The Mouse That Roared (1959), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), Mondovino (2004), A Good Year (2006), Bottle Shock (2008), Red Obsession (2013), The Mouse on the Moon (1963), This Earth Is Mine (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wine movies.
Storyline: The field marshal, prime minister and grand duchess (Peter Sellers) of Fenwick declare war on the United States.
Plot Keywords: prime minister, guard, american, soldier, duchess, witty, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes that he is the town's new leader. They surrender to him and make him the new mayor. He rises to the occasion and when he finds that the Germans plan to occupy his town and take their wine (over a million bottles) he works out a plan to hide it.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: mayor, townsperson, captain, nazi, drunk, endearing, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Explores a thesis: that the deep colored, oak-aged taste of Bordeaux wines has become the world standard, following the writing of critic Robert Parker, the magazine "Wine Spectator," the consulting work of Michel Rolland of Pomerol, and the money of Mondavi, a publicly-traded corporation based in Napa with a family history of wine making. Wine makers worldwide, many using Rolland as a consultant, pursue this structure, color, and taste - to the detriment, argue some, of wine that should reflect the character of the land where the grape is grown, including the lighter Burgundy. A few old wine makers, from Aniane, Sardinia, and Argentina offer this argument.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: winemaker, critic, writer, farmer, billionaire, engaging, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?
Plot Keywords: investment banker, uncle, lawyer, cousin, dog, amusing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian finish.
Plot Keywords: winemaker, son, foreman, beautiful woman, amusing, heartwarming, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For centuries, Bordeaux has assumed a mythical status in the world of fine wine as a leitmotif of wealth, power and influence, but its prosperity has always been linked to the capricious nature of markets and the shifting fortunes of global economies. Now change is coming to Bordeaux, with traditional customers like the US and the UK falling away, as China's new rich push prices to stratospheric levels. The demand is unprecedented, but the product is finite and this new client wants it all. Will the China market be the bubble that never bursts or the biggest threat yet to Bordeaux's centuries old reputation?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: australian, engaging, france, obsession, wine, status, underdog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The sequel to The Mouse That Roared (1959), the tiny country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in new plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid, as well, to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the Grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try to beat them to the moon.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: prime minister, scientist, russian, american, duchess, astronaut, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Object: marriage to the heir of another vineyard, to further consolidate holdings in the Valley. But John Rambeau, Elizabeth's illegitimate cousin, has other ideas about who she should marry, and sharply opposes patriarch Philippe's refusal to sell wine grapes to bootleggers. John's activities bring soap opera to the Rambeau family and violence to the valley.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: british woman, winemaker, aunt, cousin, neighbor, grandfather, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.
Plot Keywords: assassin, target, missionary, suspenseful, tokyo, market, love ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in 19-year-old American Marion, who is available but refuses any romantic illusions. Her candor and cynicism put him off at first, but after he sees her breaking up with her rocker boyfriend, he's attracted to her and invites her on an idyllic fortnight in France. She slowly pokes holes in his artifice and he comes to care for her. When they return to Londonwith the press thinking they're married, they come to a crossroads: go back to their old lives, marry each other, or invent a new, open relationship. Is Robert up to it?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: television star, newlywed, rock star, playful, quirky, witty, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What seemed to be a simple little trip becomes an international chase, when an extremely rare bottle of wine's discovered (bottled during the appearance of the Great Comet of 1811). Margaret Harwood's sent to retrieve it so it can be auctioned. Oliver Plexico is her travel guide/bodyguard, because there's other people who desperately want this bottle, and they'll stop at nothing to get it.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com> [edited]
Plot Keywords: wine expert, father, assistant, mad scientist, bodyguard, daughter, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Just days from signing divorce papers, Hank and Alexandra give their relationship one final shot by playing a game with only one rule: no matter what they ask each other to do, they can't say no.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, couple, father, grandmother, daughter, amusing ...
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