Imitation of Life (1959), Nashville (1975), Ray (2004), Elvis on Tour (1972), Holiday Inn (1942), 20 Feet From Stardom (2013), The Long Walk Home (1990), Crazy Heart (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gospel Music movies.
Storyline: Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due?
Plot Keywords: price of fame, kiss, songwriter, montage, friend, cigarette smoking, father daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a "Cosby Show"-esque take on the black family have been rejected by network brass, he devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. This is the hook: Instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. The show becomes an instant smash, but with the success also come repercussions for all involved.—N. Cognito <nobody@noplace>
Plot Keywords: african american, recording, record player, recording studio, montage, gospel music, reference to mike tyson ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.
Plot Keywords: island, concussion, bribe, attempted robbery, explosion, c4 explosives, dog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jonas is a fraudulent faith healer, who uses all the tricks in the book to con the people attending his shows. Jonas and his team of helpers, including Jane who is in need of some romance, travel the country stopping at big towns and cities to put on their show. When one of the trucks breaks down in a small town, Jonas is quick to accept the challenge of making money in this town. His other goal is to seduce Marva, a waitress in the town, but she's a hard nut to crack, as is Will, the local sheriff who's determined to expose Jonas as a fraud.
Plot Keywords: truck, christianity, crucifix, diner, disillusionment, drought, healing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant. After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: elephant, u.s. constitution, small town, slapstick comedy, mother son relationship, father daughter relationship, singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A look at the life, career and music of singer Katy Perry as we follow her on the California Dreams World Tour.
Plot Keywords: singer, concert film, rock music, rock singer, concert, concert tour, interview ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Plot Keywords: independent film, desperation, reprisal, retribution, grief, stress, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eldest son Ward Jansen is a star reporter for a Miami newspaper and has returned home with close friend Yardley to investigate a racial murder case. Younger brother Jack Jansen has returned home after a failed stint at university as a star swimmer. To help give his life some direction, Ward gives Jack a job on their investigation as their driver. But into the mix comes the fiancée of the imprisoned convict who stirs up confusing feelings of love and lust for the young Jack. Meanwhile, Ward and Yardley's investigation stirs up deep-rooted issues of race and acceptance which could cause serious consequences for everyone involved.
Plot Keywords: male nudity, panties, violent sex, sex in a car, leg spreading, bare breasts, female nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A New York advertising executive who is about to land a big account, has his life shaken up when it becomes known that he has lied about having a college degree. After being fired, his life is further shaken by his debtors who had counted on paying after landing the account. Having to go on the run, he is called back to his southern town roots, when his great aunt dies. At the reading of the will, he learns he has been asked to assume the mantle of choir director of his great aunt's church and if he can get the choir in the Gospel Explosion in Atlanta, he will inherit stock worth $150,000. Unfortunately the choir leaves a lot to be desired and he has to start recruiting. Among others, he gets three prisoners to join. More importantly, he gets a "sinner" from one of the local night clubs to join. While initially scorned and resisted, nonetheless her voice wins everyone but the hardcore church busybody.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, fraud, funeral, gift, grandfather, minister, nightclub ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A traveling Chautauqua show. an educational and entertainment troupe, pitch their tents in a small American town with an ensemble of speakers, lecturers, teachers, musicians, and actors as manager Walter Hale must deal with a myriad of problems, including small town prejudice and politics, nepotism, union problems, and a murder.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: 1920s, punched in the face, reference to william shakespeare, swimmer, reference to ernest hemingway, quartet, acoustic guitar ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Norbit is a normal person, who after being adopted by Mr. Wong, ends up being married to the very large, Rasputia. Norbit's childhood love, Kate Thomas arrives back in town to buy the orphanage. Norbit sees this as his chance to get back together with Kate, until he discovers that she is in fact engaged to Deion Hughes. Norbit isn't going to lay this to rest, whilst he tries to survive life with Rasputia, and it looks like Deion also has something he would like to keep secret.
Plot Keywords: wetting oneself, chinaman, harpoon, fart joke, sitting on a toilet, talking dog, stripper pole ...
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