In the Shadow of the Moon (2006), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Full Moon in Paris (1984), A Walk in the Sun (1946), Blood on the Moon (1948), Duel in the Sun (1946), Under the Sun (1998), The Brother From Another Planet (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Astronomical Object In Title movies.
Storyline: In the 1960s, US President John F Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon before the decade was finished. This film has interviews with most of the surviving astronauts of the Apollo program who were making ready to make that great voyage with an army of experts determined to make the endeavor possible. Through training, tragedy and triumph, we follow the greatest moments of one of Humanity's great achievements.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: moon landing, space exploration, alone, earth, spaceship, outer space, travel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...—Greg Bruno <burlynerd@usa.net>
Plot Keywords: african american, poverty, chicago illinois, based on play, dysfunctional family, segregation, gay slur ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.—<woo@ficsgrp.com>
Plot Keywords: apartment, one night stand, suburb, teacher, tennis, train, illustrator ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to blow up a bridge next to a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: national film registry, italian american, translation, reference to marlene dietrich, sergeant, infantry, world war two ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders are being used, the two men draw apart to become sworn enemies.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: new mexico, texas, stampede, shot to death, dying words, woman slaps a man, face slap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, the biracial Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Welcomed by Laura Belle and her elder lawyer son Jesse, she meets with hostility from the ranch-owner himself, wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles, and with lustful interest from demonizing, unruly younger son Lewt. Almost at once, already existing family tensions are exacerbated by her presence and the way she is physically drawn to Lewt.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: family relationships, tragic love, interracial romance, father daughter relationship, cross cultural relations, cattleman, lust ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.—L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
Plot Keywords: farm, based on novel, illiteracy, 1950s, sweden, farmer, farmhouse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's home planet arrive and try to capture him.—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: astronomical object in title, ghetto, african american, nightclub singer, love, harlem manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has always wanted to do. He is from then on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: husband wife relationship, ridicule, whistling, cuckoo clock, irony, feeding someone, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Successful architect Don Gresham (William Holden) engages a young actress, Patty O'Neill (Maggie McNamara), in conversation on top of the Empire State Building, and she accepts his invitation to dinner. Dropping in at his apartment on the way, they decide to dine there as Patty announces herself an excellent cook. Don slips out to buy food, and Patty is briefly visited by his ex-fiancée, Cynthia Slater (Dawn Addams), and not too briefly, by Cynthia's father David (David Niven), a middle-aged, practiced charmer who, on her invitation, stays to dinner. A slight accident at the table occasions Patty to change her dress for Don's bathrobe. While Don is away placating the jealous Cynthia, David loses no time in offering Patty a proposal of marriage and a six hundred dollar gift. She accepts the latter and is surprised by Don in a grateful kiss to David. Don is still enraged with Patty when her father arrives, and, outraged to discover his daughter in a bachelor's apartment, knocks him senseless.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: comedy of manners, sewing, older man younger woman relationship, marriage proposal, divorced man, neighbor neighbor relationship, ketchup ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Summer, 1969: men on the moon, and Woodstock happening near the cabin where the Kantrowitz family stays every summer. The camp's a Jewish fish-bowl. Marty's there weekends; he repairs TVs in Brooklyn. He's square and decent. His wife Pearl and his mother camp with Alison (she's 14) and their younger son. Pearl got pregnant at 17 and feels she missed her youth. While Alison experiences her first date, first kiss, first period, and stealing off to Woodstock with the lifeguard, Pearl has her own sexual awakening with "the blouse man," a peddler who sells at the camp. They too go to Woodstock. Marty confronts Pearl about the affair; she and he have to decide what to do next.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: cheating wife, love triangle, underwear, oral sex, skinny dipping, female full frontal nudity, binoculars ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon. On Earth, an investigation team finds the last of the Victorian crew - a now aged Arnold Bedford and he tells them the story of how he and his girlfriend, Katherine Callender, meet up with an inventor, Joseph Cavor, in 1899. Cavor has invented Cavorite, a paste that will allow anything to deflect gravity and he created a sphere that will actually take them to the moon. Taking Arnold and accidentally taking Katherine they fly to the moon where, to their total amazement, they discover a bee-like insect population who take an unhealthy interest in their Earthly visitors...—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: giant insect, passenger, professor, reminiscence, sacrifice, reference to napoleon, alien ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The sequel to The Mouse That Roared (1959), the tiny country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in new plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid, as well, to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the Grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try to beat them to the moon.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, protest, queen, towel, hidden camera, camera, gun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests.—jimthemoviefreak@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: novelist, manhunt, plane crash, guard dog, journalist, nazi, tequila ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: based on play, racism, 16th century, culture clash, astronomical object in title, based on true story, historical ...
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