Dirty Money (1972), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), A Monkey in Winter (1962), Bioscopewala (2018), They Live by Night (1948), The Mighty (1998), The Fox and the Hound (1981), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Unusual Friendship movies.
Storyline: Ken, a 23-year-old, is devastated at the death of his father. He decides to commit suicide by jumping into the near-freezing river, but somehow miraculously survived. His mother thinks that the only way to help her depressed son is to send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan. Takuma is in no way like his calm father. He is unpredictable. Furthermore, his idea of moral values is very unconventional, insisting his nephew to occupy himself with drinking sake, having sex after the shock of losing his father. Somehow, all these strange methods manage to rekindle the desire in Ken to live again.—Ploy P.
Plot Keywords: uncle, mother, suicidal person, young woman, love interest, student, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Alpha (Margaret O'Brien) is left at an orphanage as an infant, she's adopted by three professors who control her environment and transform her into a child genius. Years later, Alpha is exposed to outsiders for the first time when reporter Mike Regan (James Craig) is invited to interview her for a story. Taking pity on the girl, Mike helps her escape, and the two embark on an adventure across New York City. Along the way, they begin to form a father-daughter relationship.
Plot Keywords: orphan, professor, gang member, reporter, singer, colleague, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy and a satire on psychologists finds young Johnny Brent, the only child of a pair of psychologists, trading an "invisible watch" to a much-younger child for a large magnet. His nurse/nanny accuses him of stealing and scolds him and he runs away. He soon convinces himself that the police are after him and following several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of the magnet, he presents it to an organizer of a fund-raising campaign for acquiring an iron-lung for the local hospital. The magnet is one of the auction items and finally is mounted on the iron-lung as a tribute to the unknown donor. Meanwhile, the father makes a completely inaccurate diagnosis for the mother of the boy's worries. In the end the boy meets the child he thought had died as a result of losing the magnet, and trades the boy back for the return of his "invisible watch" the gold medal the town mayor had given him for his part in the hospital campaign.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: girl, cousin, maid, brother, girlfriend, dark, family home ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, Johnny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger?
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, brother, drug addict, friend, best friend, disturbing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An embittered, hard-drinking Indian finds himself befriending a young white farmboy, and together they determine to help him end his drinking problems and return to his former life.
Plot Keywords: young boy, farmhand, native american, alcoholic, settler, emotional, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans for leaving and she finally does so together with her childlike (mentally ill) friend Ricky.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young girl, mentally disabled person, alcoholic, sister, mother, terminally ill person, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell Hargreaves (Coral Browne) (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters, by whom she was once so amused. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with Reverend Charles L. Dodgson/Lewis Carroll (Sir Ian Holm) in a new way, and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.—Max Vaughn
Plot Keywords: writer, minister, elderly woman, young girl, orphan, dreamy, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Daniel is approaching forty. Laura is fifteen... almost sixteen. From what they say about him he must be a poet or a comic-strip illustrator, or both. He has just overcome a long addiction and, once back home, is trying to recongnize his life based on a strategy which consists basically in DOING EXACTLY WHAT A "NORMAL" PERSON DOES. Everything that happens to Daniel is, more or less, foreseeable because that's what it's all about: he should look after his personal grooming, take care of the small things, immerse himself in the real world... and so on until he has completed the ten small achievements in his manual, a set of COMMANDMENTS devised by an insipid public health system psychiatrist. And, in the midst of all this, an unexpected happening: Laura arrives in the city searching for her brother Andres, Daniel's neighbor. But the brother is not home and she decides to wait for him, while organizing around Daniel what could be his "perfect world".—Cristina Sutherland
Plot Keywords: drug addict, runaway, brother, pastor, shepherd, creative, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them.
Plot Keywords: journalist, homeless person, ex-wife, sister, cellist, doctor, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to 'persuade' them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.
Plot Keywords: thug, artist, handyman, landlord, pregnant woman, man, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real "movie person" living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script--the strange "Dr. Jolly".—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: screenwriter, neighbor, partner, texan, boarder, young girl, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: young boy, father, mother, panther, tiger, young girl, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Leo Kroll, a lab technician in a large unnamed city, is responsible for the strangulation murders of several young nurses. He feels that in some twisted way, that he is getting back at his overbearing shrew of a mother. Leo also kills the nurse who is taking care of his mother in the rest home she is staying at. As a result, Mrs. Kroll dies from a heart attack. He also kills an arcade worker whom he feels can identify him.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
Plot Keywords: serial killer, lab worker, nurse, detective, young woman, dark, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron into an animal?
Plot Keywords: young man, convict, sexual predator, guard, judge, transvestite, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eleven-year-old Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten.
Plot Keywords: orphan, old woman, circus owner, circus performer, clown, audience, airy ...
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