Maze

Sep 22, 2017

1h 33m

★ 5.9

Overview

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

Genres

Drama

History

Thriller

Production Companies

Filmgate Films

Mammoth Films

Cyprus Avenue Films

Lionsgate

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

RTÉ

Windmill Lane Pictures

Film i Väst

Maze Trailers

Cast

Larry Marley

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Gordon Close

Barry Ward

Oscar

Martin McCann

Jill

Niamh McGrady

Kate Marley

Eileen Walsh

Joe

Aaron Monaghan

Danny Marley

Ross McKinney

Young Widow

Elva Trill

Brendan 'Bik' MacFarlane

Tim Creed

Bobby

Cillian O'Sullivan

Gerry

Patrick Buchanan

Warder Williams

Andy Kellegher

A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.

6.3

Omagh

Mar 23, 2005

The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.

6.4

Holiday

Jan 19, 2006

After 1988 Seoul Olympic, Ji Kang-heon, who is sentenced for 7 years, and other inmates escape from the police van. After escaping, Ji Kang-heon and inmates make the entire Seoul under fear while they hold hostages.

4.4

Mercenary for Justice

Apr 25, 2006

Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. Some of John's soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. He heads back to the US and visits Radio's wife Shondra to tells her the news, and then promises that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped.

7.3

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Oct 22, 2008

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

0.0

Life After Life

Apr 2, 1995

Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.

5.5

Holy Cross

Oct 10, 2003

Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.

6.7

Raw Deal

May 21, 1948

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...

6.0

Mrs. Soffel

Dec 26, 1984

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

6.1

Against the Wall

Mar 26, 1994

In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.

5.9

The Domino Principle

Mar 23, 1977

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.

5.2

Beautiful Joe

Jun 9, 2000

A bad girl becomes a con artist, gets into trouble with the mob and taps a nice-guy florist for help.

6.1

Black Tuesday

Dec 31, 1954

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

4.9

The Grave

Jan 18, 1996

Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.

5.7

For You I Die

Dec 17, 1947

A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.

5.7

Mo

Jan 31, 2010

A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.

6.7

Zoo

Jun 8, 2018

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

7.4

Lonely are the Brave

Apr 26, 1962

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.