La La Land (2016), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Lost Highway (1997), Collateral (2004), The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), The L-Shaped Room (1963), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), Double Trouble (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jazz Musician movies.
Storyline: Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather, and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: rowboat, 1930s, sheriff, restaurant, nurse, new york city, new jersey ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sara wants to be a ballerina, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her mother. She moves in with her father, who she has not seen for a long time. He lives on the other side of town, in a predominantly Black neighborhood. She gets transferred to a new school where she is one of the few White students there. She becomes friends with Chenille, and later, falls in love with Chenille's brother, Derek.
Plot Keywords: interracial romance, interracial relationship, gay slur, fire escape, fedora, el train, dead mother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam War veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen, but will he discover what is planned before the big day?—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: shot to death, shootout, revolver, shot multiple times, chauffeur, trapdoor, parking garage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British Secret Service are naturally keen to learn if these notebooks are the genuine article. To this end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British publisher Barley Blair, who has plenty of experience with Russia and Russians. Barley, an unconventional character who doesn't respond well to authority, finds himself in a game more complex than he first thought when he digs into the origin of the notebooks.
Plot Keywords: cia, may december romance, older man younger woman relationship, cia agent, mi6, moscow russia, unsubtitled foreign language ...
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