#16. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Storyline: Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. Surprised there is any question on his suitability, he recounts his lively life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, but mainly concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult twenty-five years of marriage to Martha.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: teenage boy, chase, cigar smoking, cousin cousin relationship, cynicism, dancer, death of husband ...

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#17. Reign Over Me (2007)

Storyline: 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 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.

Plot Keywords: grief, mental breakdown, depression, post september 11 2001, anger, violence, jealousy ...

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#18. Suspicion (1941)

Storyline: Johnnie Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train while trying to travel in a first class car with a third class ticket. He begins to court Lina, and before long, they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character, and she starts to become suspicious when Johnnie's friend and business partner, Beaky, is mysteriously killed.

Plot Keywords: homosexual subtext, cousin cousin relationship, dance, debt, embezzlement, falling in love, father in law son in law relationship ...

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#19. Terms of Endearment (1983)

Storyline: 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 Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways.

Plot Keywords: cancer, based on novel, mother daughter relationship, terminal illness, extramarital affair, dying young, compassion ...

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#20. Love Crazy (1941)

Storyline: Steve and Susan Ireland are about to celebrate their 4th wedding anniversary by re-enacting their first date. When Susan's meddling mother interrupts and injures herself. Steve is left to take care of her and when he meets an old flame in the elevator--Susan's mother takes the opportunity to break-up their marriage. She convinces Susan that Steve is cheating on her-Susan files for divorce. Steve has one solution to save his marriage...Pretend he is insane.—Kelly

Plot Keywords: implied nudity, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, elevator operator, husband wife relationship, jealous husband, jealous wife, bow and arrow ...

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#21. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Storyline: Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences.

Plot Keywords: mockumentary, fake documentary, controversial, toilet humor, crude humor, road movie, comedy of manners ...

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#22. Hereditary (2018)

Storyline: When her mentally ill mother passes away, a woman named Annie (Toni Collette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff) and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.

Plot Keywords: psychological horror, support group, cult, decapitation, demon, written by director, satanism ...

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#23. Nil by Mouth (1997)

Storyline: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.—Gustaf Molin <gustaf.molin@usa.net>

Plot Keywords: drug addict, violence, wife abuse, c word, working class, drugs, drug use ...

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#24. The Family Way (1967)

Storyline: Married life is proving to be difficult for newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett). With well meaning, but interfering parents, nosey neighbors, and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? With all these pressures it's no wonder their personal life is suffering. Will there ever be any good news?—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>

Plot Keywords: honeymoon, female rear nudity, newlywed couple, virginity, loss of virginity, sex, marital problem ...

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#25. A Kind of Loving (1962)

Storyline: A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: hospital, marital separation, melodrama, miscarriage, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, newlywed ...

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#26. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

Storyline: Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere - her daughter does not know about her - wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Lord Windermere, who helped her with a cheque, invites her to his wifes birthday-party, but Lady Windermere thinks, she has reason to be jealous, so she decides to leave her husband and go to Lord Darlington, who is pining for her. Mrs Erlynne finds this out and tries to prevent her of this mistake, but her daughter leaves her fan in Lord Darlingtons residence.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>

Plot Keywords: national film registry, nobility, romantic rivalry, secret, self sacrifice, social outcast, taxi ...

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#27. High Heels (1991)

Storyline: A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover.

Plot Keywords: mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, murder, secret identity, extramarital affair, murder confession, revenge ...

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#29. 8 femmes (2002)

Storyline: One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries, and encompassing musical interludes. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. There are eight women and each is a suspect. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous...one of them is guilty. Which one is it?

Plot Keywords: 1950s, scantily clad female, cleavage, mistress, unfaithfulness, extramarital affair, hit over the head with a bottle ...

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#30. Whatever Works (2009)

Storyline: Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience. But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to love, "whatever works" is his motto, but his already perplexed life complicates itself further when Melodie's parents eventually track her down.

Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, family relationships, husband wife relationship, age difference, misanthrope, eccentric, closeted homosexual ...

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