Shoah (1985), The 39 Steps (1935), Monsters and Men (2018), Innocent Bystanders (1973), The Kansan (1943), Don't Look Back (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bystander movies.
Storyline: Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by asking for the most minute details is effective at adding up these details to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people who still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.—Gene Volovich <volovich@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: victim, survivor, nazi, bystander, guard, brooding, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith, who is running away from secret agents. He agrees to hide her in his flat, but she is murdered during the night. Fearing that he could be accused of the murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.
Plot Keywords: tourist, spy, bystander, police officer, suspenseful, intricate, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
Plot Keywords: bystander, police officer, baseball player, murder victim, father, african-american, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Experienced British spy must retrieve a defecting Soviet scientist from Turkey. When a pretty female innocent bystander gets kidnapped by mistake by his enemies, he feels responsible and decides to help her as well.
Plot Keywords: bystander, british intelligence agent, cia agent, scientist, thrilling, dark, turkey ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: cowboy, marshal, banker, townspeople, bank robber, bystander, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a young woman overcoming her traumatic past is among several witnesses who see a man fatally assaulted and don't intervene, they find themselves targeted by someone, or something, out for revenge.
Plot Keywords: bystander, brooding, dark, uneasy, somber, frightening, crime ...
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