Prodigal Sons (2008), Incendies (2010), Sister Cities (2016), Magnolia (1999), The Gathering (1977), Pickpocket (1959), Dear Frankie (2004), Deadlier Than the Male (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Estrangement movies.
Storyline: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and the child's father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him. Eileen is bitter, complaining about her husband and the dog next door; Bill's a doormat. His West Indian neighbor offers him a drink; her own grown son locks himself in his room most of the time. Will anyone connect during this Guy Fawkes weekend?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, daughter, son, sister, brother, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: veteran, friend, wife, son, thug, pretty woman, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, grandmother, teen girl, singer, drifter, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.—Morganalee
Plot Keywords: juvenile delinquent, thief, teen girl, lover, aunt, uncle, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: journalist, love interest, neighbor, housekeeper, priest, widower, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than embittered, still has little interest in joining the rebels. But this changes when his son, too, is taken from him. The rest is lighthearted swashbuckling, plus romantic interludes with lovely hostage Anne.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: archer, wife, leader, rebel, niece, tyrant, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Yannis is a 14 year old boy who lives an isolated life with his dad on a small Greek island. After the death of his mother, two of them didn't talk much. One day, Yannis finds a young pelican and decides to take it home. His friendship with the pelican, and meeting with the impulsive 15 year old girl, will mark a change in his life, that will eventually lead to reconciliation with his father.—nitorch
Plot Keywords: pelican, city girl, teen boy, father, touching, amusing, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Molly, an actress desperate for work, decides to get it by "playing the part" of an experienced housekeeper. It turns out that the butler at her new household is doing the same thing. Their employer, Mr. Graham, is a retired politician who, divorced from his wife and estranged from his son, lives alone with a staff of servants. Graham's life needs shaking up and, with her enthusiasm and acting talent, Molly is just the one to help him do it when the opportunity arises.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: actress, politician, butler, son, amusing, charming, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.—Dragomir R. Radev <radev@cs.columbia.edu>
Plot Keywords: war hero, countess, count, lawyer, child, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Adamson fights to save Kenya's wildlife. Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn, he battles to keep the animals on his game reserve, and "Kora", from dangerous poachers.
Plot Keywords: conservationist, assistant, brother, wife, poacher, soldier, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Chairman Mao dies, many men jailed during his regime are released, including artist Zhang Gengnian (Sun Haiying), who comes back to his wife, Xiuqing (Joan Chen), and son, Xiangyang (Zhang Fan), after a long absence. There is unease in the family home, though, as Xiangyang is mistrustful of the father he barely knows and Gengnian is no longer able to paint after years of forced labor. Xiangyang begins to excel at art, which could either bring him closer to his father or widen the schism.
Plot Keywords: painter, husband, wife, son, daughter-in-law, chinese man, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them both, they realize that the key to fixing their lives just may lie in fixing their relationship with each other.
Plot Keywords: twin, brother, sister, husband, mother, lover, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christian Petzold's drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in her native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to search for a job in the West. When she gets to know Philipp, a smart executive at a private equity company in Hanover, she becomes his assistant and gets involved into the world of ruthless and big business. Realizing her dreams could come true with Philipp's help, she starts hearing voices and sounds from her past, which menace her new and better life...—fippi2000
Plot Keywords: estranged wife, blackmailer, abusive husband, businessman, thrilling, suspenseful, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three brothers, a sergeant, a troublemaker and a dreamer meet for the first time in five years. They have met to drive home a car their father bought for their mother's 50th birthday. During the long ride home they get to know each other once again.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: sergeant, college graduate, rebel, brother, father, uncle, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Plot Keywords: divorcée, sick person, prisoner, old flame, teen girl, woman, tender ...
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