Planet of the Apes (2001)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: 20th Century Fox Studio: 20th Century Fox

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jul 27, 2001

Running Time: 120 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, Estella Warren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, David Warner, Kris Kristofferson, Erick Avari

director: Tim Burton, Andy Armstrong

Planet of the Apes

American pilot Leo Davidson finds himself stranded in an upside-down world--a brutal, primal place where intelligent apes are in charge and humans scavenge for subsistence, hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates. When he attracts the attention of the politically well-connected ape Ari, a human rights activist, he begins to challenge the status quo, becoming a catalyst for revolutionary social change.

Planet of the Apes is Tim Burton's fresh ''re-imagining'' of the 1968 time-honored cult classic that while new, stirs haunting echoes of the original. The apes are fierce and ferocious, and the humans face extinction.

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Captain Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) ignores his commander's orders and leaves his space station in an exploration vehicle to find his missing chimp pilot protege, Pericles. Davidson ends up crash-landing on a distant planet, in a distant future. On this planet, however,…