Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
Jack Cunningham was an HS basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.
An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Director:
Guy Ritchie
Stars:
Matthew McConaughey,
Charlie Hunnam,
Michelle Dockery
When happy couple Jules and Josh buy their dream house on a magnificent estate, they recruit beautiful Morgan to help them with the interior design, unaware Morgan has history with the house and will stop at nothing to make it her own.
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Director:
Leigh Whannell
Stars:
Elisabeth Moss,
Oliver Jackson-Cohen,
Harriet Dyer
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Director:
George Nolfi
Stars:
Nicholas Hoult,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Anthony Mackie
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director:
William Eubank
Stars:
Kristen Stewart,
Vincent Cassel,
T.J. Miller
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
In May 1980 the warden who had been on duty of the night of the escape, Sergeant Vermeulen, was put on trial for aiding in the escape of three prisoners. Stephen Lee, having first written to a newspaper explaining that Vermeulen played no part in the escape, upon request sent a sworn statement to Vermeulen's defence attorney stating his innocence. The combination of this and the many inconsistencies in Vermeulen's forced 'confession' led to his eventual acquittal. See more »
Very well told story of Tim Jenkins and co escaping the brutal prison regime in Pretoria prison. Daniel Radcliffe is convincing in the lead role.