Highest-Rated Movies about 'Waving Goodbye'

North by Northwest (1959), Mommy (2014), Wonder (2017), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Changeling (2008), A Single Man (2009), Butterfly (1999), Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Waving Goodbye movies.

#17. Mother and Child (2009)

Storyline: Almost forty years ago, a young girl of fourteen has sex, gets pregnant, and gives her baby up for adoption. Fast-forwarding to the present day, we meet three very different women, each of whom struggles to maintain control of their lives. There's Elizabeth, a smart and successful lawyer who uses her body to her advantage. Any time she feels that she doesn't have the upper hand, and cannot control the situation, she uses her sex appeal - whether that be starting a romance with her boss when she suspects he is trying to start one himself, or finding some way to control her overly friendly neighbor and husband. Karen, meanwhile, is a bitter health care professional who obviously has a lot of heart but never shows it. She gave up a daughter at the age of fourteen (wonderfully shown rather than told, she is the young girl and mother of Elizabeth), and has never gotten over it - her bitterness inspiring her to lash out at everyone around her - even the gentle man at work who is undeniably ...

Plot Keywords: female full frontal nudity, female nudity, female frontal nudity, bare breasts, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, female rear nudity ...

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#18. Three Brothers (1981)

Storyline: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: dancing, horse, stars, assembly line, gun, wine, rain ...

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#20. Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Storyline: The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

Plot Keywords: victorian era, farm, sheep, hunting, neighbor, poem, military uniform ...

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#21. Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

Storyline: A rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children's author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive, Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?

Plot Keywords: nickname, reference to plato, talking to oneself, maggot, fly the insect, anti war, eating ...

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#22. Waterboys (2001)

Storyline: All it takes for a bunch of schoolboys to join the swim club is the arrival of a pretty teacher who clearly is considered a babe. The number of participants quickly swells. Alas, the teacher specialized in synchronized swimming and moreover finds out she is pregnant and has to resign from her position. The boys are stuck with the feminine sport since they owe some money now and the school festival at which they are to perform is fast approaching.—aghaemi

Plot Keywords: schoolgirl, boom box, waving goodbye, short skirt, debt, whistle, brunette ...

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#23. Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

Storyline: In the late 1970s, in Boston, the bipolar Cameron "Cam" Stuart lives with his wife Maggie and their daughters Amelia and Faith in an isolated house in the countryside. When Cam is fired from his job, he has a mental breakdown and Maggie is forced to institutionalize him. When he is released, he moves to a small apartment while Maggie works to support the children. She decides to apply to an MBA program to improve her income and she is accepted by Columbia University in New York. She asks Cam to take care of the girls for eighteen months and he agrees despite his fears. Maggie moves to New York and Cam is responsible for Amelia and Faith's education. Will the scheme work?

Plot Keywords: mental illness, father daughter relationship, bipolar disorder, semi autobiographical, absent mother, cigarette smoking, reference to harvard university ...

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#24. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Storyline: Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late ...

Plot Keywords: female frontal nudity, breasts, lesbian mother, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, nudity, female nudity ...

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#25. Asako I & II (2018)

Storyline: Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like her ex-boyfriend Baku, but he has a completely different personality. Ryohei is a salaryman, with a sincere personality. Asako falls in love with Ryohei.

Plot Keywords: theatre, stage, rock climbing, kiss on the mouth, ticket, siren, crowd ...

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#26. The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

Storyline: A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years previously. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do??—Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: marriage, locked in a room, orphan, coffin, death of parents, horse and carriage, bus ...

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#27. Tolkien (2019)

Storyline: Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the "fellowship" apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.—Fox Searchlight Pictures

Plot Keywords: world war one, based on true story, group of friends, trench warfare, oxford university, friendship between boys, male friendship ...

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#28. King Solomon's Mines (1950)

Storyline: Guide Allan Quatermain helps a young lady (Beth) find her lost husband somewhere in Africa. It's a spectacular adventure story with romance, because while they fight with wild animals and cannibals, they fall in love. Will they find the lost husband and finish the nice connection?—Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>

Plot Keywords: 1890s, drinking, husband wife relationship, pith helmet, handshake, money, dancer ...

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#29. The Choice (2016)

Storyline: In a small coastal town, the veterinarian Travis Shaw works with his father Shep and is very close to his beloved sister Steph. Travis is very successful with the women and dates Monica every now and then. When the resident Gabby Holland moves to the next door house, she initially believes he is a pretentious man. But when her boyfriend Ryan MacCarthy, who is fellow doctor in the same hospital where she works, needs to travel to another city, Gabby and Travis have a relationship and fall in love with each other. Out of the blue, Ryan returns and proposes to marry her. Now Gabby has to make a choice between her two loves.

Plot Keywords: south carolina, nosebleed, punched in the face, nurse, pickup truck, seagull, pride ...

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#30. This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

Storyline: When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.

Plot Keywords: based on novel, man child, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, family reunion, cheating wife ...

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