Don King: Only in America (1997), Filth (2013), 36 (2004), A Shock to the System (1990), Keeping Rosy (2014), Jean-Philippe (2006), Fools Rush In (1997), Second Act (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Promotion movies.
Storyline: Don King (Ving Rhames) is involved in two fistfights that result in the deaths of his combatants, and, after serving prison time, enters the world of professional boxing. Chatty, with a memorable head of hair, King becomes the promoter for Muhammad Ali (Darius McCrary) and other champions, and he stages lucrative boxing spectacles in the Philippines, Zaire, Atlantic City, Reno and Las Vegas. Despite King's success, he's beset by critics who say he cons his fighters out of their ring earnings.
Plot Keywords: athlete, muhammad ali, boxer, promoter, journalist, fascinating, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scheming Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, including Ray Lennox (Jamie Bell), Bruce sets about ensuring their ruin, right under the nose of unwitting Chief Inspector Toal. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. His past is slowly catching up with him, and a missing wife, a crippling drug habit and suspicious colleagues start to take their toll on his sanity. The question is: can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth?
Plot Keywords: student, misanthrope, cop, beautiful woman, addict, crooked cop, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality, until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals they chase. Vrinks, meeting with a source, becomes involved with a murder. Klein seizes the opportunity to up the ante and arranges for the arrest of Vrinks, but when he goes further and viciously involves Vrinks' wife, Camille, revenge is inevitable.—johnno.r@xtra.co.nz
Plot Keywords: police officer, partner, boss, criminal, gangster, suspenseful, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to "level" the playing field, both professionally and personally. Sir Michael Caine delivers an electrifying performance as Graham Marshall, who quickly catches onto the possibilities as he clears all the hurdles to occupy the corner office.—Edgy01
Plot Keywords: ad executive, middle-aged man, young man, wife, pretty woman, dark, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charlotte is a woman who is completely defined by her career. All she wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. However, the fragility of her perfect existence is exposed when, after finding out she's been betrayed in the boardroom, she returns home and takes her anger out on her cleaner. As Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger as she fights for a future that is rosy...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young woman, young professional, cleaner, neighbor, frenetic, intense, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fabrice is a big - perhaps the biggest - fan of Jean-Philippe Smet, better known as Johnny Hallyday, the greatest rocker France has ever produced.
Plot Keywords: singer, fan, wife, daughter, rival, madcap, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime. Alex Whitman is a New Yorker sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes, and some serious chemistry brings them together for one night. But Alex doesn't see Isabel again until three months later, when he learns she is pregnant. On a whim and prayer, he proposes. However, there's more to marriage than a Vegas chapel and an Elvis impersonator, as Alex and Isabel soon learn.
Plot Keywords: real estate developer, newlywed, father-in-law, best friend, pregnant woman, father, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do.
Plot Keywords: manager, customer, rival, co-worker, friend, amusing, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas with the Karountzoses is a Greek Christmas film, set in present-day "Chicago", centered around a Greek family at their dinner table on Christmas Eve. Michael has chosen to work his entire life, sacrificing a lot of family time in order to provide for his family. After hearing a rumor that he's getting a long-overdue promotion, Michael invites his whole family over to celebrate. But when the promotion falls through, Michael faces defeat through a long night with 14 Greeks around his dinner table. Short on money and full of regrets, Michael deals with the most important people in his life, and transitions from workaholic back into the loving father he once was.—JJ Englert
Plot Keywords: family, mother, father, son, daughter, amusing, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength. The filmmakers who created King Kong kept the excitement going with this sequel, released the same year as the original. Robert Armstrong reprises the role of Carl Denham, and Helen Mack is the damsel in distress. The two rescue Kong Jr. from quicksand and get a devoted protector who defends them from fierce prehistoric monsters. But when a mighty earthquake strikes, even the son of Kong may not be powerful enough to save them.
Plot Keywords: promoter, friend, sea captain, singer, father, gorilla, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: businesswoman, boxer, accountant, trainer, gutsy, amusing, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Hollowheads are a normal, loving, futuristic, middle class family who live in a dystopian, corporate-controlled, The Jetsons (1962)-type future world populated with many cool gadgets and some alien creatures. Henry, the pacifist head of the family, is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory where he works, and when his sleazy boss invites himself to the Hollowheads family dinner, Henry mistakes this for a sign that his moment has finally come. However, when his boss shows his dark, horny, perverted and rude side at the dinner table, and crosses all the lines when he starts verbally abusing Henry and sexually harassing his lovely wife, the family has no choice but to come together and fight back.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: daughter, boss, wife, son, husband, musician, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco's esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. Her mentor John Mills is proud of Jessica as a father would be of his daughter, since Mills was the partner of Jessica's late father. With a newly established promotion, Jessica finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners. Not to mention a new partner named Mike Delmarco, who might be Jessica's next closest thing to a confidant. However, a man has been found dead and the two officers are brought into the investigation. What they find is a surprise when the dead in question was a man Jessica slept with, he being part of a list of one night stands that Jessica has engaged in. Now under suspicion and a terrible drinking problem gnawing at her, Jessica will have to prove to her superiors and to her skeptical partner that she's not the one behind the murders and Mills is one of the few people ...
Plot Keywords: police detective, mentor, partner, doctor, lieutenant, serial killer, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity of a lifetime. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes, begin to affect the lives and future of her friends, family and that of humanity.
Plot Keywords: young woman, worker, co-worker, boss, neighbor, friend, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Derek Charles is a hard working man, employed as a asset manager in a private company. He is very happy with his beautiful wife, Sharon, and only son, and because of his hard work he just got a huge promotion. But suddenly he gets a temporary worker who is both attractive and smart, and Derek is understandably impressed with her and also finds himself physically drawn to her. However, this new girl is desperate to get close to him - at any cost.
Plot Keywords: temp worker, sexy woman, manager, wife, boss, friend, suspenseful ...
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