The Shawshank Redemption
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Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Run time: 142m
Tagline: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Release: 1994-09-23
Stars: Bob Gunton Clancy Brown Gil Bellows James Whitmore Jeffrey DeMunn Larry Brandenburg Mark Rolston Morgan Freeman Tim Robbins William Sadler
12 Angry Men
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The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Run time: 97m
Tagline: It explodes like 12 sticks of dynamite!
Release: 1957-04-10
Stars: E.G. Marshall Ed Begley Edward Binns Henry Fonda Jack Klugman Jack Warden John Fiedler Joseph Sweeney Lee J. Cobb Martin Balsam
Schindler’s List
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Run time: 195m
Tagline: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Release: 1993-12-15
Stars: Béatrice Macola Ben Kingsley Caroline Goodall Embeth Davidtz Jonathan Sagall Liam Neeson Malgorzata Gebel Mark Ivanir Ralph Fiennes Shmuel Levy
Pulp Fiction
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A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Run time: 154m
Tagline: You won’t know the facts until you’ve seen the fiction.
Release: 1994-09-10
Stars: Amanda Plummer Bruce Willis Eric Stoltz Harvey Keitel John Travolta Maria de Medeiros Samuel L. Jackson Tim Roth Uma Thurman Ving Rhames
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Run time: 161m
Tagline: For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.
Release: 1966-12-23
Stars: Aldo Giuffrè Antonio Casale Claudio Scarchilli Clint Eastwood Eli Wallach Enzo Petito Lee Van Cleef Livio Lorenzon Luigi Pistilli Rada Rassimov