12 Angry Men (1957), Paths of Glory (1957), Citizen Kane (1941), All About Eve (1950), Forushande (2016), To Sir, with Love (1967), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Stage Door (1937) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Curtain Call movies.
Storyline: 1938. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) and Michael Gosselyn (Jeremy Irons) are the royal couple of the London theater scene, Julia, an actress, and Michael, a former actor, who took over running the theater and its troupe after the death of their mentor, Jimmy Langton (Sir Michael Gambon). Jimmy is still constantly with Julia in spirit as she navigates through life. Besides their work, Julia and Michael lead largely separate lives, they, long ago having stopped a sexual relationship. Julia of late has been feeling disenchanted with her life, she not wanting to admit it's because she is approaching middle age. Her disenchantments manifests itself in wanting Michael to close their current production early so that she can recharge her juices, something he is reluctant to do if only for not wanting to let the theater sit empty. What Julia ends up doing instead is embarking on an affair with Tom Fennel (Shaun Evans), an adoring young American who is young enough to be her son. As Julia and ...
Plot Keywords: open marriage, infidelity, unfaithfulness, adultery, sex, kiss, hallucination ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.—Markku Kuoppamäki
Plot Keywords: male female relationship, love, sidewalk cafe, theatre audience, reference to william shakespeare, grief, applause ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years previously. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do??—Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: marriage, locked in a room, orphan, coffin, death of parents, horse and carriage, bus ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live if she does. The second story: Tommy despises his French tutor, and hates being a child. He wants to be an adult so he can do what he wants. He gets his wish, being transformed into a handsome young man for one evening, and learns about whole new side of his French tutor. Third story: Pierre Narval is trapeze artist who gave it up when his partner died doing a dangerous stunt at his bidding. He rescues Nina, a beautiful young woman, after she throws herself into the Seine, and convinces her to become his new aerial partner. Her husband had been killed by the Nazis during the war, and she blames herself. They fall in love, which is tested when Nina must perform the stunt which killed Pierre's former partner.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: ocean liner, mentor protege relationship, teacher student relationship, theatrical agent, german shepherd, supernatural power, attempted suicide ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect. Or is suave police Captain Danbury just playing cat and mouse with her? Nicely catty dialogue.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: accidental killing, 1940s, stage, discovering a dead body, curtain call, broadway, flashback ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.
Plot Keywords: teenage girl, painter, eating, ladder, map, hayloft, strangulation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie are four Midwestern college co-eds who travel to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for their spring vacation and we follow the episodic series of adventures and romance they all get into with some college guys they meet.—matt-282
Plot Keywords: spring break, florida, vacation, beach, based on novel, college student, party ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King Charles II form a tapestry of apparently calculating ups and downs, although in fact the one love of her life, Bruce Carlton, is never far from Amber's thoughts.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: backstage, curtain call, actress, marriage proposal, fireplace, farm, storytelling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.—David Parker
Plot Keywords: puberty, unfaithfulness, virginity, wealth, nipples visible through clothing, braless, wet t shirt ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with her money and his old girlfriend Mabel. Later Charlie reads that Tillie (now working as a waitress) has inherited the estate of her multi-millionaire uncle. Charlie dumps Mabel and talks Tillie into moving into her uncle's villa, and Mabel arranges to become a housemaid there. The uncle (never really dead) returns and summons the police to have them all thrown out.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: slapstick comedy, based on play, inheritance, millionaire, revenge, curtain call, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Plot Keywords: female nudity, female star appears nude, forbidden love, extramarital affair, adultery, cowgirl sex position, older woman younger man relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: death of mother, gossip columnist, newspaper, money problems, marriage proposal, miscarriage, pregnancy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A filmed version of Phil Silvers' hit Broadway show about a television comic who tried to regain his ratings on TV.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, reference to ernest hemingway, cigar smoking, soap, elevator, audience, applause ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Troy and the gang of East High School are going through their senior year, facing graduating and going their separate ways. Coming to terms with the reality of it all, Troy wants to attend the nearby University of Albuquerque next year on a basketball scholarship, but Gabriella wants to attend Stanford University in California. Meanwhile, Sharpay, the school's shallow and spoiled rich girl, plots to go all out planning the school's final musical show with the idea to add music to her hopes and fears about the future. While Sharpay takes an up-and-coming British exchange student under her wing, her flamboyant fraternal twin brother, Ryan, has his sights set on something different after school. In addition, Troy's best friend and basketball teammate Chad, and Garbiella's best friend Taylor, all have their sights set on their plans after high school and come to terms with the reality of the real world.
Plot Keywords: number in title, song and dance, stage performance, teen romance, friendship, junkyard, no opening credits ...
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