Drunken Angel (1948), Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001), Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Citizen Kane (1941), Opening Night (1977), Sling Blade (1996), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Hud (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Complex Characters movies.
Storyline: Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. They fall in love and decide to get married. They love each other, in spite of their differences. Ellen's love for Richard is obsessive - possessive, and wants Richard all to herself. Richard learns to what extent Ellen will go to get what she wants,—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, film noir, crime, psychological thriller, romance, mystery, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, black comedy, period, british, power struggle, female-led ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.
Plot Keywords: superhero, antihero, dark, violence, philosophy, politics, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, social marginalization, immigration, poverty, family, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.
Plot Keywords: drama, tragedy, family, legal, psychological, social, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. Known equally for her cunning and her track record of success, she has always done whatever is required to win. But when she takes on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds that winning may come at too high a price.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, drama, female lead, power struggle, ethical dilemma, courtroom drama, psychological warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock is not what he appears to be. The news is particularly shocking for her frail daughter, Sibyl, who is secretly in love with the Major.—Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british, hotel, social class, loneliness, secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relationships, the need to charm, and the literary creation.—Yepok and Brian McInnis
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, french cinema, desire, women, erotic, psychological analysis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon, who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. Harry's charming, down-home manner hides a malicious penchant for stirring up trouble, and he exerts a strange and powerful eff...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: family, drama, cultural conflict, african american, mystery, supernatural, los angeles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques' bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend's wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light...—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, french film, remake, music, piano, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One night on a lonely highway, a man in a speeding car tosses a satchel of money meant for somebody else into Jane and Alan Palmer's convertible as they are heading down a mountain road to a party. When they open the satchel and see what's inside, Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with a life of luxury now within reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon afterward, the Palmers are tracked down by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang on to the cash, Jane will need to exercise all her feminine wiles, even if it leads her to dangerous circumstances and criminal behavior.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, mystery, thriller, drama, 1940s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, a Swedish murder investigator is brought in to find an elusive killer. But when the officer accidentally kills his own partner and covers it up, a double sided game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, psychological, dark, detective, murder, nordic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, female director, french film, literary adaptation, 20th century, historical context ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ann is married to John, who is having an affair with her sister Cynthia. Ann's a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go. When John's old friend, Graham, shows up, all their lives change. Graham likes to videotape interviews with women.
Plot Keywords: drama, erotic, psychological, independent film, marriage, betrayal, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.
Plot Keywords: legal drama, biography, courtroom drama, true story, crime, mystery, thriller ...
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