Jackie Chan's Police Story 2 (1988), Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime (1922), The Troops of St. Tropez (1964), Road to Rio (1947), Operation Condor (1991), Judge Hardy and Son (1939), Nancy Drew, Detective (1938), Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! Journey to the Magic Cavern (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Film Series movies.
Storyline: Villains kidnap a Hong Kong policeman's (Jackie Chan) girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) as he investigates a bombing/extortion scheme.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, martial arts, sequel, fight scenes, stunts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, thriller, german cinema, silent film, classic, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with persistent nude swimmers, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor. He gets drawn into it when he tries to cover for her when a friend 'lends' the car of her assumed father. It turns out that the real owners of the yacht aren't exactly what they pretend to be either...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, french, 1960s, police, beach, vacation, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.—mike.wilson6@btinternet.com
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, adventure, road movie, classic, hollywood, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) -- code name Condor -- is a secret agent for hire. Assigned by a Turkish duke to find stolen Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert, Condor must face mercenaries, guards and one remaining Nazi (Aldo Sánchez) who wants the treasure he helped steal all those years ago. Even after teaming up with three inept ladies (Carol "Do Do" Cheng, Eva Cobo de Garcia, Shoko Ikeda), Condor still has his work cut out for him on his hunt for the stolen loot.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, martial arts, classic, treasure hunt, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mr. and Mrs. Valduzzi come to see Judge James Hardy for advice on how to prevent the loss of their home. He senses the aged Italian immigrant couple has a grown daughter who is ashamed of her parents and has not kept in contact with them. Failing to locate her himself, he offers money to his teenage son, Andy, if he can locate her. Andy has been having his usual problems with his car and girlfriends and eagerly accepts the challenge, since he needs the money. At the same time he plans on getting some girl to enter a school essay contest and split the $50 winning prize money with her. Since he supposes that a daughter of the daughter might have Valduzzi as a middle name, he sees three high school girls, Euphrasia V. Clark, Clarabelle V. Lee and Elvee Horton, in the hope that one of them may be the right one. Not only do they all reject Andy's unethical proposal about the essay, but Euphrasia blackmails him into taking her to the Fourth-of-July fireworks show, which causes him more problems with his jealous girl, Polly Benedict. But Andy finally realizes how insignificant these problems really are when his mother becomes deathly ill with pneumonia.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>
Plot Keywords: family, courtroom, drama, father-son relationship, law, moral dilemma, small-town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy beomse a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.—SM <smortens@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, crime, adaptation, classic, black and white, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Time-traveling youth Josh Kirby (Corbin Allred), scientist Irwin 1138 (Barrie Ingham) and teen warrior Azabeth Siege (Jennifer Burns) are trying to keep a powerful device called the Nullifier away from evil Dr. Zoetrope (Derek Webster). But they've hit a snag, having landed on a planet occupied by a race of mushroom people and seen Azabeth become ill upon eating a poisonous plant. They then search for the antidote, while also avoiding the many potential dangers surrounding them.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, adventure, fantasy, family, action, comedy, time travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andy Hardy is about to graduate from high school and thinks he's pretty big stuff, so he hires a secretary, Kathryn Land. Kathryn and Polly Benedict, Andy's girlfriend, help him pass his English exam.—SM <smortens@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, youth, coming of age, school, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: detective, crime, mystery, british, film noir, police, investigation ...
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 Saint plays a "modern-day Robin Hood" in order to clear his friend, Henry Fernack, who was framed by mobsters. They run into a series of murders.—SM <smortens@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, crime, mystery, film noir, 1940s, adaptation, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She's also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: drama, medical, mystery, classic, black and white, doctor, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Eye of the Daughter of the Moon, a golfball sized sapphire has been stolen in China and smuggled into the US. Richards, a rich man who knows a curse was placed on the Eye by the Emperor Hong Chong Tu as he buried it in his dead unfaithful wife's heart, expects to be murdered for receiving it. He shows Mr Wong the Eye and a death threat note. At a party, during a game of "Indications", Richards is shot, seemingly by his secretary, Peter Harrison. Add a peeking Chinese butler and maid, a budding singer, another criminologist, Richards' lawyer and an unsigned changed will. Mr Wong helps Street sort out the details to uncover all the secrets and the murderer.—John P Roberts, Jr
Plot Keywords: detective, murder, mystery, crime, deduction, 1930s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him. They concoct a plan - blacken his record in front of the Ministry Inspector and then he won't ever be able to get another job!—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british, school, teacher, 1950s, black and white, humour ...
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