Army of Shadows (1969), Some Like It Hot (1959), Tangled (2010), Whistle Down the Wind (1962), Mud (2012), John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019), Snowden (2016), They Live (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wanted Man movies.
Storyline: In the Nineteenth Century, orphan Oliver Twist is sent from the orphanage to a workhouse, where the children are mistreated and barely fed. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is soon welcomed in a gang of pickpockets lead by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's fancy house.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, human monster, kindness, redemption, stalking, tragedy, hunger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
Plot Keywords: retro horror, invitation, matronizing, character's point of view camera shot, evidence, garage, digging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Sheriff goes into Mexico in search of a man wanted back in the States. Finding him, he starts back. But it's a long way back, he has a reluctant captive, and there are unfriendly Indians along the way. The Sheriff admits his life has been a failure but this mission he plans to accomplish.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, desert, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, farm, farmhouse, knife, drunkenness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.—Canon y mus
Plot Keywords: police, corruption, investigation, planting evidence, suspect, murderous scheme, gay slur ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: southern belle, 1850s, racism, based on novel, race relations, prejudice, new orleans louisiana ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie, two hands he worked with; Pat Garrett, who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who take him in when he's in trouble - into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: outlaw, stagecoach, reading a book, coffin, music box, paralysis, quick draw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Bolivia, two decades after his mysterious disappearance in San Vicente in 1908, life has found Butch Cassidy exiled to a small Bolivian town. Only now the aged outlaw goes under the name James Blackthorn. Cassidy has been keeping to himself; breeding and selling horses in order save money to return to the states. But an attempted ambush by a young Spaniard leaves him with no money as he watches his horse run off with his saddle bags full of cash. With the Spaniard held at gunpoint, Cassidy is told there is a hidden stash of money he will receive for helping the young man flee the mining families from which he stole the stash. Now it's up to Cassidy to revive his former self and save the two from meeting their death in the desert sands of Bolivia.—shredder-53761
Plot Keywords: double barreled shotgun, interracial relationship, gunshot wound, falling off horse, mercy killing, outlaw, woman shoots a man ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After going through a painful break-up, a woman meets a man who appears to be perfect for her. However, as their relationship develops, she learns that he is a former hit-man. Their new, but genuine, relationship is tested even further as they try to save each other, from his dark past which has come back to haunt him.
Plot Keywords: hitman, abbreviation in title, period in title, two word title, strong female character, title spoken by character, assassin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Fork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own.—kzmckeown
Plot Keywords: sleigh, wild west, old west, cowboy, letter, reading a letter, voice over letter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Peter Carey's novel. The story of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s.
Plot Keywords: alternate history, based on true story, based on novel, criminal gang, 1870s, australia, character name in title ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jane Got a Gun centers on Jane Hammond, who has built a new life with her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond after being tormented by the ultra-violent Bishop Boys outlaw gang. She finds herself in the gang's cross-hairs once again when Ham stumbles home riddled with bullets after dueling with the Boys and their relentless mastermind Colin. With the vengeful crew hot on Ham's trail, Jane has nowhere to turn but to her former fiancé Dan Frost for help in defending her family against certain destruction. Haunted by old memories, Jane's past meets the present in a heart-stopping battle for survival.
Plot Keywords: gun store, female fighter, quick draw, gunfight, prostitute, showdown, hired killer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.
Plot Keywords: doctor, frame up, freight train, fugitive, garden, grandfather clock, great depression ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Robin, a young Norman nobleman, is falsely accused by his cousin of murdering another cousin. His accuser is actually in league with the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham to seize control of the family lands, which Robin would inherit. Forced to flee into nearby Sherwood Forest, Robin begins to gather a band of rebels to fight against his scheming cousin and the evil sheriff.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: character name in title, wanted man, stick fight, tyrant, crossbow, taxes, outlaw gang ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roommates Jesse and Chester, both who have more than just a few cards short of a full deck, are stoner dudes who don't even do their jobs as pizza delivery guys well. They awaken one morning having little recollection of what they did the previous night, due to being wasted. They discover that their kitchen is full of prepackaged pudding, how they got all the pudding they are unaware. From a telephone message they receive, they come to the realization that at some point during the previous night they were at a party at the house of their girlfriends, twins Wanda and Wilma, and that today is their one year anniversary, which they did remember as they already bought the twins gifts. But the worst thing in not remembering what happened last night is that Jesse's car is missing. In trying to find out what happened to the car, they believe they have to recreate the feeling and mindset of last night, meaning getting wasted all over again. In trying to find the car, they, being the types ...
Plot Keywords: transsexual, homoeroticism, gay kiss, stupidity, chinese restaurant, ostrich, homosexual subtext ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A newlywed couple is terrorized by a consumer drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer.
Plot Keywords: drone, voyeurism, hidden camera, stalking, blow torch, marital crisis, sitting on a toilet ...
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