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Papillon
Directed by Michael Noer
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection. From TMDB
144 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 21, 2026 · last updated Oct 22, 2026 · How this works
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Papillon is a 2017 adventure crime drama film, directed by Michael Noer, starring Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek and Christopher Fairbank.
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60 of 144 · most liked firstI love older/classic movies. They allow for a good mental break from the day-to-day chaos of 2025. Last night I watched Papillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. What's the most recent classic movie you've watched?
positive · AI labelView post →Sweet Lucy: once shy, now a cuddle bug who loves laps, blankets, and movie nights. She is a 2 yo Papillon/Chihuahua Mix. @dogs.bsky.social @adoptabledogs.bsky.social #papillon #dogsarelove #dogrescue #adoptdontshop Read more about sweet Lucy here: www.ourunderdogrescuesquad.org/lucy2
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie milder: The Papillon of Wall Street
neutral · AI labelView post →Should he have been nominated for Papillon? Always liked that movie. Also liked the book, which i didn't read until after i saw the movie. There is a great audio version. youtu.be/s_oCJtfAfHE?...
positive · AI labelView post →Iconic Movie Scenes: The jump to freedom. Papillon (1973) youtu.be/4XGWXmxmaoE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →YouTube Lottery: "Papillon." That's a much better movie. Thanks, @bmoviemaniacs.bsky.social, for this tale of zombies, diamonds, and bullet bras. Have a great weekend, #BMovieManiacs friends.
positive · AI labelView post →Did you know that Pillion’s father, PaPillon was also an action movie? #NepoBaby
neutral · AI labelView post →I understand that Steve McQueen based his performance in Papillon on this movie #BMovieManiacs
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd prefer to see them in a French Guiana prison like the one in the movie "Papillon".
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: Papillon directed by Franklin J. Schaffner released December 16, 1973. Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan, William Smithers, Val Avery. #Historical
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw the film “Papillon,”the eponymously titled film based on the life of Henri Charrière who spent 14 years (1931-1945) in Bagne de Cayenne, a French penal colony in French Guiana. As I watch it, I’m reminded that gulags like CECOT aren’t new. May every man sent there unjustly be freed. 🦋
positive · AI labelView post →I have seen this elsewhere: My 5 perfect films. Hmm...not sure any film is perfect however - 1. Twelve Angry Men 2. Godfather (1 or 2????) 3. Seven Samurai 4. Papillon 5. Life of Brian
positive · AI labelView post →Just one new film this week. #Papillon #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →#alimcgraw #stevemcqueen ❤️❤️❤️ I believe in the film set of #papillon 🎥 1973
neutral · AI labelView post →A really good movie. Masterfully crafted, long but never boring. I've never been a huge McQueen fan, but he delivers. Dustin Hoffman nails it like every time. Not my usual go to kind of film, but I recommend this highly. #filmsky #papillon #stevemcqueen #dustinhoffman
positive · AI labelView post →Post a 70s movie that starts with the letter P 🎥 "Papillon" (1973)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching Papillon and this guy has tried to escape prison so many times I'm ready ready this movie to be over
negative · AI labelView post →Remembering legendary and innovative, Oscar/Emmy-winning film, TV & stage director Franklin J. Schaffner, on his 106th birthday, on the set of PLANET OF THE APES (1968), PATTON (1970), PAPILLON (1973) & THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978). He was #BOTD on 5/30/1920 and passed away at 69 on 7/2/1989.
neutral · AI labelView post →I read Papillon in early HS I think. It's way more brutal & "adult" than the '73 movie. Advice: don't read any reviews or toxic "comment sections" about the book, just take a deep breath & dive in. 👍💯
neutral · AI labelView post →Franklin J. Schaffner #botd won both the Academy Award and Directors Guild of America Award for Patton, a film that won seven Oscars. Other films directed by Schaffner include Planet of the Apes and Papillon...
neutral · AI labelView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 97/365 Franklin J. Schaffner - Papillon (1973) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Please don't let Trump watch the movie "Papillon." We'll have another country on the invasion list. youtu.be/xqj7XOv9mC8
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 2000s. Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Dominique Bauby, "Le Scaphandre et le Papillon" (directed by Julian Schnabel). #movies #films #thedivingbellandthebutterfly #julianschnabel #mathieuamalric
neutral · AI labelView post →Blame Is For God And Small Children. #70sMoviesTaughtMe #HashTagGames #Papillon #1973 #Movies #Stills
neutral · AI labelView post →Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman have such an unexpectedly wonderful chemistry in this film. They make you care so much about what happens to these two characters, together. #TCMParty #Papillon
positive · AI labelView post →Totally off track from the movie currently showing, but I noticed Papillon is on later tonight. Today happens to be Dustin Hoffman’s birthday. Happy birthday Dustin! #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →My interview with 70-year-old Oscar nominee Florence Miailhe, dipping into her short film PAPILLON – about French-Jewish swimming champ Alfred Nakache – and her miraculous over-painting technique www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
neutral · AI labelView post →🦋If you've read 'The Swimmer of Auschwitz', then check out 'Papillon' (Butterfly in English), an animated short that has made the 98th Academy Awards shortlist for Animated Short Films. 'Papillon' further explores the life of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache🦋 #hmd2026 #yearofreading #books #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →I never read Papillon, but I saw the movie when it came out. 😳
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting on great movies now Papillon, the proper one with Steve McQueen...what a film...
