True Grit (1969), Murder by Death (1976), The Crimson Pirate (1952), The Naked Spur (1953), Comanche Station (1960), Repo Man (1984), Smoke & Mirrors (2016), The Whole Nine Yards (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Reward movies.
Storyline: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross, (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he has "grit", and a reputation of getting the job done. The two are joined by a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, (Glen Campbell), who is looking for the same man (Jeff Corey) for a separate murder in Texas. Their odyssey takes them from Fort Smith, Arkansas, deep into the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) to find their man.
Plot Keywords: marshal, tomboy, texas ranger, criminal, doctor, attorney, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Despite not knowing him, the world's most famous detectives can't pass up the offer of a "dinner and murder" invitation from wealthy Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). Each has no idea until their arrival at Two Two Twain who else will be in attendance. Those detectives are: amateur sleuths and New York City socialites Dick (David Niven) and Dora Charleston (Dame Maggie Smith), accompanied by their pet terrier, Myron; Belgian detective Monsieur Milo Perrier (James Coco), accompanied by his chauffeur, Marcel (James Cromwell); Shanghainese Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers), accompanied by his Japanese adopted son, Willie Wang (Richard Narita); frumpish Brit Miss Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), accompanied by her invalid nurse, Miss Withers (Estelle Winwood); and San Francisco gumshoe Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), accompanied by his femme fatale sidekick, Tess Skeffington (Eileen Brennan). The dinner part of the invitation runs into problems due to the non-communication between Twain's ...
Plot Keywords: private investigator, wealthy man, butler, maid, cook, nurse, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: pirate, resistance leader, daughter, lieutenant, crew member, love interest, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Howard Kemp is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. Along the way, Kemp is forced to take on a couple of partners, an old prospector named Jesse Tate and a dishonorably discharged Union soldier, Roy Anderson. When they learn that Vandergroat has a $5000 reward on his head, greed starts to take the better of them. Vandergroat takes every advantage of the situation sowing doubt between the two men at every opportunity finally convincing one of them to help him escape.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: bounty hunter, soldier, prospector, murderer, woman, dark, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released. He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: cowboy, love interest, bounty hunter, outlaw, apache, thrilling, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.
Plot Keywords: repo man, government official, mother, father, mad scientist, beautiful woman, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of a man who fooled an entire country. A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
Plot Keywords: secret agent, military official, friend, wife, confident, gripping, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Montreal, Canada. A down-on-his luck dentist, "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry), discovers that his new neighbor is Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), former mob-contract-killer-turned-police-informant upon whose head the Hungarian mob has put a steep price. Egged on my his loathsome wife, Sophie (Rosanna Arquette), Oz sets off to Chicago to let the mob know where The Tulip is and hopefully claim part of the reward.
Plot Keywords: dentist, hit man, receptionist, wife, police officer, frenetic, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance. Will Sam be able to bring Kay back to the States and likely imprisonment?—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, womanizer, sister, woman, suspect, victim, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Yankee" Davis and his partner,"Shaggy" Hartley, a couple of carny-type traveling (usually just ahead of the law) pitchmen with their own tent to pitch from, arrive in a small Arizona town, close to the Mexican border. Davis falls in love with Mary Mason, daughter of a Border Patrolman. Mr. Mason is murdered, and Davis sets out to find the killer, and thinks the town's richest citizen might know something about it.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: traveling salesman, border patrol officer, prospector, friend, informant, love interest, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: taxi driver, business owner, wife, coworker, brother, offbeat, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pair of documentarians head into the woods of the Exmoor countryside to find proof of the mysterious big cats that roam the area. But what they find in the depths of the forest is a horror beyond imagine. They must fight tooth and nail to survive or fall prey to what lurks in the darkness.
Plot Keywords: boyfriend, girlfriend, documentarian, beast, brutal, creepy, dark ...
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