Belle de Jour (1967), The Corn Is Green (1945), Kings Row (1942), Witness (1985), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), On the Beach (1959), Dodge City (1939), At Close Range (1986) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Horse And Buggy movies.
Storyline: Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, marriage, erotica, paris france, double life, sexual fantasy, brothel madam ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat's School. One of her students Morgan Evans turns from bully to brilliant student.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on play, implied nudity, implied sex, ringing a bell, solicitor, school bell, 1890s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) and Drake McHugh (Ronald Reagan), both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassandra Tower (Betty Field), while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: marriage, medical student, medicine, mental illness, money, mother daughter relationship, newspaper headline ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An 8 year old Amish boy and his mother are traveling to Philadelphia, on their way to visit the mother's sister. While waiting at the train station, the young boy witnesses a brutal murder inside one of the bathroom stalls. Police detective John Book is assigned to investigate the murder of the man, who was a undercover cop. Soon after, Book finds out that he's in great danger when the culprits know about his investigation and hides out in the Amish community. There, he learns the way of living among the Amish locals, which consists of non-violence and agriculture. Book soon starts a romance with the mother of the little boy, but their romance is forbidden by the Amish standards. But, it's not long before the bad guys find out Book's whereabouts.
Plot Keywords: breasts, female nudity, loss of husband, parking garage, police corruption, fistfight, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. After a time running livestock to New Orleans, he settles in New Salem where he meets and falls in love with Ann Rutledge who is already engaged to someone. Abe makes a home for himself in New Salem, eventually running a store and becoming the postmaster. He's popular with the locals and is eventually elected to the State legislature but afterward established himself in the practice of law. He eventually meets Mary Todd who would become his wife and and is sent to Washington as a Congressman before he is elected president.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: american president, speech, job, love at first sight, fiancee, injustice, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: mass killing, fast car, 1960s, post apocalypse, apocalypse, end of the world, based on novel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: chorine, dancing, bartender, singing, cowboy, hanging, frontier town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970s. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.
Plot Keywords: independent film, based on true story, neo noir, violence, father son relationship, sociopath, rape ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.—Bernard Keane <BKeane2@email.dot.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: remake, pistol duel, outcast, riverboat, recluse, grandfather, granddaughter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Plot Keywords: florida, based on book, based on memoir, rural setting, author, backwoods, writer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Anne Shirley, an orphan, is adopted by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to help with their farm work. However, they accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: character name as title, adopted daughter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, saving a life, young love, orphan girl, horse and buggy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1902, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at business college but her plans for a career change when she falls in love with handsome Rodney Crane. Although the two have little in common and Rodney disagrees with Louise's views on the woman's role in society, they marry and have four children. Their personality differences eventually lead to a divorce. Louise eventually finds happiness with her second husband, eccentric Harold Pierson.
Plot Keywords: sister sister relationship, mother, praying, prayer, whip, dirt road, gloves ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine. Freed by his death from her drunkard father she soon manoeuvres herself into a position to marry a middle-aged monied local businessman. Though she often uses his money to do good, she continues to consider all other men fair game.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: death of main character, fortune hunter, jealousy, liar, storm, arranged marriage, preacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death.—dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Plot Keywords: held at gunpoint, betrayal, mob, lynch mob, secret, cell, fistfight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: pursuit, cigar smoking, grief, greed, violence, vindication, reprisal ...
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