Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997), Rio Bravo (1959), High Noon (1952), The Desperate Hours (1955), The Bedford Incident (1965), Crimson Tide (1995), The Long Riders (1980), Taps (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Standoff movies.
Storyline: This documentary about the 1993 showdown between the FBI and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, presents an alternate theory about the tragedy. The government has long contended that this fringe Christian group was a danger, and that the siege on its compound, which resulted in the death of 70 people, was necessary. Director William Gazecki, using footage from the siege and the Congressional hearings that followed it, asserts that American forces may have attacked a peaceful religious group.
Plot Keywords: documentary, true story, fbi, law enforcement, controversy, investigation, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sheriff John T. Chance has his hands full after arresting Joe Burdette for murder. He knows that Burdette's brother Nathan, a powerful rancher, will go to any lengths to get him out of jail. Chance's good friend Pat Wheeler offers to help but within 20 minutes of making the offer is gunned down in the street, shot in the back. That leaves his elderly deputy Stumpy, the town drunk Dude - once a deputy and a pretty good shot when he was sober - and a young hand, Colorado, who used to work for Wheeler. Nathan Burdette meanwhile has a couple of dozen men at his disposal. Chance does his best to prepare all the while romancing a pretty gambler who goes by the name of Feathers.
Plot Keywords: western, classic, sheriff, gunfight, small town, texas, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, Marshal Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station.
Plot Keywords: western, classic, drama, black and white, oscar winner, lone hero, sheriff ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, hostage, family crisis, psychological warfare, fugitive ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to the breaking point. This one's grim tension to the end.—KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, cold war, navy, submarine, nuclear threat, psychological warfare, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When some Russian rebels takes control of some ICBM's, the Americans mobilize. Among the vessels sent is the nuclear sub, the Alabama. But before they leave they need a new X.O. and among the choices is Commander Hunter, who hasn't seen much action. But the ship's Captain, Ramsey OK's him. While on the way, there was an incident and Hunter disagreed with how Ramsey handled it, it's evident that Ramsey doesn't think much of Hunter because Hunter was college educated while Ramsey worked his way up. They're given orders to attack but when they were in the process of receiving another order, the ship's communications were damaged, so the entire message was not received. Ramsey decides to continue with their previous order while Hunter wants to reestablish contact first. That's when the two men butt heads that ends with Hunter relieving Ramsey. Later when some men die, some of the officers feel that Hunter is not up to the task so they team up to retake control. But Hunter has taken ...
Plot Keywords: war, submarine, military, nuclear war, cold war, commanding officer, crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the American Civil War, outlaw Jesse James forms a gang comprised of himself, his brother Frank James, Cole Younger and his two brothers, Jim Younger and Bob Younger as well as Ed Miller and his brother Clell Miller. The gang is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger. The gang starts by robbing small banks and stagecoaches in the Midwest and in their home state of Missouri. Later, the gang targets bigger prizes, such as larger banks and trains. This criminal activity attracts the attention of the railroad company owners who hire the Pinkerton Detective Agency to capture the gang. When the gang kills a few Pinkerton detectives, a war of sorts starts between the Pinkerton Agency and the James-Younger gang. Sometimes caught in the middle of it are innocent civilians. In 1876, the gang is running out of banks to rob in Missouri and decides to raid a supposedly fat bank, far up North, in the state of Minnesota. But the Pinkerton Detective Agency is setting up a trap there.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, historical adaptation, family bonds, violence, revenge, american frontier ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander. Under the command of a student cadet major, the cadets seize the campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront the real military.
Plot Keywords: teen rebellion, gun violence, leadership, loyalty, honor, tragedy, idealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills. Ultimately, as a test of faith, or lack of it, the believer forces the non-believer onto the ledge of a tall building. He then has one hour to make a choice between his own life and someone else's. Without faith in an afterlife, will he be capable of such a sacrifice?
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, crime, psychological, moral dilemma, hostage, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on a true story, this tense crime drama follows veteran FBI agent Ben Grogan (Ronny Cox) as he leads a team that is desperately trying to track down the criminals responsible for a series of murders and robberies before more blood is shed. Eventually, the agents get closer to the suspects, Bill Matix (Michael Gross) and Mike Platt (David Soul), but the ruthless fugitives aren't going to be taken without a fight, leading to a violent shootout.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, based on true events, fbi, shootout, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sheriff Owens is a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for the face off.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, violence, gunfight, border, manhunt ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Writer and Director Bob Rafelson has stated that this is the final part of an informal trilogy he started with Five Easy Pieces (1970) and continued with The King of Marvin Gardens (1972). In the three, Nicholson has now played son, brother, and father. In this one, Nicholson is a wealthy wine dealer who has distanced himself from his wife with his philandering, and from his son with his negligence. After he steals a diamond necklace with the help of a safecracker partner, Victor, things start coming apart. His wife sets out to interrupt what she thinks is another one of his weekend dalliances, but is really his trip to pawn the jewels.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, film noir, family, betrayal, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Armed with a shotgun and one bullet, a war veteran (Thomas Jane) tries to protect a young murder witness from a ruthless assassin (Laurence Fishburne).
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, suspense, gunfight, revenge, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Indebted to a drug dealer, two brothers (Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter) and a friend (Zane Holtz) hatch a scheme to rob a bank.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, action, heist, team, police, chase ...
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