Inception (2010), Army of Shadows (1969), The Martian (2015), Zootopia (2016), The Insider (1999), Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chemist movies.
Storyline: Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way; they try to suppress it.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: invention, capitalism, idealism, capitalist, labor union, factory, inventor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1941, the world is radically different from the one we know from history books. Geopolitics has developed strangely: Napoleon V rules France and, for the last 70 years, scholars have been mysteriously disappearing, depriving mankind of their inventions. Without radio, television, electricity, aviation, and the combustion engine, the world is mired in outdated technology, dozing in the previous century's knowhow dominated by coal and steam. In this bizarre universe, Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, Darwin (Philippe Katerine), her talking cat, Pops (Jean Rochefort), her grandfather, and Julius (Marc-André Grondin), a young scoundrel and police informer, go off in search of Avril's parents, two of the missing scientists. The quartet will face many dangers and mysteries in this strange new Rigged World.—Polly_Kat
Plot Keywords: paris france, alternate history, steampunk, based on comic book, eiffel tower, alternate reality, year 1941 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency, Carol tries to get him thrown out of his profession. To avoid this Jerry bribes the girl who'd testify against him, by starring her in a TV commercial for a product named VIP that he's just made up. By accident these commercials are broadcasted and to keep his job, Jerry has to come up with VIP for which he enlists the help of Doctor Linus Tyler. Carol goes to see the Doctor to try and get the VIP account, but because she and Jerry have never met, she mistakes Jerry for the Doctor. Jerry then takes advantage of this situation to win her.—Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
Plot Keywords: sleeping shirtless, taking off clothes, undressing, learning the truth, employer employee relationship, phone booth, seductive man ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film follows Cecilia, who receives the news of her abusive ex-boyfriend's suicide. She begins to re-build her life for the better. However, her sense of reality is put into question when she begins to suspect her deceased lover is not actually dead.—Max
Plot Keywords: domestic abuse, psychological abuse, psychotronic film, murder, reboot, mad scientist, invisibility ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.
Plot Keywords: youth, chimpanzee, husband wife relationship, invention, eyeglasses, laboratory, serum ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The uplifting movie is based on the true story of the Doyle Family in 1950's Ireland. Desmond Doyle is abandoned by his wife who runs off to Australia and leaves him with their three small children. He tries his best to continue supporting them singing in the pub and doing painting here and there, only to have the government and child services remove his children stating there has never been a precedent of a Father raising his children without a Mother in the picture. He goes to court, and loses, and is told he cannot appeal his case. He then happily finds a retired lawyer who has taken on constitutional law successfully in the past, who willingly helps him take his case to The Supreme Court.—kateann1027
Plot Keywords: drunkenness, doll, male female relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, cigarette smoking, year 1953, child custody ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: neo noir, racial slur, police, black cop, undercover, drugs, government conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barbershops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch their mates' hair - no, it's decoration. Various talking heads (many of them women with good hair) comment. It's about self image. Maya Angelou and Tracie Thoms provide perspective.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: interview, politician, south carolina, bald, contest, stage, barber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: screwball comedy, teacher student relationship, blackmail, advertising, school, morality, fraud ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. The rocket was launched by Prof. Quatermass with the astronauts Victor Carroon, Greene and Reichebheim; however only Carroon is found very sick in the cabin. He is transported to a private clinic to stay under observation despite the protests of his wife Mrs. Judith Carroon. She bribes a nurse to bring Carroon to her and she finds that he is transforming into a monster. Carroon escapes, killing people and animals during his metamorphosis while the Scotland Yard is hunting him down and Dr. Quatermass discovers that his process is an alien invasion.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: inspector, rocket, alien, astronaut, london england, police, electrocution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taking place in 1983, Red is a lumberjack who lives in a secluded cabin in the woods. His artist girlfriend Mandy spends her days reading fantasy paperbacks. Then one day, she catches the eye of a crazed cult leader, who conjures a group of motorcycle-riding demons to kidnap her. Red, armed with a crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.
Plot Keywords: lumberjack, cult, surrealism, biker, revenge, cult leader, year 1983 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has returned from Cairo to London to become a private detective. When Aristide Leonides, a wealthy and ruthless tycoon, is poisoned in his own bed, Detective Hayward is invited to solve the crime. As the investigation deepens he must confront the shocking realization that one of the key suspects is Aristede's beautiful granddaughter, his employer and former lover; and must keep a clear head to navigate the sultry Sophia and the rest of her hostile family.
Plot Keywords: car won't start, food, spinster, vanity, bonfire, father in law daughter in law relationship, looking in a window ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
Plot Keywords: chemist, title spoken by character, sex in a bathtub, drug lord, gangster, organized crime, 2000s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, blood, physical exam, doctor patient relationship, briefs, whispering, kiss on the forehead ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Simon Templar has no real family, no real home, and Simon Templar isn't even his real name. Yet, Simon Templar, also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints, is one of the world's most successful thieves. Slick, debonair, and a master of disguise, Simon manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job, he is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel. However, the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. Simon and his new love must now manage to outwit the Russian Mafia and work out the energy formula before the worst happens, and the U.S. is affected forever.
Plot Keywords: russian mafia, theme song, politics, undressing, london england, one man army, martial arts ...
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