The Apple (1998), Nostalgia (1983), Stroszek (1977), The Mosquito Coast (1986), What Will People Say (2017), Dark Matter (2007), The Emerald Forest (1985), Two Rode Together (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Culture Shock movies.
Storyline: Based on the true story of twin Iranian girls whose parents locked them away until they were 12 years old.
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, sister, blind woman, social worker, disturbing, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.—Anonymous and Brian McInnis
Plot Keywords: poet, interpreter, russian, mystic, mentally ill person, pretty woman, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, pimp, neighbor, nephew, waitress, bleak, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A brilliant but unstable inventor and his family create what they hope will be their Utopia in Central America.
Plot Keywords: inventor, wife, twin, daughter, preacher, native, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, friend, boyfriend, father, mother, family member, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jorge is a 25-year old janitor who desperately tries to find himself a new, and especially, better, job. This undertaking is complicated by the fact he takes care of his handicapped father who had a hart infarct seven years earlier. His soon-to-be-released brother Antonio finds a girlfriend (Paula) in jail who wants to get pregnant. When Antonio finds out he's infertile, Jorge is asked to make Paula pregnant. To make the dilemma even heavier, Jorge's childhood sweetheart Natalia returns after many years. Meanwhile, Jorge's best friend Israel (nicknamed Sean) secretly photographs men visiting an erotic masseur to find out something he didn't bargain for.—Marco van Hoof <k_luifje7@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: astrophysicist, mentor, chinese immigrant, professor, wealthy woman, husband, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story, Powers Boothe plays an American dam engineer in Brazil. Boothe's son (played by Charlie Boorman - son of director John Boorman) is kidnapped by a rain forest tribe, and raised as one of their own. Boothe continues to look for him and after many trials and adventures, stumbles upon him.—A. Felhofer <valmytrailslodge@itol.com>
Plot Keywords: father, son, tribal leader, wife, daughter, engineer, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches; however, just two captives are released, and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic.—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: marshal, bar owner, army officer, comanche warrior, wife, abductee, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
Plot Keywords: young boy, grandfather, grandmother, young girl, bully, sibling, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adam Weber is the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family. He meets Eve, who reluctantly agrees to help him out.
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, sibling, scientist, mother, father, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vivian's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap flat to another in Beverly Hills so she and her brothers can attend the city's schools. Uncle Mickey sends them money to survive. When Mickey's daughter Rita runs away from an asylum, Vivian's dad offers shelter to her if Mickey will pay for a plush flat. Vivian must babysit her adult cousin, making sure she gets to nursing school and avoids pills and booze. But Vivian has her own problems: she's curious about sex, likes an older neighbor kid, has inherited her mother's ample breasts, and wants a family that doesn't embarrass her. Can she help Rita, keep Uncle Mickey happy, and feel OK about her body and her family?
Plot Keywords: teen girl, father, cousin, brother, neighbor, teacher, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: fugitive, brother-in-law, land developer, mad scientist, wife, daughter, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The cultural clash between traditional-orthodox-India and modern-urban-India. The collision of two cultures creates havoc in the beginning but finds a peaceful co-existence, at the end. An orthodox boy from the holy city of Banaras, is forced to stay with a chorus dancer in Bombay... The film does the journey of these two opposite personalities and how, after the initial phase of rejection, they find each others place in their respective lives.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, friend, neighbor, hilarious, lighthearted, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
Plot Keywords: russian, musician, employee, retail manager, friend, police officer, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hunt Stevenson works for a large car manufacturer that has just been bought out by a Japanese firm. Suddenly finding himself having to justify his own job, he's forced to choose between redundancy or the seemingly inhuman Japanese work ethic that the new owners have brought with them.
Plot Keywords: union boss, mayor, foreigner, hilarious, offbeat, unrestrained, pennsylvania ...
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