Prison Film
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    Movies

    The Longest Yard (2005)

    At a Texas penitentiary, jailed NFL veterans (Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds) train their fellow...

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    Movies

    The Ceremony (1963)

    An innocent man awaits execution in a Tangier prison for a murder he did not commit, until his...

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    Death Warrant (1990)

    An undercover officer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) investigates murder and mayhem in a prison where...

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    Out of Sight (1998)

    The mutual attraction between a federal marshal (Jennifer Lopez) and an escaped convict (George...

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    Dante 01

    Set in the future, where criminals are packed off to outer space, recounts the mishaps of six...

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    Carandiru (2004)

    A doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) listens to inmates' stories as he tests them for HIV in a...

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    Movies

    Caged Fury (1990)

    A young woman from a small rural town is framed for sexual crimes in Hollywood.

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    Let's Go To Prison (2006)

    After learning that the son (Will Arnett) of the judge who put him away is in jail, an ex-con (Dax...

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    Movies

    Brokedown Palace (1999)

    American teens (Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale) in Bangkok are framed for smuggling drugs and...

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    Jailhouse Rock (1957)

    An inmate (Elvis Presley) learns guitar from his cellmate (Mickey Shaughnessy), then gets an agent...

  • I Want to Live! picture
    Movies

    I Want to Live! (1958)

    Convicted of murder, drug-addicted shill and prostitute Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) lands on...

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    Movies

    99 Women

    Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original...

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    Isle of Missing Men

    By Monogram standards, the cast of Isle of Missing Men was Academy Award calibre. John Howard and...

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    Chattahoochee (1990)

    A disturbed Korean War hero (Gary Oldman) is placed in a barbaric Florida hospital for the...

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    Civil Brand (2003)

    Wrongly convicted for murder, a woman leads abused female inmates (N'Bushe Wright, Monica Calhoun)...

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    Black Mama, White Mama (1973)

    A hooker (Pam Grier) and a radical (Margaret Markov) escape from a brutal Philippine prison, chained...

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    Chicago (2002)

    A lawyer (Richard Gere) handles the cases of two murderous women (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée...

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    Club Fed (1990)

    The right-wing warden of a prison that caters to the rich and famous sets out to discredit...

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    Movies

    Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

    Murderer Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) spends decades in solitary confinement studying birds and...

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    The United States of Leland (2004)

    A teacher (Don Cheadle) at a juvenile correctional facility tries to determine what drove a teen...

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    Movies

    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    A likable Southern loner (Paul Newman) on a chain gang resists the captain and keeps trying to...

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    Movies

    Dead Man Walking (1988)

    Futuristic tale of a bounty hunter following a trail of ambush and murder in his pursuit of a...

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    Undisputed (2002)

    A gangster (Peter Falk) arranges a boxing match between the heavyweight champion (Ving Rhames),...

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    Movies

    Last Dance (1996)

    A clemency-board rookie (Rob Morrow) takes interest in the case of a woman (Sharon Stone) on death...

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    Movies

    1,000 Convicts and a Woman

    1,000 Convicts and a Woman was the lurid alternate title to the British skinflick Fun and Games....

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    Condemned (1929)

    Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's...

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    Cadence (1991)

    A misfit soldier (Charlie Sheen) lands in a bully's (Martin Sheen) stockade with five men united by...

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    Life (1999)

    Wrongly convicted of murder, two men (Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence) become close friends during...

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    Movies

    Buy and Cell (1989)

    An imprisoned stockbroker makes a fortune for himself and his fellow inmates while behind bars.

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    Movies

    Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

    Based on the true story of a hardened convict who engineered an elaborate plan to bust out of the...

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    Murder in the First (1995)

    A young lawyer (Christian Slater) argues inhumane treatment in the murder defense of a 1930s...

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    Movies

    Prison Planet

    A lone rebel fights to free his people after being sent to a barren desert wasteland.

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    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

    An innocent man is sent to a prison farm, where he endures the dehumanizing effects of a cruel...

  • 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing picture
    Movies

    20,000 Years in Sing-Sing (1932)

    The warden lets a convict (Spencer Tracy) out on the honor system to visit his injured girlfriend...

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    Movies

    The New Guy (2002)

    In jail, a teenager (D. J. Qualls) meets another inmate who shows him how to act cool at his high...

  • The Shawshank Redemption picture
    Movies

    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    Two life sentences for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man (Tim Robbins) in a corrupt Maine...

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    Movies

    The Green Mile (1999)

    In 1935 a head prison guard (Tom Hanks) realizes a man (Michael Clarke Duncan) on death row may be...

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    Movies

    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

    In a Latin American prison, an emotional relationship evolves between a homosexual and his cellmate,...

  • Dead Man Walking picture
    Movies

    Dead Man Walking (1995)

    A nun (Susan Sarandon) helps a double murderer (Sean Penn) deal with his actions and prepare for his...

  • Each Dawn I Die picture
    Movies

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    A newsman (James Cagney) is framed for manslaughter, then sent to prison, where he meets a gangster...

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    Movies

    Brute Force (1947)

    Hatred for the fascist warden (Hume Cronyn) drives a convict (Burt Lancaster) and his cellmates to...

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    Movies

    Devil's Island

    A French doctor (Boris Karloff) sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison...

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    People

    Walter Doniger

    A scriptwriter by the early '40s, Walter Doniger wrote films for such directors as William Dieterle...

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    People

    Christiane Schmidtmer

    Christiane Schmidtmer appeared in movies such as The Giant Spider Invasion, I Deal in Danger, and...

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    Movies

    Return to Sender

    A Texas defense attorney (Aidan Quinn) investigates the case of a death-row inmate (Connie Nielsen)...

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    Movies

    The Hurricane (1999)

    Aided by a Brooklyn teen (Vicellous Reon Shannon) and three Canadians, boxer Rubin Carter (Denzel...

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    Movies

    The Visit (2000)

    About an imprisoned man who overcomes his anger and seeks redemption.

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    Movies

    Quase Dois Irmaos (2005)

    An optimistic politician makes a proposition to his old friend (Antônio Pompêo), an incarcerated...

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    Movies

    Prison (1988)

    The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.

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    Movies

    Captives (1996)

    An inmate blackmails a prison dentist (Julia Ormond) who has fallen into an affair with a murder...