253 films match Broken Flowers
Resolutely single Don (Murray) has just been dumped by his latest lover (Delpy). Don yet again resigns himself to being alone and left to his own devices. Instead, he is compelled to reflect on his past when he receives by mail a mysterious pink letter. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may now be looking for his father. (Focus Features)
Kowarekake no Orgel (2009) - Short Film
One rainy day, Keiichiro happens upon an abandoned deactivated android girl whom he is told will never function properly again. He takes her home to dispose of her later, but the next day she appears to have awoken. (imdb)
A television actor and his friend, a barge captain, abandon their everyday lives without a thought in this dark comedy. They do not mind that a television news crew is following them. It is with almost a sense of relief that they are overwhelmed by crowds of equally discontented people leaving their lives, who look to the camera crew to swell their numbers as their actions become part of news reports (Filmaffinity)
70-year old Simone leaves her retirement home in the city and travels across the country to visit her 36-year old daughter Michèle at her summer cottage for an annual one-week visit. Michèle is a potter who lives with her husband Pierre and two children. There is no absence of love in this family but communication problems there are a plenty. Simone and Michèle have always had a strained relationship and neither can bring themselves to say what's on her mind. (pr1mal_1)
During the 1937 invasion of Nanking, an American mortician seeks refuge in a local cathedral. He finds himself the unlikely protector of a group of convent students and defiant courtesans. As Japanese forces close in, these two disparate groups must unite to survive the atrocities surrounding them. The film portrays a harrowing struggle for sacrifice and redemption amidst the horrors of war.
Isle of Flowers (1989) - Short Film
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people. (imdb)
The film dramatizes about a dozen vignettes from the life of St. Francis and his early followers - starting with their return in the rain to Rivotorlo from Rome when the Pope blessed their Rule and ending with their dispersal to preach. The unconnected chapters are like parables, some with a moral. The slight and comic Ginepro returns naked to St. Mary's of the Angels, having given away his tunic, but not his ricotta... (imdb)
In late 19th-century Shanghai, the elegant "flower houses" serve as exclusive enclaves where wealthy patrons and courtesans navigate intricate social rituals. Master Wang forms a complex bond with Crimson, a veteran courtesan struggling to maintain her status amid shifting affections and debts. Through silent negotiations and subtle gestures, the closed world reveals fragile balance between power and affection.
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father, to the point of murder... (imdb)
Flowers and Trees (1932) - Short Film
It's spring, and the flowers, mushrooms, and trees do their calisthentics. Some trees play a tune, using vines for harp strings and a chorus of robins. A nasty looking hollow tree does battle with a much healthier looking tree for the attentions of a female tree, and starts a fire in the process. (imdb)
Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood (1985) - Direct-to-Video
A woman walking home late at night is attacked by an unknown assailant who knocks her out with chloroform. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself tied to a bed in a blood- spattered dungeon, at the mercy of a white-faced man in a samurai helmet (imdb)
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him. (imdb)
Sarah (MacDowell) embarks on a perilous journey to find Harrison (Strathairn), her husband, colleague and father of their two children, when the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist is missing on an assignment in a country far, far from home. (Universal Focus)
Flowers in the Attic (2014) - TV Movie
Based on V.C. Andrews' controversial, cult classic book, Flowers in the Attic tells the story of the Dollanganger kids who, after the unexpected death of their father, are convinced to stay hidden in the attic of their ruthless Grandmother (imdb)
Flowers (2016) - TV Series
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children. (imdb)
By chance, Ito (Keiko Kitagawa), daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi (Shuntaro Miyao), a low ranking samurai who sparks an attraction within Ito. Ito challenges Magoshiro to a sword match using bamboo sticks. Mahoshiro accepts. The pair's duel results in an attraction between both. Meanwhile, Ito faces an arranged marriage with Saisuke Katagiri (Masahiro Komoto) & Magoshiro is wed to known flirt Kayo.
In a strict post-1949 Beijing boarding school, four-year-old Qiang struggles to conform to the rigid disciplinary system. He finds himself unable to earn the coveted little red flowers awarded for daily chores and obedience. The film serves as a poignant allegory for social engineering and the loss of individuality, capturing the rebellion and innocence of childhood against institutional control.
Flowers of evil (2013) - TV Mini-Series
Takao worships the class beauty, Nanako, from afar. When he is alone in the classroom one day after school, he notices her bag of gym clothes on the floor. He can't resist picking it up. He plans to return it, but the next day, all the girls are commiserating with Nanako that some pervert has stolen her gym clothes. Worse than that, their classmate Sawa quietly lets him know that she saw him take the clothes and will tell Nanako if he doesn't make a contract with her. (imdb)
Boys Before Flowers (2009) - TV Series
Poor girl attends the elite Shin Hwa High and is bullied by the leader of F4 (the four richest boys). He becomes attracted to her; however, she has a crush on his best friend. Whom will she choose? (imdb)
Along the highest mountain passes of the Himalayas, tough, intrepid Jalan (Milind Soman) and his gang earn their living by stealing from unsuspecting travelers. But when a mysterious beauty arrives, all changes. (imdb)
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