positive · AI labelView post →Papillon. There are a lot of interesting stories in the book that didn’t make it into the movie but at the same time it wanders a lot. The movie tells a tighter story.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Octobermoviechallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky #Movies 10/4 Someone wrongly imprisoned in a movie Papillon [1973]
neutral · AI labelView post →Fav film for each year of the '70's: 70: Tora! Tora! Tora! 71: Dirty Harry 72: The Godfather 73: Papillon 74: The Man w/ The Golden Gun 75: Jaws 76: The Bad News Bears 77: Star Wars 78: The Last Waltz 79: Alien
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, I've seen this movie!! I wonder if this is the island with the cyclops or the giant metallic soldiers? #Papillon #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 60s - Belle de Jour 70s - Papillon 80s - Blade Runner 90s - Beau Travail 00s - In the Mood for Love 10s - Carol 20s - Godzilla Minus 1
neutral · AI labelView post →I have found My People! Although not technically a prison movie, I adore Papillon.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowPlaying Papillon (1973) and thinking about it sideways, less as an escape movie and more as a parable of how colonial carceral systems operate in the Americas. Exile, extraction, discipline, and a delusional fantasy that suffering at the periphery keeps order at the centre. Still true! #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this movie. Wish it wasn't on in the dead of night. Wait a minute. What am I doing up watching this. #TCMParty #Papillon
positive · AI labelView post →Papillon. Very sad, but I guess every prison movie should be sad.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wasn't that what the movie Papillon was about?
neutral · AI labelView post →Ugh, Papillon is barely watchable for adults let alone little kids. #hatm Great movie though.
positive · AI labelView post →Sending them to a penal colony? Reminiscent of Devil's Island, which I first heard of in the movie Papillon a million years ago. But presumably those prisoners had some sort of trial. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_c...
neutral · AI labelView post →If DT charged the gardening channel for spreading Rumors he loves puttering around in the flower & vegetable garden of intrigue He would seek a self sustaining immunity from being prosecuted if he retired as prez to garden on that French island the movie Papillon was filmed on & imprisoned
neutral · AI labelView post →terrific movie my pops introduced me to as a kid; just picked it up on disc to help round out my Sidney Lumet collection. (I think I have more of his films than any other filmmaker - he made a lot!) have you seen? very much in the vein of PAPILLON, COOL HAND LUKE, etc.
positive · AI labelView post →Papillon, back when my friends and I would see pretty much whatever was at the local one screen theatre (Plaza in Maplewood, MN). I was 10. Probably should watch this movie again.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Papillon movie far too young.
neutral · AI labelView post →Drop a film with a single-word title Papillon
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay now we have another category. Your favorite movie where someone stuck something up their ass. Mine is Papillon.
positive · AI labelView post →Butterfly (Papillon) - Oscar Nominated Short Film Review www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0r2...
neutral · AI labelView post →Papillon (1973 film) Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo Lorenzo Semple Jr.
neutral · AI labelView post →Are you Uncle Leo? On a tangent, I just found out that [Len Lesser](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504335/) was not only quite handsome in his younger years, he was also an extra in one of my favorite movies, the original "Papillon."
positive · AI labelView post →Movie Papillon, 1973 Director Franklin J. Schaffner Writers Dalton Trumbo Lorenzo Semple Jr. Henri Charrière A French convict in the 1930s begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island which inspires the man to plot his escape. www.imdb.com/title/tt0070...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh wait, I was talking about The Hobbit, not Papillon. Yea I wouldn't read that one. If the movie was any indication then yea I don't wanna read the gory details. I have not seen the newer movie version either.
negative · AI labelView post →Papillon was such a good movie!! 🦋🦋🦋
positive · AI labelView post →Was Papillon on Devil's Island in French Guyana? What a horrible but great movie. Debtor's Prison. USA is heading this direction.
positive · AI labelView post →I mean, we got a "Steve McQueen in a South American hellhole" movie in the '70s in PAPILLON, and even at his lowest in that picture he couldn't sell the utter desperation you need to make SORCERER work.
neutral · AI labelView post →Papillon (1973) Who here has seen this film that stars Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman? What do you think of it? #Movies #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Papillon was so awful (inhumanity) I couldn't watch it again. Guess I'm a snowflake. The movie was superb, of course. I don't watch movies much anymore. Just some sports on occasion. The harder life becomes, the less I fantasize.
neutral · AI labelView post →Papillon was a great film. Maybe we could remodel the penal colony of Bagne de Cayenne on Devil’s Island
positive · AI labelView post →Wearing a watch that probably costs 10k and in full make up. The backdop is like a scene from the movie Papillon.
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