Big Fish (2003), A Very Long Engagement (2004), The Muppet Movie (1979), Dead of Night (1945), L'illusionniste (2010), Best in Show (2000), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Coming Home (1978) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ventriloquist movies.
Storyline: A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, mini skirt, upskirt, voyeurism, stripper, female frontal nudity, lesbian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Dakota" Smith (William Terry), a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and movies appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. Dakota meets a pretty young hostess, Eileen Burke (Cheryl Walker), and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, slang, bellhop, minister, wedding ceremony, classical music, swing music ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Every town has its own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's death. Once...
Plot Keywords: tongue cut out, photograph, photo album, oxygen tank, murder of family, motel, mortician ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: partially lost film, anniversary, break up, dressing room, eavesdropping, german accent, glass of water ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in the shallows . . . and Sharon Tate as a skydiver named Malibu who gives Curtis the rapture of artificial respiration when he is conked on the head by a flying surfboard. This is the '60s American Dream: youth and beauty and money and sex in Southern California. Go west, all men.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: hot, overweight, based on novel, sexy butt, big breasts, cleavage, sexy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tim (Rudd) is a rising executive who "succeeds" in finding the perfect guest, IRS employee Barry (Carell), for his boss's monthly event, a so-called "dinner for idiots," which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon.
Plot Keywords: nerd, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, bow tie, clitoris, chair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, blindness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: deception, sabotage, grindhouse film, slang, midget, ambush, confusion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hammond is after the Craig ranch and has framed Charlie Craig for murder. Mother Craig brings in the Range Busters. They capture one of Hammond's men and Alibi plans to trick him into a confession as to who the real murderer is. Meanwhile, Denny has overheard Hammond's plans for his next move and he and Crash set out to round up the gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, stock footage, vindication, two gun man, bushwhacker, ambush, ventriloquist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. An assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion, in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness, along with a Captain in Germany's Kreigsmarine (Navy).
Plot Keywords: year in title, year 1941, slapstick comedy, general, colonel, nazi, periscope ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During Harry Houdini's (Guy Pearce's) tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However, all does not go to plan.
Plot Keywords: money falling through the air, underwater scene, chains, theatre audience, scotland, dancing, drinking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love. After the ship is underway, Padrinsky, the head of the real ballet academy, reads about the departure and also heads to Paris, bringing with him his ballet loving gangster patron, Mike Coogan, with orders to eliminate the pair of imposters. Things look bleak for Terry as Kay becomes angry and severs her relationship with Terry when she learns that Mona was once married to him and he never told her that. And Padrinsky gets a deportation order for the whole group on the day they were to perform in the contest.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcan.net>
Plot Keywords: ballet, deception, dance teacher, dance contest, voice imitation, dog, singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This modern version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale is charming. Ratso is a streetwise chancer of a rat whose theatre show is struggling. Then he finds an egg that hatches a mutant swan. Ratso soon sees the potential of showing Ugly as a freak. But things go awry when rodent heavies appear...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: cgi film, nest, funfair, train, chase, oven, talking animal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Some twenty years ago Sarita promised to raise her husband's love child (Shalu) together with their own daughter (Nimmi). The girls grow up as the best of friends but Sarita has never been able to forgive Shalu her background. It doesn't make it better when she sees Shalu getting close to the man Nimmi is also in love with.
Plot Keywords: love, driving a car, mistaken identity, misunderstanding, mayor, rival, industrialist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the classic fairy tale, Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe (the Three Stooges) substitute for the Seven Dwarfs while the princess Snow White (Olympic figure skating champion Carol Heiss) is forced to flee from her jealous stepmother, the queen (Patricia Medina), who takes drastic steps to insure that Snow White never gains the throne.—phillindholm
Plot Keywords: princess, ice skating, prince, apple, poisoned, birthmark, owl ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Quirky inter-related stories. Standing by two tablets, Jeff promises to introduce ten short stories, each about one of the commandments. A man survives a fall from a plane and his fiancée marries someone else before falling in love with a marionette; a surgeon causes the death of a patient and in prison tries to choose his mate; a woman encounters Jesus in Mexico and later confronts her husband on the Sabbath; twins and their mother reflect on fatherhood; covetous neighbors miss a chance to be heroes; and, between each story, Jeff's love triangle with Gretchen and Liz plays out. In the end, all the characters join in singing that it's all about love.
Plot Keywords: shakespearean quotation, episodic structure, male nudity, nudity, reference to shakespeare's hamlet, church, black bra ...
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