Croupier (1998), Diane (2018), Where Is Kyra? (2017), Pickpocket (1959), The Man Without a Past (2002), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Silent Partner (1978) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Understated Performance movies.
Storyline: A broke writer (Clive Owen) gets a job as a croupier and becomes involved with a woman (Alex Kingston) who wants to rob his casino.
Plot Keywords: film noir, gambling, crime, suspense, psychological thriller, british film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, female protagonist, midlife crisis, family relationships, self-discovery, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fragile woman is already stressed from a fast-paced world when her mother dies and she must find a means for survival while hiding her struggles from her new boyfriend.
Plot Keywords: drama, mystery, crime, independent film, female protagonist, social issues, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons from an expert), because he realises that it's the only way he can express himself...
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, french cinema, black and white, realism, moral dilemma, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Plot Keywords: finland, comedy, drama, black humor, social outcast, amnesia, rebirth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the middle of the night, private eye Philip Marlowe drives his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. When Marlowe returns home police are waiting for him and learns that Terry's wife Sylvia has been killed. He's arrested as an accessory but released after a few days and is told the case is closed since Terry Lennox has seemingly committed suicide in Mexico. Marlowe is visited by mobster Marty Augustine who wants to know what happened to the $350,000 Lennox was supposed to deliver for him. Meanwhile, Marlowe is hired by Eileen Wade to find her husband Roger who has a habit of disappearing when he wants to dry out but she can't find him in any any of his usual haunts. He finds him at Dr. Veringer's clinic and brings him. It soon becomes obvious to Marlowe that Terry's death, the Wades and Augustine are all somehow interconnected. Figuring out just what those connections are however will be anything but easy.
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective, crime, mystery, los angeles, 1970s, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term "friends" is suspect. As a small time hood, Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate, he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?—MovieMaster
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, realism, gangster, thriller, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.—Geoff Jamieson <GJamieso@vitgnos1.telecom.com.au>
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, bank robbery, mind games, film noir, canadian film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inseparable best friends and cousins Autumn and Skylar precariously navigate the vulnerability of female adolescence in rural Pennsylvania. When Autumn mysteriously falls pregnant, she's confronted by conservative legislation without mercy for blue-collar women seeking an abortion. With Skylar's unfailing support and bold resourcefulness, money to fund the procedure is secured and the duo board a bus bound for New York state to find the help Autumn needs.—Mae Moreno
Plot Keywords: drama, teen, female, coming of age, indie film, social issues, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deeply introspective thirteen-year-old boy named George, a bizarre series of events and an innocent cover-up launches their insular group on individual quests for redemption.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, coming of age, american south, poverty, childhood, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucky is an old US Navy veteran of rigid habits and attitudes in a small town. When his routine is interrupted by a sudden collapse at home, Lucky finds himself realizing that his remarkably healthy old age is going to face an inevitable decline and he has to accept it. In that difficult reassessment, Lucky must face up to what he believes in and how much it compares to his neighbors' priorities. In doing so, Lucky finds that his life has its positive side as he searches for some meaning that he can accept.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, independent film, aging, death, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The resolutely single Don Johnston has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don resigns himself to being alone yet again and left to his own devices. Instead, he is compelled to reflect on his past when he receives by mail a mysterious pink letter. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may now be looking for his father. Don is urged to investigate this "mystery" by his closest friend and neighbor, Winston, an amateur sleuth and family man. Hesitant to travel at all, Don nonetheless embarks on a cross-country trek in search of clues from four former flames. Unannounced visits to each of these unique women hold new surprises for Don as he haphazardly confronts both his past and, consequently, his present.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, independent film, road movie, midlife crisis, american film, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, french cinema, father-daughter relationship, paris, loneliness, warmth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Plot Keywords: revenge, thriller, independent film, crime, violence, suspense, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, detective, film noir, drama, moral dilemma ...
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