The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Baby Driver (2017), This Gun for Hire (1942), Brubaker (1980), Man of the West (1958), The Mayor of Hell (1933), The Long Dark Night (1977), They Made Me a Criminal (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Reform movies.
Storyline: Hardened criminal Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) enters Sing Sing prison convinced that his reputation and some bribery through his lawyer, Joe Finn (Louis Calhern), will control warden Paul Long (Arthur Byron). But Long rejects the bribe and insists that Connors accept his role as just another convict. After initial hostility, Connors knuckles under, and over time wins Long's trust. However, when his girlfriend, Fay (Bette Davis), is gravely injured by Finn, his reformation is put to the test.
Plot Keywords: criminal, warden, lawyer, girlfriend, convict, tense, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he finds the same old setup, including slave trade.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: captain, fiancé, first mate, cabin boy, slave trader, melodramatic, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A thug is convicted and undergoes experimental brain surgery to remove the criminal element in his brain. The operation wipes out all memories of his past life, including where he stashed the loot. He is abducted by his gang and they try to beat the truth out of him. His memories return in the form of weird dreams, and he and his old girlfriend track down the clues to find the money.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, reformed criminal, ex-girlfriend, gang member, amnesiac, suspenseful, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bat Morgan is nearly shanghaied on his way to the gold fields of California. Instead he kills Shanghai Duck and becomes a hero in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. He winds up the rich owner of a saloon and gambling hall and is nearly lynched for a murder he didn't commit.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: sailor, saloon owner, newspaper owner, editor, politician, kidnapper, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of military officers, angered and frustrated by the corruption and repression of the current government, finally decide that for the good of the country they must overthrow the regime. However, the planned coup's leader, an infantry colonel, finds that in order to get the support he needs he must work with people he neither respects nor trusts, and soon comes to believe that their main opponent, the country's fearsome chief of the secret police, has planted a spy in their midst.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: military officer, secret police, thrilling, suspenseful, tense, unknown territory, reform ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his last adventure in the Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), the former leader of the Seven and now a married U.S. Marshall, Chris Adams, declines his old friend Jim McKay's invitation to stop the outlaw De Toro and his marauding gang of bandits from attacking the Mexican border town of Magdalena. Filled with guilt, Chris decides to visit the town--now inhabited by widows--before the tough band's imminent return, having no other choice but to recruit a brand-new team of unlikely defenders. As always, the odds are against them. Can the new Magnificent Seven and the town's defenceless women put an end to De Toro's reign of terror?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: marshal, bounty hunter, bandit, wife, prisoner, journalist, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Other than using the same title this film has no connection to nor is there any film credit linking it to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend, Pige Bennett, and punky Kenneth get involved with a "haunted" house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a "better man" out of Kenneth.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: country boy, country girl, snob, criminal, neighbor, prisoner, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Abandoned as a baby in a garbage bin by his biological parents; a boy faces the harsh realities of life and years later grows up to be a young man as a paid assassin, blackmailer, kidnapper and a rapist. One of his rape victim is Jyoti; who was deflower while she was getting marry to a doctor. Jyoti then takes up resident with a woman, Savitri, who happens to live right in the same village and across his place of dwelling. Her aspiration is to get him to marry her; all her attempts seems unsuccessful until she decides to fake pregnancy. That is when he decides to take her in; at first they live among ruins without any roof but eventually everything changes with patience and time. Jyoti even provide him with a name Deepak for others to address him. Jyoti and Deepak then get marry and soon are parents to a baby boy. After marriage; Deepak even give up crime but must clear his name when he stands accused of killing a politician named Abinandan Tiwari and a female named Kameshwari.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, orphan, rapist, rape victim, emotional, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be considered the same, though it also can be thought of in more classical cinematic terms a psychological and supernatural thriller.
Plot Keywords: love interest, convict, murderer, chaplain, prison guard, emotional, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Relentless bullying has turned Lincoln's life into a nightmare. But he soon learns the true meaning of terror when he is sent to a remote school for troubled teens and the harassments start all over again. Only this time, someone is watching - a teenage girl named Moira who was driven to suicide by vicious bullying years ago. When Lincoln accidentally summons Moira from the grave, he unleashes a vengeful and unstoppable force on a mission of blood-soaked revenge.—Image Entertainment
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, student, bully, spirit, intense, gripping ...
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