Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008), John and the Missus (1987), No Highway in the Sky (1951), Sealed Cargo (1951), The Shipping News (2001), Rare Birds (2001), The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), Love & Savagery (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Newfoundland movies.
Storyline: In 2001, 28-year-old Dr. Andrew Bagby is found dead in a park in Pennsylvania. He had been shot by his ex-girlfriend, who then fled to Canada, where she was able to walk free on bail, pregnant with Andrew's child. Andrew's enraged parents campaign to gain custody of the child and convict their son's killer. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne pairs this story with home movies and interviews with those who knew Andrew, hoping to give his best friend's son an opportunity to discover who his dad was.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, friend, ex-girlfriend, son, victim, parent, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: miner, husband, wife, son, townsperson, government official, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount of time in the air. The absent minded Honey boards the Reindeer class plane and only realizes that this plane is due to fail in the next few hours after the plane is airborne. He decides to warn the crew and creates an incident regardless of whether he is right or wrong.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: mathematician, actress, stewardess, inspector, suspenseful, amusing, laboratory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger boat, the fishermen agree to tow it into an isolated harbour.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: fisherman, woman, captain, spy, nazi, sailor, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey...
Plot Keywords: father, husband, wife, daughter, journalist, aunt, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The owner (William Hurt) of a failing cafe lies about the sighting of a rare bird in order to improve business.
Plot Keywords: restaurant manager, friend, sister-in-law, wife, husband, neighbor, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: priest, orphan, police officer, brutal, dark, shocking, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A visiting geologist (Allan Hawco) from Canada falls in love with an Irish barmaid (Sarah Greene) who plans to become a nun.
Plot Keywords: writer, geologist, beautiful girl, innocent woman, romantic interest, lover, engaging ...
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