The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Green Mile (1999), Sunrise (1927), Gone Girl (2014), The Truman Show (1998), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Big Country (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Search Party movies.
Storyline: This psychological thriller is true to its subjects as well as being complex, dynamic, and overly dramatic. How something so long ago, seemingly trivial, years later with more significant trauma, turns repressed emotions into a dysfunctional life and distorted thinking. This is all merged into a psychological menagerie that unfolds piece by piece to perfection.
Plot Keywords: cult film, public nudity, protective male, haunted by the past, grief, gay, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Sidney Lumet's harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson's been on the police force for 12 years. In that time, the number murders, rapes, and other felony crimes he's investigated has left a terrible mark on his psyche. His bottled-up anger and rage finally explodes whilst interviewing Baxter - a suspect in a series of brutal attacks on young girls, Throughout the interview, Johnson brutally beats Baxter, and reveals the state of his own mind's probably no better than some of the offenders who've comitted the crimes which disgusted Johnson originally.—David Claydon <dc6212@bristol.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: independent film, psycho thriller, rogue cop, flashback, beaten to death, driving in the rain, questioning ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the clever husband and the jealous young photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
Plot Keywords: bear, wilderness, crash, airplane accident, bear attack, airplane crash, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.
Plot Keywords: 19th century, 1880s, piano, pop music, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love at first sight, rally ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This film recreates the strange events which happened on November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the White Mountains. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter a flying saucer. Travis gets out of the truck to learn more and is struck by a beam of light from the object. For the next five days, Travis disappears without a trace and his colleagues are accused of murder. When he reappears, first he didn't remember that he was gone, but in time, the terrible memories come back...
Plot Keywords: ufo, cult film, alien, alien abduction, arizona, doctor, nurse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: hyena, camp, uncle nephew relationship, dinner table, adoptive father adopted son relationship, waterfall, rhinoceros ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: emergency landing, flight attendant, airport, cannibalism, airplane, airplane crash, stewardess ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.
Plot Keywords: child gagged, turtle, tomahawk, tolerance, toilet, telegraph, stabbed in the back ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: JASPER JONES is a coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the breakup of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.
Plot Keywords: father son relationship, letter, abusive father, incest, curfew, disappearance, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and he tells the Captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a barilliant student, and in love with his stepsister Elizabeth, an orphan that was raised by his father Baron Victor von Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to study at the university, and he promises to get married to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval, who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to Professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advises him that he should not try this experiment, since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries...
Plot Keywords: remake, experiment, university student, apprentice, mentor, medical school, germany ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Philip Ransome, a northern English boy about ten-years-old, has been mute since age three and spends his days roaming the moors alone. His parents despair of a cure. One day, he sees a singular wild albino pony with blue eyes and befriends it avidly. A kindly retired Colonel, who accepts Philip as he is, a girl his age, and a pet falcon she gives him provide him with more things to love and care about. Gradually, Philip emerges from his shell. But the way out is full of heartbreak and setbacks.—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>
Plot Keywords: old man, younger version of character, intergenerational friendship, man boy relationship, bird, toddler, mother son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a small town in Australia, five children riding their horses from school take a forbidden path and meet two strangers, who give them money and make them promise not to tell anyone about them. The two men learn about Lucy. She's a mare belonging to Mr. Thompson, a sheep farmer and the father of three of the children: Helen (the oldest), John, and six-year-old Snow (so named for the color of his hair). The other two are Michael, an English boy staying with the Thompsons, and Neza, an Australian black who is the son of one of Mr. Thompson's stock men. The two men (a third one joins them later) prove to be horse thieves, and when Lucy and her foal turn up missing the next morning, the children know it must have been them. Later, the children tell Mrs. Thompson they're going camping. But their real plan is to find the thieves and get Lucy and the foal back.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: mountain, christmas, telescope, yawning, waking up, produced by director, written by director ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick Powell is an excellent high-school student who raises money by selling homework and results of quizzes to his schoolmates. He aims to travel to London for a writer's course - telling his best friend, Pete Egan, that he has already bought the airplane ticket but he has not told his mother yet. Annie Newton has a problem with Pete, who owes her money. As events unfold, due to a case of mistaken identity, Nick takes a severe beating from Annie and her gang, his body dumped in a sewer. The next morning, he discovers he cannot be seen - he is now a spirit in a state of limbo and can only observe as the events of that day unfold.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, brother sister relationship, car chase, dam, dead animal, death of sister, death threat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three "devil-worshipping" teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town's need for justice and the guilt of the accused.
Plot Keywords: mullet, child murder, mutilation, satanism, dead children, knife, police investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish forty years later. And the miracle?
Plot Keywords: year 1984, 1980s, 1940s, spirituality, investigation, female nudity, family relationships ...
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