It Happens Every Spring (1949), Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), King of the Hill (1993), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), The Jerk (1979), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best St. Louis movies.
Storyline: A fictional story on the real life work of St. Louis-based Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, is told, he who is assigned to work in a Catholic high school, but who feels he can best serve in providing guidance to convicts and ex-cons, the latter specifically by helping them reintegrate into society, including finding them housing and employment in a society that is less than welcoming to them, largely resulting in those ex-cons once again committing crimes and being sent back to prison otherwise. This work often places him at odds with the authorities as he is unwilling to betray the confidence of those convicts and ex-cons, even in matters of a criminal nature, they who only confide in him in he earning their trust. He is able to enlist the assistance of lawyer Louis Rosen, who eventually buys into Father Clark's view of assisting this marginalized population. The story told is of young ex-con Billy Lee Jackson, just released from prison and who is destined to recommit crimes in being all he knows. Despite their difficult introduction in which Billy wanted to show how tough he is, Father Clark is able to get through to him to help him find gainful employment as well as a place to live. In the process, Billy is eventually even able to find love, with socialite Ellen Henley who can see the inherent goodness in him. The problem becomes if Billy will turn back to a life of crime if he feels that even one person isn't giving him a fair shake. Things become even more complicated with journalist George McHale, who wants it both ways by trying to write an exposé of Father Clark in what he sees as the Father's protection of the criminal element, while glorifying crime in the way he shapes his stories.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: outlaw, police sergeant, townspeople, lawman, family, criminal, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Plot Keywords: brother, baseball pitcher, wife, manager, baseball fan, radio personality, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high-flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), a 43-year-old waitress with a fixation on Marilyn Monroe. The couple gradually fall in love, though age and social differences mean that the path of true love is strewn with problems.—Matt <matt@measham.force9.net>
Plot Keywords: ad executive, waitress, widower, friend, love interest, associate, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her mother. Playing for tip money in an old friend's bar, an unexpected relationship begins to take shape. Based on the life and times of Alyssa Robbins.
Plot Keywords: musician, girlfriend, mother, lesbian, ex-boyfriend, housewife, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is in the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.—Jesse Garon <grifter@primenet.com>
Plot Keywords: fireman, crime boss, gang member, homeless person, treasure hunter, half brother, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reporter Larry Doyle is rewarded for his role in the capture of the Pardoni gang, but then loses his job on a frame-up to keep him from testifying. He goes to a neighboring city, meets Ann and, before he gets another reporting job, has to pawn his engraved revolver with a fence in league with the gangsters also part of Pardoni's mob. The gang gets the revolver from the fence and plant it at their next job, but Larry is on their trail and captures them at the pawn shop.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: reporter, editor, beautiful woman, thug, crime boss, witness, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small home town. He gets an offer to play in a big team, he hopes to get more money for his inventions. But he is invited to present his invention to a fire-extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game ?—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@inka.org.chemie.tu-meunchen.de>
Plot Keywords: fireman, coach, fiancée, baseball scout, gold digger, company president, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town. In the painful throes of adolescence, Alice has a rough time adjusting to her new school, especially after she gets the stern Mrs. Plotkin as her core teacher. Feeling shy and isolated, Alice frequently escapes into a vivid fantasy life that occasionally gets her into hot water. But with a little unexpected help from Mrs. Plotkin, Alice learns not to judge by appearances or jump to conclusions. More importantly, she confronts her father over his inability to accept their loss and move on into the future.—breakdown
Plot Keywords: girl, brother, single father, teacher, love interest, friend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The restless sales representative of a transport company Joanna Mills travels from Saint Louis to Texas in a business trip. She is haunted by violent visions and after meeting her client, she visits her lonely father. On the next morning, she decides to visit La Salle, a small town where she has never been before, but she had recollections of many locations. She lodges in a hotel and later she meets and is befriended by the local widower Terry Stahl, who helps her from an aggression. Her daydreams and nightmares increase and she becomes obsessed for disclosing the truth about her visions of a brutal murder of a woman in a barn. Along her investigation, Joanna gets close to the killer and feels that her life is in danger.
Plot Keywords: businesswoman, father, widower, murder victim, killer, ex-boyfriend, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly along for the ride are Nate's wife, who's only in it for the kids; their rapper-wannabe son; their teenage daughter who's fashioned herself as the next Lolita; and their youngest, whose imaginary dog Nate just can't seem to keep track of. Can the Johnsons survive each other and all the obstacles the road throws at them to make it to Caruthersville, Missouri? Can they find Missouri?—ivegot2act@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, daughter, son, brother, hitchhiker, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This biopic chronicles the life of cowboy comedian Will Rogers (Will Rogers Jr.). After leaving Oklahoma to join the rodeo and marry his childhood sweetheart, Betty (Jane Wyman), Rogers is invited to perform in New York City. Billed as a rope-trick artist, Rogers quickly becomes more celebrated for his humorous onstage banter than for his skills with the lariat. As his fame grows, movie roles come his way. But when the Great Depression hits, he uses his surprise success to do some good.
Plot Keywords: vaudevillian, cowboy, actor, comedian, wife, woodrow wilson, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An inexperienced coach (Sean Astin) takes charge of the last season of a champion high-school baseball team before the school merges with another.
Plot Keywords: baseball coach, assistant, fiancée, lawyer, baseball player, student, positive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark (Don Murray) dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea), a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime -- and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.
Plot Keywords: priest, ex-convict, reporter, gritty, somber, powerful, st. louis ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man (Matt Foyer) tells his psychiatrist of the struggles that led to his downfall, beginning at his great-uncle's bedside, where he receives a key to a locked collection of his papers. The papers reveal a lifelong obsession with an underwater deity, Cthulhu, around which a cult has formed. Using the style of a 1920s silent film, director Andrew Leman retells H.P. Lovecraft's short story, in which the documents reveal individuals who had contact with Cthulhu.
Plot Keywords: professor, psychiatrist, student, sailor, inspector, patient, eerie ...
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