Die Hard (1988), Man on Wire (2008), Skyscraper Souls (1932), Fourteen Hours (1951), Miracle Mile (1988), The Towering Inferno (1974), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Skyscraper movies.
Storyline: At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate, but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up John Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there, Web thinks that everything is obvious, but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on.
Plot Keywords: detective, businessman, prostitute, computer programmer, intricate, cool, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and socially significant for them...so she opens up a nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper. For her, that means acts such as opera singers, extracts from "Hamlet" and three sailors imitating a giraffe. Bandleader Ted Lane (George Murphy)thinks hot-music, burlesque-acts and the old razzle-dazzle is just the ticket. Her programming leads to early exits and no-returns.Film debut for 12-year-old Peggy Ryan.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: bandleader, chorus girl, club owner, uncle, love interest, amusing, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.
Plot Keywords: officer, hero, victim, civilian, rescue worker, medic, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately talent seems to have skipped a generation and Harry is reduced to "gumshoe" work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan which requires the inclusion of an incompetent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts Crumb actually makes some headway in the case...
Plot Keywords: private detective, boss, wife, heiress, wealthy man, executive, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in Hong Kong he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze and he's been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who are trapped inside the building - above the fire line.
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, hostage, veteran, wife, child, criminal, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing to destroy each other. A young superstar (Liam Hemsworth), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away.
Plot Keywords: business owner, rival, corporate spy, engineer, ceo, confident, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Arthur Bishop, the master assassin who faked his death in hopes of putting that part of his ;life behind him, now lives a quiet life in Rio. But someone who knows who he is shows up and tells him, that if he wants to continue living this life, he will do three jobs for someone. Bishop tries to tell them he has the wrong man but they know who he is and if he won't do the job, they will take him but he gets away. He then goes to a resort in Thailand run by a friend, Mae, where he tries to find out who is looking for him. Later a woman named Gina shows up looking for medical assistance and Mae can't help but notice bruises all over her body. Mae deduces she's a battered woman and when Mae hears her being beaten, Mae asks Bishop to help her. He goes and kills the guy she's with. He kills the man and then sets fire to the boat he's on. But he sees that Gina has a photo of him. He deduces that they one who wants him, sent her. He confronts her and she admits that she works at a children's ...
Plot Keywords: assassin, enemy, girlfriend, warlord, trafficker, arms dealer, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". New York City drug lords are pursuing Sue for having solid evidence against them for murder, so for her safety, Mick takes her back to Australia. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates his outback skills once more.
Plot Keywords: australian, girlfriend, police officer, adventurer, suicidal person, drug dealer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Plot Keywords: doctor, socialite, neighbor, single mother, father figure, filmmaker, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hong Kong, the 3rd biggest financial centre in the world, is also a place with distorted living environment (and values). A story about 4 'losers' living in the infamous 'coffin' room have their own issues. Four sad stories with sugar coating, entertaining the audience for 100 minutes. A cult movie nicely directed and plotted. You can just consume the sugar or savour the hidden bitterness.
Plot Keywords: tenant, ex-cop, widower, daughter, victim, dark, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An insomniac wanders the streets at night and ends up at a local deli where life's losers appear to end up, including a nice, although slightly lost young woman and a slightly deranged, apparently homeless man, and a untalkative, dysfunctional cop hangout. On one of the late night forays, the insomniac witnesses a murder. When he tries to report, there is no sign of the murder, but the cops become convinced he is the killer. But wait, that is not the weird part. It seems that the insomniac has a girl friend, who doesn't have a clue that he gets up at night and wanders the city, and a personal assistant, who knows all about his exploits. But it only gets weirder from there as the cops uncover that the murdered man is connected to the man's girl friend.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: executive, waitress, orderly, attorney, cop, girlfriend, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is the end of the twenty first century and the planet is a victim of a conspiracy involving death, disease and environmental degradation. Doctor Kisaragi designs and operationalizes a cyborg called Cutie Honey. The creation can feel, sympathize and take action. The rich and powerful and the corporation have an adversary.—aghaemi
Plot Keywords: android, rich girl, poor person, brooding, disturbing, profound, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally achieve his target and capture Carol Anne again, or will Tangina be able, yet again, to thwart him?
Plot Keywords: uncle, aunt, cousin, girl, teacher, psychologist, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence, and as they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this cross-fire is - an infected beautiful woman - Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.
Plot Keywords: pregnant woman, child, friend, boss, dark, eerie, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mechanic (James Marshall) and a reporter (Naomi Watts) investigate deaths related to an elevator in a New York building.
Plot Keywords: reporter, mechanic, inventor, police officer, blind man, executive, thrilling ...
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