Highest-Rated Movies about 'Newark New Jersey'

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Garden State (2004), The Karate Kid (1984), For Me and My Gal (1942), Edison, the Man (1940), World War Z (2013), Comedian (2002), Ceiling Zero (1935) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Newark New Jersey movies.

#1. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Storyline: Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent.—Sony Pictures Entertainment

Plot Keywords: vacation, marvel cinematic universe, school trip, superhero, sequel, character name in title, based on comic ...

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#2. Garden State (2004)

Storyline: Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays an intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair-bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and his doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own.

Plot Keywords: funeral, girl in panties, white panties, voyeurism, panties, bra, female nudity ...

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#3. The Karate Kid (1984)

Storyline: Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several who belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardener leaps into the fray and save him by outfighting half a dozen teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel soon find out the real motivator behind the boys' violent attitude in the form of their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to teach Daniel karate and arranges a fight at the all-valley tournament some months off. When his training begins, Daniel doesn't understand what he is being shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching him Karate.

Plot Keywords: karate, teenager, fight, paint, training, shower curtain, martial arts ...

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#4. For Me and My Gal (1942)

Storyline: Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for this. WW I patriotism for a WW II audience, very sentimental, great musical episodes and songs.—Gerhard Gonter <g.gonter@ieee.org>

Plot Keywords: actor, eiffel tower paris, tap dancing, song and dance, regret, moral reformation, military ...

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#5. Edison, the Man (1940)

Storyline: Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman, 89 year old Thomas Alva Edison reflects back on his long career, which includes such achievements as the stock market ticker, the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: based on true story, hiding place, interview, marriage proposal, montage, morse code, newspaper story ...

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#6. World War Z (2013)

Storyline: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Plot Keywords: zombie, palestine, walled city, severed arm, south korea, helicopter, vaccine ...

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#7. Comedian (2002)

Storyline: Fresh from the success of his sitcom, comedian Jerry Seinfeld decided to do the unimaginable: he completely retired his stand-up act, electing to start over again by developing entirely new material. "Comedian" follows Seinfeld through this process, as he rehearses in front of small comedy club audiences, meets with fellow comics and finally appears before a national audience.—Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>

Plot Keywords: taxi ride, cell phone, heckler, looking at the camera, talking to the camera, montreal quebec canada, newspaper ...

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#8. Ceiling Zero (1935)

Storyline: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>

Plot Keywords: biplane, airplane, pilot, lightning, limousine, lobster, loudspeaker ...

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#9. Indignation (2016)

Storyline: Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl.

Plot Keywords: sexual repression, atheist, jewish, prayer, library, book, telephone ...

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#10. Sherrybaby (2006)

Storyline: Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.

Plot Keywords: bare breasts, nipples visible through clothing, orgasm, parole officer, sex standing up, cunnilingus, anal sex ...

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#12. American Pastoral (2016)

Storyline: Seymour Levov, going by the nickname of 'Swede' in the Jewish community he was born into, was even more of an all-American than Douglas Fairbanks himself. He had just everything an American idol can dream of: not only was the tall muscular young man a high school star athlete but he married a beauty queen named Dawn in the bargain. And as if all this were not enough, Swede later became the successful manager of the glove factory his father had founded, which allowed him to live with his wife in a beautiful house in the New Jersey countryside. Well-mannered, always bright, smiling and positive, conservative but with a liberal edge, what bad could ever happen to him? And yet...this was reckoning without fate and its obnoxious irony, Swede and Dawn's nemesis manifesting itself in the person of Merry, their beloved daughter who in her teens unexpectedly turned into a violent activist.

Plot Keywords: vietnam war, based on novel, pulitzer prize source, 1960s, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, actor director ...

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#14. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Storyline: In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an inplanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the informaiton back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries.

Plot Keywords: virtual reality, erased memory, cyberpunk, suit and tie, glasses, cityscape, hotel ...

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#15. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)

Storyline: This is a very black comedy. A mob courier is hired to transport the heads of eight murder victims to a mob boss. However, the duffel bag gets mixed up with the bag of a college student who is off on a vacation in Mexico with his girlfriend and her parents. However, the mother is a recovering alcoholic whom everyone believes is delusional when she claims to have found heads.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

Plot Keywords: nude pantyhose, female stockinged feet, camera shot of feet, pantyhose, independent film, disembodied head, mafia ...

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