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Directed by Anthony KimminsOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about capital punishmentActors Alec Guinness,
Celia Johnson,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Charles Goldner,
Miles Malleson,
Bill FraserRating67%




In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec Guinness) is escorted through an angry, clamouring crowd by a platoon of soldiers. They enter a fort and it is clear that he is to be executed. The commander (Peter Bull) orders the men to line up in two rows and gives the order to fire. As the shots ring out, the scene changes to a ferry ship, the "Golden Fleece" in the docks as the passengers embark for the two days' journey to Gibraltar. Amongst the crew, there is much dismay, and the chief officer, Carlos Ricco (Charles Goldner) takes to his cabin with the clear intention of getting drunk. He is interrupted by an elderly gentleman, Lawrence St. James (Miles Malleson), who had come to speak his nephew, Captain Henry St. James on an unspecified, but urgent, matter. He is profoundly shocked to learn that the grief he had encountered on the ship is due to the death of the man he had travelled from England to see. He begs Ricco, to explain what has led to such an event. He learns that his nephew Henry was the prosperous owner and skipper of this small passenger ship which he captained as it ferried regularly to and fro between Gibraltar and Kalique, a port in North Africa.
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, 1h32
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on plays,
Films about marriageActors Cary Grant,
Rosalind Russell,
Ralph Bellamy,
Gene Lockhart,
Alma Kruger,
Porter HallRating77%




Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson (Rosalind Russell), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York. Walter determines to sabotage these plans, enticing the reluctant Hildy to cover one last story, the upcoming execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams (John Qualen).
, 1h52
Directed by Michel Gondry,
Bong Joon-ho,
Leos CaraxOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Fantasy,
Anthology film,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Ayako Fujitani,
Ryō Kase,
Denis Lavant,
Jean-François Balmer,
Ayumi Itō,
Teruyuki KagawaRating69%




Directed by Michel Gondry. It is an adaptation of the short story comic "Cecil and Jordan in New York" by Gabrielle Bell.
, 2h19
Directed by Ken HughesOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Political films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Richard Harris,
Alec Guinness,
Robert Morley,
Nigel Stock,
Geoffrey Keen,
Dorothy TutinRating69%




Oliver Cromwell is a devout Puritan, a country squire, magistrate and former member of Parliament. King Charles I's policies, including the enclosing of common land for the use of wealthy landowners and the introduction of "Popish" and "Romish" rituals into the Church of England have become increasingly grating to many, including Cromwell. In fact Charles regards himself as a devout Anglican, permitting his French Queen to practise Roman Catholicism in private but forbidding her to bring up the young Prince of Wales in that faith. Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World, but, on the eve of their departure, he is persuaded by his friends to stay and resume a role in politics.
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, 1h34
Directed by Jules DassinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Prison filmsActors Burt Lancaster,
Hume Cronyn,
Charles Bickford,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Ann Blyth,
Ella RainesRating74%




On a dark, rainy morning at Westgate Prison, prisoners crammed into a small cell watch through the window as Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) returns from his term in solitary confinement. Joe is angry and talks about escape. The beleaguered warden is under pressure to improve discipline. His chief of security, Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn), is a sadist who manipulates prisoners to inform on one another and create trouble so he can inflict punishment. The often drunk prison doctor (Art Smith) warns that the prison is a powder keg and will explode if they are not careful. He denounces Munsey's approach and complains that the public and government officials fail to understand the need for rehabilitation.
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, 2h41
Directed by David LeanOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Pont,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Political films,
ÉvasionActors William Holden,
Alec Guinness,
Jack Hawkins,
Sessue Hayakawa,
James Donald,
Percy HerbertRating80%




In World War II, British prisoners arrive by train at a Japanese prison camp in Burma. The commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), informs them that all prisoners, regardless of rank, are to work on the construction of a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon. The senior British officer, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), reminds Saito that the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labour.
, 1h41
Directed by Patrick RidremontOrigin BelgiqueGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors François Berléand,
Virginie Efira,
Patrick Ridremont,
Christian Marin,
Jean-Luc Couchard,
Olivier LeborgneRating69%




Dans le couloir de la mort d'une prison désaffectée, William Lamers, le dernier détenu, attend l'issue de sa condamnation au poison pour homicides. La loi lui accorde une dernière déclaration mais ne précise aucune limite de durée. Lamers va alors, tel Shéhérazade dans Les Mille et Une Nuits, saisir ce vide juridique en entamant un long monologue afin de retarder son exécution. Alors qu'une campagne électorale est lancée, le sort de William Lamers devient un enjeu politique et médiatique.
, 2h14
Directed by Jean-Pierre JeunetOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes French war films,
Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Audrey Tautou,
Gaspard Ulliel,
Clovis Cornillac,
Marion Cotillard,
Dominique Pinon,
Albert DupontelRating75%




Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde").
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