Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Western Union (1941), The Lego Movie (2014), Lilies of the Field (1963), Suez (1938), Land of the Pharaohs (1955), The Money Pit (1986), LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Construction movies.
Storyline: A New York adman (Cary Grant) and his calm wife (Myrna Loy) buy a big old fixer-upper in rural Connecticut.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, dream, marriage, suburban life, construction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins an engineer's (Dean Jagger) crew stringing telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City.
Plot Keywords: western, american civil war, historical, adventure, action, drama, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The LEGO Movie is a 3D animated film which follows lead character, Emmet a completely ordinary LEGO mini-figure who is identified as the most "extraordinary person" and the key to saving the Lego universe. Emmet and his friends go on an epic journey to stop the evil tyrant, Lord Business.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, adventure, family, action, fantasy, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker heading out west, stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert...—Christopher J. Thompson <thompson@amath.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, inspirational, race, faith, religion, community, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: history, biography, drama, romance, adventure, political, war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end, he enlists the aid of Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), an architect whose people are enslaved in Egypt. The deal: build a robbery-proof tomb and the enslaved people will be freed. During the years that the pyramid is being built, Cyprian Princess Nellifer (Dame Joan Collins) becomes the Pharaoh's second wife, and she plots to prevent Khufu from taking his treasure with him when he dies, as well as helping him make the journey early.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: epic, historical, construction, power struggle, 1950s, hollywood, big budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house- but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old con artist who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously low price. Only there's a catch. The second they move into the house it falls apart, starting with the stairway collapsing to the bathtub falling through the floor to eventually the chimney falling into the house! Finally, they have to renovate the house before the frame collapses but the renovations also prove to be a disaster.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, marriage, dilemma, humor, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Clutch Powers and his team battle the evil wizard Mallock the Malign and his army of skeletons to save the medieval world of Ashlar.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, comedy, family, action, sci-fi, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After finding a vital pass through the Canadian Rockies for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Tom Andrews tells his boss Cornelius Van Horne that he is resigning to marry the girl he loves, Cecille Gautier. From Cecille, Tom learns that fur trader Dirk Rourke fears the coming of the railroad because it threatens his hold on the Indians and other trappers. Tom and Rorke have a bitter fight over Cecille, and Tom asks her to wait for him, as he has to go back and finish his job with the railroad. Aided by Dynamite Dawson, Tom finds evidence of Rourke's work against the railroad construction and almost loses his life when Rourke fires into some crates of dynamite Tom is unloading. The construction camp's doctor, Edith Cabot, gives her own blood in a transfusion to save Tom's life. Cecille, realizing that her father is working with Rourke against the railroad,rides off to warn Tom. Rourke intercepts her and tells her that Tom is in love with the lady doctor, but she bullwhips him and gallops off.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, canada, historical, adventure, action, drama, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, american civil war, adventure, action, historical, war, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buffalo newsman Evan Baxter is elected to Congress with the slogan, "Change the world." He lucks into a huge house in a new Virginia suburb. His Capitol office is also fantastic, but there's a catch: he's tapped by the powerful Congressman Long to co-sponsor a bill to allow development in national parks. In steps God, who appears to a disbelieving Evan and gently commands him to build an ark. Tools and wood arrive in Evan's yard, animal pairs follow, his beard and hair grow wildly, nomad's clothes and a staff appear. Long grows impatient, Evan starts building, his family leaves him, reporters gather, and drought grips D.C. Still, Evan believes. But will he change the world?
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, fantasy, religious, humor, modern adaptation, animals ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Between memories and an uncertain future, a father and daughter search for other ways to see the world.
Plot Keywords: documentary, architecture, construction, innovation, technology, history, culture ...
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