The Cameraman (1928), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Children of Men (2006), Night and the City (1950), Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), Paddington 2 (2017), To Sir, with Love (1967) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Double Decker Bus movies.
Storyline: Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co worker who's adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes over the preparations for the baby's birth, and becomes, in effect, the child's father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo's mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which "family" will emerge?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: working class, coming of age, family relationships, unwed pregnancy, pregnant teenager, mother daughter relationship, child abandonment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Plot Keywords: human animal relationship, street musician, cat, london england, drug addict, talking to an animal, pet food ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jane, a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, but is unhappy with this solution. She falls into a relationship with Toby, a struggling young writer who lives on the first floor. Eventually she comes to like her odd room, and makes friends with all the strange people in the house. But she still faces two problems: what to do with her baby, and what to do with Toby.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: unplanned pregnancy, soap, suitcase, boarding house, black cat, unwed pregnancy, lesbian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Uptown Boy, J. Harold Manners (Lloyd) is a millionaire playboy who falls for the Downtown Girl, Hope (Ralston) who works in Brother Paul's (Weigel) mission. In order to build up attendance, and win Hope's attention, Harold runs through town causing trouble, and winds up with a crowd chasing him right into the mission. He eventually wins the girl and they marry, but not without some interference from his high-brow friends.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: double decker bus, police, drunkenness, charity, kidnapping, car accident, wedding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based off of the comic book. Unbeknownst to other people, there is a private agency code named MiB. This agency is some kind of extra terrestrial surveillance corporation. Then, one of the agency's finest men only going by the name "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) , is recruiting for a new addition to the agency. He has chosen James Edwards (Will Smith) of the N.Y.P.D. Then, one day, a flying saucer crashes into Earth. This was an alien a part of the "Bug" race. He takes the body of a farmer (Vincent D'Onofrio) and heads to New York. He is searching for a super energy source called "The Galaxy". Now, Agents J and K must stop the bug before it can escape with the galaxy.
Plot Keywords: alien, wisecrack humor, laser gun, flying saucer, terrorist, galaxy, pantyhose ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Married life is proving to be difficult for newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett). With well meaning, but interfering parents, nosey neighbors, and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? With all these pressures it's no wonder their personal life is suffering. Will there ever be any good news?—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: honeymoon, female rear nudity, newlywed couple, virginity, loss of virginity, sex, marital problem ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...—Allen Dace
Plot Keywords: cutting hair, sociopath, fireplace poker, three word title, lie, punishment, dead body ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the four leading characters in a box and strips them apart.
Plot Keywords: love triangle, adultery, sexual attraction, infidelity, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. He's not too keen on the series, mostly because he's not sure how to tackle the subject. Then it dawns on him: if he was to pretend to all and sundry that he was Jewish, he could then experience the degree of racism and prejudice that exists and write his story from that perspective. It takes little time for him to experience bigotry. His anger at the way he is treated also affects his relationship with Kathy Lacy, his publisher's niece and the person who suggested the series in the first place.
Plot Keywords: hotel lobby, fascism, single parent, atheist, house, physicist, party ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.
Plot Keywords: memoir, writer, ferry, political thriller, beach house, infidelity, unfaithfulness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster movies. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the case which would forever shake the United Kingdom's belief in capital punishment.—Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Plot Keywords: death penalty, false teeth, family relationships, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, fire, friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles.
Plot Keywords: recording, cafe, restaurant, piano, banjo, kiss, boardwalk ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian's (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.
Plot Keywords: humvee, swat team, catfight, head butt, kicked in the stomach, punched in the stomach, punched in the face ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
Plot Keywords: terrorism, political intrigue, espionage, double life, anger, suspense, boy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience. But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to love, "whatever works" is his motto, but his already perplexed life complicates itself further when Melodie's parents eventually track her down.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, family relationships, husband wife relationship, age difference, misanthrope, eccentric, closeted homosexual ...
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