Drama, Thriller
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Casablanca
The Science of Sleep
Billy Elliot
Alice Rose
The Forgotten
Boys on the Side
Life Is All You Get
Joy Division
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
Bandits
Public Enemies
Midnight Express
The Crossing
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Defiant Ones
Escape to the Sun
The Escape
The Surface
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
The Riddle of the Stinson
SIMILAR MOVIES
Casablanca
IMDB 8.2 | Jan , 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.The Science of Sleep
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2006
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.Billy Elliot
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2000
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.Alice Rose
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2006
A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.The Forgotten
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 2004
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.Boys on the Side
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1995
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.Life Is All You Get
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1997
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...Joy Division
IMDB 5 | Nov , 2006
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 2001
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.Bandits
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 1997
Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.Public Enemies
IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 2009
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.Midnight Express
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1978
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".The Crossing
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 2020
One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents.The Long Kiss Goodnight
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 1996
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.The Defiant Ones
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 1958
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.Escape to the Sun
IMDB 4 | Oct , 1972
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their livesThe Escape
IMDB 4 | Apr , 1998
Clayton, at the age of nineteen, is convicted for a crime he did not commit. Ten years afterwards, after having taken all the abuses against him in prison, he decides to escape, without caring about the consequences.The Surface
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2014
Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1999
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.The Riddle of the Stinson
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 1988
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.