Jojo Rabbit (2019), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Breaker Morant (1980), My Life as a Zucchini (2016), Il Divo (2008), Billy Liar (1963), Logan Lucky (2017), Truck Turner (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nickname In Title movies.
Storyline: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.—Fox Searchlight Pictures
Plot Keywords: nazi germany, world war two, satire, black comedy, mother son relationship, facial scar, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: boarding school, boys' school, teacher student relationship, death in childbirth, world war one, headmaster, classroom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Plot Keywords: court martial, based on true story, based on play, shaving, bigotry, report, note ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother's disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond's help and his new-found friends, Courgette eventually learns to trust and might find true love.
Plot Keywords: loneliness, orphan, orphanage, loss of mother, friendship, foster home, based on novel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Plot Keywords: prime minister, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, catholic church, rome italy, mafia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billy (Tom Courtenay), a young British clerk in a gloomy North Country undertaker's office, is bombarded daily by the propaganda of the media that all things are for the asking. This transparently-false doctrine, coupled with the humdrum job and his wild imagination, leads him on frequent flights to "Ambrosia", a mythical kingdom where he is crowned King, General, lover, or any idealized hero the real situation of the moment makes him desire. His vacillating commitment and post-adolescent immaturity have created situations which make Ambrosia all the more attractive. He's succeeded in becoming engaged to two different girls simultaneously, while in love with a third, Liz (Julie Christie). He's in hot water with his employer, having spent a rather large sum of postage money on his personal frivolities. Last but not least, his dream of becoming a highly-paid, famous scriptwriter in London seems doomed. The only person in his life capable of bringing him down to Earth is Liz, and she's having a difficult time. Finally, he gets his life sufficiently in order to leave for London with his true love, but still hasn't gotten to grips with the real world. He leaves the train to buy milk from a vending machine and watches the train slowly pull out for London with Liz aboard. He returns to the more comfortable shelter of his parents' home, Ambrosia, and his imagination.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: train, liar, based on novel, character name in title, chapel, cannon, cafe ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) gets fired, he convinces his brother Clyde (Adam Driver) and sister Mellie (Riley Keough) to help him rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR Race. But they will need the help of Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), a convicted safe-cracker who is currently doing time. All they have to do is break Joe out, blow the racetrack vault, get away with the cash, return Joe to prison, and get Jimmy to his daughter's beauty pageant on time. What could possibly go wrong? Well, there is the Logan family curse .
Plot Keywords: prison escape, heist, bartender, prison, west virginia, bar fight, white trash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck. The man who agrees to kill Truck is named Blue. The question is whether Truck can survive with Blue and his gang on his trail.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: bounty hunter, year 1973, topless female nudity, bare breasts, death, fight, machismo ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This biopic follows Rommel's career after the Afrika Korps, including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler, and his subsequent suicide.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: year 1944, wehrmacht, d day, nazi germany, nazi occupied france, assassination attempt, german officer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nevada Smith is the young son of an American-Indian mother and white father. When his father and mother are killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot, to shoot on time, and to shoot straight. Everything that Nevada does goes to killing those three men. He learns to read and write just to learn their location. He pays people to tell him where they're at. He even goes to prison to kill one of them. While the movie is a Western and has plenty of action, it also takes a deep look into vengeance and how one can change after a haunting incident.—Chase Ard <Bullitt357@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: revenge, man murders a woman, stabbed with a knife, sadistic cruelty, stabbed to death, mentor, loss of father ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.
Plot Keywords: apology, immigrant, gift, reference to jimi hendrix, chase, foot chase, running through the woods ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She's fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf. Soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggy.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: summer, title spoken by character, character name in title, based on novel, teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she is unhappily in love with admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of building a navy to match the Portuguese and the Spanish.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: murder of brother, french, flashback, flash forward, feast, father son relationship, fainting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With the Games destroyed, Katniss Everdeen, along with Gale, Finnick and Beetee, end up in the so thought "destroyed" District 13. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her friends, Katniss becomes the "Mockingjay", the symbol of rebellion for the districts of Panem.
Plot Keywords: uprising, based on young adult novel, dystopia, emaciation, action heroine, female warrior, propaganda ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Salty owes money to Doc Baxter; he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and Salty both fall in love with Barbara Brooks and, to get even, Johnny considers throwing the horserace.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: character name as title, two word title, nickname in title ...
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