Taxi Driver (1976), Imitation of Life (1959), Imitation of Life (1934), Old Acquaintance (1943), One Way Passage (1932), Elizabeth (1998), Saving Face (2004), The Killing of Sister George (1968) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Soap Opera movies.
Storyline: A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
Plot Keywords: based on play, family relationships, horse riding, marriage proposal, marriage, party, romantic rivalry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the 1931 Broadway play, which was inspired by the real-life marriage of singer Libby Holman and tobacco tycoon Smith Reynolds, this is the story of nightclub singer Abby Fane (Carole Lombard), who, unable to tolerate Rodney Deane (Gene Reynolds) her millionaire husband's dissipated existence, walks out on the wastrel. Soap opera reformation, redemption and forgiveness may be in the offing.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: nightclub singer, cheating husband, cigarette smoking, reprisal, retribution, scandal, newspaper story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: older man younger woman relationship, dancer, chicken, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, attempted drowning, adoption, teenage girl ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything--and in some cases, two of everything. Despite his impressive client list, a formidable win record, the respect of his peers and an ironclad contract (the Massey pre-nup) named after him, he's reached a crossroads in his life. Sated on success, boredom has set in and he's looking for new challenges. All that changes when Miles meets his match in the devastating Marylin Rexroth. Marylin is the soon-to-be ex-wife of his client Rex Rexroth, a wealthy real estate developer and habitual philanderer. With the help of hard charging private investigator Gus Petch, she has Rex nailed and is looking forward to the financial independence a successful divorce will bring. But thanks to Miles' considerable skills, she ends up with nothing. Not to be outdone, Marylin schemes to get even and as part of her plan, quickly marries oil tycoon Howard Doyle. Miles and his unflappable associate, Wrigley, unwittingly dig themselves in ...
Plot Keywords: heart attack, prologue, restaurant, satire, stabbing, trial, trophy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.—Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu>
Plot Keywords: year 1951, based on novel, media, sex, satire, aunt nephew relationship, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: (1932 Chesterfield) - John Darrow, Sarah Padden, Montagu Love, Claudia Dell. This is kind of a poverty row version of Madame X. Padden owns a notorious big-city speakeasy. When her long lost daughter is accused of murder, she decides to take the rap for her. The daughter has no idea that her mother is even alive. A pretty good Chesterfield. 16mm.
Plot Keywords: district attorney, defense attorney, wrongful conviction, damsel in distress, soap opera, false accusation, brother sister relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancée of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking.
Plot Keywords: crying, friendship, friend, garage, gun, hallucination, husband wife relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Earl's engaged to his step-sister Baby. Baby has entrusted him to take care of her misfit cousin Junior. Baby is also intent on leaving Texas for LA on Tuesday. When Junior and his recently released ex-con friend Tinker rob a pizza delivery boy and end up with $20,000 of drug money Earl is forced onto the scene, giving up his and Baby's LA money to save Juniors limbs.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com
Plot Keywords: voyeurism, tied to a chair, bound and gagged, premarital sex, waitress, stolen money, dancer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During WWI, Ann Vickers, a humanitarian who is just starting the adult phase of her life, wants to make a difference in the world - using her friend Dr. Malvina Wormser as a role model - but she also wants a fulfilling personal life. She isn't sure if she can accomplish both at the same time. So after a failed relationship with soldier Captain Lafe Resnick which includes a deeper personal tragedy for her, Ann decides instead to focus solely on her career. With a background in nursing and social work, she decides the area of her work will be in prison reform. Her lofty goals do not sit well with many of the male traditionalists in the field, they who may stop her from accomplishing what she wants, at her own personal reputation at risk. Although she has a multitude of wannabe suitors, it isn't until she meets Supreme Court judge Barney Dolphin that she contemplates having that fulfilling personal life at the same time as having a career. But the road to a possible happy ending for Ann and Barney will be a difficult one as he is already married (although he has long wanted a divorce, even before meeting Ann) and as he goes through a career threatening issue which may tarnish his good name.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: extramarital affair, nurse, lawyer, defense attorney, chaplain, attorney, world war one ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kate Sullivan is a single mom of three daughters who works two jobs while studying to be a nurse. She is assigned to clean carpets on a yacht owned by spoiled, arrogant playboy Leonardo 'Leo' Montenegro. Leo makes rude remarks towards Kate and fires her without pay when she refuses to bring him food. When Kate calls out his behavior, Leo pushes her off the boat along with her cleaning equipment. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Leo's sisters Magdalena and Sofia are tending to their ailing father. Furious when Leo is announced as his successor to run the family-owned company, Magda decides to visit him. That night, Leo slips off the yacht and falls into the ocean unnoticed. He wakes up on a beach with amnesia and no recollection of his identity. He wanders through town and eventually reaches the hospital. Magda finds him and leaves him there unclaimed after learning he has amnesia. She returns home and falsely reports that Leo has died. Sofia suspects Magda is lying..
Plot Keywords: remake, amnesia, businessman, summer, breakfast, tattoo, cement ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Slice of life look at a young woman trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. Ellie Parker, from Australia, works hard: she's gifted with accents, hustles to auditions, changes clothes and makeup as she drives across L.A., goes to acting classes and therapy, maintains a friendship with another Aussie searching for the same roles, meets a cinematographer when he bangs into her car at a stop sign, and faces a failing relationship with her slacker thinks-he's-a-musician boyfriend. All this brings on an identity crisis - who am I, and should I keep trying to be an actress? Ellie's balancing act and her inquiry into self carry the story.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: adultery, pubic hair, vagina, breasts, nudity, upskirt, sexual intercourse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A psychiatrist (Bakula) gets involved with his best friend's wife (Field) who may be a murderer.
Plot Keywords: extramarital affair, psychologist, guru, obsession, lust, fatal attraction, psychological thriller ...
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