Knick Knack

Life on a shelf as a snowman trapped in a snow-globe blizzard can become wearing, especially when you're surrounded by knickknacks from sunnier locales. When the jaded snowman finally breaks free of his glass house, his vacation plans are cut short.

Follow the River

1995

English

♡ 4

48%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Drama

escape

husband wife relationship

kidnapping

settler

wilderness

Martin Davidson Director

Renée O'Connor as Bettie Draper

Ellen Burstyn as Gretel

Tony Amendola as LaPlante

Tim Guinee as Will

Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.

Escape from Planet Earth

2013

English

♡ 73

35%

Cal Brunker Director

Sofía Vergara as Gabby Babblebrock

Jim Ward as Grey 1

Jonathan Morgan Heit as Kip Supernova

Jessica Alba as Lena Thackleman

Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

Sorrow

2015

English

2.6

♡ 7

27%

Action

based on a true story

Millie Loredo Director

Vannessa Vasquez as

Donny Boaz as Detective Farrell

Jill Adler as Mila's Mom

Elle LaMont as Preppy Girl

A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands

Victory

1981

English

6.7

♡ 27

70%

John Huston Director

Sylvester Stallone as Captain Robert Hatch - The Players: U.S.A.

Michael Caine as Capt. John Colby - The Players: England

Michael Cochrane as Farrell - The English

Clive Merrison as The Forger - The English

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

The Ice Harvest

2005

English

6.2

♡ 21

47%

Harold Ramis Director

Oliver Platt as Pete Van Heuten

Connie Nielsen as Renata Crest

Ned Bellamy as Sidney

Billy Bob Thornton as Vic Cavanaugh

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.

A Fork in the Road

2010

English

5.9

♡ 11

35%

Jim Kouf Director

Jaime King as April Rogers

William Russ as Detective Ross

Missi Pyle as Nola

Rick Overton as Sheriff Thompson

An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.

Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre

2015

English

3.1

♡ 13

28%

Jim Wynorski Director

Cindy Lucas as Anita Conners

Dominique Swain as Honey

Christine Nguyen as Michelle Alika

Skye McDonald as Sarah Mason

When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth’s crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground water way to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward toward a murky bog in the heart of the Arkansas Bayou. Unfortunately, for a group of female prisoners on a work detail in the swamp, the deadly sharks attack without warning – pinning a hapless group of intended victims in a small deserted cabin in the heart of the wetlands. Death may be the only means of escape!

Asthma

2014

English

5.4

♡ 15

11%

Jake Hoffman Director

Rosanna Arquette as Gus's Mother

Vincent Laresca as Painter

Krysten Ritter as Ruby

John Lee Ames as The Kid

A young musician takes a beautiful tattoo artist on a ride in a stolen classic car.

The Defiant Ones

1958

English

7.6

♡ 23

90%

Stanley Kramer Director

Ned Glass as Doctor

Lawrence Dobkin as Editor

Herman Hack as Search Party Member

Theodore Bikel as Sheriff Max Muller

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

City of Industry

1997

English

6.1

♡ 19

43%

John Irvin Director

Lucy Liu as Cathi Rose

Michael Jai White as Odell Williams

Famke Janssen as Rachel Montana

François Chau as Uncle Luke

A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.

Vanished

2016

English

3.9

♡ 13

54%

Larry A. McLean Director

Tom Everett Scott as Damon

William Mark McCullough as Dwayne

Jackson Hurst as Eric Harlow

Brigid Brannagh as Sarah

When millions of people begin to disappear, Gabby, his sister, and their other companies will have to stick together for survival and to figure out what happened behind of an indescribable occurrence.

1 Out of 7

2011

English

5.6

♡ 9

54%

York Alec Shackleton Director

Vivica A. Fox as Devon

Toby Hemingway as Eric

Theresa Russell as Lexi's Mom

Kelly Kruger as Tasha

Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.

Welcome to Curiosity

2018

English

4.2

♡ 18

Ben Pickering Director

Julian Seager as Henry

Martine Richards as Lapdancer

Brian Croucher as Stubbs

Amrita Acharia as Zoe

Four interconnected stories surrounding the escape from prison of a notorious serial killer.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934

English

7.4

♡ 21

88%

Rowland V. Lee Director

Theodore Lorch as Citizen

Sidney Blackmer as Mondego

Edward Hearn as Signalman

Irene Hervey as Valentine

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.

Passage to Marseille

1944

English

6.8

♡ 10

67%

Michael Curtiz Director

Juan Varro as Gunner at Field

Peter Lorre as Marius

Donald Stuart as Military Driver

Jean Del Val as Raoul Doulaine

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

The Trip to Bountiful

1985

English

7.4

♡ 5

100%

85%

Action

based on play or musical

Peter Masterson Director

Carlin Glynn as Jessie Mae

John Heard as Ludie Watts

Betty Lou Gerson as Rosella

Rebecca De Mornay as Thelma

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

Houdini

1953

English

6.8

♡ 7

85%

George Marshall Director

John Roy as Audience Member

Michael Pate as Dooley

Ian Wolfe as Malue

Anthony Warde as Master of Ceremonies

By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.