Highest-Rated Movies about 'Croquet'

Nosferatu (1922), The Aviator (2004), Gods and Monsters (1998), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Last Holiday (1950), The Strawberry Blonde (1941), Heathers (1988), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Croquet movies.

#16. Quartet (2012)

Storyline: Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Sir Tom Courtenay), and Wilf (Sir Billy Connolly) are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.

Plot Keywords: based on play, divorced couple, senility, opera, retirement, old age, quartet ...

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#18. The Reivers (1969)

Storyline: An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first automobile in the area, a bright yellow Winton Flyer. While he's away, the plantation handyman, Boon Hogganbeck, conspires to borrow the car, taking Lucius with him. Stowed away is Ned, a mulatto and Lucius's putative cousin. The three head for Memphis, where Boon's sweetheart works in a whorehouse, where Ned trades the car for a racehorse, and where Lucius discovers the world of adults - from racism and vice to possibilities for honor and courage. Is there redemption for reivers, rascals, and rapscallions?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: field, voyeurism, stowaway, stockings, statue, spitting, southern u.s. ...

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#19. The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)

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 ...

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#20. Vatel (2000)

Storyline: In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: flute, fountain, freedom, fruit, gambling, garden, geese ...

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#21. The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

Storyline: Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008) waits to testify before a U.S. Senate sub-committee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in short films for adults, earning the nickname "The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe". We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw, photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through it all, she is wholesome, sporting and forthright - Eve before the fall.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: bondage, 1950s, christianity, fetish, photography, sexual awakening, religion ...

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#22. A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Storyline: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.

Plot Keywords: leg spreading, capitalism, love making, thin legs, sex scene, premarital sex, father daughter relationship ...

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#23. Accepted (2006)

Storyline: After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door.

Plot Keywords: money, theft, breaking and entering, fake id, driver's license, binoculars, thief ...

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#24. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)

Storyline: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable. Paris 1920, Coco is newly wealthy and successful but grief-stricken after Boy's death in a car crash. Igor, following the Russian Revolution is now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris. Coco is introduced to Igor by Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes. The attraction between them is instant and electric. Coco invites Igor along with his wife - now sick with consumption - together with his four children and a menagerie of birds to stay at her new villa, Bel Respiro, in Garches.—Chris Greenhalgh

Plot Keywords: nudity, dance, composer, wealth, mansion, physician, fossil ...

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#25. Judge Priest (1934)

Storyline: Judge William "Billy" Priest lives in a very patriotic (Confederate) southern town. Priest plays a laid-back, widowed judge who helps uphold the law in his toughest court case yet. In the meantime, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew.—<marsattack@earthling.net>

Plot Keywords: judge, courtroom, civil war veteran, small town, kentucky, father daughter relationship, fight ...

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#26. Excision (2012)

Storyline: This film is about Pauline, a young woman (18yo) who lives with her family and her younger sister Grace who has Cystic Fibrosis. Pauline has some delusions of being a great surgeon, and she also has some horrific dreams that she actually finds "stimulating" to say the least. Her family put up with her delusions and her school classmates find her annoying. But as this is all happening around her she has a plan, a plan that will leave them all shocked, and some people may not survive.

Plot Keywords: first time sex, woman in a bathtub, based on short film, dream, body horror, loss of virginity, mother daughter relationship ...

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#27. The Beast Must Die (1974)

Storyline: Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart), a rich businessman and expert hunter, summons six guests to his huge country estate which he has rigged up with video cameras and a high-tech security system. He tells them and his surprised wife that they are all to stay over a weekend and that all of them will be kept on the estate during that weekend. For each guest, dead bodies have followed in their wake and the way that the dead have been murdered means that one of the guests is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down. This movie has a clip at the beginning asking people in the audience to try to identify the werewolf, and near the end, there is a thirty-second "Werewolf Break" for the audience to think over the evidence.—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: manhunt, characters killed one by one, creature feature, millionaire, monster, whodunit, obsession ...

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#28. The Intended (2002)

Storyline: In 1924, Sarah and Hamish travel from England deep in to the jungle to earn their fortune surveying an ivory trading post. Instead of an exotic retreat, the couple encounters an oppressively small community. Despite their best intentions, their presence in the jungle unleashes a downward spiral that ends in greed, murder and madness.—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: dancing, prayer, cross, church, thunder, rain, crying ...

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#29. Deewane (2000)

Storyline: Policeman Vishal is shot when his boss bungles a raid on a boat. To avoid the wrath of Vishal's family, his boss hires a lookalike to stop their suspicions. But when the policeman's girlfriend Sapna falls in love with the 'new' Vishal, all sorts of trouble is caused. Watch as events unfold itself and what a negative impact this will have on Vishaul's family.—gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: love triangle, surprise ending, dual role, police detective, coma, stranded on an island, impersonation ...

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#30. Frogs (1972)

Storyline: Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a freelance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday, the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.—Kelly W. <tsenhue@escape.ca>

Plot Keywords: frog, grindhouse film, toad, birthday party, family relationships, dysfunctional family, snake bite ...

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