The Candidate (1972), The Truman Show (1998), Persona (1966), Ocean's Eleven (2001), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Oxygen (1999), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Private Property (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Manipulation movies.
Storyline: An image maker (Peter Boyle) grooms the son (Robert Redford) of a political boss (Melvyn Douglas) for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, campaign manager, senator, father, disheartening, brash, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Since birth, a big fat lie defines the well-organised but humdrum life of the kind-hearted insurance salesman and ambitious explorer, Truman Burbank. Utterly unaware of the thousands of cleverly hidden cameras watching his every move, for nearly three decades, Truman's entire existence pivots around the will and the wild imagination of the ruthlessly manipulative television producer, Christof--the all-powerful TV-God of an extreme 24/7 reality show: The Truman Show. As a result, Truman's picturesque neighbourhood with the manicured lawns and the uncannily perfect residents is nothing but an elaborate state-of-the-art set, and the only truth he knows is what the worldwide television network and its deep financial interests dictate. Do lab rats know they are forever imprisoned?
Plot Keywords: good guy, producer, actress, ex-girlfriend, uplifting, endearing, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona.
Plot Keywords: actress, nurse, physician, boy, brooding, dense, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven member team, including Frank Catton, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell. Their target? The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. It's not going to be easy, as they plan to get in secretly and out with $150 million.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, thief, con artist, gambler, ex-wife, acrobat, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer James Lee Bartlow, a star Georgia Lorrison and a director Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone - including the writer, star and director - on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Plot Keywords: movie star, writer, director, producer, brooding, cool, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A police detective (Maura Tierney) has 24 hours to find a man (Adrien Brody) who has kidnapped a tycoon's wife and buried her alive.
Plot Keywords: police detective, killer, businessman, wife, husband, fbi agent, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two world wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with two male teachers become known and she finds herself fighting to keep her job. She believes that she can always count on the one hundred percent support of her favorite pupils, but one of them does not feel that Miss Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith) is in her "prime" anymore. No longer swayed by her teacher's eloquence, she begins to learn about life and love herself.—Rhino <rhino@blueyonder.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: teacher, headmistress, student, emotional, charming, passionate, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) leads a lonely life with her adult sons François (Yannick Renier) and Thierry (Jérémie Renier) at a rural estate subsidized by her ex-husband's alimony payments. When Pascale falls for neighbor Jan (Kris Cuppens), she makes plans to move in with him. But Pascale's twin sons -- loafers who treat her like a servant and refuse to accept the responsibilities of adulthood -- won't let her go. The family remains locked in a stalemate until someone makes a startling move.
Plot Keywords: mother, son, twin, ex-husband, neighbor, chef, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The inspirational story of how Dr. George Daniels rose from Dickensian poverty to become the finest watchmaker of the modern era and how Roger Smith embarked on an obsessive, seven-year quest to become his apprentice and eventually, his equal.—Alistair Audsley
Plot Keywords: roommate, sister, professor, stranger, niece, young man, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie tells a story of the dark side of communism, corruption in everyday life through the eyes of an ordinary man working as a new engineer in a factory.
Plot Keywords: mother, fiancé, impostor, police officer, chilling, dark, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister's chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don't... well, they can always sack their Director of Communications Judy, who they never liked anyway and who's back home dealing with voters with blocked drains and a man who's angry about a collapsing wall.
Plot Keywords: politician, lieutenant, cabinet minister, adviser, hilarious, unrestrained, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as she tries to work out who the victim is so the crime can be prevented.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: heiress, husband, father-in-law, old flame, hit man, hypochondriac, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Domineering Harriet Craig holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. Among those she treats like household objects are her kind husband Walter, whom she has lied to about her inability to have children; her cousin Claire, whom she treats like a secretary; and her servants whom she treats like slaves.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: housewife, husband, assistant, cousin, widow, tense, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur; but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, love interest, father, stepmother, sister, young man, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two junior executives on a six-week business trip, both of whom have been recently hurt by women, devise a horrible plan to get even with women for their past hurts: They intend to find, romance, and then dump a vulnerable woman. They choose Christine, and for a while all goes according to plan. However, it soon becomes clear that things are not as simple as they think.
Plot Keywords: deaf person, executive, misogynist, brutal, raw, witty, crafty ...
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