Final Movies Flashcards
12 Angry Men
12 jurors decided the fate of an ethnically ambiguous boy. Following one dissent, the remaining jurors change their minds to not guilty.
Taxi Driver
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy, he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris.
The Godfather
A mafia family has a reluctant member join. He becomes very relevant and destroys the other members.
Murder in the First
A man is sent to Alcatraz for stealing $5. Following an escape account, he is put in solitary for three years. He kills the man who snitched on his escape plan and is charged with murder. A new lawyer goes against his firm to defend him with insanity. The horrors of Alcatraz are exposed and it is shut down.,
Crash
Shows the intertwined lives of two criminals, a DA, a racist cop, an actor, a muslim shopkeep, and a hispanic locksmith.
Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison, he doesn’t play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard’s resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy’s unbreakable will. Luke’s bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison’s dreaded solitary confinement cell, “the box,” make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
The Desperate Hours
escaped Luke is holding a family hostage. They all die
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A dud is sent to a chain gang. He escapes. He goes back willingly. He escapes again.
Shawshank redemption
A dude is falsely sent to prison. Once he realizes there is no proper freedom, he escapes
