Gran Torino (2008), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Big Lebowski (1998), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Salesman (1969), West Side Story (1961), Trade (2007), Raising Arizona (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Polish American movies.
Storyline: Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: jewish, new york city, bigamy, coney island brooklyn new york city, divorce, peasant, post world war two ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He just happens to be the hitman for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren't going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, drunkenness, freight train, handgun, silencer, vodka, car crash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Outbreak" meets "The Runaway Train" as a motley group of passengers are quarantined on a train destined to prevent the spread of the disease at the cost of their lives. Government intrigue, international smuggling, and the legend of the Cassandra Crossing add to the suspense.—<hgwells@magicnet.net>
Plot Keywords: disaster film, catastrophe, plague, bridge, gigolo, bare chested male, biological weapon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. Antoinette, Dominick's sister, makes him promise to see a diet doctor and lose some weight. This is very hard for Dominick, but he tries. He also finds motivation when he meets Lydia, and he discovers a love that is more intense than his love of food. He spends so much time kissing and walking around with Lydia that he no longer eats as many unhealthy things, and he loses weight without even trying.—Siobhan Perricone
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, crying, reference to jesus christ, ice cream, gun held to head, gun, uncle nephew relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Plot Keywords: criminal, detective, media, camera, murder of a police officer, airport, tied to a tree ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood) is a cop, who is presently assigned to the auto theft division and who for the most part of his career has not done anything worthwhile. But when he discovers that a man named Strom (Raul Julia) is the brains behind a major car theft and chop shop ring, he sees this as his opportunity to do something. After his partner Powell (Hal Williams) is killed, the case is then transfered to homicide, so he is taken off the case. And he is assigned a new partner, David Ackerman (Charlie Sheen). a cop who has just recently been promoted to detective. But Pulovski feeling as if Strom is his, and decides to continue pursuing him, but Ackerman who tries to play by the rules is not sure what to do, and he is also a little afraid because of a childhood incident.
Plot Keywords: explosion, police chase, police brutality, mansion, machine gun, los angeles california, kidnapping ...
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