Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), The Battery (2012), Jaws (1975), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Superstition (2017), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Children's Hour (1961), Julia (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best New England movies.
Storyline: An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
Plot Keywords: director, wife, actor, woman, leading man, doctor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Part shaman, part robot maker, part satirist, part artist, part musician and all round self proclaimed 'silly bugger', and having worked with Lenny Bruce, the Beatles and Spike Milligan amongst many, many others, Bruce Lacey is something of a 'missing link' in the story of British alternative culture, and at 85 is very much still creating art and performances in a quiet english village near Norwich. Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller and frequent collaborator Nick Abrahams attempt to provide a brief introduction to this visionary artist.—anonymous
Plot Keywords: baseball player, zombie, adam, spirited, new england, wasteland, undead ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat.
Plot Keywords: captain, police officer, scientist, mayor, victim, police chief, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This verbal abuse is fueled by an excessive consumption of alcohol. George being an associate History professor in a New Carthage university where Martha's father is the President adds an extra dimension to their relationship. Late one Saturday evening after a faculty mixer, Martha invites Nick and Honey, an ambitious young Biology professor new to the university and his mousy wife, over for a nightcap. As the evening progresses, Nick and Honey, plied with more alcohol, get caught up in George and Martha's games of needing to hurt each other and everyone around them. The ultimate abuse comes in the form of talk of George and Martha's unseen sixteen year old son, whose birthday is the following day.
Plot Keywords: professor, wife, teacher, alcoholic, bleak, brash, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Mosleys keep the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, reverend, detective, witch, eerie, gory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.
Plot Keywords: boy, girl, mother, father, police captain, scout, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are best friends since college and they own the boarding school Wright and Dobie School for Girls with twenty students. They are working hard as headmistresses and teachers to grow the school and make it profitable. Karen is engaged with the local doctor Joe Cardin, who is the nephew of the powerful and influential Mrs. Amelia Tilford. While the spiteful and liar Mary, who is Amelia's granddaughter and a bad influence to the other girls, is punished by Karen after telling a lie, Martha has an argument with her snoopy aunt Lily Mortar in another room. Lily accuses Martha of being jealous and having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells overhears the shouting and tells Mary what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. The malicious Mary accuses Karen and Martha of being lesbians to her grandmother and Amelia spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school. Karen and Martha lose a lawsuit ...
Plot Keywords: teacher, principal, aunt, student, grandmother, fiancé, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Playwright Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) recalls World War II, her best friend (Vanessa Redgrave) and writer Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards).
Plot Keywords: activist, childhood friend, touching, engaging, russia, germany, new england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?
Plot Keywords: elderly person, mother, daughter, fiancée, teenager, emotional, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cary Scott is a widow with two grown children. She's been leading a quiet life since her husband died, socializing with a small circle of friends. Her children no longer live with her full-time but come home every weekend. She's not unhappy but also doesn't realize how bored she is. Her friend Sara Warren encourages her to get a television set to keep her company but she doesn't want that either. She develops a friendship with Ron Kirby who owns his own nursery and comes every spring and fall to trim her trees. Ron is much younger than Cary and their friendship soon turns to love. Her circle of friends are surprised that she is seeing such a younger man and she might be prepared to overlook that - Ron certainly doesn't care about the differences in their ages - but when her son and daughter vehemently object, she decides to sacrifice her own feelings for their happiness. Over time however, she realizes that her children will be spending less and less time with her as they pursue their...
Plot Keywords: widow, daughter, neighbor, love interest, emotional, melodramatic, new england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England. For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon's keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger; excruciating agony; manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: lighthouse keeper, man, dark, disturbing, frightening, gripping, new england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate their house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family is moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but end up becoming the main attraction to the money making family. They call upon Beetlejuice to help, but Beetlejuice has more in mind than just helping.
Plot Keywords: ghost, husband, sculptor, daughter, wife, quirky, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man (Vincent Price) and wife (Debra Paget) claim the mansion of his great-great-grandfather, a warlock burned alive in 1765.
Plot Keywords: warlock, caretaker, wife, heir, neighbor, frightening, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Clue is a movie about seven guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in a series of murders. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum works in D.C., where everyone else lives. Colonel Mustard is a client of Miss Scarlet, who is the ex-employer of Yvette, the maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. White, etc. Blackmailer Mr. Boddy gives each guest a weapon and tells them to kill butler Wadsworth to avoid being exposed. Add in Mrs. Peacock's craziness and Mr. Green's clumsiness, and meet a whole group tangled in a web of murder, lies, and hilarity.
Plot Keywords: host, professor, widow, madam, colonel, butler, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having taught at the best institutions in the country aside from other more eclectic jobs, James Leeds, with progressive methods, has just started teaching at a school for the deaf on an island off the New England coast, he assigned primarily to a speech class for the upper grades. At the school, he quickly notices the young cleaning woman, who he learns is twenty-five year old Sarah Norman and who, deaf herself, was once a student there and has been there since the age of five. He can see that she is bright, headstrong and angry, on top of which she doesn't speak, the latter issues a result of a troubled home life, her mother, her only touchstone to family, who she has purposefully not seen in eight years. As he is able to get through to most of his students to feel more and more comfortable in speaking for a more holistic life, Jim, with the reluctant blessing of the school's superintendent Dr. Curtis Franklin, who has always and still considers Sarah a proverbial pain in the ...
Plot Keywords: deaf person, teacher, mother, student, emotional, intense, school ...
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