Double Indemnity (1944), The Color Purple (1985), Leviathan (2014), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Sense and Sensibility (1995), A Royal Affair (2012), Labyrinth (1986), Stella Dallas (1937) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Stepmother movies.
Storyline: In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom.His idea is to force his way across the guarded border using his entire circus.Three years in the making his idea is ready to be tested when he's suddenly summoned to a Secret Police routine questioning about his circus' program.To Cernik it's clear that he has an informer among his staff who reports his activities and private talks to the Secret Police. The Americans are just across the river in a nearby border village but Cernik needs a special permit from the Secret Police allowing his circus freedom of movement in the border areas to perform his shows.This hard to get permit is vital to his escape plan.To make matters worse his wife is being unfaithful, his daughter has fallen in love with the new stables boy,his circus is falling apart and his longtime rival, Barovik, wants to take over Cernik's circus.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: circus, iron curtain, germany, spy, horse, acrobat, clown ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.
Plot Keywords: train robbery, based on true story, based on novel, railway, robbery, arrest, double entendre ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A girl named Ella (Cinderella) has the purest heart living in a cruel world filled with evil stepsisters and an evil stepmother out to ruin Ella's life. Ella becomes one with her pure heart when she meets the Prince and dances her way to a better life with glass shoes, and a little help from her fairy godmother, of course.
Plot Keywords: dance, fairy tale, pumpkin, prince, remake, princess, death of mother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Her father is desperate to repeat the spectacular success of his first novel, but hasn't written a word for 12 years; her exquisite sister Rose can only rail against their fate, and their Bohemian step-mother Topaz is a nudist and no help at all. Salvation comes in the form of their American landlord Simon Cotton and his brother Neil. Although initially repelled by Simon, Rose is determined to make him fall in love with her and succeeds. A wedding is arranged and Cassandra is left on the sidelines as everyone around her is drawn into a maelstrom of interconnected relationships. But events spiral out of control, and before the summer ends she will experience frustrated desire, first love, and a broken heart.—<l_wuisan@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: 1930s, historical event, writer's block, writer, stepmother, sister sister relationship, marriage proposal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year old step-daughter. When the old beau is found murdered, Norma is the chief suspect until Duncan (aided by his guide-dog Friday) pays a visit to her home and uncovers a plot to steal her husband's military secrets for the enemy.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, gunfire, gun, inventor, maid, new york city, organ ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in love and make plans to marry. Unfortunately, their marriage plans get sabotaged when a jealous beau makes Rae miss the ceremony. The two meet many years later in New York, only now Walter is married. Refusing to be shut out of his life, Rae agrees to be Walter's mistress.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: marriage, nightclub, engagement, melodrama, father son relationship, dock, eviction ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she is unhappily in love with admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of building a navy to match the Portuguese and the Spanish.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: murder of brother, french, flashback, flash forward, feast, father son relationship, fainting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: adultery, railyard, rally, streetcar, strike, suicide by gunshot, suicide ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: death of father, masturbation, voyeur, christmas, corpse, one word title, child protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When implanted in a person's wrist, a TiMER counts down to the day the wearer finds true love. But Oona O'Leary faces the rare dilemma of a blank TiMER. Her soul mate - whoever and wherever he is - has yet to have a TiMER implanted. Staring down the barrel of thirty and tired of waiting for her would-be life partner to get off the dime, Oona breaks her own rules and falls for Mikey, a charming and inappropriately young supermarket clerk with a countdown of four months.
Plot Keywords: one word title, dentist, bartender, old people's home, widower, nightclub, premarital sex ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Cedric Brown has just lost his wife and is now left with his seven children who misbehave so much that all the nannies have run away. Now he is told by a mysterious voice that he should get Nanny McPhee who is a magical woman with special powers.
Plot Keywords: nanny, widower, magic, family relationships, 1800s, wedding cake, walking stick ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jay Hernandez stars as Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A. to attend the posh, wealthy Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles on a football scholarship. A straight-A student, Carlos is focused and driven, but his future is cast in doubt when he becomes the flirtation target of spoiled, self-destructive bad girl Nicole Oakley (Kirsten Dunst), who's the daughter of a prominent congressman (Bruce Davison). When his friends, family, and even Nicole's own father oppose the romance for Carlos' sake, he chooses to ignore their advice and stubbornly pursues his relationship with Nicole, whose feelings grow from simple physical attraction to something much deeper.
Plot Keywords: interracial relationship, punk, angst, class differences, compassion, confrontation, culture clash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
Plot Keywords: blonde, cafe, restaurant, marriage, secret, family secret, rear entry sex ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of a woman dealing with her daughter's death while trying to keep her marriage and her relationship with her stepson.
Plot Keywords: stepmother, manhattan new york city, based on novel, woman, united states of america, new york city, central park manhattan new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him.—Billy
Plot Keywords: character names as title, cat, male model, stepmother, swimming, violinist, nervous breakdown ...
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