Taxi Driver (1976), Blood Diamond (2006), East of Eden (1955), Midnight Cowboy (1969), My Life as a Zucchini (2016), The Big Short (2015), Kikujiro (1999), Hot Fuzz (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Shooting Gallery movies.
Storyline: Alex Cutter (Heard) came back from war minus an eye, a leg, and an arm and mad as hell. He lacks direction, drinks too much, and abuses his wife (Eichhorn). One night his friend Richard Bone (Bridges) witnesses someone dumping something in an alley; it turns out to be the body of a young girl. When Cutter hears about it, he embarks on a crusade to expose the killer, enlisting the help of the murdered girl's sister. Bone reluctantly joins them. Are they right or are they in search of their white whale?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: parade, open relationship, motel, loss of friend, heavy drinking, country club, beating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: reporter, interview, insurance, gunfire, guard, frame up, father son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuse Mona Merrick.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: love, lawyer, jealousy, horse and carriage, heiress, father daughter relationship, explorer ...
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: In a sharpshooting match, the manager of a Cincinnati hotel bets on the fellow who's been supplying the hotel with quail...who turns out to be young Annie Oakley. Result: Annie is hired for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (which is faithfully re-enacted in the film). She's tutored in showmanship by champ Toby Walker. But when Annie wins top billing, professional rivalry conflicts with their growing personal attachment, leading to misunderstanding and separation.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: character name as title, indian chief, character name in tagline, exploitation, sharpshooter, mother daughter relationship, accidental shooting ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: DEAR WENDY is a story about the young loner Dick who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies. A club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.—Distributionsselskabet
Plot Keywords: pacifist, leg brace, ferris wheel, sword, morgue, obsession, allegory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their quest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage.
Plot Keywords: secret agent, airplane, suv, passport, lightning, storm, rain ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three years after the events in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), the street-wise Detroit detective, Axel Foley, invades the posh city once more, after the assassination attempt on Captain Andrew Bogomil. Against the backdrop of a seemingly endless string of violent and well-orchestrated smash-and-grab robberies known as the "Alphabet Crimes", Detectives Billy Rosewood and John Taggart struggle to solve the case; nevertheless, in vain. Now, a lethally beautiful hitwoman linked to an international arms trafficking ring is the mysterious and elusive prime suspect. Can the brazen and sassy Axel and his partners solve this thorny case, too?
Plot Keywords: female nudity, stripper, nightclub, exploding truck, explosion, dual wield, german ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: independent film, dancing, newspaper photographer, treachery, orchestra leader, slang, bartender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he pursues a nightclub singer.—Andrei Blok
Plot Keywords: bodyguard, impersonating a police officer, mirror does not reflect reality, male singer, kiss on the forehead, slot machine, parachute ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dan comes to England to learn more sedate business practices. While there he becomes involved in a scheme to exploit mangalite mines in Rhodesia. He and Manningdale become rivals for Patricia.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: fired, airplane, advertising, merry go round, london england, shooting gallery, royalty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1882 in the American west, Albert is a lowly farmer with a nice girlfriend. But when she leaves him for the more successful and handsome owner of a moustachery store, Albert returns to his lonely daily life of trying to avoid death. Then the mysterious Anna rides into town and captures Albert's interest and heart, but with her deadly husband in town, Albert is going to have to become the western gun-slinging hero he never was. It won't be easy because there are a million ways to die in the west.
Plot Keywords: arizona territory, crushed to death, scatological humor, severed foot, drugged drink, reference to mark twain, shooting range ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jimmy Tong is just a lowly chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin, until Devlin has an accident that puts him in the hospital. Tong is sent back to fetch some things for Devlin and unknowingly tries on Devlin's tuxedo and finds that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that dons the suit. This discovery thrusts Tong into world of international intrigue and espionage and pairs him with an inexperienced partner.
Plot Keywords: water, hit in the crotch, cleavage, bomb, poetic justice, flirting, spy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: General Rancor is threatening to destroy the world with a missile he is hiding at his secret base. But to complete his goal, he needs a special computer chip, invented by the scientist Prof. Ukrinsky. Special Agent Dick Steele is assigned to the case, in order to prevent the worst. He teams up with Ukrinsky's daughter Veronique, who happens to be a KGB agent.
Plot Keywords: spy spoof, spy hero, parody, james bond spoof, spoof title, spoof, gun ...
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