Nebraska (2013), The Indian Runner (1991), Lost Boys of Sudan (2003), The Brandon Teena Story (1998), The Rain People (1969), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), The Winning Team (1952), Surveillance (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nebraska movies.
Storyline: "NEBRASKA" is a father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to get through to a father he doesn't understand.
Plot Keywords: old man, alcoholic, son, predator, friend, lottery winner, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After getting into trouble with the law, violence-prone Frank Roberts (Viggo Mortensen) seeks help from his brother Joe (David Morse), an even-tempered policeman. Frank hopes to start fresh, and his brother has faith that he can do it. So Joe agrees to let Frank stay -- despite the admonitions of his wife, Maria (Valeria Golino), who would rather not have Frank in the house. And though he performs well at first, Frank's inner turmoil eventually erupts, creating chaos in their once tranquil home.
Plot Keywords: police officer, brother, wife, pregnant woman, child, brooding, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: orphan, immigrant, refugee, adoptive father, moving, emotional, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Documentary about Brandon Teena (aka Teena Brandon), a transgendered person, who was murdered along with two others in 1993 in rural Nebraska. The story is told through interviews with people who knew Brandon, recorded interrogation and trial transcripts, and photographs and file film footage.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: ex-girlfriend, friend, family member, murderer, police officer, dark, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna, a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves. In a motel room where Natalie stops to rest during the day, she sits motionless on the bed, and experiences the exuberance of complete freedom and the queasy feelings of new beginnings. Natalie continues on with her journey and picks up a young hitch-hiker named Killer, an attractive brain-damaged football player. It is through Killer that a more disturbing question is posed to Natalie than that of domestic responsibility. How deeply are we wedded to chance meetings and are we responsible for the crimes that we witness?—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: police officer, mentally impaired person, pregnant wife, housewife, widower, hitchhiker, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Spinster septuagenarian Ella Bishop, on the brink of retirement from her fifty-two year career as the freshman English teacher at small town Midwestern University, her alma mater, wants to look toward the future, but can't help reflect upon her past, what brought her to this point. Although she always wanted to be a teacher and was both surprised and ecstatic when her mentor, Midwestern's then President James Corcoran, offered her the English teacher opening upon graduation, she only saw it as one short phase of her life until she got married and had a family, unlike her younger cousin, Amy Saunders, who solely needed romance and love to feel fulfilled. She thinks about the two men with who she was mutually in love and would have married if she could have if it not for one circumstance or another, and the one man whose love for her was and is unrequited, at least in the romantic sense, but who was and has always been there for her. Although never haven given birth to a child of her own, she thinks about the many to who she has acted as a mother or grandmother either in a practical and/or emotional sense, including her many students, some who have gone on to great things, her niece Hope who she practically raised, and her grand-niece, Gretchen. She also thinks about having stayed at Midwestern in her home town, her career which was not always smooth sailing, especially with the changing times.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: teacher, suitor, friend, student, emotional, melodramatic, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1911, Grover Cleveland Alexander - Alex to his friends - is a Nebraska country hayseed who says he wants to settle down, marry his girlfriend Aimee Arrants and be a farmer to offer Aimee a secure and stable life. However he always seems to drop everything whenever the opportunity to play baseball, specifically as a pitcher, arises. This focus on baseball does not sit well with either Aimee or her father, who see it as Alex solely wanting to have fun while shirking responsibility. When Alex is asked to pitch in a game against a visiting professional team, he seizes the chance and throws a three hitter en route to winning the game. That leads to a stint on that pro team, the money from which he promises to use to buy Aimee her farm. When an eye injury seems to end his career even before it begins, he changes his focus to being a farmer to please his now wife Aimee Alexander, but thoughts of baseball that can never be in his life still torture him. When his injury does eventually heal a year later, Aimee now wants him to do what makes him happy, which is to pitch. His contract now with the Philadelphia Phillies, Alex's rise in major league baseball with the Phillies and then the Chicago Cubs is meteoric. But some things threaten his career, such as World War I, insecurity about his previous injury and the resulting turn to alcohol. He's going to need Aimee's support to help him through this down slide to his possible redemption.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: baseball pitcher, wife, father, doctor, manager, baseball player, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Grisly murders occur in a small town. Two FBI agents arrive, set up their cameras in three interview rooms, and set up interviews of three survivors: a girl of about nine, a foul-mouthed cop with a bandaged hand, and a young woman of about 20 who uses drugs. Each tells their story as the male FBI agent listens and watches from a separate room: the girl draws for and talks to the female agent, the local chief interviews the injured cop, and two officers interview the young woman. As they tell their stories, some of which are inaccurate and self-serving, we see what actually happened the day before. Can the agents or anyone else put the pieces together?
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, serial killer, victim, witness, young girl, drug addict, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.
Plot Keywords: young man, girlfriend, demon, preacher, boy, girl, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Travis and Wendell are kidnapped while on their way to opening a nightclub in rural Nebraska. The KGB spy Cameron Smith takes them to the U.S.S.R. instead with the intention of teaching KGB agents to be hip like Americans.—Richard Jones <rjo339@swbell.net>
Plot Keywords: american, russian, kgb agent, hero, villain, hilarious, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1867, Nebraska becomes a state, but still has no permanent peace with the Indians. Federal scout Wade Harper has a peace mission cut short when chief Thundercloud is murdered, supposedly by Harper's Indian comrade Wingfoot. Harper's efforts to get justice for Wingfoot are sabotaged by escaping murderer Reno. Finally, Harper and five others (including Harper's former girlfriend Paris) are besieged in a remote trading post by the warlike Chief Spotted Bear...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: scout, native american, colonel, prisoner, soldier, ex-girlfriend, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eight-year-old Annabel (Mara Wilson) is rooting for her father, Oliver (Robert Pastorelli), to get the lead part in a new musical, but he doesn't have the same name recognition as arrogant actor Tony Sable (Alan Campbell). When Murray (Martin Short), the first-ever male fairy godmother, is sent to help Annabel, he bungles the wish badly and turns her dad into a statue in Central Park. Meanwhile, evil Claudia (Kathleen Turner), long forbidden the use of magic due to her greed, plots revenge.
Plot Keywords: young girl, fairy, father, brother, actor, witch, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After her grandmother vanishes, young Jamie (Claudette Mink) decides to stay in the elderly woman's apartment in Nebraska in order to look for her. Unfortunately, all Jamie finds is a slew of sketchy neighbors and a large cornfield outside the window frequented by a bunch of creepy kids. As Jamie continues to look for her grandmother, the adults around her start to disappear, the children become more threatening and things take a supernatural turn as an evil spirit arises from the fields.
Plot Keywords: granddaughter, priest, stripper, drug addict, old man, child, gory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A corrupt executive (Gary Busey) wants the minor-league hockey team to purposely lose to a new opponent.
Plot Keywords: coach, executive, woman, athlete, fan, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hannah (Natalie Ramsey) is the daughter of one of the original members of a murderous cult composed of children who worship a demonic spirit called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows." Hannah travels to her hometown of Gatlin, Neb., to find her mother and explore her past. Upon her arrival, Isaac (John Franklin), the original cult leader, begins to wake from a coma. As Hannah tries to find out the truth about her lineage, violence, threats and strange rituals surround her.
Plot Keywords: girl, police officer, teenager, villain, doctor, cult leader, creepy ...
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