Inception (2010), Rear Window (1954), Blue Velvet (1986), This Is England (2006), Shine (1996), Deliverance (1972), And Then We Danced (2019), Dark City (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Waking Up movies.
Storyline: Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Guy soon is the hottest reporter on the story with the help of his photographer, half- Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan, who has gone native. Guy's affair with diplomat Jill Bryant also helps. Eventually Guy must face some major moral choices and the relationship between Billy and him reaches a crisis at the same time the politics of Indonesia does.
Plot Keywords: journalist, embassy, diplomat, 1960s, journalism, accordion, airplane ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film is about Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn. Marlo's brother gives her a night nanny as a gift. Hesitant with the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
Plot Keywords: bare midriff, threesome, short dress, visible midriff, one male two females threesome, split personality, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse, that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful ...
Plot Keywords: coming of age, abortion, teenager, pantyhose, class differences, unwanted pregnancy, year 1963 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored, and lonely living off of his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life is his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker, Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces him back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into his past and the people with whom he used to work. Like Frank they are all "R.E.D." - Retired Extremely Dangerous.
Plot Keywords: spy, female assassin, die hard scenario, cia agent, tied feet, tape over mouth, knocked out ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: apology, uncle niece relationship, two brothers, brother brother relationship, looking out a window, use of bloody as epithet, widower ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Plot Keywords: sadist, bedroom, blood, broken glass, cellar, chandelier, chapel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and - victims of the relentless New York City real estate market - temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. While George moves in with two cops (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez) who live down stairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew (Darren Burrows), his wife (Marisa Tomei), and their temperamental teenage son (Charlie Tahan), with whom Ben shares a bunk bed. While struggling with the pain of separation, Ben and George are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements.
Plot Keywords: gay marriage, gay couple, gay love, homophobia, homosexuality, fired from the job, teacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A virus has escaped in a secret facility called "The Hive," turning the staff into hungry zombies and releasing the mutated Lab "Animals" that they were studying. The complex computer shuts down the base to prevent infection. The parent corporation sends in an elite military unit, where they meet Alice, who is suffering from amnesia due to exposure to nerve gas. The military team must shut down the computer and get out, fighting their way past zombies, mutants, and the computer itself, before the virus escapes and infects the rest of the world. Alice must also come to terms with her slowly-returning memories.
Plot Keywords: zombie, doberman, underground, virus, laser, trapped in an elevator, hologram ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.
Plot Keywords: gossip, socialite, invisible man, new york city, self discovery, female protagonist, upper class ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.
Plot Keywords: lesbian, female stockinged legs, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, butterfly collection, lesbian kiss, black pantyhose ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Plot Keywords: coffee, brushing teeth, dysfunctional family, bartender, neighbor, father in law son in law relationship, search ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taking place in 1983, Red is a lumberjack who lives in a secluded cabin in the woods. His artist girlfriend Mandy spends her days reading fantasy paperbacks. Then one day, she catches the eye of a crazed cult leader, who conjures a group of motorcycle-riding demons to kidnap her. Red, armed with a crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.
Plot Keywords: lumberjack, cult, surrealism, biker, revenge, cult leader, year 1983 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the vein of CLUELESS and NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, FREAK SHOW tells the moving, heartwarming, and hilarious story of Billy Bloom, a boldly confident, wildly eccentric teenager, who faces intolerance and persecution at his ultra conservative high school, and decides to fight back on behalf of all the misunderstood freaks of the world by running for the title of homecoming queen.
Plot Keywords: rejection, rehab, mansion, vintage car, competition, football, smart phone ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea...including him. Captain Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
Plot Keywords: swashbuckler, claim in title, dead man, revenge, violence, ship, fifth part ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: australia, cattle drive, river crossing, laughter, crocodile, scotsman, looking out a window ...
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