Two English Girls (1971), The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002), Lbs. (2004), Nostalgia (1983), In the Last Days of the City (2016), Wings of Desire (1987), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Inner Monologue movies.
Storyline: In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is forced into the worst year of her life. Her best friend, Rachel Bruin, has turned against her with all other of Melinda's fellow students looking away; not daring to take a single glance at Melinda. All because of one stupid end-of-summer party.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, bullying, psychological trauma, silence, sexual assault, recovery, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, female, midlife crisis, self-discovery, marriage, travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and culture, and film theory to inform, entertain, and move the viewer. Seberg's many marriages, as well as her film roles, are discussed extensively. Her involvement with the Black Panther Movement and subsequent investigation by the FBI is covered. Notably, details of French New Wave cinema, Russian Expressionist (silent) films, and the careers of Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, and Clint Eastwood are also intensively examined. Much of the film is based on conjecture, but Rappaport encourages viewers to re-examine their ideas about women in film with this thought-provoking picture.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, female protagonist, independent film, art film, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, independent film, autobiographical, experimental film, psychological exploration, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, adolescence, sexual awakening, female perspective, mother-daughter relationship, san francisco, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A businessman (Robert Atzorn) wants to kill his wife (Christine Buchegger) but instead ravishes and kills a prostitute.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, crime, murder, marital crisis, psychoanalysis, dreams, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Five loosely-intertwined stories of the emotional issues facing individual middle-aged Angelenas are presented. In "This Is Dr. Keener", physician Elaine Keener is spending the day taking care of her invalid mother at home on the nurse's day off. Elaine, a scientist, seeks confirmation on a possible turning point in her life by an unconventional means, namely a tarot card reading. Although the news she receives through the reading is a largely-accurate assessment of her current life, it is the news about that crossroads issue that takes her somewhat aback. In "Fantasies About Rebecca", 39-year-old Rebecca Waynon is outwardly in control of her life, from her job as a bank manager to her personal long-term relationship with older Robert. A homeless woman named Nancy who hangs around outside the bank seems to have a clearer picture of what is truly happening with Rebecca than Rebecca herself, as is witnessed by Rebecca's ultimate reaction to an action in dealing with a personal issue. In "Someone for Rose", divorced mother Rose's life is focused on making sure her 15-year-old son Jay is becoming a respectable young man. Between that and her new work as a writer of children's books, Rose doesn't seem to have time to look for love, which changes when Albert, a diminutive, moves in across the street. In "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine", lesbian couple Christine and Lilly discuss their relationship--past, present and future--as they deal with Lilly's terminal illness. And in "Love Waits For Kathy", police detective Kathy Faber lives with her blind sister Carol Faber. Although Carol has an active life--social and professional--and is more than capable of managing on her own as she is highly perceptive, Kathy, under the surface, treats Carol with kid gloves to make sure she's all right in dealing with life considering her physical disability. As such, Kathy has let her personal life largely slip by her. But is it too late for Kathy?—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, female director, multiple storylines, human relationships, emotional exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul (Romain Duris) sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father (Guy Marchand) and aimless brother Jonathan (Louis Garrel) but refuses to get out of bed. One night, Paul rises from his torpor and makes a fateful visit to the Seine.—filmcomment
Plot Keywords: french film, family drama, brotherhood, emotional conflict, psychological portrayal, urban loneliness, family breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The inhabitants of the Welsh village of Llareggub offer their impressions on life's absurdities and longings.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, adaptation, village life, surrealism, black comedy, narration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Simon Cordier's a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before his execution. Girot pleads his innocence insisting he's been taken over by a spirit which forced him to commit the crimes. Cordier doesn't believe him and the man suddenly dies. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences iand begins to wonder if he's now dealing with those same spirits.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, adaptation, 19th century, france, madness, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mike, a famed racing driver and an old flame of hers, is worried that Laura may be ill. Tricking her into a doctor's examination, she discovers she is; a brain operation to remove a tumor is performed and her symptoms disappear. All isn't well, however, but she is unaware of it, and she and her doctor fall in love. Finding out she is not actually cured, Laura renounces her new love and goes back to her old "jet-set" ways wasting the time she has left until a racing accident shows her how important the hours she has left are.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, female lead, tragedy, remake, emotional struggle, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers. Great supporting cast includes John Forsythe, Teresa Wright, Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Jones, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Dick Shawn, and Nanette Fabray.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, midlife crisis, female perspective, american film, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Howard has a loving wife (Garner), two daughters, a prestigious job as a Manhattan lawyer, and a comfortable home in the suburbs. But inwardly he's suffocating, and eventually he snaps and goes into hiding in his garage attic leaving his family to wonder what happened to him. He observes them from his window - an outsider spying in on his own life - as the days of exile stretch into months. Is it possible to go back to the way things were?
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, midlife crisis, self-discovery, marriage, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christina Ricci stars as Lizzie, a prize-winning student heading off to Harvard where she intends to study journalism and launch a career as a rock music critic. However, Elizabeth's fractured family situation including an errant father (Nicholas Campbell) and a neurotic, bitterly hypercritical mother (Jessica Lange) has led to a struggle with depression. When her all-night, drug-fueled writing binges and emotional instability alienate her roommate and best friend, Ruby (Michelle Williams), as well as both her first (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and second (Jason Biggs) boyfriends, Lizzie seeks psychiatric counseling from Dr. Diana Sterling (Anne Heche), who prescribes the wonder drug Prozac. Despite success as a writer that includes a gig writing for Rolling Stone and some mellowing out thanks to her medication, Lizzie begins to feel that the pills are running her life and faces some tough choices about her future.
Plot Keywords: depression, mental health, autobiographical, coming of age, female protagonist, self-destruction, emotional trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Finding it hard to settle down and commit himself to only one woman, the unrepentant philanderer and undeniable ladies' man, Alfie, is a charming British bachelor who cruises the streets of New York as a limousine chauffeur. In his impeccable suits, the silver-tongued Casanova is simply irresistible; however, things will take a turn for the unexpected, when a night of unrestrained passion seriously tests Alfie's frivolous approach to life. In the end, is Alfie happy, and, above all, what's it all about, then?
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, drama, life, london, self-discovery, coming of age ...
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