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1) No escape
Summary
How far will one man go to protect the ones he cares about most in the world? An intense international thriller, centers on an American businessman as he and his family settle into their new home in Southeast Asia. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a violent political uprising, they must frantically look for a safe escape as rebels mercilessly attack the city.
3) Room
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After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
"See it you must for the Oscar-caliber Larson and young Tremblay, whose remarkable mother-and-child bond is nothing sort of astonishing to watch."--New York Post.
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Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison....
7) Pursuit
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An action-thriller about a tough copb2ss hunt for an even tougher criminal. Calloway, a ruthless hacker, is desperate to find his wife whob2ss been kidnapped by a drug cartel when he crosses paths with Detective Breslin. But after he escapes police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense female cop to reclaim his prisoner. But is Callowayb2ss crime-boss father somehow involved in this explosive situation?
8) I am David
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David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly loses his instinctual mistrust of humanity and begins to...
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Book: A classic of Western literature which follows "anarchist cowboy" Jack Burns who rides a chestnut mare across the New West. After a prison breakout plan goes awry, he is pursued to Mexico by law enforcement, the feds, and the military.
Movie: A cowboy tries to spring his friend from jail and ends up on the run alone. The sheriff, however, must bring him to justice despite his own sympathy for the renegade.
10) Escape plan
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Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
11) On fire
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Inspired by true and harrowing events, On Fire tells the story of an ordinary man who finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have any hope of surviving the rapid forces of Mother Nature.
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Escaping from a Confederate prison by balloon, five survivors land on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from being a sanctuary the island is home to carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and the mad genius, Captain Nemo, who inhabits the mysterious island for his own strange ends.
Series
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Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life.
14) The island
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Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a utopian facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island." But Lincoln soon realizes that everything about his existence is a lie. He discovers that all of the inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the evil...
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Battle-scarred and disillusioned by war, Corporal Chris Merriman is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her Taliban defiance escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merriman and his team will need all they can muster to fight their way across the...
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Molly and Lawless John: The wife of a brutal sheriff falls for a condemned prisoner. She helps him escape. Together they do their best to elude the sheriff who has vowed to get his wife back and to take vengeance on the outlaw.
Blue River: In the small Wisconsin town of Blue River, secrets run deep. And for Henry Howland, high school principal and repressive moral beacon of his community, they are about to explode in a shocking series of events that...
Series
Summary
Harry, Ron and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. In addition to new experiences, Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course...
Summary
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by war, Corporal Chris Merriman is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her Taliban defiance escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merriman and his team will need all they can muster to fight their way across the...
20) The Fugitive
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A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. At one point he jumps off the top of the dam to escape the authorities despite the state of Illinois being too flat for such a scene.