Posts Tagged ‘prisoner’

Death Race (2008)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Max Ryan | Benz Antoine | Marcello Bezina | John Canoe | Jason Clarke | Tyrese Gibson | Frederick Koehler | Robert LaSardo | Justin Mader | Ian McShane | Robin Shou | Jason Statham | Jacob Vargas | Joan Allen | Melantha Blackthorne
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world’s most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

Willow (1988)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Patricia Hayes | Warwick Davis | Val Kilmer | Joanne Whaley | Jean Marsh | Billy Barty
Directors: Ron Howard
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

The Great Escape (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor
Directors: John Sturges
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

The Green Mile (1999)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | David Morse | Bonnie Hunt | Michael Clarke Duncan | James Cromwell | Michael Jeter | Graham Greene | Doug Hutchison | Sam Rockwell | Barry Pepper | Jeffrey De Munn | Patricia Clarkson | Harry Dean Stanton | Dabbs Greer | Eve Brent
Directors: Frank Darabont
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Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930’s, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Proof of Life (2000)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Russell Crowe | David Morse | Pamela Reed | David Caruso | Anthony Heald | Stanley Anderson | Gottfried John | Alun Armstrong | Michael Kitchen | Margo Martindale | Mario Ernesto Sánchez | Pietro Sibille | Vicky Hernández | Norma Martínez
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Kathleen Turner | Danny DeVito | Spiros Focás | Avner Eisenberg | Paul David Magid | Howard Jay Patterson | Randall Edwin Nelson | Samuel Ross Williams | Timothy Daniel Furst | Hamid Fillali | Holland Taylor | Guy Cuevas | Peter DePalma | Mark Daly Richards
Directors: Lewis Teague
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This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?

Top Secret! (1984)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Val Kilmer | Lucy Gutteridge | Peter Cushing | Jeremy Kemp | Christopher Villiers | Warren Clarke | Harry Ditson | Jim Carter | Eddie Tagoe | Omar Sharif | Tristram Jellinek | Billy J. Mitchell | Major Wiley | Gertan Klauber | Richard Mayes
Directors: Jim Abrahams | Jerry Zucker | David Zucker
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This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.

Shaft (2000)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Vanessa L. Williams | Jeffrey Wright | Christian Bale | Busta Rhymes | Dan Hedaya | Toni Collette | Richard Roundtree | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Josef Sommer | Lynne Thigpen | Philip Bosco | Pat Hingle | Lee Tergesen | Daniel von Bargen
Directors: John Singleton
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Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father’s money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who’s willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?

Midnight Express (1978)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brad Davis | Irene Miracle | Bo Hopkins | Paolo Bonacelli | Paul L. Smith | Randy Quaid | Norbert Weisser | John Hurt | Mike Kellin | Franco Diogene | Michael Ensign | Gigi Ballista | Kevork Malikyan | Peter Jeffrey | Tony Boyd
Directors: Alan Parker
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the “Midnight Express”.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Kate Capshaw | Jonathan Ke Quan | Amrish Puri | Roshan Seth | Philip Stone | Roy Chiao | David Yip | Rick Young | Chua Kahjoo | Rex Ngui | Philip Tan | Dan Aykroyd | Dr. Akio Mitamura | Michael Yama
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Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. They end up in an Indian village, where the people believe evil spirits have taken their children away after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try and retrieve the stone for the villagers.