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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.
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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 |
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John Sturges |
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Killing Fields, The
Every so often, there is a film that is destined to be talked about and remembered for years to c...
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UK] from $1.99
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
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Sam Waterston |
Haing S. Ngor |
John Malkovich |
Julian Sands |
Craig T. Nelson |
Spalding Gray |
Bill Paterson |
Athol Fugard |
Graham Kennedy |
Katherine Krapum Chey |
Oliver Pierpaoli |
Edward Entero Chey |
Tom Bird |
Monirak Sisowath |
Lambool Dtangpaibool |
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Roland Joffé |
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to its future.
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Mark Wahlberg |
Tim Roth |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Michael Clarke Duncan |
Paul Giamatti |
Estella Warren |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa |
David Warner |
Kris Kristofferson |
Erick Avari |
Lucas Elliott |
Evan Parke |
Glenn Shadix |
Freda Foh Shen |
Chris Ellis |
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Tim Burton |
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John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with Co Bao, and when Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh, Rambo wants revenge, so he starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.
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Sylvester Stallone |
Richard Crenna |
Charles Napier |
Steven Berkoff |
Julia Nickson-Soul |
Martin Kove |
George Cheung |
Andy Wood |
William Ghent |
Voyo Goric |
Dana Lee |
Baoan Coleman |
Steven Williams |
Don Collins |
Christopher Grant |
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George P. Cosmatos |
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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.
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Brad Pitt |
David Thewlis |
B. D. Wong |
Mako |
Danny Denzongpa |
Victor Wong |
Ingeborga Dapkunaite |
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk |
Lhakpa Tsamchoe |
Jetsun Pema |
Ama Ashe Dongtse |
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Jean-Jacques Annaud |
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