Triad Election (2006), Rogue (2013), College (1927), Lazybones (1925), Troubled Water (2008), Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010), Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006), The Grim Reaper (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best River movies.
Storyline: A violent chain reaction unfolds as a crafty entrepreneur (Louis Koo) wrests power from a veteran Hong Kong crime lord (Simon Yam).
Plot Keywords: crime boss, godson, wife, rival, thug, brutal, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An undercover detective is tormented by the possibility that her actions contributed to a tragedy.
Plot Keywords: journalist, guide, ex-husband, photographer, teen girl, father, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To impress his sweetheart (Anne Cornwall), a bookworm (Buster Keaton) goes out for baseball and crew.
Plot Keywords: scholar, pretty woman, jock, dean, coach, mother, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Lazybones" Steve (Buck Jones) is fawned over by his girlfriend, Agnes (Jane Novak) and doting mother. But, when he saves Agnes' sister from a suicide attempt, this loafer suddenly finds himself raising her secret newborn daughter, Kit. His easy life turns hard when the town assumes she's his illegitimate child. Steve is called to fight in World War I, and when he returns Kit is no longer a picked-on kid but a beautiful woman (Madge Bellamy). Then his love becomes not quite so paternal.
Plot Keywords: man, mother, adopted daughter, troubled woman, girlfriend, mother-in-law, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After serving time in prison for the murder of a child, Jan Thomas (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) finds work as a church organist, where he wins the affections of Anna (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), a single mother and pastor. Having acquired the job under his middle name, Thomas, Jan conceals his past from Anna as their relationship progresses. However, he cannot maintain his secret when the mother of the murdered child (Trine Dyrholm) recognizes him at the church.
Plot Keywords: organist, pastor, mother, son, daughter, tense, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Indigenous people on the Siberian Taiga live in a village on the river Yenisei.
Plot Keywords: helicopter, nature, engaging, village, river, technology, life ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker James D. Scurlock examines the outrageous practices that consumer-lending and credit-card companies use to rack up huge profits while bleeding customers dry. Interviews include a woman declared dead by the credit bureaus and two Minneapolis entrepreneurs who use debtors' personal information to humiliate them into paying up.
Plot Keywords: loan shark, real estate agent, telemarketer, student, mother, emotional, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino (Giancarlo De Rosa), pickpocket Canticchia (Francesco Ruiu), a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, pickpocket, detective, witness, soldier, teen boy, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this retelling of the life of Christ, his experiences are recreated using claymation. Starting with his birth in Nazareth, Jesus (Ralph Fiennes) goes on to meet and inspire his apostles, perform various miracles and reveal his teachings. His baptism by John the Baptist (Richard E. Grant) is shown, as well as his meeting with Mary Magdalene (Miranda Richardson). Christ must eventually face the betrayal of Judas (David Thewlis), and succumb to Herod's (Anton Lesser) vendetta against him.
Plot Keywords: judas iscariot, pontius pilate, mary magdalene, savior, king herod, emotional, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will...
Plot Keywords: soldier, lunatic, bleak, brooding, intense, disturbing, vietnam ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: There are two hundred miles of raging rivers and dangerous mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back. The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most hazardous tests of human endurance known to mankind. Every year, 500,000 men, women and children - along with one million animals - struggle for eight grueling weeks to scale the massive Zagros Mountains in Iran - a range which is as high as the Alps and as broad as Switzerland - to reach their summer pastures. The film's astonishing widescreen photography and brilliantly recorded soundtrack take the viewer out onto the dangerous precipices of the Zardeh Kuh mountain and into the icy waters of the Cholbar River.—Fiona Kelleghan <fkelleghan@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: tribal leader, wife, widow, daughter, shepherd, fascinating, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills two people. Before he is captured, he is able to convince his adolescent son John and his daughter Pearl not to tell anyone, including their mother Willa, where he hid the money, namely in Pearl's favorite toy, a doll that she carries everywhere with her. Ben, who is captured, tried and convicted, is sentenced to death. But before he is executed, Ben is in the state penitentiary with a cell mate, a man by the name of Harry Powell, a self-professed man of the cloth, who is really a con man and murderer, swindling lonely women, primarily rich widows, of their money before he kills them. Harry does whatever he can, unsuccessfully, to find out the location of the $10,000 from Ben. After Ben's execution, Harry decides that Willa will be his next mark, figuring that someone in the family knows where the money is hidden. Despite vowing not to remarry, Willa ends up being easy prey for Harry's outward ...
Plot Keywords: boy, girl, preacher, wife, murderer, chilling, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two police inspectors from Lyon investigate the death of a young man whose body was found in the Rhône River.
Plot Keywords: teenager, teen boy, teen girl, murder victim, missing person, engaging, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While exploring uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home while avoiding natives on their own hunt. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald, the former confidant who betrayed and abandoned him.
Plot Keywords: trapper, team leader, confidante, family member, native, bear, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small-time outlaw takes over a town by dispensing his own form of justice and confiscating property for court costs.
Plot Keywords: outlaw, beautiful woman, friend, teacher, singer, murderer, gritty ...
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