Papillon (1973)
Franklin Schaffner's 1973 Henri Charriere memoir. Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman.
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1970sMidnight Express (1978)
Alan Parker's 1978 Turkish prison drama. Brad Davis as American imprisoned for hashish.
1980sHoosiers (1986)
David Anspaugh's 1986 small-town basketball drama. Dennis Hopper as drunken assistant.
1970sRocky (1976)
John Avildsen's 1976 boxing underdog launcher. Began the franchise that defined boxing cinema.
1950sThe African Queen (1951)
John Huston's 1951 WWI East Africa adventure. Bogart and Hepburn down a river to torpedo a German gunboat.
1990sBroken Arrow (1996)
1996 John Woo action with Travolta as rogue Air Force pilot who steals nuclear weapons. The film depicts Air Force pilot Vic Deakins who hijacks nuclear weapons during a stealth bomber training flight.
1960sZulu (1964)
1964 Cy Endfield war film with Stanley Baker and Michael Caine in his breakthrough role. 1879 British defense of Rorke's Drift.
2010sDunkirk (2017)
2017 Christopher Nolan WWII film. Three timelines covering the 1940 evacuation from the Dunkirk beaches.
1970sThe Swarm (1978)
The Swarm is Irwin Allen's 1978 American disaster film. Allen's disaster filmography had included The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) that operated at substantially higher register.
2010sGeostorm (2017)
2017 Dean Devlin disaster film with Gerard Butler battling weather-controlling satellites that go rogue. Geostorm is Dean Devlin's 2017 American disaster film.
2010sDeepwater Horizon (2016)
2016 Peter Berg disaster film with Mark Wahlberg recreating the 2010 BP oil rig explosion. Eleven dead, worst spill in U.S. history.
1980sCome and See (1985)
Klimov's 1985 Soviet WWII drama. A teenage boy joins partisans in Nazi-occupied Belarus.