Your Name. (2016), Stalker (1979), The Incredibles (2004), Aladdin (1992), Paddington 2 (2017), The Goonies (1985), Three Nuts for Cinderella (1973), Tangled (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wish movies.
Storyline: Teenager Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is forced by her father (Christopher Malcolm) and her stepmother (Shelley Thompson) to babysit her baby brother Toby (Toby Froud) while they are outside home. Toby does not stop crying and Sarah wishes that her stepbrother be taken by the Goblin King Jareth (David Bowie). Out of the blue, Toby stops crying and when Sarah looks for him in the cradle, she learns that her wish was granted and the Goblin King Jareth has taken him to his castle in the Goblin City in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah repents and asks Jareth to give Toby back; but the Goblin King tells her that she has to rescue her brother before midnight, otherwise Toby will be turned into a goblin. Soon Sarah teams up with the coward goblin Hoggle (Brian Henson), the beast Ludo (Ron Mueck), and the knight Didymus (David Shaughnessy) and his dog Ambrosius (Percy Edwards) in her journey. Will they rescue Toby in time?
Plot Keywords: rescue, labyrinth, fantasy world, cult film, crystal ball, door knocker, fairy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: doorman, snowing, music teacher, audience, wristwatch, lighting a cigarette, cigarette lighter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Plot Keywords: orgy, sex with a minor, teenage crush, lesbian sex, madness, mother daughter relationship, lesbian subtext ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A wishing machine turns a boy into a 35-year-old man (Tom Hanks) with a fun job and a girlfriend (Elizabeth Perkins).
Plot Keywords: new york city, title spoken by character, body switching, carnival, toy, basketball, bicycle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney) was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National - England's greatest racing event.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, horse racing, champion, teenage girl, jockey, england, horse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a German restaurant, Chef Martha Klein is the undisputed supreme ruler of the kitchen staff and woe to any customer who would dare criticize her cooking. Her life is firmly centered around cooking which takes on a obsessive level with stubborn single mindedness. Even when she is ordered to take therapy, she still constantly talks about her work and the iron clad control she relishes in her task. All that changes when her sister dies in a car accident, leaving her 8 year old daughter, Lina. Martha takes her niece in and while making inquiries for her estranged father, she struggles to care for this stubbornly headstrong child. Meanwhile at work, a new chef named Mario is hired on and Martha feels threatened by this unorthodox intruder. The pressures of both her private and work life combine to create a situation that will fundamentally call her attitudes and life choices into question while these interlopers into her life begin to profoundly change it.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: triple f rated, f rated, waitress, waiter, kiss, love, precocious child ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil hunt for the varmints who stole their treasure map!—Jon Cooke <cooke@megalink.net>
Plot Keywords: surrealism, pirate ship, duck, treasure map, rabbit, mouse, nurse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
Plot Keywords: christmas, elf, christmas eve, resentment, santa claus, christmas present, high tech ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeff and Turkey, two wild and crazy guys adrift on a raft in the Mediterranean, are cast away on a desert shore and hop a convenient camel to an Arabian Nights city where Turkey soon finds himself sold as a slave...to luscious Princess Shalmar of Karameesh. Naturally, Jeff would like to rescue Turkey from this "dire" fate, even if it means taking his place! But they haven't figured on virile desert chieftain Mullay Kassim, who has designs on the princess himself...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: meta film, 1940s, boat accident, wish, tombstone, tent, telescope ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: wish, immortality, wheelchair, jukebox, nightclub, nurse, skateboard ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.
Plot Keywords: mysterious man, notebook, waitress, mysterious stranger, restaurant, doubt, remorse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older brother Van are exploring "the other": in Ben's case, it's friendship with Sylvia, a Black student; with Van, it's a party in the WASP part of town and falling for a debutante, Dubbie. Sylvia gives Ben tickets to a James Brown concert; Dubbie invites Van to a motel: new worlds open. Meanwhile, their dad Nate, who runs a numbers game, loses big to a small-time pusher, Little Melvin; a partnership ensues.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: marriage, intimacy, racist, teenager, fraud, gambling, lottery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scrooge McDuck, his dimwitted pilot Launch Pad, and his newphews Huey, Dewey and Louie, with Webby, arrive in Egypt where Scrooge finds the lost treasure of Collie Baba, unbeknownst to Scrooge, a magic lamp was included inside the treasure, so while the nephews have fun with the genie, they all have no idea that they're being stalked by a power hungry sorceror named Murlock and his dimwitted thief counterpart, Dijon.
Plot Keywords: genie, treasure, transformation, uncle nephew relationship, good versus evil, no opening credits, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fletcher Reede, a fast talking attorney, habitual liar, and divorced father is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He has a habit of giving precedence to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher lets Max down once too often, for missing his own son's birthday party. But until then at 8:15 Max has decided to make an honest man out of him as he wishes for one whole day his dad couldn't tell a lie. When the wish comes true all Fletcher can do is tell the truth and cannot tell one lie. Uh-oh for Fletcher!
Plot Keywords: workaholic, pantyhose, female stockinged feet, obscene finger gesture, baseball glove, baseball cap, balloon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin vies for the love of the beautiful princess Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah. When he finds a magic lamp, he uses the genie's magic power to make himself a prince in order to marry her. He's also on a mission to stop the powerful Jafar who plots to steal the magic lamp that could make his deepest wishes come true.—Santhosh
Plot Keywords: hero, monkey, wilhelm scream, giant bird, blue skin, genie, dungeon ...
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