Kes (1969), Office Space (1999), Midnight in Paris (2011), My Life as a Dog (1985), Summer with Monika (1953), The Enchanted Cottage (1945), Mediterraneo (1991), King of Hearts (1966) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Escape From Reality movies.
Storyline: In New York the clumsy Walter Mitty is the publisher of pulp fiction at the Pierce Publishing house owned by Bruce Pierce. He lives with his overbearing mother and neither his fiancée Gertrude Griswold and her mother nor his best friend Tubby Wadsworth respects him. Walter is an escapist and daydreams into a world of fantasy many times along the day. When Walter is commuting, he stumbles in the train with the gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn who uses Walter to escape from her pursuer. Walter unintentionally gets involved with a dangerous ring of spies that are seeking a black book with notes about a hidden treasure.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, romance, adventure, escape from reality, black comedy, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that she's engaged to him and that she's given him a million dollar dowry. Suddenly he's on the front page and every salesman is at his doorstep. He loses his job and a day later asks her to call off the ruse; she tricks him again and the publicity continues. She stays cheerful and resourceful through a series of misadventures that has him alternately back on his job and fired. Meanwhile, a count who's her ex-fiancé shows up in New York, and maybe that marriage is back on. Can an heiress be a human being, and can a reporter get a scoop?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, classic, 1930s, american film, black and white, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale, the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social issues, motherhood, mental health, cultural conflict, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
Plot Keywords: family, adventure, drama, childhood, brotherhood, coming of age, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, british film, literary adaptation, midlife crisis, urban life, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. She must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get back home.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, surreal, dreamlike, dark fairy tale, coming of age, visual art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: romance, musical, comedy, drama, small town life, class divide, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young boy named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don't go along with what he wants. Max - following an incident with Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, coming of age, imagination, loneliness, emotion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, western, drama, friendship, midlife crisis, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, the rebellious teen clumsily attempts to hang himself on-stage at the big talent show. Maru is the sole member of the audience to applaud, earning both students a day of detention. After bonding during the course of their punishment, Román and Maru grab daddy's gun, steal a Volkswagen, and hit the road bound for nowhere.—Jason Buchanan
Plot Keywords: youth, rebellion, coming of age, family, father-son relationship, mexico, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap her in the family trailer to live a life on the open road without worries about how to make ends meet. They then get the idea to find a husband for her whom both she and Pinkie would like.—Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, musical, family, drama, classic, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Chicago during the 1930s Depression, sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music-store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets schoolteacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, romance, song and dance, 1930s, great depression, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tiger and a bear set of on their way to exotic Panama.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, road movie, german film, travel, friendship, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Famous actress Lara Tyler can't get married to author James Arber without intrusive paparazzi crashing the ceremony. Because of James's best-seller, Lara's agent, Steve, checks out the little known Hegg Island in Scotland as the site for their next attempted wedding. Unfortunately, James is a hack, and his book (supposedly based on Hegg) relays little of it accurately. Katie, an island native and the only unmarried woman on it, has been unlucky in love. She's working on writing her own guide to Hegg Island when Steve and crew arrive, eventually hiring her as a reluctant decoy bride to distract the paparazzi. In a mix-up, she and James end up married to each other while Lara, having spotted the press, goes into hiding. Katie and James now have to get an island divorce while avoiding the press while other parties seek out Lara (who has disguised herself as one of the elderly islanders).—statmanjeff
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, scotland, celebrity, fake marriage, island, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, dystopian, philosophical, psychological, black comedy, existentialism, virtual reality ...
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