Freaks (1932), Night Is My Future (1947), The Great Train Robbery (1978), The Unholy Three (1930), The Strong Man (1926), Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007), The Split (1968), The Million Pound Note (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Strong Man movies.
Storyline: A circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra, takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow. Her interest however is in the money Hans will be inheriting and she is actually carrying on an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancée does her best to convince him that he is being used but to no avail. At their wedding party, a drunken Cleopatra tells the sideshow freaks just what she thinks of them. Together, the freaks decide to make her one of their own.
Plot Keywords: trapeze artist, circus performer, conjoined twins, dwarf, strong man, creepy, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Savage, an alcoholic man that eats live chickens that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow. When Stan gives booze to Pete and he dies, Stan finds that Pete had drunk methyl alcohol and not his booze, but he feels guilty for the death of him. Zeena teaches the code to him and Molly helps Stan to learn them. After an incident, Stan is forced to marry Molly and he decides to move to Chicago with her to become a sensation in a night club. One day, he meets the psychologist Lilith Ritter and he finds that she tapes the sessions with her clients from the high-society. The trickster Stan envisions a scheme to raise a high amount of money swindling rich people. But his ambition brings him back to the life in the sideshow.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: geek, mind reader, psychiatrist, strong man, con artist, dark, incredible ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.
Plot Keywords: safecracker, thief, femme fatale, strong man, mastermind, criminal, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Professor Echo is a sideshow ventriloquist who recruits two sociopathic co-workers, Midge and Hercules, the show's midget and strong man respectively, into a burglary ring. Echo disguises himself as the elderly Mrs. O'Grady, the owner of a pet store, who sells talking parrots and mynah birds to a high-class clientèle with Hercules posing as his son-in-law married to Echo's pickpocket girlfriend Rosie and Midge passing as their infant son. Echo's ventriloquist skills initially convince the customers that their parrot can talk, but they're disappointed when they bring the mute bird home. A phone call of complaint brings Grandma O'Grady and her daughter's "baby" to the client's house to facilitate the bird's talking, an opportunity to case the house for a subsequent robbery by "The Unholy Three."—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: ventriloquist, strong man, dwarf, pickpocket, young man, love interest, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: young man, vaudevillian, gold digger, strong man, pen pal, soldier, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Molly Mahoney is the manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the awesome toy store owned by Mr. Edward Magorium. Molly was a promising composer and piano player when she was a girl, and now she is a twenty-three year-old insecure woman who feels stuck in her job. Among the costumers of the Emporium is the lonely hat collector, Eric Applebaum, who has only Molly and Mr. Magorium for friends. When the last pair of shoes that Mr. Magorium bought in Toscana is worn, he hires the accountant, Henry Weston to adjust the accounts of the Emporium. Furthermore, he claims that he is two hundred and forty-three years old and his time to go has come; he gives a block of wood called Congreve cube to Molly and asks Henry to transfer the Emporium to her name. Molly tries to convince Mr. Magorium to stay in his magical toy store instead of "going".
Plot Keywords: old man, manager, customer, strong man, accountant, owner, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man named McClain's tasked with planning the robbery of a Los Angeles Coliseum after a big game. He recruits 4 men. The job goes off without a hitch. When they ponder where to keep the money McClain suggests they leave it with Ellie, his girlfriend. But when she's killed, the money's vanished, and they all wonders what happened. They assume McClain knows where the money is, but he doesn't. He thinks the cop investigating the robbery and Ellie's death know more than he's letting on.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: thief, sharpshooter, safecracker, old flame, corrupt cop, strong man, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Plot Keywords: seaman, millionaire, brother, niece, duke, strong man, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A club owner (Tim Roth) who supports the Nazi Party hires a Jewish strongman (Jouko Ahola) as an entertainer.
Plot Keywords: blacksmith, nazi, strong man, jew, con artist, fascinating, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.
Plot Keywords: strong man, oracle, uncle, god, daughter, friend, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Greek muscleman (Steve Reeves) begins his 12 labors, saves a princess (Sylva Koscina) and joins Jason (Fabrizio Mioni) and the Argonauts.
Plot Keywords: strong man, king, prince, princess, warrior, powerful, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious to a fault, Carlisle abandons Zeena and the carny to reinvent himself as "The Great Stanton," wowing high-class audiences in a Chicago hotel.
Plot Keywords: geek, mind reader, psychiatrist, strong man, con artist, dark, incredible ...
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