners, coney-island, conspiracy-theorist, convertible, dating, death-wish, directed-by-star, divorce, doctor, dream, drugs, easter, fake-subtitles, flashback-sequence, flirting, freudian-slip, health-food, hotel, jail, jealousy, jewish, job-interview, lobster, los-angeles-california, love, love-affair, male-female-relationship, marriage, marriage-proposal, masturbation-reference, motorcycle-cop, movie-theater, narration, neurotic, new-york, new-york-city, nightclub, opposites-attract, out-of-body-experience, paranoia, premarital-sex, profanity, psychoanalysis, pygmalion, quirky, racquetball, record-producer, rehearsal, reporter, roller-coaster, satire, satirical, school, self-referential, singer, sneeze, sophisticated-comedy, spider, split-screen, stand-up-comedian, subtitled-thoughts, surreal, talk-show, telephone-box, television-industry, tennis, tv-show-in-film, university-of-wisconsin, unwanted-kiss, urban, voice-over, volkswagen-beetle, wisconsin, writer
He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a [...]
Tags: acting, adoption, alternative-reality, artifice, bar, basement, bathroom, bathtub-scene, beach, betrayal, bicycle, blockbuster, boat-accident, bravery, bridge, bus, character-name-in-title, christmas, collage, college, controlled-environment, creator-creation-relationship, cult-favorite, dancing, deceit, deja-vu, drowning, ego, elevator, escape, father-son-relationship, fear-of-water, film-making, finger-crossing, flashback-sequence, florida, friendship, futuristic, god-complex, golf, hidden-camera, hollywood-sign, hospital, identity, improvisation, infiltration, insurance-agent, island, lawn-mower, library, loss-of-father, marital-separation, marketing, marriage, media-hype, mirror, moon, morality, mother-son-relationship, newsstand, no-opening-credits, nuclear-accident, nurse, object-falling-from-sky, paranoia, philosophical, product-placement, profanity, radio-broadcast, rainstorm, reality-tv, revolving-door, sadness, sailboat, satire, school, search-party, searchlight, simple-man, simulated-reality, small-town, spatial-loop, storm-at-sea, supermarket, surgery, suspicion, talk-show, television, television-producer, title-spoken-by-character, traffic-jam, travel-agency, tv-show-in-film, twins, vending-machine, video-surveillance, voyeurism, wall-of-fire, weather-manipulation
“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over [...]
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1990s, accountant, amputee, anti-semitism, ashes, auschwitz, bankruptcy, based-on-fact, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, bathtub, birthday-cake, birthday-party, black-&-white-to-color, black-and-white-segues-into-color, black-market, blockbuster, blood, blood-splatter, bribe, bribery, bunk-bed, bureaucracy, businessman, candle, caning, catholic-church, cemetery, character's-point-of-view-camera-shot, character-name-in-title, child-execution, child-in-peril, child-murder, children, christ-allegory, cigarette-smoking, coda, color-tints, compassion, concentration-camp, conscience, construction-site, convertible, corporal-punishment, cremation, cruelty, cynicism, czechoslovakia, dead-children, death, degradation, dehumanization, drunk, drunk-soldier, employer-employee-relationship, entrepreneur, epic, evil, execution, extramarital-affair, factory, factory-owner, famous-score, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, finance, fire-hose, forgery, forgiveness, freight-train, friendship, genocide, german, german-soldier, ghetto, gift, good-deed, good-versus-evil, gramophone, group-shower, guilt, haircut, hanged-man, hanging, hate, hatred, hero, heroism, hiding-in-closet, hiding-jews, hiding-place, hiding-under-bed, hitler-youth, holocaust, holocaust-victim-rescuer, honor, hope, human-monster, husband-wife-relationship, idealism, industrialist, jail, jewish, jewish-ghetto, job-interview, krakow-poland, labor-camp, little-boy, little-girl, loss-of-child, luggage, machine-gun, maid, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, manicure, marriage, mass-grave, massacre, mercy, mirror, munitions-factory, murder, nazi, nazi-collaborator, nazi-occupied-poland, nazi-retaliation, nazi-uniform, nightclub, no-opening-credits, occupied-nation, one-armed-man, outhouse, party, peace, piano, pistol-whip, polish-jew, prayer, premarital-sex, profiteering, prologue, pyre, rabbi, racial-slur, racism, railway-station, redemption, rescue, responsibility, righteous-among-the-nations, righteous-rage, ring, ruthlessness, sabotage, saboteur, sadism, sentimentalism, sewer, sex, sexuality, shaving, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, shower, slave-labor, smoke, sniper, split-lip, ss, ss-officer, swastika, tooth-extraction, torture, typewriter, urination, violence, war-crime, wedding, wet-t-shirt, what-happened-to-epilogue, whipping, womanizer, work-ethic, wristwatch, wwii
When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving’s loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom’s best-loved musicians. There’s Mitch and Mickey, [...]
