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Based on Michael Crichton's novel, this movie stars Michael Douglas as a high-powered executive who becomes embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal when his former lover, played by Demi Moore, becomes his boss. The film explores themes of power dynamics, workplace politics, and gender roles ...
isarrested and sent to a Turkish prison for attempting to smuggle hash out of Istanbul. As a foreigner in the dangerous prison system, Billy quickly finds that he will not survive in this prison and makes plans to escape. Based on Hayes’s account of his time in a Turkish prison, the ...
About as raw and unshakeable as historical dramas get, Steve McQueen’s first feature film is based on the six-week hunger strike conducted by IRA member Bobby Sands at Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison, an ordeal the artist-filmmaker had been obsessed with since childhood. McQueen immersed himsel...
eventually leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realizes that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know...
- Prison drama based on a Stephen King story. - Powerful Spielberg film about the Holocaust. - Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic rock classic. Down - Disney animated classic set in the animal kingdom. - To deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand. - Imagine Dragons' alternative ...
In this fact-based drama, politically motivated cops in Andhra Pradesh set out to frame four Tamil laborers for a crime, torturing them to no avail. 8.4IMDb The Sting 1973•Comedy, Drama2 h 9 min In this Oscar winner, a rookie grifter and veteran con artist plan to fleece a homicidal...
Based on real-life detectives, the film has a gritty vérité quality that captures the essence of 1970s New York, especially in its second half, which is generally considered the greatest chase scene of all time. — J.A. How to watch: The French Connection is now streaming on Max....
based on her own experience of coming out in her thirties. tig notaro and her wife stephanie allynne do an admirable job as codirectors, treating lucy’s journey of self-discovery with the respect it deserves—and plenty of humor. watch on max moviepass, moviecrash for better or worse, ...
The dispassionate prison-break procedural, based on a memoir, proved a perfect vehicle for the “pure” filmmaking now known as “Bressonian” in which nonprofessional actors (here François Leterrier plays Fontaine, the aspiring escape artist) are often shot in close-ups of hands and faces,...