Highest-Rated Movies about 'Huis Clos'
12 Angry Men (1957), Alien (1979), Rear Window (1954), Das Boot (1981), Reservoir Dogs (1992), The Thing (1982), Rope (1948), Sleuth (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Huis Clos movies.
#16. 8 femmes (2002)
Storyline: One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries, and encompassing musical interludes. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. There are eight women and each is a suspect. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous...one of them is guilty. Which one is it?
Plot Keywords: 1950s, scantily clad female, cleavage, mistress, unfaithfulness, extramarital affair, hit over the head with a bottle ...
Movie Details Click Here!#17. Tom à la ferme (2013)
Storyline: The story of Tom, who is in the grip of grief and depression following the death of his lover. When he meets the family of the deceased, it is revealed the mother was not aware of her son's sexual orientation, or his relationship with Tom either, for that matter.
Plot Keywords: farm, loss of loved one, snorting cocaine, huis clos, bullying, closeted homosexual, dysfunctional family ...
Movie Details Click Here!#18. Panic Room (2002)
Storyline: Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room.
Plot Keywords: panic, cat and mouse, secret room, female protagonist, hostage, psychological torture, neo noir ...
Movie Details Click Here!#19. The Hole (2001)
Storyline: One misty morning, Liz Dunn stumbles down the road to her school and screams for help. A police psychologist gets her to reveal her story: A month earlier: three rebellious teenagers - Mike, Frankie and Geoff are trying to ditch the school field trip to Wales. The school nerd Martin helps them out by allowing them to stay in an old war bunker for the three days on the condition that his friend Liz joins them. The teens go down, party and have great fun but Martin doesn't return to let them out and they hope and pray that someone will find them...
Plot Keywords: pubic hair, cannabis, teenage crush, teenage sex, underground bunker, female nudity, male full frontal nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!#20. Some Velvet Morning (2013)
Storyline: Fred (Stanley Tucci) arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet (Alice Eve) after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession - and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus. A return to form for writer/director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors), Some Velvet Morning is an astutely written portrait of a very modern romance.—Tribeca Film
Plot Keywords: red dress, infidelity, prostitute, fellatio, misogyny, barefoot, copulation ...
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