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  • Joe's Apartment picture
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    Joe's Apartment (1996)

    Singing and dancing cockroaches help a luckless New York transplant (Jerry O'Connell) woo a pretty...

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    Lost Highway (1997)

    Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's (Bill Pullman) murder conviction; a gangster's girlfriend...

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    Before Night Falls (2000)

    Writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), a homosexual, sees revolution in Cuba and lives as an exile...

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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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    Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

    A former Green Beret (Sylvester Stallone) goes on a reconnaissance mission to spring MIAs from a...

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    Hangfire (1991)

    A sheriff (Brad Davis), his war buddy and the National Guard face a town held hostage by escaped...

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    I Escaped From Devil's Island (1973)

    A convicted murderer leads a band of men through shark-infested waters in an attempt to escape the...

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    Reindeer Games (2000)

    An ex-convict (Ben Affleck) wants to start a new life with his girlfriend (Charlize Theron), but her...

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    King of the Underworld (1939)

    A surgeon (Kay Francis) gets even with a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) for killing her surgeon husband.

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    The Assassin

    British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime...

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    Boy A (2008)

    After spending most of his youth in prison for a brutal murder, an ex-convict (Andrew Garfield)...

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    Lion's Den (2009)

    An incarcerated woman struggles to raise her son from prison.

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    The Getaway (1994)

    An explosives-expert thief (Alec Baldwin) and his wife (Kim Basinger) cross a crime lord and are...

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    The Blockhouse

    Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground...

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    American History X (1998)

    A brutal skinhead (Edward Norton) emerges from prison reformed and tries to show his neo-Nazi...

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    Funny Girl (1968)

    Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) falls for gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif).

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    Buy and Cell (1989)

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

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    Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

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

  • In the Name of the Father picture
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    In the Name of the Father (1993)

    An Irishman (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his father (Pete Postlethwaite) share a British prison cell for a...

  • Somebody Up There Likes Me picture
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    Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

    A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of...

  • Monster's Ball picture
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    Monster's Ball (2001)

    A racist prison-guard (Billy Bob Thornton) has an intense affair with a black woman (Halle Berry)...

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    Superman II (1981)

    The Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) gets serious with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and fights three...

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    Duck, You Sucker (1971)

    A thief and a dynamite-tossing Irish revolutionary inadvertently become embroiled in the Mexican...

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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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    Bingo (1991)

    A boy's (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.) collie tries to find him after he moves away with his mother...

  • Aloha, Bobby And Rose picture
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    Aloha, Bobby And Rose (1975)

    Aloha, Bobby & Rose was conceived and promoted as a contemporary Bonnie and Clyde. Paul LeMat plays...

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    After Innocence (2005)

    Filmmaker Jessica Sanders interviews seven men who were wrongfully imprisoned until DNA testing set...

  • Big House, U.S.A. picture
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    Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

    An FBI agent (Reed Hadley) sends a kidnapper (Ralph Meeker) to prison, then goes after him when he...

  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence picture
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    Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

    A Japanese captain (Ryuichi Sakamoto) on Java holds an intellectual British colonel (Tom Conti) and...

  • Nine Lives picture
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    Nine Lives (2005)

    Strange events plague a group of friends staying at an old Scottish mansion that has a troubled...