Places in the Heart (1984), The October Man (1947), Make Mine Mink (1960), Crime Wave (1985), Hamlet 2 (2008), Chicken Every Sunday (1949), Intimate Relations (1996), Inner Sanctum (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Boarder movies.
Storyline: Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time.—Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: widow, hobo, boarder, sister, brother-in-law, child, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.—Mike Wilson <Mike.Wilson6@btinternet.com>
Plot Keywords: scientist, doctor, girlfriend, boss, boarder, landlady, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Zany collection of misfits led by aging military man (Terry-Thomas) go on a spree of robbing mink coats. An unlikely trio of women (Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, and Elspeth Duxbury) find new reasons to live ... until their housekeeper (Billie Whitelaw), an ex-con is suspected of the robberies.—Ed Lorusso <elorusso@techreps.com>
Plot Keywords: landlady, major, maid, boarder, police officer, witty, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real "movie person" living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script--the strange "Dr. Jolly".—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: screenwriter, neighbor, partner, texan, boarder, young girl, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dana Marschz is a failed actor and recovering alcoholic who's moved to Tucson to teach high school drama, where he's plagued by bad reviews, student indifference, budget woes (he and his wife, who is trying to get pregnant, take in a boarder), and his own teaching limitations. Because the other electives are closed, he finds himself with a large class of seeming gang-bangers, and the principal informs him that drama will be cut next trimester. On the advice of a student reviewer, Dana decides to stage his own play, a sequel to "Hamlet" in which the prince and Jesus, with the use of a time machine, try to save Gertrude and Ophelia. Can Dana for once pull something off?
Plot Keywords: teacher, student, actor, wife, boarder, principal, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained investments. Emily only keeps a roof over the family by taking in boarders...more and more of them. But Jim's latest deal goes just a little too far.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, daughter, attorney, boarder, lighthearted, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harold Guppy (Rupert Graves) moves into the Beasley household as a lodger. Before long Mrs. Marjorie Beasley (Dame Julie Walters) falls for him and eventually ends up in his bed. Her thirteen-year old daughter Joyce (Laura Sadler) is aware of what is happening and threatens to tell Mr. Stanley Beasley (Matthew Walker) unless she is also allowed share the bed with Harold and "Mum". "Mum" seems to think there is no harm in this, as long as Joyce doesn't take part in the physical activities. Harold gets caught up in a web of deceit and blackmail, and each time he tries to break free of the grasp of "Mum", she threatens to tell the Police that he has been abusing Joyce. This movie continues much in this line, and it examines the effect of the relationship on both Harold and Joyce and how they are both driven to extreme action because of the influence of Mrs. Beasley.—SNC <sile@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Plot Keywords: sailor, brother, mother, daughter, boarder, husband, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man accidentally kills his fiancée as he exits a train. Just as the train pulls out, he drops her body on the rear platform. No one saw him do it, but someone does see him at the otherwise deserted station: a mischievous, freckle-faced boy. Later, he's walking along a road when the town's newspaper editor stops and gives him a lift. The editor tells his passenger that a flood has washed out the bridge. For now, there's no way out of town, so he takes the stranger to a boarding house. Fate decrees that of all houses, this is the one where the boy lives. The boy thinks he recognizes the new boarder. The new boarder thinks it's time to get rid of the boy. And a sexy blonde living at the house thinks it's time to run off with a man she knows is a murderer.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: murderer, young boy, witness, train passenger, mysterious man, boarder, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Plot Keywords: factory worker, wife, boarder, mistress, lawyer, son, melodramatic ...
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