Selfishness
"selfishness" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Fair Play
Synopsis:
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.
Starring:
Eddie Marsan,
Alden Ehrenreich,
Rich Sommer
Plot:
finance,
jealousy,
secret,
hedge fund,
psychological,
alcohol,
erotic,
couple,
unravel,
love
...
#2
Viridiana
Synopsis:
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her un…
Starring:
Silvia Pinal,
José Calvo,
Margarita Lozano
Plot:
nun,
novice,
da vinci last supper,
suspected rape,
wedding veil,
drugged,
barefoot,
suicide by hanging,
jumping rope,
female feet
...
#3
Tokyo Story
Synopsis:
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Starring:
Chishū Ryū,
Nobuo Nakamura,
Eijirô Tôno
Plot:
doctor,
widow,
teacher,
selfishness,
hairdresser,
estrangement,
family reunion,
post world war two,
marriage,
loneliness
...
#4
The Wedding Singer
Synopsis:
Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.
Starring:
Adam Sandler,
Drew Barrymore,
Alexis Arquette
Plot:
1980s,
year 1985,
confession of love,
transvestite,
stockbroker,
selfishness,
cameo appearance,
womanizer,
depression,
heartbreak
...
#5
The Towering Inferno
Synopsis:
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Starring:
Paul Newman,
Faye Dunaway,
Steve McQueen
#6
The Room
Synopsis:
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Starring:
Tommy Wiseau,
Juliette Danielle,
Greg Sestero
#7
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Synopsis:
Set several years after the first film, Ariel and Prince Eric are happily married with a daughter, Melody. In order to protect Melody from the Sea Witch, Morgana, they have not told her about her mermaid heritage. Melody is curious and ventures into the sea, where she meets new friends. But will she become a pawn in Morgana's quest to take control of the ocean from King Triton?
Starring:
Jodi Benson,
Clancy Brown,
Rob Paulsen
Plot:
sequel,
second part,
ocean,
witch,
trident,
crab,
fish,
dog,
wilhelm scream,
lie
...
#8
The Killers
Synopsis:
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank ro…
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Edmond O'Brien,
Ava Gardner
#9
Sunset Boulevard
Synopsis:
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Starring:
Franklyn Farnum,
Fred Clark,
William Holden
#10
Scrooge
Synopsis:
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel miserly businessman until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, sent show him how his unhappy childhood and maladaptive adult behavior over has let him a selfish, lonely, bitter old man.
Starring:
George Cole,
Michael Hordern,
Mervyn Johns
Plot:
christmas,
greed,
ghost,
scrooge,
miser,
redemption,
change of heart,
talking to a ghost,
self discovery,
based on novel
...
#11
Scrooged
Synopsis:
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Starring:
Carol Kane,
Alfre Woodard,
Bill Murray
Plot:
ghost,
christmas,
compassion,
greed,
redemption,
tv show,
unemployment,
christmas show,
hallucination,
based on novel
...
#12
Rain Man
Synopsis:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Starring:
Bonnie Hunt,
Gerald R. Molen,
Tom Cruise
#13
My Fair Lady
Synopsis:
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Starring:
Mona Washbourne,
Audrey Hepburn,
Stanley Holloway
#14
Labyrinth
Synopsis:
When teen Sarah is forced to babysit Toby, her baby stepbrother, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.
Starring:
Jennifer Connelly,
Brian Henson,
David Bowie
Plot:
baby,
goblin king,
labyrinth,
rescue,
fantasy world,
cult film,
female protagonist,
goblin,
king,
masquerade party
...
#15
Kwaidan
Synopsis:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior'…
Starring:
Kenjirō Ishiyama,
Michiyo Aratama,
Misako Watanabe
#16
Kramer vs. Kramer
Synopsis:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman,
Meryl Streep,
Jane Alexander
Plot:
marriage,
divorce,
repetition in title,
injured child,
single father,
female nudity,
divorcee,
custody battle,
voyeurism,
voyeur
...
#17
Jerry Maguire
Synopsis:
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
Starring:
Jerry O'Connell,
Renée Zellweger,
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#18
Hud
Synopsis:
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amoralit…
Starring:
Paul Newman,
Val Avery,
Whit Bissell
#19
Falling Down
Synopsis:
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Starring:
Michael Douglas,
Barbara Hershey,
Lois Smith
#20
Elf
Synopsis:
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher.
Starring:
Zooey Deschanel,
Will Ferrell,
Faizon Love