Marianne (2019), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934), The White Sister (1923), I Was a Spy (1933), Regarding Susan Sontag (2014), Act of Love (1953), Viva Maria (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Front Lines movies.
Storyline: A famous horror writer discovers that the evil spirit who plagues her dreams is now wreaking havoc.
Plot Keywords: frenchwoman, fiancé, soldier, blind man, american officer, melodramatic, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: peasant, pregnant woman, villager, husband, bureaucrat, gutsy, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league with munitions manufacturers to make money off of war, he goes insane.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: writer, pacifist, wife, publisher, politician, capitalist, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits the property herself, throwing Lillian into poverty. Fortunately, she is engaged to marry the dashing officer Ronald Coleman, but he is captured by Arabs on an expedition to Africa. Dedicating her life to his memory, Lillian becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and returning to Italy! The climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.—Ed Lengel <egl2r@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>
Plot Keywords: heiress, italian soldier, half sister, father, love interest, nun, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: nurse, soldier, spy, german soldier, british soldier, british officer, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag's life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today.—Question Why Films
Plot Keywords: writer, journalist, critic, confident, creative, engaging, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former soldier on holiday in the French Riviera recalls his time in France during WWII, and his love for a French peasant woman.
Plot Keywords: ex-soldier, orphan, prostitute, captain, love interest, officer, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she unintentionally invents the strip-tease and makes the circus famous. Then they accidentally meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists and the Church.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: ira agent, irishwoman, vaudevillian, revolutionary, priest, land owner, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mallory and Miller are back. It seems that there was traitor with them at Navarone, whom they thought was executed. But it seems that not only was he not executed, and he was not a traitor but a German spy. Intelligence believes he made it to Yugoslavia and is now with the Partisans. So, Mallory and Miller being the only ones who can positively identify him are sent along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby, who objects to their presence. It seems that Force 10 has a mission of their own which Mallory and Miller know nothing about. When their plane is shot and most of the team is killed, they mistakenly believe that some of the locals they meet are Partisans but in reality are German Allies, so they are taken prisoner, and have to convince the German commander that they are not spies or else they will be killed.
Plot Keywords: soldier, explosives expert, colonel, spy, yugoslavian, nazi, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green, and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon), a writer of school text books, has married Mabel (Dame Angela Lansbury) "on the rebound", after his real love Nona (Deborah Kerr) marries some one else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with husband Tony (Hugh French). Mable is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, widow, pregnant woman, townsperson, ex-lover, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: roy rogers, journalist, sister, politician, horse, spy, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.—JG <jmgrant@SoCA.com>
Plot Keywords: wounded veteran, nurse, doctor, friend, soldier, lover, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers. Jeannie, afraid for his safety, tells Foster of Bill's secret route not knowing Foster is the leader of the outlaw gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: union soldier, businessman, gang leader, guard, brother, abraham lincoln, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti. The mobster discovers his whereabouts and enrolls two hit men to finish him off. With their fort under siege and enemies within, Lefevre finds that second chances are difficult to come by in the Legion.
Plot Keywords: boxer, gangster, hit man, legionnaire, commanding officer, girlfriend, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of twenty-eight slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squado can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. Because Colonel Ackerman, whose troops killed his last platoon, is the leader of the platoon in charge of the gun, McPhearson insists on trying to complete the commandos' mission.—Scott Hutchins <scottandrewh@home.com>
Plot Keywords: commando, colonel, army recruit, nazi, enemy, teamwork, thrilling ...
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