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- Blue Valentine. Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka. 83 votes. In Blue Valentine, we are presented with an intricate tapestry of love and loss. The film's central characters are Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams), a couple whose relationship oscillates between the unbridled passion of their early days and the crushing reality of their present struggles.
- Brokeback Mountain. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini. 81 votes. Brokeback Mountain, a captivating drama that's won three Academy Awards, is set against the sweeping landscapes of Wyoming and Texas.
- My Week with Marilyn. Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh. 77 votes. In 1956 England, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) lands a job as a production assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl," starring Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams).
- Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. 75 votes. In the chilling mystery-thriller Shutter Island, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is dispatched to an asylum set on a remote island, along with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo).
- Blue Valentine (2010) Derek Cianfrance's heartbreaking film Blue Valentine examines the romance between married couple Cindy (Williams) and Dean (Ryan Gosling), contrasting the beginning and end of their storied relationship over the years and through many hardships.
- The Fabelmans (2022) In Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film The Fabelmans, the director casts Williams as a fictionalized version of his mother, an erratic but tender pianist torn between family and the passion she has for her art.
- Meek's Cutoff (2010) Williams' second Kelly Reichardt film tracks the journey of a group of 19th-century settlers along the Oregon Trail. As Emily Tetherow, Williams exudes a quiet confidence and competence that disrupts the patriarchal power structure of her party.
- Wendy and Lucy (2008) In her first of many collaborations with director Kelly Reichardt, Williams plays Wendy, an unhoused woman who lives out of her car with her beloved dog Lucy (played by Reichardt's actual dog of the same name).
Mar 18, 2024 · Get ready for a cinematic journey through time with Michelle Williams Movies! From her heartwarming performances in indie dramas to her blockbuster roles in Hollywood, this roundup article...
Oct 19, 2018 · As a celebration of this exciting and unique performer, here is a ranking of every Michelle Williams film from worst to best. 39. Timemaster. I don’t want to be too harsh on a film that contains a young performance, but even Williams herself hates Timemaster.
- 15 The Way Back
- 14 King of Devil's Island
- 13 Down by Law
- 12 The Grand Illusion
- 11 I Am A Fugitive from A Chain Gang
- 10 Rescue Dawn
- 9 Midnight Express
- 8 Papillon
- 7 The Defiant Ones
- 6 A Man Escaped
Prisoners At A Gulag Escape And Face The Dangerous Walk To Freedom
Based on a much-disputed legend of a long walk to freedom taken by escaped prisoners from a Siberian gulag, The Way Back is a sprawling period drama in the spirit of director Peter Weir's most sweeping epics. The gulag presents a brutal and inhumane fate for these prisoners with the audience desperately hoping they can be freed from it. The escape from the gulag is really the simplest part of the main characters' ordeal but, of course, that isn't their real prison. Their 4000-mile journey acr...
Inmates In A Boy's Prison Rebel
A dramatization of life ina boy's prison on the Norwegian island of Bastøy in the early 20th century which leads to an insurrection by the detainees, King of Devil's Island is an unforgiving but deeply affecting drama. The story begins with a new arrival at the Bastøy prison island where he befriends the other prisoners and attempts to fight back against the abuse and corruption he witnesses at the prison. Stellan Skarsgård leads a talented cast as the critically out-of-touch director of the...
Three Men Are Locked Up Together And Form A Connection
Jim Jarmusch directed the black-and-white prison escape movie Down By Law starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni. Waits and Lurie play two men who are set up for a crime they did not commitwhile Benigni is a tourist who is locked up for accidental manslaughter. While most prison escape films focus on these complicated and intricate schemes of escaping, this one is unique in focusing on how these convicts interact with each other, presenting a charming and hilarious trio who form...
World War I POWs Plan Their Escape
War movies and prison escape movies often overlap, as is the case with the French film The Grand Illusion from reserved French auteur Jean Renoir. The story follows two French pilots who are shot down and captured during World War I. After being taken to a German POW camp, they continue to fuel their pride in the French war effort. They continuously attempt to escape before being sent to a seemingly inescapable prison. Much like with the director's following masterpiece, The Rules of the Game...
Based On A Real-Life Convict's Imprisonment In Georgia
Another prison escape movie from the earlier days of motion pictures,I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang has the added impact of being based on a true story. Adapted from the experiences of Robert Elliott Burns on a Georgia chain gangafter returning home to a life of a drifter from World War I, this 1930s Best Picture nominee is just as exciting and pertinent today as it was almost a century ago. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang may not sound like a movie with as wide a scope as it has but the...
The Brutal Fight For Survival Of A Real-Life Vietnam War POW
Werner Herzog is a filmmaker who jumps between documentary and narrative movies, but one subject inspired him to explore it in both mediums. Herzog made the documentaryLittle Dieter Needs to Fly in 1997 about Dieter Dengler, a US pilot whose plane was shot down in the country of Laos during the Vietnam War and taken prisoner. Herzog then proceeded to explore the same story in the movie Rescue Dawn, a dramatization of the horrors and brutality that Dengler faced before deciding that his only h...
A Young Drug Smuggler Attempts To Survive In Turkish Prison
Alan Parker’s Midnight Express is a tough story to watch though it’s a seminal prison escape movie. College student Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is arrested and sent to a Turkish prison for attempting to smuggle hash out of Istanbul. As a foreigner in the dangerous prison system, Billy quickly finds that he will not survive in this prison and makes plans to escape. Based on Hayes’s account of his time in a Turkish prison, the film takes many liberties with its story. Despite that, Parker’s direct...
Two Unlikely Friends Plan An Escape From A South American Prison
The starring duo of Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman make for a wonderful pair in the thriller Papillon. The story is based on supposed true events and follows two prisoners who form an unlikely friendship during their respective life sentences in a South American prison. During this time, one of the prisoners plots an escape and kicks off one of the most daring plots in film history. The movie is an old-school Hollywood adventure with a mixture of excitement and dread with the daunting task...
Sidney Poitier Makes History
Stanley Kramer’s 1958 drama, The Defiant Ones, is a thoughtful and tense film about the struggles of race relations in the 1950s. Two convicts seize an opportunity to escape from a chain gang while chained together, despite hating each other. It is a setup that became a cornerstone of the buddy action movie genre with this movie influencing so many others. However, its cultural importance goes beyond that. Starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, this film won two Oscars, with both actorsbein...
A Man Plans An Escape In Nazi-Occupied France
In stark contrast to Renoir's The Grand Illusion, Robert Bresson's devoutly ascetic war movie displays the unfeeling brutality of the Nazi occupation of France through one prisoner's experience. Based on the memoirs of André Devigny, A Man Escaped follows a French resistance fight who is captured and imprisoned with the looming threat of being executed. Though weakened, afraid, and unsure of where he is, the man takes charge of his fate and plans a daring escape. A Man Escaped is timelessly t...
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Mar 10, 2023 · The list of the best Michelle Williams movies and TV shows streaming is one that goes back a little over two decades at this point, with outstanding performances ranging from a symbiote...
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