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Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn (1909–1959), Australian-born Hollywood swashbuckler star of Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood; acquitted at his 1943 statutory rape trial; died in Vancouver aged 50.

Errol John

Errol John (1924–1988) was a Trinidadian actor and playwright who worked in Britain and is best known for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which won the Observer prize for best play in 1957.

Errol Morris

Errol Morris: American documentary filmmaker and author, director of The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, and The Unknown Known; Oscar winner, inventor of the Interrotron interview device.

Erroll Shand

Erroll Shand (born 1973) is a New Zealand actor trained at the University of Southern Queensland, known for Terry Clark in Underbelly, Patrick Harrows in The Twelve, and Edgar Price in Evil Dead Burn.

Erupcja

Erupcja (Polish for "eruption") is a 2025 romantic drama directed by Pete Ohs, starring Charli XCX as Bethany and Lena Góra as Nel, whose Warsaw reunion coincides with volcanic eruptions; written improvisationally during the shoot, it premiered at TIFF 2025.

Erwan Heussaff

Erwan Heussaff, French-Filipino food content creator and restaurateur, founder of The Fat Kid Inside blog and FEATR media company; 2023 James Beard Award winner documenting regional Filipino cuisine, heritage salts, and ube; husband of Anne Curtis.

Erwin brothers

The Erwin brothers, Jon and Andrew Erwin of Birmingham, Alabama, are faith-based filmmakers behind I Can Only Imagine and founders of Kingdom Story Company with Lionsgate.

Erwin und Julia

Erwin und Julia is a 1990 Austrian romantic crime drama, the debut feature of Götz Spielmann, about a young couple who talk themselves into a crime.

Eryk Kulm

Eryk Kulm (Eryk Kulm Jr.), Polish actor born 1990, star of Filip (2022), Bokser (2024), and the Chopin biopic Chopin, Chopin! (2025); Eagle-winning best actor who performs his own piano parts.

Esai Morales

Esai Morales (Esaí Manuel Morales D'Clet, born 1962), American actor of Puerto Rican descent from Brooklyn: Bob Morales in La Bamba (1987), Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue, Gabriel in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning, NHFA co-founder.

Escaflowne (エスカフローネ) (film)

Escaflowne (エスカフローネ), aka Escaflowne: The Movie or A Girl in Gaea, is a 2000 Sunrise/BONES anime film directed by Kazuki Akane, retelling the 1996 Vision of Escaflowne TV series with darker, redesigned characters, music by Yoko Kanno, and a 2002 US theatrical release.

Escape (2024 South Korean film)

Escape (탈주, Talju) is a 2024 South Korean action thriller directed by Lee Jong-pil, starring Lee Je-hoon as a North Korean sergeant fleeing to South Korea.

Escape at Dannemora

Escape at Dannemora is a 2018 Showtime limited series, created by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin and directed by Ben Stiller, dramatizing the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape by Richard Matt and David Sweat, aided by prison worker Joyce Mitchell; it earned 12 Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe for Patricia Arquette.

Escape from Alcatraz (film)

Escape from Alcatraz (1979) is Don Siegel's prison drama starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris, dramatizing the real 1962 Alcatraz breakout by Morris and the Anglin brothers; Siegel and Eastwood's fifth and final collaboration, filmed on location.

Escape from Fort Bravo

Escape from Fort Bravo is a 1953 MGM Western directed by John Sturges, starring William Holden and Eleanor Parker, set in 1863 at a Union prison camp in Arizona Territory; the first film in MGM's own widescreen process (1.66:1), shot in Ansco Color in Death Valley and Gallup, New Mexico.

Escape from Germany

Escape from Germany is a 2024 T.C. Christensen faith-based drama about the August 1939 evacuation of American LDS missionaries from Nazi Germany, based on Terry Bohle Montague's book Mine Angels Round About, released April 11, 2024.

Escape from L.A.

Escape from L.A. (1996) is John Carpenter's sequel to Escape from New York, written with Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, who returns as Snake Plissken retrieving a doomsday device from earthquake-isolated, prison-island Los Angeles of 2013; released by Paramount, it grossed $25.5 million and drew mixed reviews.

Escape from Mogadishu (모가디슈)

Escape from Mogadishu (모가디슈) is Ryoo Seung-wan's 2021 South Korean action thriller about rival North and South Korean diplomats escaping Somalia's 1991 civil war; 3.6 million admissions, Blue Dragon best picture, Korea's 94th Oscars entry.

Escape from New York

Escape from New York is John Carpenter's 1981 dystopian action film starring Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, sent into a prison-walled Manhattan to rescue the President; it spawned Escape from L.A. and a Snyder remake in development.

Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 prison-break thriller, Francis Annan's feature debut, starring Daniel Radcliffe as ANC activist Tim Jenkin, who escaped Pretoria prison in 1979 using handcrafted wooden keys; filmed in Adelaide, Australia.

Escape from Sobibor

Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British TV war drama directed by Jack Gold, starring Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, and Joanna Pacula, dramatizing the October 1943 Jewish prisoner uprising and mass escape from the Sobibor extermination camp; it won two Golden Globes and five Emmy nominations.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) is the third Planet of the Apes film, directed by Don Taylor, in which Cornelius, Zira, and Milo flee their doomed world and land in 1973 Los Angeles.

Escape from the Trilateral Slopes (边水往事)

Escape from the Trilateral Slopes (边水往事) is a 2024 Youku suspense-adventure web series, 21 episodes, directed by Mou Xincen, supervised by Cao Baoping, starring Guo Qilin and Francis Ng in the fictional border world Sansbianpo.

Escape from Tomorrow

Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 surrealist black-and-white horror film by Randy Moore, shot guerrilla-style without permission at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, premiered at Sundance January 18, 2013, released October 11, 2013 by PDA, starring Roy Abramsohn; Disney took no legal action.

Escape Plan (film series)

Escape Plan film series: American action-thriller franchise starring Sylvester Stallone as prison-escape expert Ray Breslin, beginning with Escape Plan (2013) co-starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, followed by direct-to-video sequels Hades (2018) and The Extractors (2019).

Escape Plan (film)

Escape Plan (2013) is a Mikael Håfström prison-break action thriller starring Sylvester Stallone as security tester Ray Breslin and Arnold Schwarzenegger as inmate Emil Rottmayer, their first co-lead pairing; it earned mixed reviews and spawned two direct-to-video sequels.

Escape Plan 2: Hades

Escape Plan 2: Hades is a 2018 prison action thriller directed by Steven C. Miller, the second film in the Escape Plan series, starring Sylvester Stallone.

Escape Plan: The Extractors

Escape Plan: The Extractors is a 2019 American prison action thriller directed by John Herzfeld. It is the third film in the series, featuring Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin.

Escape Room (2019 film)

Escape Room is a 2019 American psychological horror thriller directed by Adam Robitel, in which six strangers playing an escape room discover the rooms are lethal traps.

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, also known as Escape Room 2, is a 2021 American psychological horror film directed by Adam Robitel and the sequel to Escape Room.