Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with destiny genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 186 films · Page 7.
Destiny, Drama, Forensic, Melodrama, drama film
Boston-based sculptor Ken Harrison becomes paralyzed from the neck down after a car accident. He is no longer able to use his hands, create art, walk, feed himself, make love, or have any semblance of a normal existence. Because he can no …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Melodrama, drama film
Despite a seemingly successful life, 30-something Veronika Deklava is depressed and cannot find meaning in her existence. Intending suicide, she takes an overdose, blaming her attempt on the failure of the world to recognize what is "real"…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Family Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
War photographer Paul Prior (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to his hometown in the South Island of New Zealand following the death of his father Jeff (Matthew Chamberlain). Paul reunites with his younger brother Andrew (Colin Moy), a pious loc…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Coming Out, Destiny, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film
The movie starts with Saxx in an LA prison, so high on drugs that he cannot be questioned. However, prison guard Johnson seems to take a special interest in him, bribes a colleague, and puts him in a holding cell for cellblock K-11, a unit…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Mysterie, drama film, musical film
thumb|Wim Wenders with the producer and actors after the 25th Anniversary screening of Lisbon Story at Lisbon Film Festival 2019 Lisbon Story is partially a sequel to Wenders' 1982 film, The State of Things. The fictitious film director in…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Erotic Thriller, Social Drama, erotic thriller
Shay, a runaway girl on her first night in Sydney, finds work as a prostitute. During one of her rounds, Shay is beaten up by couple of pimps because she took one of their customers. Meanwhile, Holly is on her last night working as a high-…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, drama film
Destiny, disaster film
In February 1988, two pilots in a flight simulator face the challenge of landing a crippled jet that experiences a cabin decompression, an engine fire and a loss of hydraulics. The three simulated emergencies foreshadow the events of Parad…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Horror, Psychodrama, Romance Film, drama film
The film opens up with a voiceover of a woman named Saiva telling the listener that a shaman said she was cursed at birth and would bring harm to anyone she cared for. While she and a young woman named Anja are camping in a subarctic regio…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Anti-War Film, Destiny, Family Drama, Road Movie, drama film
The film presents a view of the post-9/11 United States as seen through the eyes of Lana, an American girl who has lived in Africa and the Middle East for years with her missionary parents. She is returning from a long trip to the West Ban…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film
Following the events in Category 6: Day of Destruction, the superstorm that hit Chicago is continuing to grow in size and strength, with tornadoes hitting Paris and destroying the Eiffel Tower. Judith Carr, the new head of FEMA, struggles …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Family Saga, drama film
High school French teacher Sabine reads to her class as a translation exercise a French newspaper report of a terrorist who planted a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. If the bomb had detonated, it would have killed h…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Brian MacLean irritates fellow bush pilots Johnny Dutton, Tiny Murphy, Blimp Lebec, and British expatriate Scrounger Harris by outcompeting them for business in rugged Northern Ontario, Canada. In 1939, as the Second World War is beginning…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Mysterie, drama film
In the fall of 1972, on a wooden pontoon on the edge of a lake on the island of Nantucket, two children, Claire and Nathan (8 years old, of French origin) observe a swan. The pontoon breaks and Claire falls into the water. Nathan runs to g…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
American football film, Destiny, Drama, Sport, drama film
Ron "Cat" Catlan once led the New Orleans Saints to a championship and is heralded by his teammates, coaches, and sportswriters as an all-time great quarterback. After 15 years in pro football, his skills have declined and he struggles wit…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, drama film, war film
Destiny, Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
Destiny, Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, black comedy film, drama film
The 60-year-old widow Maggie desperately needs money for the cost of traveling to Australia for a special medical treatment of her beloved ill grandson Olly. After several unsuccessful attempts to get a job, she finds herself in the street…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Road Movie, drama film, female buddy film
The film depicts a few days in the lives of two women, Marilyn (Sienna Rose Miller) and Mona (Golshifteh Farahani) who, on the outside, could not be more different. Marilyn is an American-born menial secretary at a small business. Mona is …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Family Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
Paul Stanton (Mulroney) and his wife Diane (Diane Kruger) are a couple whose daughter is dying from a rare degenerative lung condition. The only thing that can save her life is a lung transplant from an organ donor. The movie starts when t…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Destiny, Drama, Drama Documentary, Social Drama, drama film
In the aftermath of a school shooting, several survivors have evacuated to the elementary school to wait for more survivors to arrive. A senior named Sean Ryan calls his friend Vicki at a coffee shop, who tells him that the shooter is Ben …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, drama film
Eleven-year-old Deirdre Striden (Jodie Foster) has an incurable heart condition, despite consultations with heart specialists at the behest of her parents Eugene (Richard Harris) and Ruth (Lois Nettleton). The Striden family has since move…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Destiny, Drama
Action, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film
An increase in sunspot activity causes disastrous, long-term consequences for the Earth. Los Angeles is, just as the rest of the world, covered with a layer of ice and snow. The government has collapsed and everyone is on their own.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution