Nostalgia (1983), Tim's Vermeer (2013), Peeping Tom (1960), Assassins (2020), Dinosaurs Alive! (2007), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), Madame Curie (1943), The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Research movies.
Storyline: A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child's tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen raise money to help Stonehill's research and the required clinical trials. John takes on the task full time, working with venture capitalists and then rival teams of researchers. Time is running short, Stonehill's angry outburst hinder the company's faith in him, and the profit motive may upend John's hopes. The researchers race against time for the children who have the disease.
Plot Keywords: father, mother, scientist, daughter, son, doctor, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A secret US agency behind the unscrupulous Childress gathers children with parapsychologic abilities and trains them to become killers in war situations. To rescue his son, who was officially declared dead after an arranged accident, the ex-CIA agent Peter investigates against Childress.
Plot Keywords: father, cia agent, son, scientist, teen girl, dark, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick Lang is a famous Hollywood actor, well known for his action movies. For his next movie, he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his role. Thus he teams up with the reluctant New York policeman Lt. John Moss. Not only does he have to put up with Nick, who is laborious and out of touch with realities, but he also has to catch a coldblooded murderer.
Plot Keywords: actor, serial killer, captain, girlfriend, partner, hilarious, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She's also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: doctor, mentor, nurse, tycoon, daughter, housekeeper, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Astronauts (John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers) land their rocket on the moon but must lessen the load a lot in order to get back.
Plot Keywords: astronaut, scientist, general, wife, industrialist, confident, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thirty years in the life of Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the researcher, scientist, inventor, and filmmaker whose contributions made the general public more curious about the sea.
Plot Keywords: pioneer, filmmaker, researcher, conservationist, inspiring, engaging, research station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it, which is the name of the town and also the name of the family that founded the town. She eventually befriends the librarian, an East German immigrant who lost her husband while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. They help each other try to find closure to the events in their past.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: drifter, librarian, brother, eskimo, blue-collar worker, voyeur, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a meteorite falls to Earth two college professors, Dr. Ira Kane and Prof. Harry Phineas Block, are assigned the job of checking the site out. At the site, they discover organisms not of this planet. Soon the site is taken over by the government, forcing Ira and Harry to the side. As the new life-forms begin to evolve and start to get more and more dangerous, it's up to the two professors to save the planet.
Plot Keywords: college professor, scientist, firefighter, geologist, military officer, general, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: pilot, graduate student, chimpanzee, scientist, military officer, engaging, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.—Hugo Lopes <l41340@alfa.ist.utl.pt>
Plot Keywords: professor, wife, husband, curator, guardian, girl, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Plot Keywords: scientist, alien, priest, colleague, sailor, townsperson, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a native village is apparently terrorized by a lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young gorillas and sell them on the black market.—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: doctor, researcher, teen girl, tutor, native, lion, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A businessman sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight Alzheimer's disease. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically enlarge shark brains, so that disease-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...
Plot Keywords: shark expert, scientist, cook, executive, captain, ship captain, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Grisly deaths bring a scientist to a remote island where researchers have accidentally created a deadly life form.
Plot Keywords: scientist, researcher, detective, dead person, zombie, monster, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Noor is a journalist who works on feature stories but wishes to do serious reporting. Whilst she struggles with the demands of her career and her love life, she unearths an investigative news story that changes her life.
Plot Keywords: young woman, young man, journalist, love interest, boss, fascinating, emotional ...
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