Highest-Rated Movies about 'Wooden Leg'

Grindhouse (2007), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Planet Terror (2007), The Black Pirate (1926), River's Edge (1986), You Only Live Twice (1967) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wooden Leg movies.

#1. Grindhouse (2007)

Storyline: A double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. "Grindhouse" (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. "Death Proof," is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while "Planet Terror" shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the '50s exploitation drive-in classics.

Plot Keywords: car chase, castration, child with gun, decapitation, dismemberment, exotic dancer, head blown off ...

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#2. To Catch a Thief (1955)

Storyline: American expatriate John Robie, living in high style on the Riviera, is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copycat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on the list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. The Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief. Take an especially close look at scene where Robie gets Jessie's attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down the décolletage of a French roulette player.

Plot Keywords: based on novel, reckless driving, french riviera, burglar, thief, beach, masked ball ...

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#3. The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Storyline: It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos, the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate headmistress named Carmen and a kindly Professor Casares, both of whom are sympathetic to the doomed Republican cause. Despite their concern for him, and his gradual triumph over the usual schoolhouse bully, Carlos never feels completely comfortable in his new environment. First of all, there was that initial encounter with the orphanage's nasty caretaker, Jacinto, who reacts even more violently when anyone is caught looking around a particular storage room the one with the deep well. Second, and more inexplicable, is the presence of a ghost, one of the former occupants of the orphanage named Santi. Not long after Carlos' arrival, Santi ...

Plot Keywords: orphanage, spanish civil war, sex, vagina, lingerie slip, drawing, revenge ...

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#4. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

Storyline: Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. As an actor, he puts that knowledge (together with lots of make-up and talent) to use playing a variety of strange, unusual characters, adopting their characteristics so thoroughly as to be called the Man of a Thousand Faces.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Plot Keywords: drawing, father in law daughter in law relationship, father son estrangement, film within a film, fishing, foster child, foster home ...

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#5. Planet Terror (2007)

Storyline: After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world.

Plot Keywords: go go dancer, zombie, exploitation film, stripper, texas, lesbian, flesh eating zombie ...

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#6. The Black Pirate (1926)

Storyline: A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in the capture of a ship, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a young woman on board whom he wishes to protect from the threat of rape.—David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>

Plot Keywords: national film registry, rapier, sword, hidden treasure, gunfire, falling into water, sword fight ...

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#7. River's Edge (1986)

Storyline: A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it's best to go to the police. Matt's tough little brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it.

Plot Keywords: drug, death, police, women's liberation, car, drug abuse, guitarist ...

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#8. You Only Live Twice (1967)

Storyline: When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War III nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

Plot Keywords: cleavage, faked death, chinawoman, premarital sex, bangs, poison, secret headquarters ...

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#9. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Storyline: Three children - Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken), and Sunny Baudelaire (Kara and Shelby Hoffman) - are left orphaned when their house burns down, with their parents in it, in mysterious circumstances. They are left in the custody of a distant relative, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey). It is soon apparent that Count Olaf only cares about the children for their large inheritance.

Plot Keywords: uncle niece relationship, package, ribbon, ruin, walkie talkie, gothic, black comedy ...

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#10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Storyline: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) crosses paths with a woman from his past, Angelica (Penélope Cruz), and he's not sure if it's love, or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

Plot Keywords: pirate, captain, mermaid, king, spaniard, revenge, soldier ...

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#11. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

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 ...

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#12. Time of the Wolf (2003)

Storyline: In an undefined time, the environment has been totally destroyed and now the water is contaminated and the animals have been burned. Georges Laurent travels with her wife Anne Laurent, their teenage daughter Eva and their son Ben from the city to their cabin in the countryside. On the arrival, they find that intruders have broken in the house, and one stranger kills George. Anne, Eva and Ben wander through the village asking for shelter and supplies for their acquaintances, but they refuse to help them. They reach an abandoned barn and spend the night inside. On the next morning, they meet a teenage boy and they walk together to a train station, where they find other survivors. Together, they wait for the train expecting to go to a better place in the middle of the chaos.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: scantily clad female, male nudity, male frontal nudity, refugee, immigrant, urination, female frontal nudity ...

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#13. The Lone Ranger (2013)

Storyline: In the 1930s, an elderly Tonto tells a young boy the tale of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. An idealistic lawyer, he rides with his brother and fellow Texas Rangers in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. Ambushed by the outlaw and left for dead, John Reid is rescued by the renegade Comanche, Tonto, at the insistence of a mysterious white horse and offers to help him to bring Cavendish to justice. Becoming a reluctant masked rider with a seemingly incomprehensible partner, Reid pursues the criminal against all obstacles. However, John and Tonto learn that Cavendish is only part of a far greater injustice and the pair must fight it in an adventure that would make them a legend.

Plot Keywords: texas ranger, wild west, old west, told in flashback, brothel, wooden leg, based on tv series ...

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#14. Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

Storyline: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>

Plot Keywords: based on book, marriage, scot, suit of armor, spanking, bagpipes, narration ...

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#15. Citizen Gangster (2011)

Storyline: Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: man in a wheelchair, hanging, 1940s, 1950s, wooden leg, prison escape, ex cop ...

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