The Straight Story (1999), Breaker Morant (1980), Mr. Nobody (2009), Monsieur Lazhar (2011), Get Carter (1971), Coach Carter (2005), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Great McGinty (1940) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Surname In Title movies.
Storyline: In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the spotlight isn't what it used to be. This time Jolson trades in the stage for life in the fast lane: women, horses, travel. It takes the death of Moma Yoelson and World War II to bring Jolson back to earth - and to the stage. Once again teamed with manager Steve Martin, Jolson travels the world entertaining troops everywhere from Alaska to Africa. When he finally collapses from exhaustion it takes young, pretty nurse Ellen Clark to show him there's more to life than "just rushing around".—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: singer, hollywood, hospital, military base, montage, movie producer, movie set ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eric Busch, a novelist/playwright, and his wife, Janet, go to New York where he arranges to have Matt Saxon, who has a reputation for ruthlessness, produce his play. Saxon insists on so many meetings, changes and revisions that it cause a rift between Eric and Janet. Saxon goes to Hollywood to get a prominent actor to play the lead but the actor, no fan of Saxon, declines. Saxon then deliberately robs his own girlfriend of her chance in Hollywood. The actor then comes to New York and offers to do the play, if someone other than Saxon is the producer.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, california, cigarette smoking, contract, deception, designer, egotism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: surname in title, horse race, judge, niece, fiance, year 1948, screwball comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a band of Indians kill a group of soldiers, Sergeant Hook captures them and their leader Nanches. Among the prisoners is Nanches' son and the boy's white mother captured by them nine years earlier. Hook's assignment is to escort the mother and son to the woman's husband. Traveling by stagecoach they learn that Nanches has escaped and it's not long before he and his warriors show up intent on reclaiming the boy.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: arizona, american indian, biracial child, husband wife relationship, missing wife, native american, native american chief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.
Plot Keywords: villa, villain played by lead actor, based on novel, character name in title, beaten to death, bathtub, yoga ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Claes Bang (THE SQUARE) stars as Joseph Piller in this captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII - an all but forgotten true story - about a soldier investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren, played by Guy Pearce (LA CONFIDENTIAL), who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite mounting evidence, Piller becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past. The film also features Vicky Krieps (PHANTOM THREAD).
Plot Keywords: world war two, reference to leonardo da vinci, public execution, trial, what happened to epilogue, f word, no opening credits ...
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: In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: character name as title, surname in title, ireland, bare chested male ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and outcast Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.
Plot Keywords: flamethrower, terrorism, mi6, los angeles california, london england, ukraine, moscow russia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mac's plans to settle down and raise a family are upset by the Korean War. He goes as a fighter pilot and returns a hero, the first triple ace of the war. His neighbors have built a home for Mac and his devoted wife and their three children. Now he has an offer to test pilot new Sabre Jets. His wife is uneasy but knows she cannot ground her man.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: death of friend, war hero, world war two, three word title, military police, parachute, mother daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel; the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan - it's post-9/11, after all. His wife is angry when she finds out their bank is initiating foreclosure. Charlie fears failure and decides, precipitously, to launch. Are twenty-first century American dreams just a sign of insanity? Are those who believe in dreamers only fools?
Plot Keywords: broken leg, student, class, classroom, photograph, cemetery, graveyard ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Judge William "Billy" Priest lives in a very patriotic (Confederate) southern town. Priest plays a laid-back, widowed judge who helps uphold the law in his toughest court case yet. In the meantime, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew.—<marsattack@earthling.net>
Plot Keywords: judge, courtroom, civil war veteran, small town, kentucky, father daughter relationship, fight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is murdered, and Scott Turner sets himself on the case. The closest thing to a witness in the case is Amos Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott Turner has to take care of if it's going to avoid being "put to sleep".
Plot Keywords: dog, police officer, investigator, murder, opposites attract, veterinarian, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When her husband dies on their wedding night, Judy decides to join the United States Army. She realizes that she has never been independent in her entire life. What looks like a bad decision at first, turns out not so bad at all. That is, until her superior officer makes sexual advances on her. She has been transferred to NATO headquarters in Europe and (re)meets the Frenchman Henri Tremont. Judy and Henri decide to marry, but will they?
Plot Keywords: female protagonist, basic training, fish out of water, u.s. army, wedding night, jumping from an airplane, reference to mick jagger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant when her boyfriend kicks her out. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.—Shannon Andrews <Shannon.B.Andrews@m.cc.utah.edu>
Plot Keywords: ring, two word title, twin brother, blackmail, cinderella story, scam, rags to riches ...
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