The Father of My Children (2009), Opening Night (1977), Detective Story (1951), Broadcast News (1987), North Dallas Forty (1979), The Young Doctors (1961), Ellie Parker (2005), In the Shadow of the Stars (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Professional Pressure movies.
Storyline: Grégoire's life seems perfect, he has a job as a film producer and a beautiful wife and child, but when Grégoire's financial and emotional reserves reach a breaking point his family's love and resilience is tested.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, french cinema, tragedy, father-son relationship, psychological drama, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress.—Chemi González <chemi01@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological drama, female protagonist, show business, theater, midlife crisis, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, detective, police, mystery, legal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
Plot Keywords: journalism, romance, comedy, drama, workplace, love triangle, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.—Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: sports, american football, comedy, drama, 1970s, drug culture, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two pathologists -- a veteran department head (Fredric March) whose perspective has been shaped by years of red tape and day-to-day frustrations, and his new assistant (Ben Gazarra), a young, somewhat aggressive man who is more up-to-date but who lacks his colleague's personal touch -- clash in a small hospital's lab. The gulf between their approaches is dramatically illustrated by two critical cases that both are intimately involved in.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: medical drama, hospital, medical ethics, power struggle, institutional corruption, idealism, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Slice of life look at a young woman trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. Ellie Parker, from Australia, works hard: she's gifted with accents, hustles to auditions, changes clothes and makeup as she drives across L.A., goes to acting classes and therapy, maintains a friendship with another Aussie searching for the same roles, meets a cinematographer when he bangs into her car at a stop sign, and faces a failing relationship with her slacker thinks-he's-a-musician boyfriend. All this brings on an identity crisis - who am I, and should I keep trying to be an actress? Ellie's balancing act and her inquiry into self carry the story.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: independent film, comedy, drama, female lead, hollywood, actor's life, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This charming documentary focuses not on the opera divas, but on the cast of background singers that are essential to creating the grand spectacle of the San Francisco Opera. The background singers, or choristers, play all of the supernumerary soldiers, senators and peasants while providing musical support to the star singers who stand in the spotlight. The struggles, joys and jealousies of these background players are rendered in heartening detail as they seek to rise through the ranks.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, opera, choir, behind the scenes, classical music, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), the chief of medicine in a New York City teaching hospital, is contemplating suicide; he's impotent, his wife has left him, and his children aren't speaking to him. His hospital is also suffering from a recent spate of inexplicable deaths. In the midst of these setbacks, Bock is romantically drawn to the much younger Barbara (Diana Rigg), whose father is a patient. As Barbara restores Bock's will to live, it turns out that the hospital deaths are murders.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, healthcare system, institutional corruption, mental breakdown, bureaucracy, absurdism ...
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