Wit (2001), The Life of Reilly (2006), Secret Honor (1984), A Pure Formality (1994), The Lighthouse (2019), Manifesto (2015), McKellen: Playing the Part (2017), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Monologue movies.
Storyline: A bright and demanding professor (Emma Thompson) reassesses her life after finding out she has terminal ovarian cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, medical, cancer, death, literature, professor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony winner, a staple of television, and a generational icon? Enter "The Life Of Reilly". The cliché goes that truth is stranger than fiction. In this case, it is also funnier and more heartbreaking. Charles Nelson Reilly, famous for his game show innuendos and "X Files" guest appearances, takes us through his bizarre, star-studded, tragic, hilarious, and ultimately amazing life with a potent blend of tenderness and quick one-liners. "The Life Of Reilly" is an adaptation of Mr. Reilly's acclaimed one-man show and was photographed for the screen during Mr. Reilly's final two performances of his play in North Hollywood, California.—jlm
Plot Keywords: documentary, drama, adaptation, stage play, comedy, tragedy, autobiographical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A crazed former president commits to tape the supposed real secrets behind Watergate. Directed by Robert Altman.
Plot Keywords: political, historical, biographical, drama, monologue, america, president ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: suspense, drama, crime, psychological thriller, french film, film noir, interrogation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England. For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon's keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger; excruciating agony; manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: psychological horror, surreal, black and white, isolation, descent into madness, mythology, folklore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From an anchorwoman to a homeless man, actress Cate Blanchett portrays 13 distinct characters in vignettes that incorporate timeless manifestos.
Plot Keywords: art, experimental, monologue, postmodern, philosophy, political, cultural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, actor, shakespeare, career, lgbtq+, uk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as she tries to work out who the victim is so the crime can be prevented.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, film noir, crime, murder, psychological, housewife ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scenes from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times that shaped the play, and the events that happened at the time the play is set. Interviews with mostly British actors are also included, attempting to explain why American actors have more problems performing Shakespearean plays than they do.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, shakespeare, drama, film production, actors, american film, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.—Robbie Smith <robsmith@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: monologue, autobiographical, theater, performance art, minimalist, experimental, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.—Edinburgh International Film Festival
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, monologue, actor's life, personal history, memoir, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For Alfie, the only real life is sex life. Only then, can he kid himself he is living. Sex is not used as the working-class boy's way to "the top". Executive status has no appeal for Alfie. Nor has class mobility. He is quite content to stay where he is, as long as the "birds" are in "beautiful condition", as he assures us they are in one of the candid, over-the-shoulder asides to the camera which this movie carries over from Tom Jones (1963). This movie shows how much of the "swinging 60s" quality of London life was a male creation, and through the dominance of the fashion photographers, a male prerogative.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, british film, london, 1960s, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life - to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond from the apartment above his catches his eye and they soon start spending time together. It's all innocent though there is little doubt that Sherman is attracted to her. Any lust he may be feeling is played out in his own imagination however.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, temptation, fantasy, new york, summer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Performance artist/comedian Bogosian brings to hilarious life 10 separate oddball characters in a one-man-show. This profane, smart, crisply edited film will have you screaming for more.
Plot Keywords: music, rock, drugs, sex, rebellion, biography, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iago convinces Othello, The Moor of Venice that his wife, Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago is an evil, manipulative character with his own agenda. A plot of jealousy and rage transpires in this classic Shakespearean tale.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: shakespeare, tragedy, play adaptation, jealousy, betrayal, race, love ...
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