Highest-Rated Movies about 'Long Title'

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The Fog of War (2003), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1973), Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Long Title movies.

#1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

• Rating: 8.4/10
• Length: 1h 35min
• Genre: Comedy
• Director: Stanley Kubrick

Storyline: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all ...

Plot Keywords: mushroom cloud, nuclear weapons, nuclear holocaust, u.s. president, psychopath, flight, american soldier ...

#2. The Fog of War (2003)

• Rating: 8.1/10
• Length: 105 mins
• Genre: Documentary
• Director: Errol Morris

Storyline: Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.—Jwelch5742

Plot Keywords: interview, vietnam, cold war, pentagon, politics, soviet union, u.s. president ...

#3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

• Rating: 8.0/10
• Length: 1h 43min
• Genre: Drama
• Director: Stephen Chbosky

Storyline: Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.

Plot Keywords: mental illness, coming of age, high school, gay, depression, first love, gay friend ...

#4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

• Rating: 7.6/10
• Length: 2h 4min
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director: Peter Greenaway

Storyline: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Plot Keywords: adulterous wife, domestic violence, abusive husband, cannibalism, cook, dark comedy, extramarital affair ...

#5. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

• Rating: 7.5/10
• Length: 1h 28min
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Storyline: Pepas's lover, Iván, leaves her and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. In her search for Iván, she confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she is. Meanwhile; Candela, her friend, is afraid the police might be looking for her because of her ex-boyfriend, a muslim terrorist, and his criminal activities. As the plot develops, it is revealed that everyone's lives are more intertwined than they could have ever expected.

Plot Keywords: long title, love, black comedy, apartment building, male female relationship, friendship, affection ...

#6. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1973)

• Rating: 7.5/10
• Length: 100 mins
• Genre: Drama
• Director: Paul Newman

Storyline: From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through. Ruth, epileptic and making her way through the rebellious phase of adolescence, seems doomed to make the same mistakes as her mother. Quiet Matilda, on the other hand, seeks refuge in her animals and her schoolwork. "Jesus, don't you hate the world, Matilda?" Beatrice asks her youngest daughter. The title of the film is also the subject of Matilda's science project at school and serves as a metaphor for the way life affects each of us differently -- how some are able to find opportunity in adversity and thrive and how some succumb when the burden becomes too heavy. This is the story of slowly drowning and grasping desperately for a lifeline only to find that there's none there and you must save yourself. "No, Mama," Matilda says, "I don't hate the world." (Nell Potts, who stars as Matilda, is the stage name of Eleanor Newman -- Joanne Woodward's real-life daughter. She also appeared as the young Rachel in *Rachel, Rachel*.)—Mark Fleetwood <mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu>

Plot Keywords: pulitzer prize source, based on play, mother daughter relationship, connecticut, produced by director, sister sister relationship, plant in title ...

#7. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003)

• Rating: 7.5/10
• Length: 119 mins
• Genre: Documentary
• Director: Kenneth Bowser

Storyline: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on-screen. Influential directors who appear include Arthur Penn ("Bonnie and Clyde"), Dennis Hopper ("Easy Rider"), Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather"), John Schlesinger ("Midnight Cowboy"), Bob Rafelson ("Five Easy Pieces") Martin Scorsese ("Taxi Driver"), Peter Bogdanovich ("The Last Picture Show"), and Jonathan Demme ("Crazy Mama"). Narrated by William H. Macy, the documentary features vintage clips of Coppola, Scorsese, Beatty, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Robert Altman, and Pauline Kael. It also includes original interview material with Penn; Roger Corman; Bogdanovich; Hopper; David Picker; writer/directors John Milius and Paul Schrader; actresses Karen Black, Cybill Shepherd, Margot Kidder, and Jennifer Salt; actors Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, and Richard Dreyfuss; producers Jerome Hellman, Michael Phillips, and Jonathan Taplin; editor Dede Allen; production designer Polly Platt; writers David Newman, Joan Tewksbury, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck; cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond; agent Mike Medavoy; and former production executive Peter Bart. Among the films discussed are "Rosemary's Baby," "The Wild Bunch," "Mean Streets," "American Graffiti," "The Rain People," "Midnight Cowboy," "M*A*S*H," "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "The Last Picture Show," "Shampoo," and "Taxi Driver."—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: 1970s, long title, retrospective, filmmaking, film clip, cinema, business ...

#8. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

• Rating: 7.4/10
• Length: 1h 44min
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Director: Stephan Elliott

Storyline: Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them.

Plot Keywords: bus, desert, drag queen, on the road, homosexual, gay father, scene after end credits ...

