The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Captain Blood (1935), The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Son of Fury (1942), Boom Town (1940), The Case of the Howling Dog (1934), North to Alaska (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Fortune movies.
Storyline: A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village, thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, crime, film noir, murder, detective, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
Plot Keywords: western, romance, action, adventure, drama, classic, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, romance, inheritance, sisters, new york, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With the sudden death of his father, fourth-generation prospector Kenny Wells sees the family business, Washoe Mining, rapidly decline and him out of business. But ambitious Kenny has a dream, a vivid vision that promises mountains of brilliant and pure gold in the lush jungles of remote Indonesia; an aspiration which the well-known, yet still unlucky geologist Michael Acosta shares. Before long, down-on-his-luck Kenny will convince the eager geologist to become his partner and set off on an adventure deep into uncharted territory, while in the meantime, he would hunt for investors. Unfortunately though, as the risky expedition begins without a single speck of gold or the promise of it on the horizon, disease and failure will begin to threaten the short-lived dream. However, is it indeed an intriguingly bold and reckless fantasy?
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, thriller, survival, greed, fortune, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mischievous youngsters Tracy (Kim Richards) and Jay (Brad Savage) quickly grow tired of staying with their dull but wealthy grandpa, J.W. Osborne (David Niven). So they devise a brilliant scheme in hopes of funding a plane trip to China to visit their mom. The kids enlist bumbling burglars Bert (Don Knotts) and Duke (Darren McGavin) to kidnap them, then demand a huge ransom check from Osborne. Unexpectedly, the children and the crooks bond and begin forgetting all about their arrangement.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, adventure, children, crime, disney, animals ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monty Brewster is a penniless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative, but there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest. Since he cannot tell anyone about spending the money as part of the agreement, everyone thinks that Brewster has flipped when he practically knocks himself out on a spending spree to get rid of the $1 million in time.—matt-282
Plot Keywords: comedy, classic, black and white, adaptation, fortune, inheritance, money ...
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: On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman) returns from Paris, France to her childhood home in New Orleans, Louisiana to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there from her father's wife's family. She also plans to marry a rich man to attain the status and respectability her mother never had, but falls for Texas gambler Colonel Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper) instead. When he leaves New Orleans for the horse racing season at Saratoga Springs, she follows him there to seek her fortune - or someone else's.—Joyce Bradsher <joyceable@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, adaptation, american, 1940s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want him honor the tradition of returning to the tables.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: gambling, comedy, romance, adventure, 1930s, black comedy, fortune ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, music, musical, nightclub, misunderstanding, fortune ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Billionaire Nerio Winch is found dead, drowned. An obviously suspicious death as Nerio is the founder and majority shareholder of the powerful and sprawling W Group. Who will inherit this financial empire? Officially, Nerio had no family. But he had a secret he kept well-hidden: a son, Largo, adopted nearly thirty years before from a Bosnian orphanage. The only problem is this young heir has just been thrown in prison deep in the Amazon. Accused of drug trafficking, he claims he's innocent. Nerio murdered. Largo in prison. What if these two events were part of a plot to take control of the Winch empire?
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, drama, adventure, mystery, business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brewster is a minor league baseball player. Unknown to him, he had a (recently deceased) rich relative. In order to test if Brewster knows the value of money, he is given the task of disposing of $30m in 30 days. Brewster isn't allowed to have any assets to show for the $30m or waste the money in any way. If successful, Brewster gets to inherit $300m. The biggest problem of all however, is that Brewster can't tell anyone what he's doing, so everyone thinks he's crazy. Add to this the fact that if he fails, two scheming trustees will get their hands on the money, Brewster's task is not an easy one.
Plot Keywords: comedy, absurd, money, inheritance, challenge, time limit, fortune ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 20th century fox, 1940s, dance, nightclub ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is even more of a prize to Cash, for Cash is also making a bid for Austen's beautiful daughter, Lory. This is Cash's toughest deal ever.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, business, romantic comedy, american film, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house where the geriatric owner dies, and Ernie and Lars Smuntz have plans for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It's like Home Alone with a mouse.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, adventure, dark comedy, brotherhood, inheritance, chase ...
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