Matinee (1993), Running Scared (1986), The Gun Runners (1958), A Murder of Crows (1998), 92 in the Shade (1975), CrissCross (1992), Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Cuba Crossing (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Key West, Fla. movies.
Storyline: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: producer, actress, girlfriend, son, friend, daughter, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain. Key West offers a substantial change over frozen Chicago. They decide to quit and open a bar in Key West. Upon returning, they find that Julio, the drug dealer who nearly killed them has made bail and is trying to complete a giant drug deal. They decide to complete their case against Julio before quitting, but then begin being careful. Their effectiveness drops as they find they can't operate the way they did before if they don't have the edge of a long time commitment.
Plot Keywords: police detective, drug lord, police chief, ex-wife, partner, criminal, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.—<rita.richardson@arch2nara.gov>
Plot Keywords: skipper, arms dealer, wife, first mate, revolutionary, femme fatale, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a lawyer gets disbarred, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book. He then finds himself, trying to prove that he is innocent of the murders.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: defense attorney, novelist, murder suspect, prosecutor, detective, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Plot Keywords: rich kid, grandfather, girlfriend, wife, businessman, spirited, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: mother, son, father, undercover agent, stripper, emotional, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman).
Plot Keywords: ernest hemingway, author, aspiring writer, war correspondent, journalist, lover, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
Plot Keywords: ex-soldier, boss, mafioso, ship captain, girlfriend, first mate, suspenseful ...
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