Tru Confessions (2002), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Deep Water (2006), Christmas in July (1940), Best of the Best (1989), Night Song (1947), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952), Dancehall Queen (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Contest movies.
Storyline: Tina works as a barmaid at the Red Mill Tavern and is at the mercy of volatile and bad tempered owner, Willem. Dennis is a visitor to the area and Tina soon falls in love with him. Dennis doesn't share her feeling and leaves only to return later on. He becomes interested in Gretchen, the Burgomaster's daughter. However, Gretchen, about to enter into an arranged marriage with the Governor, is in love with Captain Jacop Van Goop. Tina and Gretchen enter into an elaborate masquerade in order to be with the men they each love.—jodlyn
Plot Keywords: barmaid, tourist, young woman, captain, governor, hilarious, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a sharpshooting match, the manager of a Cincinnati hotel bets on the fellow who's been supplying the hotel with quail...who turns out to be young Annie Oakley. Result: Annie is hired for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (which is faithfully re-enacted in the film). She's tutored in showmanship by champ Toby Walker. But when Annie wins top billing, professional rivalry conflicts with their growing personal attachment, leading to misunderstanding and separation.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sharpshooter, cowboy, buffalo bill, chief, promoter, annie oakley, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A series of vignettes linked together with the popular radio show of the same name, where women publicly reveal why they deserve to be Queen for the Day.
Plot Keywords: child, father, mother, nanny, radio host, teen boy, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
Plot Keywords: man, woman, singer, musician, local, uplifting, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director's son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting...
Plot Keywords: fool, actress, filmmaker, son, police officer, cheeky, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Right before the dancing Tobins ought to film a new production, his wife tells Freddy Tobin that she's pregnant. So the producer desperately has to seek a replacement and starts a countrywide competition among all college girls. However the contest is bogus: young dancer Patty Marlow is sent to a little college in the Midwest. Only Pug, a college reporter, suspects something.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: dancer, college student, editor, secretary, producer, publicist, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Because of a misunderstanding Melvin Jones is inducted into the Navy despite his numerous allergies. When appearing on a TV show sponsored by a lipstick manufacturer, fluke circumstances cause him to be perceived as an irresistibly great kisser by viewers, and he is undeservedly hyped in the media as "Mr. Temptation." His shipmates bet their pay that he can get Corinne Calvet, a sexy French chanteuse, to kiss him. Despite his allergy toward kissing girls, he tries not to let them down even though it threatens his relationship with girlfriend Hilda.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: bumbler, singer, nurse, chief petty officer, movie star, recruit, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hap Smith, nightclub entertainer, has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army: with lovely new partner Betsy Carter, Hap plays a clownish parody of a soldier. Meanwhile, Chick is organizing a soldier show at Fort Benning and finds he needs his old partner's help. To get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, Dogface Dolan; but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized snafu.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: entertainer, partner, paratrooper, soldier, general, sergeant, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Their acquaintance is innocent at first; but after he sees her in a spectacular silver moth costume, virtue begins to wane. Against their wills, they are drawn into an affair whose consequences threaten Strong's happy marriage and both their careers.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: pilot, married man, wife, daughter, aunt, parliament member, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stepfather Brad Whitaker is hoping for his stepchildren to love him and treat him like a dad. All is going well until the biological father, Dusty Mayron, shows up, then everything takes a toll. His stepchildren start putting him second and their father first, and now Dusty will have to learn that being a good dad is about pains and struggles. Brad will also experience once again what it's like to be a stepdad.
Plot Keywords: stepfather, wife, radio producer, birth father, son, daughter, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.
Plot Keywords: heroine, pilot, brother, friend, wife, rousing, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.
Plot Keywords: mad scientist, assistant, friend, creature, shapeshifter, emotional, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.
Plot Keywords: father, teen boy, thug, suspenseful, spirited, rousing, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Plot Keywords: millionaire, trophy wife, doctor, young man, young woman, guest, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A New York advertising executive who is about to land a big account, has his life shaken up when it becomes known that he has lied about having a college degree. After being fired, his life is further shaken by his debtors who had counted on paying after landing the account. Having to go on the run, he is called back to his southern town roots, when his great aunt dies. At the reading of the will, he learns he has been asked to assume the mantle of choir director of his great aunt's church and if he can get the choir in the Gospel Explosion in Atlanta, he will inherit stock worth $150,000. Unfortunately the choir leaves a lot to be desired and he has to start recruiting. Among others, he gets three prisoners to join. More importantly, he gets a "sinner" from one of the local night clubs to join. While initially scorned and resisted, nonetheless her voice wins everyone but the hardcore church busybody.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: advertising executive, singer, taxi driver, dj, reverend, aunt, tender ...
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