Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Rosenberg's 1967 prison drama. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
1960sRosenberg's 1967 prison drama. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
1990sDarabont's 1994 King novella adaptation. The film IMDb has ranked #1 since 2008.
1980sRosenberg's 1980 prison-reform drama. Robert Redford as the warden who arrives undercover as an inmate.
1960sFrankenheimer's 1962 prison biopic. Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud.
1970sSiegel's 1979 prison thriller. Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris.
1990sJim Sheridan's 1993 film on the Guildford Four miscarriage of justice. Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite turn courtroom rage into pure craft.
1950sWayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
1950sFred Zinnemann's 1952 western shot in real time. The clock is the antagonist.
2020sDerrick Borte's 2020 road rage thriller. Russell Crowe as the deranged driver.
1970sJohn Carpenter's 1976 LA siege thriller. Decommissioned police station under gang assault.
1990s
2010sUnder the Skin is one of the most uncompromising science fiction films of the 2010s and one of the most divisive. Walter Campbell co-wrote with Glazer, loosely adapting Michel Faber's 2000 novel.
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