Arrival (2016), Young at Heart (2007), Glory (1989), The Boondock Saints (1999), Salesman (1969), 1776 (1972), Miracle (2004), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Massachusetts movies.
Storyline: Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men responsible should be brought to justice.
Plot Keywords: rape, based on true story, pinball machine, female frontal nudity, vagina, revenge, sex crime ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Plot Keywords: summer camp, father daughter reunion, mother daughter reunion, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, single father ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 1970s, in Boston, the bipolar Cameron "Cam" Stuart lives with his wife Maggie and their daughters Amelia and Faith in an isolated house in the countryside. When Cam is fired from his job, he has a mental breakdown and Maggie is forced to institutionalize him. When he is released, he moves to a small apartment while Maggie works to support the children. She decides to apply to an MBA program to improve her income and she is accepted by Columbia University in New York. She asks Cam to take care of the girls for eighteen months and he agrees despite his fears. Maggie moves to New York and Cam is responsible for Amelia and Faith's education. Will the scheme work?
Plot Keywords: mental illness, father daughter relationship, bipolar disorder, semi autobiographical, absent mother, cigarette smoking, reference to harvard university ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Philip Winthrop calls upon his fiancée, Madeline Usher, at her family home. His presence is unwelcome, especially to Madeline's brother, Roderick. Roderick explains that the Ushers are cursed, suffering from hereditary physical defects. By Madeline marrying Winthrop this would only likely continue the affliction. It soon becomes clear that something sinister is afoot: not only due to Roderick's determination to prevent Madeline from leaving but also due to the evil that seems to lurk in the house itself.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, 19th century, cult director, cult film, chandelier, b movie, blood ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: boston massachusetts, new york city, upper class, new england, massachusetts, edwardian era, 1910s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John makes a Christmas miracle happen by bringing his one and only friend to life, his teddy bear. The two grow up together and John must then choose to stay with his girlfriend or keep his friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear, Ted.
Plot Keywords: teddy bear, one word title, year 1985, year 2012, f word, cartoon on tv, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. "In the Heart of the Sea" reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.
Plot Keywords: starvation, ship, survival, boat, cannibalism, ocean, death ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed ...
Plot Keywords: based on true story, blackjack, gambling, security guard, single mother, subway, video surveillance ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.
Plot Keywords: witch, based on play, false accusation, witchcraft, employer employee relationship, confrontation, confession ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 300 years have passed since the Sanderson sisters were executed for practicing dark witchcraft. Returning to life thanks to a combination of a spell spoken before their demise and the accidental actions of Max, the new-kid-in-town, the sisters have but one night to secure their continuing existence...
Plot Keywords: year 1993, black cat, brother sister relationship, 17th century, talking animal, magic, witch ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the GTX Corporation must cut jobs to improve the company's balance sheet during the 2010 recession, thousands of employees will take the hit, like Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck). Bobby learns the real life consequences of not having a job. Not only does he see a change to his family lifestyle, and the loss of his home, but also his feelings of self-worth.
Plot Keywords: boston massachusetts, family relationships, saying grace, prayer, looking for work, unemployment, fired from the job ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After yet another failed relationship, Mrs. Flax (Cher) ups her family to the east coast to start all over again. Reluctantly dragged along with her is her daughter Charlotte - going through a very confusing time of her life - who wants to become a nun, and instead falls in love with a quiet, mild-mannered church employee, to the mixed response of her mother. Set at around the time of the Kennedy Assassination.
Plot Keywords: single mother, mother daughter relationship, catholic, coming of age, loss of virginity, sister sister relationship, teenage girl ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Plot Keywords: 1950s, based on true story, storm at sea, survival, sinking ship, coast guard, oil tanker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendleton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England. She writes him letters, which he doesn't read. After 3 years, he goes to visit her at a dance, not telling her that he is her benefactor. They fall in love, but the usual movie-type difficulties get in the way before they can get together at the end.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: room service, adoption, teenage girl, massachusetts, dormitory, cow, flower ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.
Plot Keywords: graveyard, dancing, crying, crime scene, court, control freak, closet ...
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