#9. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

• Rating: 7.3/10
• Length: 2h 12min
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director: David Yates

Storyline: In mid-20s New York, Newt Scamander, the British young activist wizard, arrives in town, holding a mysterious leather suitcase which shelters a wide array of diverse and magical creatures that exist among us. Amid an already fragile equilibrium of secrecy, and the increasing disasters ascribed to the dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald, Newt's precious suitcase will be lost--and to make matters worse--several creatures will manage to escape. Before long, this situation will catch Senior Auror Percival Graves' attention who will target Newt, in the background of an invisible, devastating, and utterly unpredictable menace that still wreaks havoc on 5th Avenue. In the end, is there a hidden agenda behind Graves' intentions; moreover, what will happen to the remaining fantastic beasts still loose in the streets?

Plot Keywords: suitcase, magic, new york city, based on novel, wizard, spin off, portal ...

#10. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

• Rating: 7.3/10
• Length: 1h 13min
• Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
• Director: Jim Mallon

Storyline: The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first thing's first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to watch called, "This Island Earth." He is convinced that this movie will drive them insane. And since the guys cannot control when the movie begins or ends, they are forced to witness the true horror that is this awful movie that has a lobster creature dressed in slacks. But will this be the ultimate cheese that breaks the boys' spirits? It's up to one test subject's quick wit, sharp sense of humor, and utter intolerance for cinematic garbage to foil the plans of the scientist and to save the Earth.

Plot Keywords: outer space, mad scientist, b movie, number in title, 8 track, puppet, pick axe ...

#11. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

• Rating: 7.1/10
• Length: 1h 31min
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director: Nicolas Gessner (as Nicholas Gessner)

Storyline: In a little seaside town, the thirteen year-old Rynn Jacobs is celebrating her birthday alone on a Halloween night since her father is not at home. They have arrived from England recently and leased the house for three years from Mrs. Cora Hallet. Out of the blue, Mrs. Hallet's pervert son Frank Hallet visits Rynn and sexually harasses her. Then his mother visits also the house and asks for Rynn's father. The girl tells that he traveled to New York. Mrs. Hallet tells that she needs her jelly glasses that are stored in the cellar and Rynn asks the impolite woman to go. Later she returns and opens the cellar door despite Rynn's refusal. However, she has an accident with the support of the cellar door that hits her head and she dies. Rynn tries to get rid of Mrs. Hallet's car to hide the evidence that she had visited her, but she has trouble to start the car and the aspirant magician Mario Podesta helps her. Rynn immediately trust Mario and discloses her secret to him. What is Rynn's ...

Plot Keywords: nudity, female rear nudity, cripple, dark secret, mask, trick or treating, sleeping on a couch ...

#12. Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (2013)

• Rating: 7.1/10
• Length: 1h 54min
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy
• Director: Felix Herngren

Storyline: Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. For most people it would be the adventure of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson's unexpected journey is not his first. For a century he's made the world uncertain, and now he is on the loose again.

Plot Keywords: black comedy, multiple storyline, retirement home, elephant, spanish civil war, cold war, soviet union ...

#13. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

• Rating: 6.9/10
• Length: 1h 54min
• Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
• Director: Gus Van Sant

Storyline: After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up drinking. But when he reluctantly enters treatment - with encouragement from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a charismatic sponsor (Jonah Hill) - Callahan discovers a gift for drawing edgy, irreverent newspaper cartoons that develop a national following and grant him a new lease on life. Based on a true story, this poignant, insightful and often funny drama about the healing power of art is adapted from Callahan's autobiography and directed by two-time Oscar® nominee Gus Van Sant. Jack Black, Carrie Brownstein, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon also star.

Plot Keywords: disability, therapy, alcoholism, wheelchair, drawing, hospital, caretaker ...

#14. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

• Rating: 6.8/10
• Length: 1h 55min
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director: Gary Fleder

Storyline: Jimmy the Saint's business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give 'Afterlife Advice' to their survivors. He hasn't been doing too well lately and has had to turn to loan-sharks to accomodate his failing business, as well as his expensive personal tastes. When an evil gangster-overlord buys up his note and demands a favor of Jimmy, in exchange for the interest that he can't afford, Jimmy capitulates. Jimmy is to scare someone for the gangster-overlord--really rough them up. Without giving too much away (spoiler), the scene goes down badly and Jimmy and his crew all end up with contracts on their heads for their trouble.

Plot Keywords: debt, neo noir, hitman, mafia, denver colorado, redemption, gangster ...

#15. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

• Rating: 6.8/10
• Length: 1h 28min
• Genre: Comedy
• Director: Woody Allen

Storyline: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court jester gives an aphrodisiac to the Queen and is, in the end, beheaded to "What Happens During Ejaculation?" in which we watch "control central" during a successful seduction.

Plot Keywords: dildo, television, talking to the camera, actor talks to audience, breaking the fourth wall, looking at the camera, desire ...