Double Indemnity (1944), Some Like It Hot (1959), Rashômon (1950), Rang De Basanti (2006), Le Samouraï (1967), Blow-Up (1966), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Dolores Claiborne (1995) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Eye Witness movies.
Storyline: Set against the backdrop of the Egyptian Revolution, the thriller features a police officer who investigates the murder of a woman. What initially seems to be a killing of a prostitute turns into a more complicated case involving the very elite of Egypt.
Plot Keywords: egypt, cairo egypt, dead body, corpse, cigarette smoking, cd, photograph ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: mistaken identity, reporter, robbery, taxi driver, theatre, trial, waitress ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric and unconventional psychologist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter but faces resistance from the secretive psychologist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by strangely deformed children, and the man begins to suspect a connection with the psychologist's methods.
Plot Keywords: body horror, pistol, photograph, hallucination, father daughter relationship, bare chested male, covered in blood ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can't get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth, Whitechapel becomes more and ...
Plot Keywords: lesbian kiss, 19th century, victorian era, opium, prostitute, bare breasts, grave side ceremony ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court emphasizes the evils of the slums.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: revolver, pool hall, cigarette smoking, unemployment, arrest, pay phone, thief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
Plot Keywords: gang, violence, police shootout, female frontal nudity, pubic hair, m 16, shotgun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Radcliffe's testimony sends Donald Heath to prison for murder and the theft of over 60,000 pounds. Soon after, Radcliffe invests a large sum of money in an ultimately profitable business venture. Martha Radcliffe begins to suspect her husband of the crime.—Greg Helton <ghelton@airmail.net>
Plot Keywords: alcoholic, barrister, dictaphone, shaving, bookstore, steam, playwright ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer, returns to his Brighton Beach boyhood home for a "job." He knows it will be difficult to return to the Russian-immigrant community of his youth--in his eyes, we see anticipation of the inevitable emotional pain and psychic turmoil that seeing his forsaken family and estranged companions will bring him. To do his job, and try to maintain some semblence of sanity, he has had to wall off his humanity from even himself. Seeing his kid brother, who adores him, talking with his dying mother, who still loves him, and yes, arguing with his abusive father, begins to wreak havoc with his personal defenses. As his steely demeanor begins to dissolve, we are shown the soul of a hit-man crumbling away, piece by piece. Finally, all that he now allows himself to admit that he loves is agonizingly torn away from him and he is left with the ultimate punishment for his transgressions.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: winter, snow, ill mother, face slap, assassin, russian mafia, street vendor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Plot Keywords: talk radio, survival, child murder, cell phone, cd player, cat, cannibalism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...
Plot Keywords: corpse, hired killer, hit by a car, kicking in a door, last will and testament, limping, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: attempted murder, police, police raid, police shootout, empty gun, shot by the police, bartender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After dropping her son off at the bus stop, the doting mum and high school science teacher, Jessica Martin, is kidnapped at gunpoint, and thrown in an unknown attic with only a nearly unusable phone. As her world turns upside down in an instant, the desperate mother manages to jury-rig the device and connects with the cell phone of the young college student, Ryan. Now, Jessica's life is literally in Ryan's hands--and as the ruthless abductors threaten to kill her--Ryan has to act fast to rescue the woman on the other end of the line. However, with a dying battery, how can Ryan save Jessica when this could be her last phone call?
Plot Keywords: cell phone, psychopath, cabin, die hard scenario, product placement, sledge hammer, pier ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, gas station, high society, jealousy, loss of wife, love triangle, murder suicide ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancée of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking.
Plot Keywords: crying, friendship, friend, garage, gun, hallucination, husband wife relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?
Plot Keywords: murder of a nude woman, nudity, erotic thriller, sex standing up, female nudity, psycho thriller, obsessive love ...
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