Portrait of Jennie (1948), Mystery Street (1950), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Summer Catch (2001), Hot Summer Nights (2017), Muck (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cape Cod movies.
Storyline: Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a pretty but odd young girl named Jennie Appleton appears and strikes up an unusual friendship with Eben.—Albert Sanchez Moreno (a.moreno@mindspring.com) with correction by John Knoderer (GodLovesEveryone.org@mazes.com)
Plot Keywords: painter, girl, gallery owner, cab driver, mother superior, dreamy, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vivian, a B-girl working at "The Grass Skirt," is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks drunken customer Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod, where she strands Henry...and is never seen again. Months later, a skeleton is found (sans clothes or clues) on a lonely Cape Cod beach. Using the macabre expertise of Harvard forensic specialist Dr. McAdoo, Lt. Pete Morales must work back from bones to the victim's identity, history, and killer. Will he succeed in time to save an innocent suspect?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: forensic expert, barmaid, boyfriend, suspect, dark, intricate, bar ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.
Plot Keywords: wife, abusive husband, mother, teacher, boyfriend, neighbor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ryan Dunne, a nice high-school kid, who works hard mowing lawns for dad Sean's firm, is caught between loyalty to Sir, who cynically believes neither of his sons will even climb the social ladder, and big brother Mike, who scolds Ryan's lack of ambition to go all the way to be recruiter for for a baseball college scholarship, which Mike had to abandon due to a wound. To complicate matters, he falls in love with a snob client's daughter.
Plot Keywords: baseball pitcher, rich girl, wealthy man, ex-girlfriend, teammate, parent, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An awkward teenager gets in over his head dealing drugs while falling for his business partner's enigmatic sister during one scorching summer in Cape Cod, Mass.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, mother, bad boy, aunt, sister, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After narrowly escaping an ancient burial ground, long forgotten and buried underneath the marshes of Cape Cod, a group of friends emerge from the thick, marshy darkness, tattered and bloody, lucky to be alive. They have already lost two of their friends in the marsh, presumably dead. They stumble upon an empty Cape Cod vacation house alongside the foggy marsh and break in to take shelter. Whatever was in the marsh is still after them and soon after one of them goes for help, the rest of the group learns that the evil in the marsh is not the only thing that wants them dead. Something worse, something more savage, was lying in wait just outside the marsh, in the house. What happens next is unspeakable, horror that cannot be unseen. These unlucky travelers spend their St. Patrick's Day trapped between two evils forcing them to fight, die, or go back the way they came.—Steve Wolsh
Plot Keywords: friend, young man, young woman, traveler, mysterious man, cheeky, chilling ...
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