The Magnificent Seven (1960), Lilies of the Field (1963), Arizona Dream (1993), Lucky (2017), Before Night Falls (2000), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Bread and Roses (2000), Bunny and the Bull (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Fiesta movies.
Storyline: Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: arizona desert, chain gang, interracial friendship, interracial romance, ex convict, abandoned mine, suicide attempt ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. Then a meeting with visionary Francisco Madero transforms Villa from an avenging bandit to a revolutionary general. To the tune of 'La Cucaracha,' his armies sweep Mexico. After victory, Villa's bandit-like disregard for human life forces Madero to exile him. But Madero's fall brings Villa back to raise the people against a new tyrant...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: loss of sister, party, mexico city, el paso texas, hanging, banquet, mexican revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paris in the 1920s. The American journalist Jake and his friends spend the time at cafés. He has a special interest in his ex-fiancée Lady Ashley. They take a vacation in Pamplona to watch the bull-fights.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: based on novel, paris france, prayer, procession, prostitute, drunkenness, voice over ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on true events, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper.—Jon Hertzberg <jahertzb@students.wisc.edu>
Plot Keywords: on the run, forest fire, pool cue, whiskey, native american reservation, girl, gunshot wound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mine owner dies and leaves half to Gene and half to easterner Barbara Erwin. Gene wants to continue operation of the mine as requested in the will but Barbara wants to sell and leave with her half of the money. So she hires two lawyers not knowing they are crooks. They then sent their henchman out and Gene's life is soon in danger.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, slapstick, violence, fiesta, treachery, land grab, retribution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is invited by music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza to join his band. Braganza also kidnaps people to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Plot Keywords: independent film, retribution, reformation, opera singer, reprisal, held at gunpoint, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At a border town, Eddie Dean and his partner, Soapy Jones, attend a fiesta at the home of Don Lopez who, in accordance with his custom, displays a valuable diamond necklace to his guests and has one of them, Maria, wear it. Jim Barrett, another guest, offers to buy the necklace but Don Lopez declines to sell. Barrett, with his henchmen Corey and Avery, plan to steal the necklace and the rest of the Lopez diamonds. Maria, to Eddie's surprise, appears to be working with the outlaws. But, as Eddie's investigation proceeds, it develops that Barrett's gang has also robbed Don Lopez of his gold, and that Maria is a representative of the Mexican government, sent to protect the gems.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, police officer, girl, guitarist, fiddler, necklace, confidence artist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman Alfred Monroe. Marjory's pal Bubbles turns out to be the old flame of Pete's pal Wally. All the well-planned efforts to land Monroe end in slapstick; then Wally's voodoo priestess landlady gives him a love potion that works...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, jeweler, newspaper photographer, spinster, turmoil, nightclub singer, dire straits ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: breakfast in bed, singing, singer, shower, sheep, servant, school uniform ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, false accusation, b movie, song, singing, remake, stock footage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Calvera's defeat in The Magnificent Seven (1960), the love-smitten member of the original Seven, Chico, has started a family with his wife, Petra, in the now-liberated Mexican village. Three peaceful years later--as sixty gunmen of the tyrannical rancher, Lopez, round up the farmers to construct a church and a monument for his two dead sons--once more, it's up to Chris to assemble a septet of protectors and defend the villagers. However, can the new Magnificent Seven do the impossible and restore peace?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: barricade, cowboy hat, horse chase, chase, returning character with different actor, opening action scene, returning character killed off ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Slice of life in a Chicago neighborhood of Puerto Ricans, or boricuas. Tata wants to win a beauty pageant, Germán wants to succeed in real estate: both have few scruples. Lola is a college student who may get involved with Willy, a macho drug dealer. Violence simmers close to the surface. Family honor, saving face, unscrupulous choices, the longing for love, and a baseball autographed by Roberto Clemente figure in how events play out.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: sex toy, sister sister relationship, vibrator, arrest, assault, autograph, blood ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters, Mary and Nora, find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Mary, the younger sister, is mortified: spoiled by her dad, ignorant of Spanish, scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, and she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern, and Edward, her supervisor, the brother of the grasping sister-in-law, promptly falls for her. Slowly, the sisters realize what a rich place the barrio is at the same time that they get bruised in the contact sport of love.
Plot Keywords: portrait, sweatshop, sewing machine, spoiled child, rich girl, old car, handbag ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After witnessing her lover, Gino being murdered by his jealous wife, Zena, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to organized crime, and, surprisingly, so does Michael, whose father is a powerful don. When the priest finds himself falling in love with Angela, his religious vows and family ties are both severely tested.
Plot Keywords: father son relationship, hacienda, hallucination, hooker, hotel, husband wife relationship, illegal immigrant ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The government assigns cavalry captain Bob Bradley (Bob Baker) to an area where pony express riders are being killed by arrows and their mail is being rifled. Posing as horse buyers, Bob and his pal, Andy Sharpe (Don Barclay), center their investigation around the ranch owned by Don Ricardo Hernandez (Martin Garralaga) where, in addition to learning that the Don has a pretty daughter named Lorita (Cecelia Callejo), he discovers that Jack Sommers (LeRoy Mason) and his lead henchman Phelps (Jack Kirk) are getting possession of the huge ranches, created by Spanish land grants, by having Ramon (Carleton Young), a disloyal Hernandez servant, kill the riders with arrows (hoping the Indians will be blamed) and taking the certificates of registry.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western music, rope, remake, rancher, ranch foreman, prisoner, posse ...
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