The Sandlot (1993), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Shane (1953), Dazed and Confused (1993), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011), Holiday Inn (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Independence Day movies.
Storyline: Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. Rodriguez, the neighborhood baseball guru, takes Smalls under his wing - soon he becomes part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him.
Plot Keywords: original story, doghouse, unwanted kiss, kiss on the lips, baseball, voyeurism, thumbs up gesture ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper connection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes.
Plot Keywords: gay relationship, homosexuality, ranch, cowboy, gay romance, closeted homosexual, male nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.
Plot Keywords: singing, dancing, father son relationship, spanking, fake beard, parade, fourth of july ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shane rides into a conflict between cattleman Ryker and a bunch of settlers, like Joe Starrett and his family, whose land Ryker wants. When Shane beats up Ryker's man Chris, Ryker tries to buy him. Then Shane and Joe take on the whole Ryker crew. Ryker sends to Cheyenne for truly evil gunslinger Wilson. Shane must clear out all the guns from the valley.
Plot Keywords: drink thrown into someone's face, cemetery, bare chested male, covered wagon, community, coffin, chopping wood ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
Plot Keywords: hazing, reference to abraham lincoln, delivery man, baseball field, beer keg, convertible, shotgun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember--and she's pregnant. Norval Jones, the 4-F local boy who's been in love with Trudy for years, tries to help her find a way out of her predicament. Trudy complicates matters further by falling for Norval, and events snowball from there.—James Meek <james@oz.net>
Plot Keywords: cooking, farce, fight, flashback, flat tire, friendship, gas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For decades, Diana Vreeland was one of the leading authorities in fashion through eccentric self-taught skill and a bold stylistic audacity. This film guides you through this fashion pioneer's long career from her youth in Paris until she became a leading magazine fashion columnist and editor. In this medium, Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and vivaciousness where nice clothes were just the beginning for something deeper. Even when that vocation ended, Vreeland managed to gain a new museum profession to present clothing's history in her own inimitable way.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: archive footage, money, wealth, harlem manhattan new york city, celebrity, model, nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.
Plot Keywords: blackface, hollywood california, gold digger, reference to george washington, fourth of july, falling from height, engagement ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Plot Keywords: extraterrestrial, science, alien, mental institution, schizophrenia, catatonia, surprise after end credits ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Plot Keywords: 1960s, 1950s, 1970s, bar, desert, drunkenness, face slap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI's Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he's told that because it's the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD'S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they're still being pursued. And it's just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.
Plot Keywords: ford crown victoria, los angeles california, hit by a car, car accident, black comedy, car chase, helicopter chase ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth.
Plot Keywords: conspiracy, based on novel, seattle washington, investigation, politics, political corruption, assassination plot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their ...
Plot Keywords: trailer trash, alien invasion, alien contact, 1990s, alien technology, despair, exotic dancer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.
Plot Keywords: chimpanzee, orphan boy, independence day, gun, fourth of july, circus performer, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he "comes back", a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.
Plot Keywords: frisbee, reference to jimmy carter, ravine, presumed dead, police station, police car, outer space ...
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