History Is Made at Night (1937), From the Terrace (1960), Pittsburgh (1942), Driven (2018), Doomed to Die (1940), Stevie D (2016), Coast of Skeletons (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Magnate movies.
Storyline: The obsessive and jealous shipowner Bruce Vail does not accept the divorce his wife Irene Vail achieved in London, and he hires his driver Michael Browsky to forge adultery with Irene in Paris to make the decree null. However, she is rescued by the headwaiter Paul Dumond, who punches Michael and locks Bruce and his private eyes in a locker, and they spend a wonderful night together in the restaurant Chateau Bleu, where Paul and his best friend Chef Cesare work, and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile, Bruce kills Michael and blackmails Irene, blaming Paul and forcing her to return with him to New York. But Paul does not give up on Irene, and moves to New York with Cesare trying to find her love.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: magnate, wife, waiter, chef, chauffeur, love interest, dark ...
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: 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: After he's busted for smuggling coke on his plane, Jim Hoffman has a chance to start over in a lush, affluent suburb of San Diego. Jim and his wife, Ellen are surprised to find maverick auto mogul John DeLorean lives in a glamorous house down the street. Soon an unexpected friendship forms between the two men, just as John's new venture--the DeLorean Motor Company--is taking off. But with the FBI pushing Jim to inform on his flashy former dealer, Morgan Hetrick and John's financing falling through the cracks, things are far from idyllic...and about to take a dark turn. Based on the real events that would become the celebrity scandal of its generation.—Lauren G
Plot Keywords: informant, con man, magnate, neighbor, drug trafficker, playful, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: magnate, reporter, journalist, suspenseful, melodramatic, gripping, office ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: STEVIE D is a humorous crime drama about a Los Angeles construction magnate whose only son has accidentally killed a connected man. A sinister plan is hatched that sends the son into hiding while an unsuccessful actor is hired to fill his shoes and unknowingly take the hit.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: son, magnate, murder victim, confidante, actor, brash, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harry Sanders returns to England after losing his job as a police inspector in West Africa. However, he soon returns to the continent to investigate the offshore diamond operation of a shady American tycoon.
Plot Keywords: investigator, magnate, captain, sailor, insurance executive, tense, thrilling ...
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