Winged Migration (2001), Rose Marie (1936), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), The Straight Story (1999), Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008), African Cats (2011), The Tamarind Seed (1974), The Sundowners (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Scenic movies.
Storyline: Young Jim Craig returns to the Australian high country, after being away herding the horses he caught and sold, in order to provide a stake for his future. He finds things quite different than when he left: his girlfriend, Jessica Harrison, is being pursued by a rich suitor, Jessica's father wants him out of her life, and the residents of the high country are being driven out by the wealthier low country ranchers. Jim definitely has his work cut out for him.—Marinelle K. Szenasy
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, western, drama, romance, family, australian ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected turn when her husband files for divorce. He wants to marry the woman with whom he is having an affair. Frances supported her husband financially as he was writing his own book, and he sues her for alimony despite her financial difficulties. And he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tuscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally purchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco, Frances, while in Tuscany, impulsively ditches ...
Plot Keywords: romantic, comedy, love, healing, travel, italy, female empowerment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.—Pusan International Film Festival
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, midlife crisis, cultural differences, loneliness, travel, inner conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Reverend Abner Hale (Max Von Sydow), a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley (Dame Julie Andrews) and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding, there comes tragedy.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, romance, drama, historical, cultural clash, 19th century, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After being raised in an Oklahoma orphanage, 15-year-old Donald makes his way to California during the depression. He meets Emogene, the daughter of poor migrant farm laborers, and together they set out to break the cycle of poverty and ignorance. This is the inspiring true story of Donald P. Bailey, a charming, and eccentric father of nine, whose charisma and optimism set him apart from the average dad. But his golden voice made him a legend to his posterity for generations. His unique life is remembered through the eyes of his daughter, Elizabeth.—Elizabeth Waite
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, adventure, road movie, friendship, self-discovery, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two English cartographers visit the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw, to measure what is claimed to be the "first mountain inside of Wales". It's 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their "mountain", and are understandably disappointed and furious to find that it is in fact a "hill". Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Englishmen who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep the English from leaving, before the job is done.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, historical, british, wales, village life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father and they dream of owning land at the big give-away in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local bare-hands boxer and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to the U.S. to find her and take her back.
Plot Keywords: adventure, romance, drama, historical, western, epic, immigration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.—Dennis Lewis <dsl@sprynet.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, adventure, travel, italy, romantic comedy, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: O'Rourke and his Cree half brother Cajou are returning from a northern Canadian trapping trip when they encounter a burned wagon train and sole survivor Grace. Naive Mountie commander Benton believes it to be a Cree attack. The Sioux from across the border are trying to force the Cree into being allies in their struggle with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. O'Rourke must mutiny to save the men. He must also aid Grace, in whom Marshal Smith has both official and unprovoked amorous interests.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, canada, survival, wilderness, gunfight, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, drama, biography, travel, friendship, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Things are complicated by smuggling, cheating, honor, inventions, medicine, and love at first sight...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, racing, action, road movie, nostalgia, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, historical, american frontier, 19th century, wilderness survival, exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man seeking peace and quiet finds himself father to three bears.
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, drama, wilderness, nature, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Thunderhead," a roving, big white stallion, causes problems for the Wyoming ranchers when he leads their blue-blooded racing mares off to join his wild horse herd in the mountains. Escaping gunfire, he runs off one night with a young rancher;s mare, a possible winner of the Governor's Stake trotting race. The mare is recaptured and entered in the race against the horse owned by the father of the young rancher's sweetheart, and this puts a damper on their romance.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, family, western, drama, equestrian, rural life, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, period piece, 1930s, british, italy, vacation ...
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