Tags: 1960s, amusement-park, backstage, based-on-sketch-comedy, casino, catheter, concert, concert-scene, eat-at-joe's, ex-porn-star, fake-documentary, flatulence, folk-music, folk-singer, humming, impresario, loss-of-father, marriage, mental-illness, model-train, motel, music-rehearsal, new-age, new-york-city, publicity, reunion, satire, saturday-night-live, sex-change, singer, television-broadcast, television-industry, television-news, the-folksmen, theatrical-agent, title-spoken-by-character, trade-show, tribute, witch
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the [...]
Tags: 1970s, athlete, author, ballpark, baseball, baseball-field, based-on-book, black-sox-scandal, boston, choking, cornfield, doctor, family-farm, farm, farmer, father-son-estrangement, father-son-relationship, fenway-park, ghost, hearing-voices, independent-film, iowa, kidnapping, male-bonding, marriage, miracle, mortgage, narration, pacifist, prologue, realisation-of-dreams, recluse, reconciliation, regret, road-trip, school-board, scoreboard, second-chance, shoeless-joe-jackson, small-town, supernatural, telephone-booth, twist-in-the-end
The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The [...]
Tags: airfield, airplane, assassination, back-pack, bar-scene, bartender, bulletproof-vest, campfire, car-chase, cellular-phone, champagne, cigar-smoking, cigarette-smoking, co-worker, concierge, contract-killer, convertible, corpse, country-music, cowboy-boots, dance-lesson, dance-scene, desert, diabetic, diner-scene, fbi, fbi-agent, female-agent, female-nudity, female-reporter, flash-forward, flat-tire, gas-station, getaway-driver, grave-digging, handcuffs, heist, henchman, highway, hitchhiker, hitchhiking, hitman, honkytonk, hotel-room, independent-film, insulin, jukebox, man-in-black, manhunt, map, marriage, mexico, mini-van, motel-room, motel-sex, murder-investigation, neo-noir, newlywed, newspaper, nonlinear-timeline, passport, philosophy, photograph, politician, profanity, red-dress, restroom-killing, rifle, set-up, sex-scene, shot-in-the-hand, sniper, suitcase, sunglasses, sunset, tattoo, taxi, telephone-call, toilet-scene, truck, twist-in-the-end, undercover, vomit-scene, waitress, whipped-cream, wig
Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes [...]
Tags: acronym-in-title, basketball, bicycle, business-trip, car-accident, car-in-water, colorado, corporate-ladder, deception, desert, dysfunctional-family, entire-title-is-capitalized-acronym, family-vacation, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, first-love, gas-station, hiking, hitchhiker, home-schooling, kids-and-family, lake, laptop, marriage, merger, motor-home, nevada, parenthood, pasadena-california, profanity, quitting-job, raccoon, rainstorm, recreational-vehicle, restroom, road-trip, scatological-humor, shopping-cart, sibling-rivalry, singing, slapstick, theft, title-spoken-by-character, traffic-jam, trailer-camp, utah, vacation, work, workaholic
A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).
Tags: acceptance, alzheimer's-disease, based-on-book, belief, bisexual, character-name-in-title, death, destiny, eye, eyeball, family, fate, flashback-sequence, friend, hate, hope, independent-film, innocence, laughter, lecture, lesbian, loss-of-voice, love, marriage, novelist, philosopher, Romance, skinny-dipping, swimming, understanding, virginity, writer
An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of [...]
Tags: abusive-husband, battered-woman, cellular-phone, domestic-violence, escape, infidelity, jealousy, krav-maga, marriage, martial-arts, mother-daughter-relationship, new-identity, obsessive-love, police, police-impersonator, psycho-thriller, psychological-thriller, revenge, san-francisco-california, self-defense, spouse, stalking, waitress, woman-in-jeopardy
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