Zorba the Greek (1964), Seconds (1966), Tokyo Sonata (2008), The Kid with a Bike (2011), Ridicule (1996), Saving Face (2004), The Gift (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Waiting Room movies.
Storyline: Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie's family, Elizabeth and her boys begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known. John moves from the role of Jamie's protector to that of a mentor, indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some of John's traits and beliefs as he spends more and more time with him and his select group of friends. The protection and guidance that John presents to Jamie is ...
Plot Keywords: gang, underwear, male rear nudity, male nudity, male frontal nudity, ice cream truck, shopping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Soon, she's disillusioned about husband Larry; and one day in the doctor's waiting room she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian, who's even more confused than she is. Can this marriage be saved? Larry has a plan that is pure Lubitsch...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: jealousy, fiance, implied sex, revolver, hungarian, waiting room, man slaps a woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dan is a 51 year old executive who learns that his company is being restructured and he is being demoted. Carter, who is 26, replaces him. Dan who has two teenage daughters with another on the way, decides to suck it up and work for Carter. Dan and Carter's working relationship is tested when Carter begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter.
Plot Keywords: mortgage, friend, arm in a sling, marriage, corporation, cafe, restaurant ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina hits, a pregnant woman gives birth prematurely. She dies and her baby is in critical condition. The baby has to be kept in a neonatal incubator. When the hurricane strikes, all the power goes out and everyone in the hospital leaves. But the baby's father stays because the baby can't be moved so he has to take care of his baby by making sure the ventilator stays on. And because there's no power, the only power source is generator that he has to crank every few minutes. So he has to stay awake while waiting for someone to come for them.
Plot Keywords: hospital, hurricane, storm, loss of wife, newborn baby, race against time, widower ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Six strangers are given mysterious black boxes with tickets to an immersive escape room for a chance to win tons of money. Being locked in several rooms with extreme conditions, they discover the secrets behind the escape room and must fight to survive and to find a way out.
Plot Keywords: clue, survivor, key, box, code, puzzle, teamwork ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When one-eyed high school senior Matt meets 250 lb Jill, he falls more in love than he ever thought possible. However, when graduation comes and Jill moves cross-country to go to college, she then loses over 50 lbs - much to Matt's surprise when he arrives to visit her. While Matt struggles to accept Jill's new body, Jill begins to question whether Matt is really the man she wants to date. As the distance widens between them, the characters are propelled onto a collision course with brutality and loss, forcing them to confront who they are, who they were, and who everyone thinks they're supposed to be.
Plot Keywords: gay character, cross dressing, college campus, college student, cell phone, jogging, weight loss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.
Plot Keywords: dysfunctional family, adultery, breast cancer, death of mother, based on true story, cancer, what happened to epilogue ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a young actress unknowingly eats her roommate's marijuana cupcakes, her day becomes a series of misadventures.
Plot Keywords: independent film, ferris wheel, flash forward, hippie, refrigerator, skull, slaughterhouse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This "found-footage" film is set in 2009 in the town of Claridge, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. During the town's annual 4th of July Crab Festival, townspeople become sick, exhibiting a variety of symptoms, which leads local news reporters to suspect something has infected the water there. No one is sure what it is or how it's transmitted, but as people start to behave strangely, and others turning up dead, fear spawns into panic. The town is shut down as government authorities confiscate video footage from every media or personal source they find, in an effort to cover-up the incident. But one local reporter who witnessed the epidemic, was able to document, assemble, and hide this film in hopes that one day, the horrible truth would be revealed . . .
Plot Keywords: water, mockumentary, looking at the camera, talking to the camera, found footage, video camera, webcam ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What makes a hero? January, 1986. Campbell Babbitt is a reporter for the New York World, writing a series on a woman who turned the grief of losing a son into civic acts. He falls in love with her, and when she commits suicide, he continues to write made-up stories about her. His editor sends him to New Hampshire to cover the Challenger flight from the town of teacher Christa McAuliffe. The launch is postponed for a few days, giving Campbell time to get to know a group of misfit students whose own teacher killed himself the day Campbell arrives in town. He pieces the story together that led to the suicide, finds himself attracted to a student, and has to sort out his own loss.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: question in title, swimming in underwear, tank top, teen angst, voyeur, wet t shirt, black panties ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Intertwining stories exploring the bad in the best of us and the good in the worst of us. Against the backdrop of a child abduction case we follow five days in the life of the single parent detective assigned to the case, her best friend whose determination to get pregnant keeps her from confronting her husband's infidelity, a school teacher and his obsession with the missing child that pushes him to the edge of vigilantism, a beat cop grieving over the violent death of his wife, a recovering addict and her wheel chair bound brother preparing for the LA marathon, and a self-loathing African American TV writer's search for love.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: masturbation, text messaging, telephone call, obituary, police, atheist, infertility ...
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