King Corn (2007), Winchell (1998), Nothing but the Truth (2008), Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (2009), Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011), Election (1999), Nothing But the Truth (2008), Five Star Final (1931) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ethics movies.
Storyline: When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders are being used, the two men draw apart to become sworn enemies.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: cowboy, outlaw, homesteader, daughter, beautiful woman, cattle rancher, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin to apparently upright competitor James Wallingham. He counters by adding a veneer of respectability to his own operation. Meanwhile he exposes Wallingham for a fraud.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: love interest, competitor, friend, girlfriend, witness, brash, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Plot Keywords: police officer, father, police captain, wife, disabled girl, gripping, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steven Fitzgerald, a newpaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and a beautiful young woman while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiance and her wealthy father's political campaign in New York, he finds that the leprechaun and the young woman are now in New York as well. Steven is torn between the wealth he might enjoy in New York or returning to his roots in Ireland.—JeanneArmintrout@juno.com
Plot Keywords: reporter, leprechaun, love interest, fiancée, publisher, editor, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.—Mike Welsch <m.welsch@az05.bull.com>
Plot Keywords: careerist, socialite, sweetheart, financier, magnate, business partner, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small-town librarian is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: widow, librarian, attorney, assistant, girlfriend, townsperson, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry.
Plot Keywords: professor, wife, psychologist, test subject, student, frightening, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: coal miner, boxer, beautiful woman, magnate, rich girl, tailor, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.
Plot Keywords: billionaire, industrialist, dying person, young man, doctor, assistant, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prominent attorney Brad Mason takes on the defense of Rudi Walchek, a young hit-man hoodlum accused of murder. Convinced of the youthful thug's innocence, Mason get him acquitted. Later, he learns from the murder-victim's father that Walchek is a low-level member of a protection-racket gang and was undoubtedly guilty. Mason is anxious to get the gang-leader, but when he discovers it is the eminently respected head of the city's Crime Commission, he feels that a conviction in a court-of-law would be impossible. In a rage, he kills the man, but all evidence, including the murder weapon points to Walchek. When the latter is again brought to trial, Mason, although he senses a higher justice is at work, feels he must defend him with the best of his ability.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: defense attorney, wife, district attorney, defendant, murderer, shop owner, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds with his wife and kids for the other 12. But the pilot is starting to question the mission. Is he creating more terrorists than he's killing? Is he fighting a war without end.
Plot Keywords: death, wife, fighter pilot, thrilling, las vegas, afghanistan, ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Then the Korean War begins, and the Greer family starts to worry: kid brother Jack, courting the lovely daughter of the draft board chairman, is next on the list. A character study examining American attitudes of that era.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: veteran, father, son, mother, girlfriend, gripping, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Railroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, that he's actually a government agent. But when Jim finds out, he tries to kill Steve.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: tycoon, rancher, son, love interest, henchman, spirited, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village following the 80s-plus Samaritan in his daily rounds.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: doctor, wife, grandchild, neighbor, patient, fascinating, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The saga continues 200 years after Ripley sacrificed herself for the sake of humanity. Her erstwhile employers long gone, this time it is the military that resurrects the one-woman killing machine through genetic cloning to extract the alien from within her, but during the process her DNA is fused with the queen and then the aliens escape. Now Ripley must decide where her allegiance lies.
Plot Keywords: scientist, clone, crew member, astronaut, dark, disturbing, gory ...
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