When someone asks me for either/or, I assume it's the same thing. Generally, I keep the Synopsis 5 sentences or less. Thank you.
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What is the best premise for a movie?
Heist movie. Approximately 60% of the movie should be getting the crew together.
More on reddit.comWhat are some of the best movie premises?
I have 10 for you. All worth a watch.
Rope (1948)
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
The Wages of Fear (1953)
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
The Fire Within (1962)
Alain Leroy, a recovering alcoholic at a rehabilitation clinic in Versailles suffers with a depression. He intends to commit suicide, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one final time, trying to find a reason to live.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
La Soufriere (1977)
Filmmaker Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt.
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, is determined to transport a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory.
The Cyclist (1987)
Nasim, a poor Afghan refugee in Iran, gives a demonstration in his town's square where he rides his bicycle without stopping for seven days and seven nights, with the aim of raising money for life-saving surgery for his dying wife.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
When his murdered best friend's ex-girlfriend announces the pregnancy of their son, a filmmaker decides to interview numerous relatives, friends, and associates of the father and incorporate their loving remembrances into a film that would serve as a cinematic scrapbook for the unborn child who never knew him.
Dogtooth (2009)
A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound. The children are bored to tears in spite of distractions like Christina, an employee of their father's who makes regular visits to sexually service the son. Increasingly curious about the outside world, the older daughter hatches a plan to escape.
The Final Member (2012)
More on reddit.comThirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum - the world's only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the first human donor.