Highest-Rated Movies about 'Night Watchman'

Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika (1965), The Roaring Twenties (1939), Elevator to the Gallows (1958), The Man Without a Past (2002), Man Bites Dog (1992), Nattevagten (1994), The Mummy (1932), Moontide (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Night Watchman movies.

#1. Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika (1965)

Storyline: The movie consists of 3 short movies, each about Shurik - a nerdy student.. 1. "Naparnik" ("Partner"). Shurik has a fight in a bus with a bully named Fedya because Fedya didn't want to allow a pregnant woman to take his place. Fedya is punished by community work at a construction site, where Shurik also works part-time. Of course, Fedya wants revenge... 2. "Navazhdenie" ("Strange Impression"). It's final exam time. Shurik (like other students) is very busy trying to find material to study. Suddenly he notices necessary material in someone's hands. Shurik follows this person all over the city reading over the shoulder, not even noticing who this person is and where they are going. Next day, after having met a beautiful girl, Shurik constantly has an impression that he's already seen her, visited her apartment etc... 3. "Operatsiya Y" ("Operation Y"). A depository director, trying to cover up embezzlement on his depository, hires 3 crooks to simulate robbery. The plan is to get there at...

Plot Keywords: construction worker, warehouse, episodic structure, caterpillar, night watchman, brick, watchman ...

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#2. The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Storyline: After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Plot Keywords: prohibition, organized crime, bootlegger, great depression, stock market crash, new york city, war veteran ...

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#3. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Storyline: Florence Carala and her lover, Julien Tavernier, want to murder her husband - Julien's boss - by faking his suicide. But after Julien's killed him, and had left, he remembers he's forgotten the rope outside the window which could implicate him, and he returns to the building to remove it

Plot Keywords: gloves, grappling hook, gun, husband wife relationship, infidelity, interrogation, investigation ...

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#4. The Man Without a Past (2002)

Storyline: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.

Plot Keywords: amnesia, cameo appearance, rock music, homelessness, poverty, generosity, beating ...

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#5. Man Bites Dog (1992)

Storyline: A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter.

Plot Keywords: dark comedy, mockumentary, black comedy, satire, rape, male frontal nudity, penis ...

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#6. Nattevagten (1994)

Storyline: In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow student Jens, the police begins to think he is the murderer. Police detective Wormer wants to help him but Martin is more and more suspected.

Plot Keywords: male frontal nudity, male objectification, male full frontal nudity, night watchman, cigarette smoking, church, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...

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#7. The Mummy (1932)

Storyline: In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. One night a young member of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, and then goes insane, realizing that he has brought Im-Ho-Tep back to life. Ten years later, disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy attempts to reunite with his lost love, an ancient princess who has been reincarnated into a beautiful young woman.

Plot Keywords: ancient egypt, resurrection, museum, reincarnation, mummy, loss of loved one, white cat ...

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#8. Moontide (1942)

Storyline: After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge. But Tiny, Bobo's longtime pal and parasite, hopes to drive Anna away before domestic bliss tears Bobo away from him; the still unsolved murder may be just the wedge Tiny needs. There's fog on the water and evil brewing...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: frenchman abroad, drunkenness, drunken man, alcohol, shower room, yacht, radio news ...

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#9. El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002)

Storyline: Recently ordained a priest, 24-year-old Father Amaro is sent to a small parish church in Los Reyes, Mexico to assist the aging Father Benito in his daily work. Benito--for years a fixture in the church as well as the community--welcomes Father Amaro into a new life of unseen challenges. Upon arriving in Los Reyes, the ambitious Father Amaro meets Amelia, a beautiful 16-year-old girl whose religious devotion soon becomes helplessly entangles in a growing attraction to the new priest. Amelia is quickly following into the footsteps of her mother, Sanjuanera, who has been engaged in a long-time affair with Father Benito. Amaro soon discovers that corruption and the Church are old acquaintances in Los Reyes. Father Benito has been receiving financial help from the region's drug lord for the construction of a new health clinic. As well, another priest in the diocese, Father Natalio, is suspected of assisting guerilla troops in the highlands. Maenwhile, Amelia and Father Amaro have fallen in...

Plot Keywords: based on novel, hypocrisy, celibacy, catholic, blasphemy, confessional, catholic church ...

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#10. Stone of Destiny (2008)

Storyline: The Stone of Destiny retells the fascinating and true story of four young Glaswegian students who, in 1951, outwitted the British authorities in their successful attempt to take back the Stone of Scone - a beloved symbol of Scottish pride, back to its country of origin.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, night watchman, glasgow scotland, sleeping in a car, london england, what happened to epilogue, gypsy ...

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#11. Lights in the Dusk (2006)

Storyline: Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds. She's in league with a crook who's planning a jewel robbery, and Koistinen is their patsy. Will he ever wise up?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: abuse, cafe, loneliness, burglary, organized crime, prison, smoking ...

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#12. Samba (2014)

Storyline: Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burn-out. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

Plot Keywords: paris france, immigrant, id card, rooftop, escape, vertigo, fake id ...

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#13. Cronos (1993)

Storyline: In 1536, in Veracruz, Mexico, during the Inquisition, an alchemist builds a mysterious and sophisticated device named Cronos to provide eternal life to the owner. In the present days, the antiques dealer Jesus Gris finds Cronos hidden inside an ancient statue while cleaning it with his granddaughter Aurora. He accidentally triggers the device and soon his wife Mercedes and he note that he has a younger appearance. Out of the blue, the stranger Angel de la Guardia visits Gris's shop and buys the old statue. On the next day, Gris finds his shop trashed and Angel's card on the floor. He pays a visit to Angel that introduces him to the eccentric millionaire De la Guardia that explains the healing power and the eternal life given by Cronos. Angel is sent by De la Guardia to hunt down Gris to get Cronos no matter the costs.

Plot Keywords: hopscotch, altar, artifact, auction, bare butt, barefoot, beating ...

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#14. Quicksand (1950)

Storyline: Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new restaurant cashier Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a mink coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer with plans to repay it the next day. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into financial difficulties that lead to bigger crimes as everyone he meets is out for themselves.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: bar, time clock, arrest, bartender, break in, broken window, burglary ...

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#15. Time of the Wolf (2003)

Storyline: In an undefined time, the environment has been totally destroyed and now the water is contaminated and the animals have been burned. Georges Laurent travels with her wife Anne Laurent, their teenage daughter Eva and their son Ben from the city to their cabin in the countryside. On the arrival, they find that intruders have broken in the house, and one stranger kills George. Anne, Eva and Ben wander through the village asking for shelter and supplies for their acquaintances, but they refuse to help them. They reach an abandoned barn and spend the night inside. On the next morning, they meet a teenage boy and they walk together to a train station, where they find other survivors. Together, they wait for the train expecting to go to a better place in the middle of the chaos.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: scantily clad female, male nudity, male frontal nudity, refugee, immigrant, urination, female frontal nudity ...

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