Highest-Rated Movies about 'Denver', Sort by Popularity

Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation (2017), Jane's Journey (2010), Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), One Foot in Heaven (1941), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), Resurrecting the Champ (2007), The Hallelujah Trail (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Denver movies.

#1. Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation (2017)

Storyline: The documentary follows The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team on the road as they compete in the 2015 World Box Lacrosse Championships. For the first time ever, the Championship Games were held on an Indian Reservation, in Onondaga in upstate New York, the Capitol of the Iroquois Confederacy.—Chris Brewster

Plot Keywords: athlete, teammate, native american, inspiring, emotional, spirited, denver ...

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#2. Jane's Journey (2010)

Storyline: More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote all her energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she's been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, and has been honored with countless awards. In Jane's Journey, we accompany her on her travels across several continents, and receive unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to Gombe National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. It's where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected.This documentary offers an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time, whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be among the most important of the past 100 years.—Palm Springs Internation Film Festival

Plot Keywords: inspiring, fascinating, engaging, tanzania, africa, england, denver, germany ...

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#4. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

Storyline: Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No it's a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life -- a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. Can she sing and play the piano? She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can and learns quickly. Soon she is the bride of Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. But it takes more than a few million dollars to be accepted by Denver society. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>

Plot Keywords: orphan, prince, wife, miner, husband, brash, touching ...

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#5. One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Storyline: In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. From Central Canada, William forwent his medical school education in Toronto to become a minister, much to the chagrin of Hope's well off parents of Stratford, Ontario. Regardless of the unknowns of their first posting in rural Iowa, the only posting available, Hope married William in 1904. The adjustment to their new life was initially more difficult for Hope, especially their new poor economic standing and having their life not wholly being their own but rather that of their congregation, as William had the focus of this decision on which to drive his purpose. Their life over the next twenty years or so is presented, which eventually includes three children and they being constantly on the move as William gets assigned from one parish to another across the United States. That life is largely characterized by William having a strong mindset, but who will admittedly change his mind if he is proven to be wrong, and Hope generally supporting William in his decisions regardless of the sacrifice to her or the children. The only seeming exception to that latter point is Hope's desire ultimately to settle into one place that they can call home to provide them, especially the children, with a sense of belonging. They believe they've found that place when they move into a parish in Denver following the great war, with a booming economy one that has the money to accomplish what William would like to accomplish for his work in the name of God. William will however find that with money among his congregation comes a sense of entitlement which may not mesh with his view of bringing the teachings of God to the people.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: preacher, wife, son, daughter, choir director, chauffeur, tender ...

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#6. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

Storyline: Jimmy the Saint's business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give 'Afterlife Advice' to their survivors. He hasn't been doing too well lately and has had to turn to loan-sharks to accomodate his failing business, as well as his expensive personal tastes. When an evil gangster-overlord buys up his note and demands a favor of Jimmy, in exchange for the interest that he can't afford, Jimmy capitulates. Jimmy is to scare someone for the gangster-overlord--really rough them up. Without giving too much away (spoiler), the scene goes down badly and Jimmy and his crew all end up with contracts on their heads for their trouble.

Plot Keywords: gangster, ex-convict, girlfriend, prostitute, crime boss, hit man, brutal ...

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#9. Silver Dollar (1933)

Storyline: Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds an opera house. He leaves Sarah for glamorous Lily and, when he makes it to Washington as Senator, marries her. When the gold standard is introduced, he's ruined.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: politician, wife, mine owner, mistress, ulysses s. grant, engaging, spirited ...

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#10. The Happy Ending (1969)

Storyline: The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers. Great supporting cast includes John Forsythe, Teresa Wright, Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Jones, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Dick Shawn, and Nanette Fabray.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: wife, husband, daughter, maid, hustler, mistress, brutal ...

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#11. Katherine (1975)

Storyline: Katherine (Sissy Spacek) is a young debutante who is transformed into a revolutionary by the chaotic currents coursing through American society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her loving, middle-class parents (Art Carney, Jane Wyatt) enable her descent into extremism. Disappointed with her radical boyfriend (Henry Winkler), who is interested more in sex than in activism, she joins a group of leftist militants who contend that only violence can enact social and political change.

Plot Keywords: debutante, hippie, revolutionary, police officer, mother, father, fiery ...

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#12. Happy New Year (1987)

Storyline: Small time crooksters Nick (Peter Falk) and Charlie (Charles Durning) have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>

Plot Keywords: chemist, spy, assistant, child, drunk, executive, hysterical ...

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#13. Identity Thief (2013)

Storyline: Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) gets a nice call confirming his name and other identifying information. The next thing he knows, a spa in Florida is reminding him of his appointment and his credit cards are maxed out. With his identity stolen, Sandy leaves his wife, kids and job to literally bring the thief to justice in Colorado. Keeping tabs on the other Sandy (Melissa McCarthy) and run-ins with bounty hunters is harder than he was expecting, and ultimately the cross-country trip is going to find both Sandys learning life tips from one another.

Plot Keywords: man, thief, woman, investigator, girlfriend, hilarious, outlandish ...

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#14. The Big Bus (1976)

Storyline: The ultimate disaster movie parody. A nuclear powered bus is going non-stop from New York City, New York to Denver, Colorado, and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. When the driver is injured, a washed up, down on his luck, but used to be great type, who as it happens, used to be engaged to the inventor's daughter is brought in to drive the giant bus which includes a one lane swimming pool and a one lane bowling alley.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: bus driver, driver, scientist, nuclear physicist, passenger, saboteur, engaging ...

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#15. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

Storyline: Seal Team Commander Casey Ryback has retired from the Navy since the conclusion of the events in the first movie, and is now a chef at the Mile High Cafe in Denver, Colorado. Ryback is taking his niece Sarah Ryback on vacation, to reconnect and commiserate with her after the death of her parents. They board a train traveling westbound through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to LA. With the help of gun-for-hire Marcus Penn a couple dozen of his mercenaries, ex-CIA brain (and mentally unstable) Travis Dane commandeers the train, takes the passengers and crew hostage, and sets up a mobile control center. He hacks into the CIA database and gains control of a Top-Secret defence satellite he designed during his Agency days that has just been deployed. Funded by various foreign interests, he stands to make 1 billion dollars for using the space weapon to blow up the Eastern seaboard by targeting a nuclear reactor housed beneath the Pentagon. Dane taunts the Joint Chiefs in the Pentagon ...

Plot Keywords: chef, niece, terrorist, porter, mercenary, navy seal, suspenseful ...

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