Gia (1998), The Truth (2019), Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018), Millennium Actress (2001), Marlene (1984), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), Passion Fish (1992), Orchestra Seats (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Actress movies.
Storyline: While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, film noir, murder, witness, 1940s, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mystery writer Barry Craig and his wife Jane prefer solving crimes to writing about them, and they get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick. First, secretary Julie Taylor reports an attempt on her life in the photography darkroom. Then socialite Isabel Fleming is stabbed during a photo shoot. When the prime suspect apparently commits suicide, Police Inspector Joseph Clinton declares the case closed - but then there is another murder.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, film noir, detective, murder, investigation, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, musical, song and dance, female lead, boxing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The first real professional success for famed French actress Maria Enders was twenty years ago as the co-lead in writer Wilhelm Melchoir's play and subsequent movie "Maloja Snake", he who picked Maria, then an unknown, personally. She played Sigrid, an opportunistic eighteen year old in an emotionally dependent lesbian relationship with forty year old Helena, who was at a vulnerable stage of her life. Maria has turned down the play's upcoming London revival in which she would now play Helena, it remounted by director Klaus Diesterweg. Her reasons for turning down the role are many including: being at a vulnerable stage of her own life going through a painful divorce; remembering the suicide of Susan Rosenberg, the original Helena, following the original run of the play, the suicide purportedly mirroring what happens to Helena; and the painful memories of the production in still having hard feelings toward who was her older male costar, Henryk Wald, with who she had an affair at the ...
Plot Keywords: drama, female, art, actress, director, psychological, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.—Charles K. Ammons <ckammons@mci2000.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, 1920s, hollywood, black and white, short film, slapstick ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, drama, broadway, musical, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, mystery, detective, murder, investigation, chicago ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack Davidson) 16 years ago. What they discover is that while they have struggled, their father has become a wealthy man and their brother is in school at Harvard.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, audrey hepburn, hollywood, classic, actress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, world war ii era, actress, star ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie tells the story of Eva Lovelace, a girl who comes to New York City in order to become a great actress. With hard work, she succeeds in working at a theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a great deal of changes and difficulties.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, romance, broadway, remake, hollywood, color film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A filmmaker manipulates a starlet into the image of his late wife, a celebrated actress who met a tragic death.
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological thriller, film noir, hollywood, celebrity culture, actress, dual identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dowd, who's IRA, escapes an Irish prison in a bloody jailbreak, making his way to New York City where he lives alone, avoids Irish hangouts, and works as a dishwasher. When a good deed gets him stabbed, one of the restaurant employees takes him in and finds him medical care. As Dowd recovers in the flat of Tulio and Tulio's sister Monica, he realizes that these Guatemalan exiles share his rebellious principles. When he learns they are planning a political assassination, he offers to help. His attraction to Monica contributes to his willingness to volunteer. However, the cops are closing in on him: can he make the hit, protect his new friends, and escape with Monica?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, romance, hollywood, celebrity, actress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inspired by real events in the life of À bout de souffle (1960) star and French New Wave icon Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by Hoover's FBI, because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, biography, historical, drama, usa, 1960s, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So-much-so that during the filming of a bubble bath scene, she runs away and winds up in Oregon. While staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade, instead of the kitchen, and asks him to bring her some food. When he does, he suggests she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Millie.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, farce, misunderstanding, 1960s, american film, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nina has just started working as a chambermaid in Rome's Imperial Hotel, a once grand but now slightly run down establishment. She works alongside her cousin Valentina, who encouraged her to do this work to expose her to a better life. One of the people whose room Nina attends is seventy-two year old Contessa Lucretia Sanziani, a longtime resident who has been estranged from her husband, Count Carlos Sanziani, for forty years. However, her stay at the hotel is threatened when her money stars to run out and the Count informs the hotel that he wants nothing to do with her, even if something serious happens to her. The Countess was once considered the "love goddess" of Europe, she who still lives in the fantasy of that life and her memories. In Nina, the Contessa sees a younger version of herself, and encourages her to be herself and that people will notice. The Contessa also takes her under her wing in providing a more polished version of herself to the world. During this process, the Contessa slowly loses grip on reality, but perhaps not before she is able to realize Nina's transformation into a version of herself of which the world has taken notice.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, drama, musical, historical, italian, time travel ...
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