The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Umberto D. (1952), Stage Door (1937), Brooklyn (2015), Places in the Heart (1984), The Lower Depths (1957), Hombre (1967), The Devil's Doorway (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Boardinghouse movies.
Storyline: 'Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery' centers around a young girl living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?—wgdpink
Plot Keywords: reporter, hobo, friend, thief, father, mother, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman who is the one and only heir to the embezzled man years before. She works in a department store, in love with a struggling pianist. When the handsome young attorney tries to give the young woman a check for a million dollars, the heiress doesn't believe it. On the sly, the older woman befriends the younger woman.
Plot Keywords: heiress, granddaughter, elderly woman, boyfriend, friend, salesgirl, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kansas girl Terry Baxter has won a trip to Hollywood, tries to get a job as a dancer and ends up as secretary of screenwriter Haven. She mixes up the scripts, is fired and when she tries to explain to him what happened, she tries to break in a residence - she belives it belongs Haven's boss Stuart, but she is wrong - and is arrested. But Stuart and Haven don't let her drop.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: dancer, screenwriter, executive, secretary, movie producer, bandleader, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.
Plot Keywords: widow, daughter, physician, reporter, doctor, killer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.
Plot Keywords: professor, landlady, criminal, explosives expert, insider, thug, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal clerk.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: psychopath, serial killer, junkie, husband, wife, girlfriend, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surgeon, then rescues one of the hospital's Governors and finally gets his place on the staff.—Derek Picken <dpicken@email.msn.com>
Plot Keywords: intern, doctor, widow, teenager, patient, nurse, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members diverting attention but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others. Duke Mantel double-crosses the rest of the gang and with the money, accidently heads for the dude ranch where Gene is. The rest of the gang eventually show up to retrieve the money just as Gene and the boys find themselves locked in a building.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: gene autry, sheriff, accomplice, gang leader, partner, boyfriend, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Boy crusader Matt works for the Daily News and always breaks the big story. The only trouble is that he usually has the wrong information and the paper must print a retraction. But this time he thinks that he is on the right track. On patrol with his cop friends, they find the body of millionaire Edward Abbott in a cheap boarding house. It could be suicide or murder and Matt goes with murder, but the inquest goes with suicide. So Matt is out of a job, but in love with Jane and goes with his hunches - which put him in the middle of more killings.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: mistress, daughter, chauffeur, tycoon, newspaper reporter, editor, thrilling ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The routine of a group of fledgling boxers all living in Ma Galestrum's boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows her roving niece, beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially interested is ex-college boy Ken Burke who is trying to quickly make it to the top, and young brawny Swedish janitor Olaf Jensen who believes Judy will fall for him if he becomes a champion boxer. The rivalry between the two friends leads them to an inevitable meeting in the ring.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: niece, boxer, janitor, promoter, tenant, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young boy, growing up in a small US town in the mid-1800s. He finds a friend in Huckleberry Finn, a vagrant and outcast, and the two get up to all sorts of boyish adventures. While on one of these adventures they witness a murder, leaving Tom with a dilemma.—grantss
Plot Keywords: tom sawyer, huckleberry finn, outlaw, drunk, aunt, friend, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie Jones (Courtney B. Vance) is a hitman, working for the U.S. Government. He eliminates people with whom the government has a problem or does not like. He is "working" a lot and saving some money for his retirement. A good and faithful Catholic (despite murdering people in cold blood), he has not had sex for three years. While confessing, he tries to bargain his murders by his chastity with God. His boss is "Middleman" (Kathleen Turner), who likes him and decides to arrange a date for Eddie. She orders Eddie to meet Lois Newton (Regina King) in a restaurant, and after a lot of confusion and misunderstandings, mainly due to Eddie's profession, they fall in love with each other.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: martial artist, bachelor, wealthy man, woman, womanizer, lighthearted, tender ...
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