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The Great Escape

IMDB Rating: 8.40
37514 votes

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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.
Actors
Capt. Hilts "The Cooler King"Steve McQueen
Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger"James Garner
Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X"Richard Attenborough
Also posted in 1963, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, War | Comments (1)

The Notebook

IMDB Rating: 8.00
42857 votes

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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie's parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah's lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah's picture catches Allie's eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie's heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah's arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn't over for me.
Actors
RowerTim Ivey
Allie CalhounGena Rowlands
Nurse EstherStarletta DuPois
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (8)

The Painted Veil

IMDB Rating: 7.50
4185 votes

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Kitty Fane (Watts) is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband (Norton) learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Fane forces his wife to accompany him on the difficult and hazardous journey, endangering her life in the process.
Actors
Kitty FaneNaomi Watts
Walter FaneEdward Norton
Charlie TownsendLiev Schreiber
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

IMDB Rating: 7.40
71084 votes

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Captain Jack Sparrow's life is in debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the Flying Dutchmen who are supernatural warriors out for blood. Facing possible eternal damnation, Jack must save himself with help from Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who must come to Jack's aid.
Actors
Jack SparrowJohnny Depp
Will TurnerOrlando Bloom
Elizabeth SwannKeira Knightley
Also posted in 2006, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Skeleton Key

IMDB Rating: 6.40
15242 votes

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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it's different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.
Actors
Caroline EllisKate Hudson
Violet DevereauxGena Rowlands
Ben DevereauxJohn Hurt
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

King Kong

IMDB Rating: 7.80
77047 votes

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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
Actors
Ann DarrowNaomi Watts
Carl DenhamJack Black
Jack DriscollAdrien Brody
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mrs Henderson Presents

IMDB Rating: 7.20
5190 votes

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Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don't seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.
Actors
Laura HendersonJudi Dench
Vivian Van DammBob Hoskins
BertieWill Young
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Mean Creek

IMDB Rating: 7.30
4191 votes

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It all begins in a small Oregon town, when shy Sam (RORY CULKIN) confesses to his protective older brother Rocky that he is getting pummeled daily by the towering school bully, George. Together, they plan the perfect payback, inviting George on a birthday river trip tailor-made to end in the bully's humiliation. Rocky's pals Clyde and Marty and Sam's budding girlfriend Millie also join the journey, which starts almost immediately with misgivings. Seeing George in a new light, as a lonely kid desperate for friendship and attention, Sam wants to call the whole thing off. But the boat and the plot are already in motion, and no one can foresee the surprises and accidents that are to come.
Actors
SamRory Culkin
ClydeRyan Kelley
Marty 'Martini' BlankScott Mechlowicz
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Northfork

IMDB Rating: 6.30
1911 votes

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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation.
Actors
Walter O'BrienJames Woods
Father HarlanNick Nolte
MayorDouglas Sebern
Also posted in 2003, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)