Das Boot (1981)
Petersen's 1981 German U-boat drama. Three-hour theatrical, six-hour director's cut, miniseries.
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1960sBirdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Frankenheimer's 1962 prison biopic. Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud.
1970sEscape from Alcatraz (1979)
Siegel's 1979 prison thriller. Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris.
1990sFortress (1992)
Gordon's 1992 SF prison action film. B-movie premise, A-movie commitment from Gordon.
1970sAssault on Precinct 13 (1976)
John Carpenter's 1976 LA siege thriller. Decommissioned police station under gang assault.
Film SeriesUnder Siege 1 & 2 (1992, 1995)
Die Hard formula adapted with Tommy Lee Jones substantial in the first. The Under Siege films are a two-installment action franchise starring Steven Seagal as Casey Ryback, a Navy SEAL whose operational skills are deployed against terrorist takeovers of confined…
2010sThe Purge (2013)
James DeMonaco's 2013 home invasion thriller. The premise has acquired more cultural standing than the actual films have generated.
1930sStagecoach (1939)
Nine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.
2010sDredd (2012)
Dredd is the rare comic book adaptation that fully understood its source material. Alex Garland wrote, between his collaborations.
2010sSnowpiercer (2013)
Bong directed and co-wrote with Kelly Masterson. The film made approximately eighty-six million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
1960sFantastic Voyage (1966)
Fantastic Voyage is the mid-1960s science fiction film about a submarine and crew miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist. The film made approximately twelve million dollars on a six and a half million…
2000sSunshine (2007)
Michelle Yeoh plays Corazon. The film made approximately thirty-two million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.