The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), Speedy (1928), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Miss Virginia (2019), All at Sea (1957), Be Kind Rewind (2008), I Like Money (1962), Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best City Official movies.
Storyline: 2 Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk & San Francisco Mayor, 'George Moscone (I)' were assassinated by recently resigned Supervisor Dan White on Monday, November 27th, 1978, approximately 8:45 AM to 9:15 AM. Milk's life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal recollections.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: activist, mayor, city official, homophobe, inspiring, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Speedy" loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, "Speedy" organizes the neighborhood oldtimers to thwart their scheme.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: taxi driver, girlfriend, grandfather, babe ruth, police officer, city official, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.
Plot Keywords: city official, girl, henchman, playful, amusing, charming, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
Plot Keywords: single mother, teen boy, politician, talk show host, city official, moving, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors, but is all too susceptible to seasickness. After the war, he buys himself a nautical command on shore, a decrepit amusement pier at the British resort town Sandcastle-on-Sea, whose prim town council has outlawed arcade games as a form of gambling. Running the pier like a Naval vessel, the Captain's determination to make it a modern, going concern meets steady opposition. But with an unexpected new ally, he pursues a remarkable scheme to liberate his "ship" from land authorities.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sea captain, reporter, teen boy, city official, sailor, superintendent, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike's peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade "Ghostbusters" to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?
Plot Keywords: clerk, schemer, customer, police officer, city official, amusing, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Topaze ('Peter Sellers') is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that if what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: teacher, actress, city official, headmaster, daughter, baroness, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Los Angeles, California: A new law says that the first ambulance that arrives at an accident obtains the contract to transport the injured person. The result is ruthless competition between several companies.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: ambulance driver, ex-cop, paramedic, boss, city official, dark, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers' protest, but their love can't be, because he is married and Italy has no divorce. So she persuades him to move to the U.S., and joins him four years later, bringing a Mortadella (sort of salami, processed pork anyway) as a present. But Customs do not allow processed meat to enter the U.S., so she is held at JFK airport but refuses to give in (she indeed is a very strong woman). In the meantime, she discovers the truth about Michele and a few things about the US.—<minavagante@ciaoweb.it>
Plot Keywords: immigrant, reporter, city official, restaurant owner, fiancé, offbeat, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicling the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America from the 1950s through the 2000s.
Plot Keywords: coach, janitor, swimmer, city official, teenager, rival, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young lovers Ruth and Jimmy find their quiet lives in Sheffield, England, threatened when the Soviet Union and United States go to war.
Plot Keywords: survivors, city official, farmer, newlywed, bleak, frightening, sheffield, england ...
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