High Plains Drifter (1973), Pale Rider (1985), Teorema (1968), Borgman (2013), The Shout (1978), The Shooting (1967), Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968), In a Valley of Violence (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mysterious Stranger movies.
Storyline: A Stranger (Clint Eastwood) rides into in the dusty mining town of Lago, where the townspeople are living in the shadow of a dark secret. After a shoot-out leaves the town's hired-gun protectors dead, the town's leaders petition the Stranger to stay and protect them from three ruthless outlaws who are soon to be released from prison. The three have their sights set on returning to Lago to wreak havoc and take care of some unfinished business. A series of events soon has the townspeople questioning whether siding with the Stranger was a wise idea, as they quickly learn the price that they each must pay for his services. As the outlaws make their way back into Lago, they discover that the town is not exactly as they had left it, and waiting in the shadows is the Stranger, ready to expose the town's secret and serve up his own brand of justice.
Plot Keywords: western, clint eastwood, revenge, violence, supernatural elements, moral ambiguity, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A gold mining camp in the California foothills is besieged by a neighboring landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher (Clint Eastwood) rides into camp and uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up his attacks on the miners.
Plot Keywords: western, clint eastwood, revenge, gunfight, gold rush, american west, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ?
Plot Keywords: art film, italian cinema, religious metaphor, identity crisis, family breakdown, existentialism, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A priest and his companion hunt silently through the fields, accompanied by a braying dog. They are armed and deadly. Their quarry is Camiel Borgman (Jan Bijvoet), living in military sparseness in an underground den, near companions Ludwig and Pascal. Camiel scrapes out with some difficulty, hitching a ride with a doomed truck driver on a relentless trip to the heart of suburbia. He passes by two odd women, Brenda and Ilonka, with whom he seems to share a history. When a dirty Camiel arrives at the door of artist Marina and media executive Richard's expansive, designer-chic home, the shifting perceptions of Van Warmerdam's screenplay begin to displace and disorient the audience. Hallucinogenic elements dot the consciousness as Camiel shifts between the roles of victim and aggressor. He asks for a bath. He toys with Richard's jealousy. He is viciously beaten up by his cruelly intolerant host and left wounded on the floor. Marina seeks to assuage her guilt by allowing him a space for ...
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, black comedy, surrealism, home invasion, social parable, class conflict, moral ambiguity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital, Crossley tells Graves (a visitor) the tale of a mysterious stranger (also named Crossley) who invades the lives and house of a local musician and his wife. The stranger claims knowledge of real magic, which he uses to displace his host and dominate his wife. The musician must find a way to combat Crossley and his seemingly implacable powers. Graves doubts Crossley's claim that the story is true, and begins to believe that Crossley is actually one of the patients.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, psychological, supernatural, mystery, british film, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An ex- bounty hunter turned miner returns to his mine dig to find one of his partners dead, how brother has run away and the remaining partner is slightly simple and unclear as to what happened. warren is enlisted by a mysterious women to take her across the desert. The woman is strange and keeps changing her story about what she wants and why. On the journey they pick up a gunslinger the woman has hired. The party ends up tracking a rider who is ahead of them. Warren figures out that the trip is really to track down the rider. It's along hot trip across the desert with a purposeful woman,a homicidal gunslinger, the former bounty hunter and his simple sidekick and the unknown quarry.—Prairiekid
Plot Keywords: western, psychological thriller, revenge, desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Double-crossed and pumped full of lead courtesy of his former friend, the unscrupulous, money-loving politician, David Barry, Django finds himself wandering from one dusty town to another working as a hangman. Saving doomed innocents condemned by Barry, Django has been secretly amassing a loyal army of supposedly hanged men who will help him gather evidence, and take his sweet revenge on those who murdered his wife and left him for dead several years before. However, shiny gold is always a great distraction. Can the blue-eyed executioner right a wrong, Django style?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: spaghetti western, revenge, outlaw, bounty hunter, slavery, betrayal, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, violence, action, thriller, drama, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, crime, dark, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman (Ellie) who is looking for a ride from the city out into the Mojave Desert, where her mother lives. Little does he know that while Ellie is falling in love with him, he is falling for her mother (Julie), despite the nearby presence of Julie's boyfriend who seems likely to go berzerk at any moment. Even more strange, hilarious events follow and it's up to Al to find some explanation. His life may never again be the same.—Neil Wick <neil@wick.net>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, black comedy, independent film, road movie, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 16 year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry. A man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he's not human at all.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, science fiction, mystery, supernatural, psychological thriller, creature feature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A traumatized woman (Estella Warren) and her husband (William Baldwin) head to the Mediterranean for a quiet getaway, but a stranded backpacker -- who may have a sinister agenda -- interrupts their idyll.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, mystery, psychological thriller, supernatural, demonic possession, cult ...
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