Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies (2019), Inside Job (2010), The Angel with the Trumpet (1950), Bad Manners (1997), Possession (2002), Shirley (2020), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Academic movies.
Storyline: An exploration of the means and methods of propagandist persuasion.
Plot Keywords: academic, historian, artist, critic, confident, crafty, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: banker, government official, academic, economist, media personality, corrupt businessman, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Austrian girl is forced to marry for the sake of the family, rather than for love, which causes her great pain when the man she truly loves commits suicide, rather than see her married to another. Her life takes another turn for the worse when the Nazis rise to power and her Jewish ancestry creates problems. The woman takes steps to do right by herself after vowing to never allow someone else to determine her fate.
Plot Keywords: manager, academic, daughter, prince, aristocrat, nazi, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes suspects Kim of stealing 50 dollars from him and that starts tension, intrigues, mistrust.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: academic, professor, husband, wife, girlfriend, musicologist, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roland Michell is an American scholar trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academia. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.
Plot Keywords: academic, scholar, rival, poet, lover, passionate, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As renowned for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) is crafting yet another masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds Fred and Rose disrupt her creative process and marriage to literary critic - and philandering professor - Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg). As Stanley spars to maintain academic dominance over his would-be protégé Fred, Rose attempts to dampen her own ambitions and adjust to married life while living under the roof of their fiery intellectual hosts with quicksilver loyalties and myriad neuroses. When the motives of Shirley's literary muse prove elusive, Rose's curiosity and trusting nature make her tender prey for a brilliant author whose only allegiance is to her work.—Mae Moreno
Plot Keywords: academic, writer, author, newlywed, husband, wife, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In San Francisco, after a year's relationship, Tom proposes to Violet; she accepts. She's an experimental psychologist, hoping for a post-doc at Cal. He's a sous chef who runs the kitchen when the chef is away. When Cal falls through and she gets an offer in Ann Arbor, Tom agrees to support the move, turning down a job as chef at a new restaurant. The move requires postponing the wedding. At Michigan, Violet is in her element, but Tom is underemployed and frustrated; he's Stoic for a while, but when two years in Michigan become four, Tom's frustrations boil over, and on the eve of yet another wedding date, they must make a choice. Is there any other alternative?
Plot Keywords: fiancé, chef, academic, best friend, professor, graduate student, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, sister, man, woman, political activist, academic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: student, german, prankster, academic, professor, campy, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A London scholar (Sigourney Weaver) moonlights as a personal escort and becomes a pawn in a plot against a client (Michael Caine).
Plot Keywords: academic, nobleman, escort, thrilling, passionate, peace talks, bedroom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A romantic escape into nature turns into the ultimate moment of reckoning when a husband and wife are trapped in a tent with a deadly snake. Unable to escape and with certain death looming, the tent becomes a heated confessional to a cataclysmic truth. Betrayed, the couple finds themselves spiraling into a dark and dangerous space of which only one can survive.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, academic, tense, suspenseful, forest, tent ...
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