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    25th Hour (2002)

    The day before he begins a prison sentence, a New York drug dealer (Edward Norton) spends time with...

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    Daybreak

    Daybreak a dark, depressing melodrama, tells the story of Eddie (Eric Portman) an unemployed hangman...

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    The Visit (2000)

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

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    Chasers (1994)

    A military prisoner (Erika Eleniak) tries to lose the two career Navy men (Tom Berenger, William...

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    Chaindance

    As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny...

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    Four Boys and a Gun (1956)

    Long before he became entrenched in the public's consciousness as Sgt. Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC,...

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    Juvies

    A century ago, the juvenile justice system was established to offer kids a chance at rehabilitation...

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    The Revolutionary (1970)

    In this symbolic drama of social and political turmoil, Jon Voight plays an aspiring revolutionary...

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    The Super (1991)

    Ordered to live among his tenants in squalor, a New York slumlord (Joe Pesci) does so and sees the...

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    The Hole (1997)

    A group of cellmates plan a jailbreak by escaping through the prison's sewer system, but their plans...

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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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    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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    a/k/a Tommy Chong (2006)

    Comic Tommy Chong is arrested for manufacturing drug paraphernalia.

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    Valachi Papers

    Brooklyn mob soldier Joseph Valachi (Charles Bronson) gives the government a history of the Mafia...

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    Wildwechsel

    Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer...

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    The Last Detail (1973)

    Two career Navy men (Jack Nicholson, Otis Young) take a misfit (Randy Quaid) from the brig in...

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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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    Vanina Vanini (1961)

    A revolutionary escapres into the palace of an Italian princess and the two fall in love, but when...

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    Good Day For a Hanging (1958)

    The new marshal (Fred MacMurray) is the only one in town who thinks a charming killer (Robert...

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    The Confession (1970)

    This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary,...

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    Cagliostro (1975)

    This epic drama profiles the life of the 18th-century scientist Cagliostro (Bekim Fehmiu) who...

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    The Pursuit of Happiness

    Jailed for a deadly auto accident, a college dropout (Michael Sarrazin) escapes and heads for Canada...

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    Day of the Badman (1958)

    A cow-town judge (Fred MacMurray) stands alone against four related outlaws who aim to free a killer...

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    I Accuse (1958)

    Jewish French army Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (Jose Ferrer) is railroaded for treason and sent to Devil's...

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    The Oklahoma Woman

    A gunfighter returns home after serving a federal prison sentence and discovers that his town has...

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    The Bridge of Kandahar (1965)

    This British adventure is set in mid-19th century India where a half-caste officer is...

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    Dry Summer

    An evil and vindictive landowner attempts to steal away his brother's wife while the latter serves...

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    Larga Distancia

    A man is enlisted by Mexican police to drive an ambulance from Los Angeles to Baja, and picks up two...

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    The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons

    Proponents and opponents discuss the 1994 repeat-offender law, which makes a life sentence mandatory...