Ambition
"ambition" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
Synopsis:
Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.
Starring:
Wolfgang Bahro,
Ulrike Frank,
Felix von Jascheroff
#2
Land of Desire
Synopsis:
When her husband is killed in a land grabbing attempt, Aline takes charge of cultivating his land and protecting his family. Facing the powerful Antonio La Selva, responsible for the death of her husband and the largest landowner in the region, Aline is determined to keep possession of her land and invest in its production. However, she didn't expect that she would fall in love with Daniel, son o…
Starring:
Cauã Reymond,
Barbara Reis,
Johnny Massaro
#3
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
Synopsis:
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to …
Starring:
Takehito Koyasu,
Yuichi Nakamura,
Inori Minase
Plot:
based on novel or book,
magic,
supernatural,
trauma,
time travel,
anime,
isekai,
murder,
alternate world,
seinen
...
#4
Ugetsu
Synopsis:
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Starring:
Machiko Kyō,
Masayuki Mori,
Kichijirô Ueda
Plot:
rape victim,
civil war,
samurai,
ambition,
japan,
16th century,
pottery,
tragedy,
palace,
marriage
...
#5
Tokyo Story
Synopsis:
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Starring:
Chishū Ryū,
Nobuo Nakamura,
Eijirô Tôno
Plot:
doctor,
widow,
teacher,
selfishness,
hairdresser,
estrangement,
family reunion,
post world war two,
marriage,
loneliness
...
#6
Throne of Blood
Synopsis:
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan…
Starring:
Takashi Shimura,
Toshirō Mifune,
Minoru Chiaki
Plot:
tragedy,
villain,
opening a door,
visit,
shot with an arrow,
shot with multiple arrows,
ride,
rider,
horseman,
spear
...
#7
The Room
Synopsis:
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Starring:
Tommy Wiseau,
Juliette Danielle,
Greg Sestero
#8
The Parallax View
Synopsis:
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Starring:
William Daniels,
Warren Beatty,
Paula Prentiss
#9
The Ninth Gate
Synopsis:
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Frank Langella,
James Russo
Plot:
rare book,
book detective,
bibliophilia,
satanic,
unholy book,
lucifer,
sex,
bare butt,
femme fatale,
reference to don quixote
...
#10
The Life of David Gale
Synopsis:
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey,
Kate Winslet,
Jim Beaver
#11
The Leopard
Synopsis:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comf…
Starring:
Pierre Clémenti,
Claudia Cardinale,
Burt Lancaster
Plot:
prince,
1860s,
sicily,
aristocracy,
19th century,
battle,
nobility,
revolution,
palermo italy,
social change
...
#12
The King of Comedy
Synopsis:
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Kim Chan,
Jerry Lewis
#13
The Dead Zone
Synopsis:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Starring:
Tom Skerritt,
Nicholas Campbell,
Christopher Walken
#14
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Synopsis:
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Starring:
Horst Frank,
Karl Malden,
James Franciscus
#15
The Apartment
Synopsis:
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Starring:
David Lewis,
Fred MacMurray,
Jack Kruschen
#16
Sweet Smell of Success
Synopsis:
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the metho…
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Jeff Donnell,
Tony Curtis
Plot:
musician,
attempted suicide,
press agent,
newspaper columnist,
unscrupulous,
manipulation,
power,
jazz club,
incest,
blackmail
...
#17
Sunset Boulevard
Synopsis:
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Starring:
Franklyn Farnum,
Fred Clark,
William Holden
#18
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Synopsis:
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Starring:
Whoopi Goldberg,
Kathy Najimy,
Maggie Smith
#19
Shock Corridor
Synopsis:
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Starring:
Constance Towers,
Hari Rhodes,
Paul Dubov
#20
Scarface
Synopsis:
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Starring:
Boris Karloff,
Purnell Pratt,
Paul Muni