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The Count of Monte Cristo
(2002)
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Kevin Reynolds
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James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris, Luis Guzman
The classic tale of swashbuckling adventure by the senior Alexandre Dumas comes to the screen in its umpteenth incarnation, this time from Kevin Reynolds, directing his first feature in five years. James Caviezel stars as Edmond Dantes, an honest sailor who plans to marry his beautiful lover Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk). Edmond doesn't know that ...
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The Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
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directed by
Frank Darabont
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Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown
In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly ...
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Midnight Express
(1978)
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directed by
Alan Parker
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Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Irene Miracle, Paul L. Smith
Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a large amount of hashish out of the country. The crime ...
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The Great Escape
(1963)
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directed by
John Sturges
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Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, James Coburn
The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. ...
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Chicken Run
(2000)
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directed by
Nick Park, Peter Lord
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Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Ferguson, Imelda Staunton
Aardman Animations, the British clay-animation studio that created a cult sensation (and won three Academy awards) with its short subjects featuring Wallace and Gromit, presents its first feature film, a mixture of comedy and adventure. Mrs. Tweedy (voice of Miranda Richardson) operates a chicken farm, where most of the birds have resigned ...
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White Nights
(1985)
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directed by
Taylor Hackford
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Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page
The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini as Raymond's wife, Helen Mirren as Nikolai's ...
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Holes
(2003)
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directed by
Andrew Davis
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Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Dule Hill
A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a false promise his great, great grandfather made to a ...
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Not Without My Daughter
(1991)
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directed by
Brian Gilbert
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Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel
In this docudrama based on true events, a mid-'80s Michigan housewife finds her life turned upside down when a vacation to Tehran with her Iranian husband turns into virtual imprisonment for her and her young daughter. Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) is reluctant to visit the wartorn homeland of her doctor husband, Moody (Alfred Molina). But, ...
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Victory
(1981)
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directed by
John Huston
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Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pele, Werner Roth
John Huston directed this exciting World War II action film, which culminates in a rousing soccer game. In a German prisoner of war camp, Major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), the camp commander, once a member of the German national soccer team, decides to put together a soccer match between a team of Allied prisoners, led by Captain John Colby ...
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Escape from Sobibor
(1987)
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directed by
Jack Gold
During WWII, Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This gripping, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate who managed the largest escape from such a place. Thanks to him, over 300 prisoners were freed. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Cube
(1998)
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directed by
Vincenzo Natali
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Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole deBoer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Wayne Robson
This low-budget science-fiction drama, winner of a 1997 Toronto Film Festival prize for "Best Canadian First Feature," depicts the plight of a group of people clad in prison-style uniforms and trapped in futuristic cube-like metal cells. Their memories are hazy; no one can recall how they got there. Alderson (Julian Richings) awakens in a cell, ...
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Behind Enemy Lines
(2001)
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directed by
John Moore
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Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, Joaquim de Almeida
A television commercial for a Sega game system that aired during the 1999 MTV Music Video Awards landed debut director John Moore a gig behind the camera of this military action thriller. Owen Wilson stars as Lt. Chris Burnett, a naval aviator aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson who's frustrated with the strict "hands-off" political policies that ...
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Return to Oz
(1985)
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directed by
Walter Murch
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Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark
This '80s follow-up to The Wizard of Oz is based upon two of L. Frank Baum's later Oz books. In Return to Oz (a version that may be a bit too scary for young children), Auntie Em sends Dorothy to a sanitarium where hopefully she will clear her head from all of the "Oz nonsense." This doesn't work, for soon Dorothy manages to return to Oz, but ...
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Escape from New York
(1981)
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directed by
John Carpenter
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Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes
The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is strong-armed into rescuing the chief executive. He is ...
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Von Ryan's Express
(1965)
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directed by
Mark Robson
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Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, James Brolin, Edward Mulhare, Sergio Fantoni
Von Ryan's Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a prison camp in Italy. While most of the prisoners at the camp are British, a determined, resourceful American Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) takes charge and leads the escape, which requires that the prisoners wrest ...
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The City of Lost Children
(1995)
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directed by
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
featuring
Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Genevieve Brunet
This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was released. Krank (Daniel Emilfork) is a foul, monstrous creature who lords over the inhabitants of a small island; Krank's emotional being is every bit as ugly as his physical personage, largely because he does not have the ability ...
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Papillon
(1973)
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directed by
Franklin J. Schaffner
featuring
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo), incarcerated--wrongly, he claims--for murdering a pimp. He ...
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Escape from Alcatraz
(1979)
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directed by
Don Siegel
featuring
Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward
No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood). This Donald Siegel-directed nailbiter is a reenactment of Frank Morris' 1962 attempt to bust himself and two other cons out of The Rock. Eastwood, as Morris, tilts with nasty warden Patrick McGoohan for a while, befriends several fellow prisoners, and ...
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Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
(1994)
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directed by
Don Mc Brearty
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Janet Bailey, Courtney Vance, Dawnn Lewis, Glynn E. Turman, Tim Reid
Coproduced by two cable-TV servies-The Family Channel and the Black Entertainment Network--Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad uses historical fact as background for a fictional adventure tale. Courtney Vance and Janet Bailey star as slaves on a brutal antebellum North Carolina plantation. Together with two other slaves, Vance and Bailey ...
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I Am David
(2004)
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directed by
Paul Feig
featuring
Ben Tibber, James Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov, Silvia De Santis
A young boy is sent on a remarkable odyssey as he flees a Communist prison camp in this historical drama, set in Eastern Europe in the early '50s. David (Ben Tibber) is a 12-year-old boy who was sentenced with his parents to a Bulgarian labor camp when they were found guilty of political subversion; he hasn't seen his folks in years, and looks to ...
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The 39 Steps
(1935)
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directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Lucie Mannheim
This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall performance by "Mr. Memory" (Wylie Watson); in the ...
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Escape from L.A.
(1996)
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directed by
John Carpenter
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Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Escape from L.A. finds Kurt Russell once again in the role of Snake, which he played in the 1981 film, Escape from New York. Los Angeles has finally had the really big earthquake everyone was afraid of, and what remains is now an island. Because the country's ultra-righteous President-for-Life (Cliff Roberton) wants it that way, all the weirdos ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
(1974)
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directed by
David Green, David Greene
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Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence
Richard Chamberlain stars in this lavishly appointed adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas adventure story. When Count Edmond Dantes (Richard Chamberlain) is stripped of his wealth and sent to prison for crimes he did not commit, he swears to get revenge against those who wronged him. With the help of Abbe (Trevor Howard), a fellow prisoner, ...
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The Condemned
(2007)
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directed by
Scott Wiper
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Robert Mammone, Victoria Mussett, Manu Bennett
WWE superstar "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stars as a death row inmate who gets a rare second shot at life in director Scott Wiper's adrenaline-charged action thriller. Jack Conrad (Austin) is a dangerous convict currently awaiting execution in a corrupt Central American prison. "Purchased" by a wealthy television producer and transported to a ...
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Grand Illusion
(1937)
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directed by
Jean Renoir
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Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette
Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, twoFrench airmen are shot down while taking surveillance photographs in German territory: Capt. de ...
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