Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), High Fidelity (2000), Music Within (2007), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), Apartment for Peggy (1948), Real Genius (1985), Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980), Night Into Morning (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Campus movies.
Storyline: The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration, the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.
Plot Keywords: 1940s, nazi uniform, nazi flag, secret police, resistance fighter, decapitation, father daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thirty-something Rob Gordon, a former club DJ, owns a not so lucrative used record store in Chicago. He not so much employs Barry and Dick, but rather keeps them around as they showed up at the store one day and never left. All three are vinyl and music snobs, but in different ways. Rob has a penchant for compiling top five lists. The latest of these lists is his top five break-ups, it spurred by the fact that his latest girlfriend, Laura, a lawyer, has just broken up with him. He believed that Laura would be the one who would last, partly as an expectation of where he would be at this stage in his life. Rob admits that there have been a few incidents in their relationship which in and of themselves could be grounds for her to want to break up. To his satisfaction, Laura is not on this top five list. Rob feels a need not only to review the five relationships, which go back as far as middle school when he was twelve, and try to come to terms with why the woman, or girl as the case may ...
Plot Keywords: employer employee relationship, based on novel, based on book, record store, talking to the camera, breaking the fourth wall, two word title ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The True Story Of Richard Pimentel, A Brilliant Public Speaker With A Troubled Past, Who Returns From Vietnam Severely Hearing-Impaired And Finds A New Purpose In His Landmark Efforts On The Behalf Of Americans With Disabilities...—Steven Sawalich
Plot Keywords: anti war, arrest, baby, bar, bathtub, beer, best friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired to play in the band of Ben Pollack, the band-leader listens to one Glenn's composition and invites him to join his band. While traveling to New York, Glenn visits his former girlfriend Helen Berger, in Boulder, Colorado, and asks her to wait for him. Two years later he quits the band and proposes Helen that moves to New York to marry him. After the success of "Moonlight Serenade", Glenn Miller's band becomes worldwide known and Glenn and Helen and their two children have a very comfortable life. Duting the World War II, Glenn enlists in the army and travels to Europe to increase the moral of the allied troops. In the Christmas of 1944, he travels from London to Paris for a concert to be broadcast; however his plane is never found in the tragic flight.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: band, based on real events, music band, year 1944, 1930s, 1940s, u.s. air force ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: forename in title, expectant mother, expectant father, campus, baby shower, suicide attempt, war veteran ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mitch Taylor is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He partners up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyperkinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius means. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the military for use as a weapon, they decide to get even.
Plot Keywords: nerd, sabotage, campus, air force base, laser beam, science fair, pool party ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.—Marty Cassady <martyc@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: rape victim, female pubic hair, pubic hair, infidelity, extramarital affair, jealousy, adultery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Philip Ainley is a happily-married English teacher at a major USA university, whose life is turned upside down when his wife and child are killed by an explosion and fire in their home. Ainley's associate teacher, Tom Lawry, and the secretary of the department, Katherine Mead, a widow, do what tan to comfort him after the tragedy. As time goes by, Lawry thinks that nothing further can be done and becomes jealous of Katherine's continued efforts to help Ainley. Ainley, following an outward calm during the funeral and following days, tries to escape his sad anxiety through alcohol, and then via a suicide attempt.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: death of child, death of wife, doctor, drinking, father, girl next door, grief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Plot Keywords: dead father, loss of father, death of father, science, one word title, police, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he never had for himself, and to prove his point, he agrees to enroll in school along with his son. Thornton is a big hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college?
Plot Keywords: college, father son relationship, clothing store, cleavage, scantily clad female, breasts, female nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Terry Hoitz's past mistakes in the line of duty and Allen Gamble's reluctance to take risks have landed them the roles of the "Other Guys", disgraced New York City police detectives relegated to filling out paperwork for cocky hero cops Danson and Highsmith. The mismatched duo must look past their differences when they take on a high-profile investigation of shady capitalist David Ershon and attempt to fill the shoes of the notoriously reckless officers they idolize.
Plot Keywords: detective, police, new york city, freeze frame, slow motion scene, cocaine, nurse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Education of Charlie Banks is a coming of age tale that spans from the playgrounds of lower Manhattan to the idyllic greens of a fictional liberal arts college in upstate New York. Set during the eighties, it is a story about change, inevitability, and ultimately, about facing one's fears.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: character name in title, father son relationship, fistfight, fight, snitch, police arrest, police ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A two character movie, involving a college professor, John, who is confronted by a female student, Carol, who is failing his course. The two spend a long time talking to each other, during which time John says a few things that can be taken the wrong way. After the night the two spent talking, John is slapped with a sexual harassment accusation by Carol. After more accusations from Carol, John's career as a teacher begins to fall apart. This forces John with a choice on how to handle the situation, and the results make up for a shattering ending to the movie.—Justin Sharp <rainman88@earthlink.net>
Plot Keywords: sexual harassment, screenplay adapted by author, based on play, university student, theater, professor, two hander ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to find the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college.
Plot Keywords: cafe, engagement ring, bar, poem, dormitory, slide show, lecture hall ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A boy from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, caught up in the drug scene of the mid-70s, gets in trouble one too many times with the law. To stave off a jail term, his father arranges for him to be placed into a prep school in Cornwall, Connecticut. The terms: Graduate, or else.—Matt Cotnoir <theman@ids.net>
Plot Keywords: pill, water tower, woods, zippo lighter, bare chested male, dance, face slap ...
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