A Prayer Before Dawn

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.

Runtime

3h 15m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she...

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

James Mangold

Cast

Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Runtime

2h 53m

Director

John Sturges

Cast

Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Runtime

2h 26m

Director

Norman Jewison

Cast

Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger