Highest-Rated Movies about 'Houseboat', Sort by Popularity

Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), Judge Hardy and Son (1939), Foul Play (1978), Houseboat (1958), Tammy Tell Me True (1961), Tony Rome (1967), Blood Work (2002), Double Bunk (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Houseboat movies.

#1. Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)

Storyline: When Pete's plane crashes in the swamp, he's rescued by young Tammy, an unsophisticated backwoods girl who lives with her lay-preacher-cum-moonshiner grandfather. When Pete's well, he goes back home to his fiancée. But then Grampa gets sent to jail and he sends Tammy to stay with Pete. At Pete's house, Tammy's home cooking, enthusiasm and quaint sunshiny personality bring about changes in Pete's family and in Pete himself.—Kathy Li

Plot Keywords: pilot, southern belle, bootlegger, grandfather, fiancée, friend, airy ...

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#2. Judge Hardy and Son (1939)

Storyline: Mr. and Mrs. Valduzzi come to see Judge James Hardy for advice on how to prevent the loss of their home. He senses the aged Italian immigrant couple has a grown daughter who is ashamed of her parents and has not kept in contact with them. Failing to locate her himself, he offers money to his teenage son, Andy, if he can locate her. Andy has been having his usual problems with his car and girlfriends and eagerly accepts the challenge, since he needs the money. At the same time he plans on getting some girl to enter a school essay contest and split the $50 winning prize money with her. Since he supposes that a daughter of the daughter might have Valduzzi as a middle name, he sees three high school girls, Euphrasia V. Clark, Clarabelle V. Lee and Elvee Horton, in the hope that one of them may be the right one. Not only do they all reject Andy's unethical proposal about the essay, but Euphrasia blackmails him into taking her to the Fourth-of-July fireworks show, which causes him more problems with his jealous girl, Polly Benedict. But Andy finally realizes how insignificant these problems really are when his mother becomes deathly ill with pneumonia.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>

Plot Keywords: immigrant, girlfriend, household, high school, illness, blackmail, dating ...

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#3. Foul Play (1978)

Storyline: When, unbeknownst to Gloria, a microfilm cassette is left with her by a dying agent, she becomes entangled in a complicated series of events. She's pursued by a dwarf and an albino, and becomes convinced that they are out to kill her. Finally, with the help of San Francisco detective Tony Carlson, she begins to turn the tables on her pursuers. It becomes clear that the nerfarious crew after her are plotting a dastardly deed indeed - to assassinate the Pope as he visits the city to see _The Mikado_. Gloria and Tony must race against time to prevent this terrible crime.

Plot Keywords: librarian, cop, orchestra conductor, assassin, landlord, pope, quirky ...

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#4. Houseboat (1958)

Storyline: Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>

Plot Keywords: widower, socialite, son, daughter, conductor, lighthearted, charming ...

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#6. Tony Rome (1967)

Storyline: Ex-cop turned private eye, Tony Rome lives and works in Miami. For $200, he returns a young woman to her father's house after she passes out in a seedy hotel, and he keeps the hotel's name out of it. Trouble is, she's missing a diamond pin, When the pin does turn up, it's fake. The girl's wealthy father hires Tony to find out what happened to the real stones. Bodies pile up,—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: private investigator, lieutenant, heiress, tycoon, stepmother, alcoholic, gritty ...

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#7. Blood Work (2002)

Storyline: Retired F.B.I. profiler Terry McCaleb (Clint Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciella Rivers (Wanda De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. On the case, he soon deduces that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the F.B.I. Can the elderly and feeble McCaleb, who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor, and who can't drive, and has to nap regularly, muster up the endurance to find the killer?

Plot Keywords: fbi agent, neighbor, victim, serial killer, detective, profiler, tense ...

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#8. Double Bunk (1961)

Storyline: When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France with no fuel and supplies and must resort to desperate actions to return home.—mike.wilson6@btinternet.com

Plot Keywords: newlywed, husband, wife, friend, girlfriend, police officer, amusing ...

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#9. The Good Bad Girl (1931)

Storyline: Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark), a gangster's moll, quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (Jmaes Hall), but after giving birth to a child), then finds her shady background a liability. Bob is so embarrassed by her former associations that he sues for a divorce. But Dapper Dan is gunned down by a detective and picky Bob forgives all.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: girlfriend, gangster, son, parent, best friend, detective, melodramatic ...

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#12. Body of Evidence (1992)

Storyline: A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer.

Plot Keywords: murder suspect, defense attorney, district attorney, wife, secretary, judge, hedonistic ...

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