Prison Film
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    The Hill

    Tensions mount at an African military compound when a sadistic commandant begins brutalizing the...

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    Dreaming Lhasa (2007)

    A young woman who has grown up in New York City returns to her roots in McLeod Gunj, Dharamsala,...

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    Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992)

    An innocent half-Asian kickboxer (Don ``The Dragon'' Wilson) is caught between two other races at...

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    Hoodwink (1982)

    Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the...

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    The Big Bird Cage

    Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

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    Born American (1986)

    In an anti-Russian film that is a hangover from Cold War polemics, three young Americans knowingly...

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    No Escape (1994)

    The warden of a 2022 prison sends an ex-Marine (Ray Liotta) to a jungle island where inmates are...

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    Down Time (2003)

    This unvarnished look at life in prison is a raw glimpse into a man-made purgatory that is equal...

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    The Hot Box

    Co-written and produced by Jonathan Demme, this women-in-prison outing focuses on a group of...

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    Reflections in the Dark (1995)

    A glamorous convicted murderer, who killed her pompous husband because "divorce would have broken...

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    Reform School Girls (1986)

    Inmates run around in mail-order lingerie, and a new arrival (Linda Carol) opposes the perverts...

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    Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

    A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and...

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    Shadow: Dead Riot (2006)

    A serial killer occultist is convicted, executed, and resurrected as an undead killing machine with...

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    House of Women (1960)

    In this prison drama, a remake of Caged, House of Women (1950), a pregnant woman is wrongly...

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    South Central (1992)

    Armed with moral reason and a father's love, an ex-convict (Glenn Plummer) lifts his son out of a...

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    Scrubbers

    A grim British reform school for girls provides the backdrop for this gritty drama that focuses on...

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    Mean Dog Blues

    Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in...

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    Midnight Express (1978)

    Caught smuggling hashish, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is made an example of and given a harsh...

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    The Quare Fellow

    A Dublin prison warder (Patrick McGoohan) in favor of capital punishment has an affair with the wife...

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    The Slams

    In this violent prison drama, an imprisoned criminal finds himself flooded with offers to spring him...

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    The Muthers

    A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their...

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    On the Yard

    A middle-class wife murderer (John Heard) defies the authority of a street-smart inmate boss (Thomas...

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    Dust of Life (1997)

    The coming-of-age tale of an Amerasian youth who labors in a hostile work camp in a remote mountain...

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    La Taule

    After his cellmate manages to escape one night, the Chief Guard and Warden put all their pressure on...

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    Convicted

    A district attorney (Broderick Crawford) becomes warden and crusades for a man (Glenn Ford) he has...

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    Redemption (2003)

    An emerging group of young, upper-class African American friends try to negotiate their way into...

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    There Was a Crooked Man (1970)

    A killer convict (Kirk Douglas) betrays the new warden (Henry Fonda) of an Arizona territorial...

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    Hard Justice (1996)

    A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Fireamrs agent, Nick Adams goes undercover in a slammer to nab a mob...

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    Lockdown (2003)

    A talented athlete (Richard T. Jones) and his two friends struggle to survive in prison after a...

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    Outlaw! (2000)

    A convict has to deal with inept bureaucrats when his jail break goes wrong.