Prison Film
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    Movies

    Penitentiary (1980)

    Street-wise Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy) survives in prison on the strength of his ability as a...

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    Return With Honor (1999)

    The story of U.S. fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam who became POWs for up to 8 and a half...

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    Live By the Fist

    A Navy SEAL gets himself tossed into a seething Filipino prison after his attempts to stop a gang...

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    Prison Song (2001)

    A young New Yorker (Q-Tip) goes to prison after his foster brother (Fat Joe) dies during their fight...

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    A Map of the World (1999)

    After a friend's (Julianne Moore) child dies while in her care, a woman (Sigourney Weaver) suffers...

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    A Man Escaped (1957)

    A Resistance fighter (Francois Leterrier) and his cellmate (Charles Le Clainche) flee their Nazi...

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    Prison Heat

    Four American girls, framed in Turkey for drug smuggling, are wrongfully imprisoned, and soon learn...

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    Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)

    John Herbert's stage play Fortune and Men's Eyes first enjoyed a sensational run on Broadway with...

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    Stir Crazy (1980)

    Two losers (Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor) dressed as big birds for a bank's PR stunt go to prison...

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    An Innocent Man (1989)

    Railroaded to prison, a family man (Tom Selleck) learns from another inmate (F. Murray Abraham) how...

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    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about brutal individual survival in a Russian labor camp in the 1950s...

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    Punishment Park

    To avoid prison sentences, young dissidents must traverse more than 50 miles of desert on foot in...

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    Lock Up (1989)

    For escaping to see his dying father, a jailed hero (Sylvester Stallone) is sent to a twisted...

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    Proteus (2004)

    An interracial gay love story set in early 18th century South Africa about two men -- a black...

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    Forever Mary (1991)

    A group of street youths are forced into juvenile delinquency by a hostile environment.

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    In Your Hands

    A minister in a women's prison finds her faith and confidence shaken by her surroundings.

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    Women in Cages

    American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

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    A Sense of Freedom (1985)

    The story of the real-life Scottish criminal who spent a decade in and out of British prisons is the...

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    Prison Break (1938)

    An innocent California fisherman (Barton MacLane) sits in prison for murder; his sweetheart (Glenda...

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    Short Eyes (1978)

    A child molester (Bruce Davison) exists as the lowest form of life in a men's jail.

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    Bad Boys (1983)

    A scar-faced street fighter (Sean Penn) becomes king of reform school and spots the guy (Esai...

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    Movies

    Chained Heat (1983)

    Innocent Carol (Linda Blair) gets pushed around by a corrupt warden (John Vernon), his sordid...

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    Movies

    Mean Machine (2002)

    A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.

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    Beyond Re-Animator

    Now in prison, a mad scientist (Jeffrey Combs) uses a green serum to bring a heart-attack victim...

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    Weeds (1987)

    A group of San Quentin paroles struggle with their production of a play they performed in prison.

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    Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)

    "Killer: A Journal of Murder" chronicles the remarkable relationship that develops between two men...

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    Convicts Four

    True story about a boisterous convict who has an incredible artistic talent, gets paroled, and...

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    Unspeakable (2004)

    After learning of a condemned man's innocence, a psychiatrist tries to convince the guilty party to...

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    Unshackled

    Dramatisation of Harold Morris's book based on his own life as a racist who is falsely imprisoned,...

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    Doin' Time (1984)

    This undistinguished comedy about life in prison features caricatures of inmates and law enforcement...