Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Incendies (2010), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Natural (1984), They Live by Night (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Niece movies.
Storyline: In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw), along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda), she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.
Plot Keywords: nanny, animated sequence, magic, family relationships, uncle nephew relationship, levitation, sibling relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: based on stage musical, based on novel, knight, chivalry, damsel in distress, delusion, master servant relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: surname in title, horse race, judge, niece, fiance, year 1948, screwball comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This precursor to later "epic" 70's disaster films illustrates 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management and aviation at a major US airport. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry, one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway, shortages, an aging, meretricious pilot, unreasonable, peevish spouses, manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways and equipment malfunctions and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Toss in one long-suffering pilot's wife, several stubborn men, office politics and romance and one passenger with a bomb and you have the film "Airport" from 1970.
Plot Keywords: 1970s, airplane accident, airliner, nervousness, airplane, aviation, bomb ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novitiate, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby. While searching for the answer that her supervisors want, Dr. Livingston finds herself inevitably drawn into searching for the truth about the baby's conception and death. Despite the lack of cooperation that she receives from her own organization and the church itself, she eventually discovers more than she may have bargained for.—brado.3
Plot Keywords: reporter, blood, newspaper article, interview, siren, prayer, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Plot Keywords: hotel, bandleader, boarding house, midget, niece, stage, uncle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer...
Plot Keywords: sex scene, surprise ending, nudity, voyeur, dysfunctional marriage, prostitute, estranged wife ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In south Florida, a high school counselor is accused of rape by a manipulative rich girl and her trailer trash classmate. The cop on the case begins to suspect a conspiracy and dives into an elaborate and devious web of greed and betrayal to find the truth.
Plot Keywords: erotic thriller, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbian kiss, female frontal nudity, sex, female rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cheery Alex Fletcher lives comfortably in Manhattan off the residuals from his 80's pop success and reprising his hits at school reunions, theme parks, and state fairs. But those gigs are declining, so he jumps at the chance to write a song and record it with reigning teen idol Cora Corman. Trouble is, he's good at melodies but needs a lyricist and has less than a week to finish. Enter Sophie Fisher, subbing for a friend who waters Alex's plants; she's a pretty good poet, quick witted, and could do it, if she'd agree. But there's some sort of shadow over her head that Alex may not be able to charm his way past. And what if they do get a song written, what then?
Plot Keywords: walking, poster, scene during end credits, break up, fictional tv show, music store, bare chested male ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG tells the story of the world's speediest hedgehog as he embraces his new home on Earth. In this live-action adventure comedy, Sonic and his new best friend Tom (James Marsden) team up to defend the planet from the evil genius Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) and his plans for world domination. The family-friendly film also stars Tika Sumpter and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic.—Paramount Pictures
Plot Keywords: based on video game, super speed, police, run, drone, extraterrestrial, alien ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sarah Silverman appears before an audience in Los Angeles with several sketches, taped outside the theater, intercut into the stand-up performance. Themes include race, sex, and religion. A handful of musical numbers punctuate the performance.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: african american, lesbian, marijuana, nazi, niece, pornography, post september 11 2001 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life.
Plot Keywords: reference to john f. kennedy, wedding, memorial service, erection, fire, stove, cooking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings... which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it's quite normal, are excited about this "photographic proof" that fairies exist... even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: year 1917, 1910s, key, crown, angel, owl, pirate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.
Plot Keywords: maine, doctor, theatrical producer, broadway manhattan new york city, generosity, showbiz, playwright ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac. Louis's mistress, the courtesan Madame de Pompadour, is Voltaire's protector and advocate, but even she has difficulty preserving his welfare when Voltaire publicly excoriates the king for the wrongful execution of one of his subjects, Calas. Voltaire gives refuge to Calas's daughter and endeavors to show the king the error of his ways. But the Count de Sarnac, with an agenda of intrigue and disloyalty, determines to do away with the troublesome Voltaire.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, paris france, printer, roulette, royalty, torture, treason ...
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