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1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994) more movies like this directed by Frank Darabont featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £2.00!
2	The Great Escape (1963) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring 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. ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.54!
3	The Count of Monte Cristo (1974) more movies like this directed by David Green, David Greene featuring 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, ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £11.75!
4	The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) more movies like this directed by Kevin Reynolds featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!
5	Behind Enemy Lines (2001) more movies like this directed by John Moore featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.00!
6	Chicken Run (2000) more movies like this directed by Nick Park, Peter Lord featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.02!
7	Return to Oz (1985) more movies like this directed by Walter Murch featuring 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 ... see all copies from £4.85! new only from £7.56!
8	Escape from New York (1981) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.54!
9	Holes (2003) more movies like this directed by Andrew Davis featuring 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 ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £7.56!
10	Escape from Alcatraz (1979) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from £2.60! new only from £5.13!
11 view cover	Papillon (1973) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £10.01!
12 view cover	The City of Lost Children (1995) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from £3.11! new only from £7.87!
13 view cover	The 39 Steps (1935) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring 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 ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £4.34!
14 view cover	Escape from Sobibor (1987) more movies like this 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 see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
15 view cover	Grand Illusion (1937) more movies like this directed by Jean Renoir featuring 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 ... see all copies from £3.47! new only from £10.39!
16 view cover	White Nights (1985) more movies like this directed by Taylor Hackford featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.94! new only from £6.14!
17 view cover	I Am David (2004) more movies like this 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 ... see all copies from £4.93! new only from £6.59!
18 view cover	Escape from L.A. (1996) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
19 view cover	Cube (1998) more movies like this directed by Vincenzo Natali featuring 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, ... see all copies from £3.79! new only from £4.13!
20 view cover	The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) more movies like this directed by Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas featuring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo--and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat. Donat plays Edmond Dantes, wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D'If, Dantes vows ... see all copies from £29.10! new only from £55.27!
21 view cover	Wedlock (1991) more movies like this directed by Lewis Teague featuring Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar, Stephen Tobolowsky In this futuristic action drama directed by Lewis Teague, Frank Warren (Rutger Hauer) is a man accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of gems. In prison, all the inmates wear collars which are electronically joined to those of an unknown partner. The collars will explode if either partner gets more than 300 feet away from the other. Warren ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.92!
22 view cover	Blood Alley (1955) more movies like this directed by John Wayne, William Wellman featuring Berry Kroeger, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim, Anita Ekberg John Wayne teaches those dirty Commies yet another lesson in Blood Alley. Wayne plays a veteran seaman who comes to the aid of Lauren Bacall, the daughter of a missionary doctor killed by the Red Chinese. It takes no little persuasion, but Bacall finally convinces Wayne to smuggle a group of villagers past the Communist forces and into the safe ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £3.46!
23 view cover	Midnight Express (1978) more movies like this directed by Alan Parker featuring 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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.95!
24 view cover	Saints and Soldiers (2004) more movies like this directed by Ryan Little featuring Corbin Allred, Larry Bagby III, Kirby Heyborne, Peter Holden, Alexander Polinsky A handful of fighting men must defy the odds to save their own lives and thousands of others in this drama set during World War II. In late 1944, a band of nearly a hundred American soldiers are making their way through a wooded region of Belgium when they are ambushed by German forces in a battle that became known as "the Malmady Massacre." A ... see all copies from £7.63! new only from £14.54!
25 view cover	Night Crossing (1981) more movies like this directed by Delbert Mann featuring John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Glynnis O'Connor, Doug McKeon, Beau Bridges Two friends chart a daring path to freedom in this drama from Walt Disney Pictures. Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) and Guenter Wetzel (Beau Bridges) are two men living in East Germany who can no longer tolerate the petty tyrannies of Communist rule. Together, they formulate a daring plan to escape to democratic West Germany in a hot air balloon, but ... see all copies from £7.56! new only from £7.56!

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