Diane (2018), Tabu (1931), Islands in the Stream (1977), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), The Old Maid (1939), Violent Summer (1959), Korczak (1990), Harrison Montgomery (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Self-sacrifice movies.
Storyline: Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her.
Plot Keywords: laundress, mother, father, pregnant woman, love interest, cousin, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A quintet of travelers journey in a wagon through Comanche county includes a tinhorn and his woman, a sheriff escorting an accused murderer, and a sea captain with a checkered past. After a renegade Indian tells them about a virgin gold field as thanks for saving his life, the group becomes fixated on the gold as greed becomes their prime motivation.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: convict, sea captain, wife, trader, native american, sheriff, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: deserter, poker player, prospector, saloon girl, irishman, landowner, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each other from the evil cattle rustler Cash Hawkins and marry. Lady Diana shows up to announce Sir Henry's death. After Nat-U-Rich's suicide Wynnegate takes his half-breed son and Lady Diana back to England as the new Earl of Kerhill.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: british officer, brother, wife, native american woman, rancher, son, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Upon being diagnosed with terminal cancer, selfless suburban housewife Mary Scott (Margaret Sullavan) makes the ultimate sacrifice: she decides to keep the unpleasant news from her husband, Brad (Wendell Corey), and daughter, Polly, to avoid devastating her loved ones. Instead, Mary encourages Brad's affair with a co-worker (Viveca Lindfors), and even grooms the other woman to take her place. But as Mary's illness progresses, keeping it a secret presents a considerable challenge.
Plot Keywords: housewife, husband, doctor, daughter, mistress, sad, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mickey and his friends tell three stories including "A Very Goofy Christmas" and "Mickey and Minnie's Gift of the Magi."
Plot Keywords: mickey mouse, donald duck, goofy, santa claus, son, cheery, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Split is the surreal and epic journey a young woman takes to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of her life in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees them both.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: actress, husband, abusive husband, engaging, dark, passionate, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pirates kidnap a bomb inventor (Ernest Navara) and his helper (Louis Tock) in a story with puppets and animation.
Plot Keywords: scientist, assistant, pirate, captive, amusing, campy, creative ...
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