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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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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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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...
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Border Patrol
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and fellow Texas Rangers (Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby) free smuggled...
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I Can't Escape
Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able...
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The Kid's Last Ride
The Range Busters ride to the rescue when crooks force a young man to reveal the whereabouts of...
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
An executed man returns from the grave to seek revenge against the killers who framed him and sent...
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Probation
Sally Blane (Loretta Young's look-alike sister) plays Janet, a Manhattan socialite who is fed up...
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They Won't Forget (1937)
A Southern lynch mob and a district attorney (Claude Rains) say a Northern teacher (Edward Norris)...
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The Arizona Express
This picture was based on an old time melodrama by Lincoln J. Carter. Pauline Starke stars as...
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The Bad One
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for...
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The Big City
The Big City was perhaps the most "normal" of the Lon Chaney-Tod Browning collaborations. Minus...
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The Big Guy
In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he...
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The Black Angel
With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the...
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Blackwell's Island
A reporter (John Garfield) sends a mobster (Stanley Fields) to prison, then goes in after him posing...
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The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
Considering that it was adapted from a Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George...
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Broken Chains
Captain Harry Ford (Carlyle Blackwell) is tracking down moonshiners in the South when he runs afoul...
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Condemned to Death
On the surface just another quota quickie, Condemned to Death turned out to be quite a gem for those...
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Dangerous Medicine
In this suspense movie, a secretary marries her rich old boss. He suddenly dies and she finds...
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Dangerous Years (1947)
In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang...
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Dangerously Yours
In this romance, a detective goes undercover as a jewel thief and boards a trans-atlantic cruise...
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Decoy (1946)
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before...
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The Devil Makes Three (1952)
An Air Force captain (Gene Kelly) in postwar Germany loves a girl (Pier Angeli) used by neo-Nazis to...
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