Outback (1971), The Exiles (1961), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), Monday (2000), The Maggie (1954), Udaan (2010), Last Night at the Alamo (1983), Festival (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Drinking movies.
Storyline: After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets waylaid in a mining town where a gambling spree leaves him completely broke. He quickly falls in with the hard-drinking locals, who constantly ply him with alcohol and force him to participate in a gruesome kangaroo hunt. Disgusted, John tries to hitchhike out of town and, when that fails, begins to contemplate suicide.
Plot Keywords: schoolteacher, sheriff, doctor, alcoholic, frightful, gritty, school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a Native American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Homer (Homer Nish) lives with his pregnant wife, Yvonne (Yvonne Williams), in a crowded apartment. While Homer goes drinking with his friend Tommy (Tom Reynolds), Yvonne is left at a movie by herself. As the men get progressively drunker, Yvonne realizes her husband is not coming home. Meanwhile, Homer and Tommy wander through the nighttime city, looking for fights, playing poker and discussing their problems as Native Americans.
Plot Keywords: native american, wife, friend, husband, tense, fascinating, los angeles ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Members of a troubled German film crew spend most of their time drinking, talking and waiting in a hotel.
Plot Keywords: director, star, actor, actress, cinematographer, producer, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Salaryman Koichi (Shinichi Tsutsumi) awakens one Monday morning with a terrible hangover and no memory of how he got where he is. He struggles to piece together the events of the previous weekend, first discovering evidence that he was at a funeral, which ended very badly. He remembers that things started to get really strange after he met Shingo (Hideki Noda), a barroom fortuneteller, and they became downright dangerous after he befriended Yuko (Yasuko Matsuyuki), a gangster's beautiful moll.
Plot Keywords: girlfriend, fortuneteller, gangster, moll, japanese man, dreamy, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An old Scottish skipper (Alex Mackenzie) outwits a U.S. businessman (Paul Douglas) trying to back out of a cargo deal.
Plot Keywords: american, captain, first mate, sailor, boy, cheeky, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.
Plot Keywords: student, half brother, father, uncle, emotional, moving, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When overconfident slacker Cowboy (Sonny Carl Davis), workaday sad sack Claude (Louis Perryman) and a colorful slew of eccentric dreamers and down-and-outers learn that the Alamo, a beloved Houston dive, is about to be torn down, they all come together for one last night to tell alcohol-fueled tall tales at the run-down bar. As the drinks flow, Cowboy convinces his pals that they should band together and save the Alamo; unfortunately, he and his fellow patrons are more inclined to talk than act.
Plot Keywords: barfly, blue-collar worker, girlfriend, friend, slacker, patron, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following a number of performers and judges who converge at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Several tales are interwoven as the judge of a comedy award drives his personal assistant to distraction (and the bottle), a would-be comedienne tries to get her big break, and an actress mounts her earnest and challenging one-woman play.
Plot Keywords: struggling actor, judge, television star, competitor, assistant, comedian, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A wealthy aspiring filmmaker (Thomas Haden Church) accompanies a rock journalist (Toni Collette) as she searches for her former lover, a music legend she helped discover but who suddenly disappeared one night.
Plot Keywords: boyfriend, filmmaker, former lover, emotional, seattle, search, job ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help of their nerdy friend Fogell, trying to score enough alcohol to lubricate the party and inebriate two girls, Jules and Becca, so they can kick-start their sex lives and go off to college with a summer full of experience and new skills. Their quest is complicated by Fogell's falling in with two inept cops who both slow and assist the plan. If they do get the liquor to the party, what then? Is sex the only rite of passage at hand?
Plot Keywords: teenager, best friend, cop, nerd, teen girl, clerk, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alec Leamas (Richard Burton), a British spy, is sent to East Germany, supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story.
Plot Keywords: spy, drunk, intelligence officer, interrogator, jew, communist, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the first of two separate tales, an Italian woman (Anna Magnani) desperate to reconcile with her ex-husband, pours out her feelings to him in an emotional phone conversation. In the second, a volatile peasant (also Magnani) in a small village believes a vagrant (Federico Fellini) is Saint Joseph. After the woman speaks with him, he offers her wine, and later she passes out. Weeks later, discovering she's pregnant, the woman tells the scoffing villagers that she is carrying the Christ child.
Plot Keywords: woman, villager, vagabond, man, ex-husband, emotional, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana. He is followed by Ginnie Moorehead, a vulgar and easy woman with whom he spent his last night in Chicago that has fallen in love with him. The resentful Dave meets his older brother Frank Hirsh, who owns a jewelry store and is a prominent citizen of Parkman that invites him to have dinner with his family. Dave meets his sister-in-law Agnes that hates him since one character of his novel had been visibly inspired on her, and his teenage niece Dawn. Frank introduces the school teacher Gwen French to him and Dave feels attracted by the beautiful woman that is daughter of his former Professor Robert Haven French and idolizes his work as writer. However, his unrequited love with Gwen drives Dave back to the local bar where he befriends the professional gambler Bama Dillert and meets Ginnie again with the Chicago's mobster Raymond Lanchak that was her former lover and has followed her from Chicago. The unconditional love of Ginnie for Dave leads to a tragedy in the calm Parkman.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: writer, woman, teacher, gambler, brother, brooding, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender. This leads him to seek another watering hole where he happens to find Wanda who is a barfly, in her own words "if another man came along with a fifth of whiskey, I'd go with him". Henry is not fazed by this thou and moves in with her. Of course Wanda immediately goes off and sleeps with Eddy, but after some clothes ...
Plot Keywords: writer, drunk, bartender, barfly, woman, publisher, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The tradition of the Irish pub. Speaking to pub owners all over Ireland, Alex Fegan gets into the heart of what makes "the Irish pub" the institution that it is.
Plot Keywords: irishman, irishwoman, spirited, engaging, endearing, pub, ireland ...
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