The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Network (1976), The King's Speech (2010), The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Match Point (2005), The Secret of NIMH (1982), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Society movies.
Storyline: Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: fighting the system, charity, dead boy, train, illegitimate child, giving birth, childbirth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate's peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir Randolph's daughter, gets into a shooting competition with Lord Gilbert Hartlip; Lord Gilbert's wife carries on discreet affairs; a pamphleteer circles the estate calling for no more killing, and Sir Robert's grandson hopes to protect a wild duck he's befriended. A way of life is ending: Lord Gilbert's violation of the gentlemen's code suggests internal rot as the real world presses in.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: billiards, migraine, marital infidelity, manor house, maid, lord's prayer, jealousy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Plot Keywords: blackmail, based on play, husband wife relationship, morality, father son relationship, reconciliation, marriage proposal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs and tries to do something to change that.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: independent film, poverty, pride, romantic rivalry, spinster, social commentary, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters can live comfortably. Soon after the wedding, she finds herself falling in love with Hector, the Tenth Earl of Bracondale, a playboy she encounters on the social circuit of the very rich -- in the Swiss Alps, Paris, London, and the English countryside. Hector is attracted to her as well. Theodora must choose between love and duty, and then Josiah and Hector must make choices of their own.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, father daughter relationship, financial crisis, gun battle, gunfire, half sister, infidelity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an immense explosion and realise the awful truth; Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Mayhem and madness are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be its first casualties. Not one to give up, Harry doors things to make sure his family has a chance at surviving.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: post apocalypse, bridge, survival, emergency, hoodlum, mushroom cloud, nuclear weapon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Famed builder Le Notre is tasked with building an ethereal palace for King Louis XIV (Rickman) that transcends beauty. Le Notre hires Sabine de Barra (Winslet) to design and construct the outdoor ballroom, and is soon captivated by her beauty. Sabine is equally enthralled by Le Notre though she is struggling to deal with her past. Through the trials of building the garden the two starving artists come together.
Plot Keywords: female protagonist, france, extramarital affair, 17th century, topless female nudity, corset, adultery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Madame DuBarry is a 1934 American historical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dolores del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory and Osgood Perkins. The film portrays the life of Madame Du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV of France.[1] While this film does not serve accuracy to Madame Du Barry, it does feature antiques and jewelry that came from the actual days when Madame Du Barry lived. This film was released just as the Hays Code was taking full swing, and faced many problems with censors of the time. Scenes of this film had to be removed before its release or else it would have not been approved for release.
Plot Keywords: doctor, political intrigue, robbery, nobility, mistress, wedding, ambassador ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amy has a seemingly perfect life - a great marriage, over-achieving kids, a beautiful home and a career. However, she's overworked, over-committed and exhausted to the point that she's about to snap. Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities - going on a wild, un-mom-like binge of long overdue freedom, fun and self-indulgence - putting them on a collision course with PTA Queen Bee Gwendolyn and her clique of devoted perfect moms.
Plot Keywords: female full frontal nudity, female frontal nudity, pubic hair, female nudity, nudity, misandry, crying woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reggie, the impish Marquis of Buckminster, has many friends and is happy with his present bachelor lifestyle. But his grandmother demands that he now get married to one of a few suitable women that she names, and have some children. Two of the women are twin sisters who are friends of his from another aristocratic family, so he visits them, and learns that they already have fiancés but commoners, against their family's wishes. If he can help them to marry the men they want, it will also shorten the list of candidates and maybe help him remain single so Reggie does everything he can to help them.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: bachelor, immaturity, satire, social satire, whimsical, wealth, comedy of manners ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Jerry's attempts to warn them.—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: department store, female protagonist, fashion show, suicide, model, marriage, society ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Drake,a man with a hundred faces and in reality a modern-day Robin Hood known only as Crackerjack, thrills all England with his exploits of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. As a guest at a society party "Crackerjack" steals some valuable pearls, and the next day learns there has also been a hold-up at the party and a man killed. and Scotland Yard considers Crackerjack to be the leader of the killer-gang, and he realizes that someone is using his name to cover their own crimes. And sets out to prove it without having to disclose who he really is.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, deception, disguise, double cross, estate, evidence, false name ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A period movie, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family. The planned marriage suffers a last-minute upset when the would-be husband switches affections to the bride's sister.
Plot Keywords: marriage, prison, maid, landowner, interracial relationship, graft, father son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As crime runs rampant in the United States, the hard-as-nails LAPD Lieutenant, Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, is the only cure for the crime-infested urban jungle of Los Angeles. In the meantime, a string of seemingly unconnected and unmotivated random assaults on civilians will soon drag the hardened officer into a violent war against the psychopaths of the secret organisation named "The New World". With the criminal society's sole purpose to weed out the weak, Cobra will escort an important witness--the young model, Ingrid--out of town to protect her; however, the movement's delusional killers will stop at nothing to track her down. Now, the only one who stands in their way is the one-man-army Lieutenant. Are they prepared for Cobra's nasty bite?
Plot Keywords: psychotronic film, evil man, tough cop, action hero, tough guy, serial killer, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
Plot Keywords: elevator, umbrella, revenge, media manipulation, vanity, irish, intoxication ...
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