American History X (1998), Head-On (2004), The Machinist (2004), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Lovers on the Bridge (1991), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), Fruitvale Station (2013), Felon (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Manslaughter movies.
Storyline: Boston University professor Whitehouse tells of the events leading up to the disappearance of his older Wade. The police officer who investigates is deeply troubled, and the murder case drains his mental acuity to the pointv of a total mental collapse.
Plot Keywords: hunting, abusive father, domestic violence, drunkenness, small town, sheriff, burning building ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: dream, blood, rat, drunkenness, secret, cloud, mud ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: revenge, shot in the back, shot in the neck, shovel, pipe smoking, cigar smoking, punched in the face ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.
Plot Keywords: chase, detroit michigan, dog, driver, economics, embezzlement, engineering ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. When he has second thoughts Moody's girl Lorna uses feminine wiles to keep him boxing. But when tough gangster Eddie Fuseli wants to "buy a piece" of Joe, Lorna herself begins to have second thoughts...for that and other reasons. Is it too late?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: bare chested male fighting, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manslaughter, violinist, accidental death, bare chested male, prizefighter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Örn's daughter is dead because of a rare genetic disease. By this time Erlendur has to find Holdeberg's killer. He has to find out what happened 30 years ago and to connect it with his case and he has another problem...His relationships with his daughter.—SpartakM
Plot Keywords: loss of loved one, attack, lie, pub, investigator, investigation, anti hero ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother.
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, brother brother relationship, revenge, ambiguous ending, social decay, welder, teacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New York, he ends up in a ranch in Arizona, run by an old lady as a work farm for delinquent teenagers. He falls in love with Peggy and became the teenagers' hero. But there is that New York Detective, Phelan, that does not believe he is dead and is chasing him... An unlikely scenario, but not a so bad film.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: detective, boxing, mistaken identity, accidental death, frame up, gas station, juvenile delinquent ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Twin Town opens with wide sweeping shots of seaside Swansea; to be the place of action for the next one and a half hours. The serene setting with miles upon miles of old semi-detached housing is suddenly cleaved apart by two young lads tearing through the neighbourhood in a two tone BMW 525. Julian and Jeremy are in deep trouble. Their dysfunctional family scrapes together a living from their dole money and odd-jobs offered to their father. The boys have long since turned to drug abuse and car theft leading a happy-go-lucky life in downtown no-hoper city. In due course the plot thickens as the boys are out for revenge against wealthy club owner Bryn who is not particularly helpful in providing compensation when their father is hit by an accident when working on his premises. The boys are fairly imaginative when it comes to planning their strike, culminating in scenes which all dog-haters and karaoke loathers will love.—Alexander Weidt <demos@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Plot Keywords: wales, black comedy, dog, small town, gangster, brother brother relationship, killing a dog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect. Or is suave police Captain Danbury just playing cat and mouse with her? Nicely catty dialogue.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: accidental killing, 1940s, stage, discovering a dead body, curtain call, broadway, flashback ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
Plot Keywords: 1990s, convenience store, coming of age, stabbed in the leg, neighbor, police, paramedic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1921. In search of a new start and the American dream, Ewa Cybulska and her sister Magda sail to New York from their native Poland. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, she quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution. And then one day, Ewa encounters Bruno's cousin, the debonair magician Orlando. He sweeps Ewa off her feet and quickly becomes her only chance to escape the nightmare in which she finds herself.
Plot Keywords: prostitution, immigration, immigrant, sexism, sister sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...
Plot Keywords: corpse, hired killer, hit by a car, kicking in a door, last will and testament, limping, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?—<jgp3553@excite.com>
Plot Keywords: show business, tv studio, airliner, fan, actress, hollywood, tv camera ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. Larry Nunn and Dwayne Hickman join in this time around as Flanagan discovers a reform school that has neither reforming nor schooling. It's up to Flanagan, Whitey, and the rest of the school to teach them there's no such thing as a bad boy.—meeris
Plot Keywords: ham radio, adoption, financial crisis, escape, regeneration, graduation, self sacrifice ...
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