The Exterminating Angel (1962), Under the Sand (2000), The President's Last Bang (2005), The Exterminating Angel (1962), Mr. Skeffington (1944), The Invitation (1973), Caddyshack (1980), Coherence (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dinner Party movies.
Storyline: In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: steward, prince, courtesan, king louis xiv, brother, costume designer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From Mexican auteur Manolo Caro "THE HOUSE OF FLOWERS" comes PERFECT STRANGERS "PERFECTOS DESCONOCIDOS", a story about a seemingly simple dinner. When a group of best friends get together during a lunar eclipse to share an intimate dinner in the tasteful house of Eva "Cecilia Suarez" and Antonio "Bruno Bichir", they suspect it's just another typical night until the hostess proposes a game. All guests must lay their cell phones on the table and read aloud all incoming messages and answer all incoming phone calls in front of the entire group. What begins as a provocative party game quickly becomes a wild ride full of twists and "textual tension" in this comedy about the secrets we all carry in our pockets.
Plot Keywords: best friend, friend, hilarious, brooding, charming, confident, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a courtesan, that love all consuming in that he thinks about how he can be with her when they aren't together. He also despises himself for loving her to the extent he does in knowing that if that love is ever destroyed, he won't be able to survive the emotional pain. He is also made quite aware that if he does marry Odette, whose services he pays for while he allows her to continue with her life, he will lose his social position as most will not be able to welcome her into their house. The wealthy Verudins may be the exceptions as they are considered vulgar and gauche despite their wealth, they who have their own choice for Odette, a man named de Forcheville. The other other exception is Charles' old friend, the Baron de Charlus, who introduced the two to each other. The Baron's support for Charles regardless of what he ends up doing is because he has already reconciled himself to his own socially taboo life, that of a homosexual with a penchant for younger men.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: intellectual, jew, prostitute, wife, baron, homosexual, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.
Plot Keywords: young man, fiancé, father, mother, friend, prosecutor, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high-flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), a 43-year-old waitress with a fixation on Marilyn Monroe. The couple gradually fall in love, though age and social differences mean that the path of true love is strewn with problems.—Matt <matt@measham.force9.net>
Plot Keywords: ad executive, waitress, widower, friend, love interest, associate, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set during a recent European revolution, when the students have just begun to rise, the film focuses on the unusual relationship between Dr. Daniel Pavenic (Sir Michael Gambon) and his housekeeper, Ana Puscasu (Sônia Braga). In the midst of a night alive with the rattle of gunfire and burning buildings, the doctor tells the story of his obsession for his enigmatic housekeeper, to a dinner table of his guests. His shocking honesty eventually prompts each guest in turn, to disclose some inner corner of his own life.
Plot Keywords: doctor, servant, childhood friend, guest, dark, shocking, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show "Skylark Tonight." When they discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.
Plot Keywords: producer, host, dictator, journalist, cia agent, assassin, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: inspector, prostitute, neighbor, classmate, old friend, civil servant, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up. They start dating and decide to get married. They're not prepared for the hostile reactions from their children, especially Jake's daughter Stacy, who wants to be the woman of the house, and Abby's oldest son Flip, who hates Jake.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: widow, widower, daughter, son, brother, blue-collar worker, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...—1felco
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, traveler, italian, love interest, girlfriend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.—Daniel Bubbeo
Plot Keywords: broadway star, singer-songwriter, girlfriend, singer, cheery, endearing, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An off-screen narrator, Mort Golden, takes us back to winter around 1975, the year he was 21. He and his two buddies, Tim and Danny, have a fateful trip over the bridge from Detroit into Canada. The three of them are going nowhere in life, although Mort has thoughts of being a writer, while his mom wants him to go to college. He and his pals contemplate making a quick fortune transporting drugs over the border in their beat-up Buick, "the war wagon." Mort's also hopelessly in love with a girl he dated briefly a couple years before. With border inspectors, Tim's temper, and Danny's bottled up emotions, is there any way this can end well?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: aspiring writer, friend, jock, mother, uncle, drug trafficker, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Industrial tycoon Stéphane Margelle is an incorrigible lady's man. Caught by his wife Sophie in company of a charming young lady, Julie, he rushes to introduce the young woman as his daughter from a previous marriage. Sophie is not taken in but nonetheless decides to play him at his own game. And Stéphane gets trapped in his web of lies.—dee
Plot Keywords: businessman, wife, mistress, husband, mother, cheeky, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste...
Plot Keywords: president, intelligence officer, pop star, prostitute, secret agent, bodyguard, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stranded student Pete (Ron Eldard) gets a lift from racist trucker Zack and repays the favor by inviting him in for dinner with his roommates, Jude (Cameron Diaz), Luke (Courtney B. Vance), Marc (Jonathan Penner) and Paulie (Annabeth Gish). When Zack praises Hitler and pulls a knife at the table, the roommates kill him. Rationalizing their actions as a favor to humanity, they bury Zack in the yard and begin to invite other offensive types to a string of similarly murderous meals.
Plot Keywords: graduate student, racist, homophobe, misogynist, friend, sheriff, dark ...
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