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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 510 films · Page 10.
Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, spy film, thriller film
Harry Pearce is head of the counter-terrorism department (Section D) at MI5. Harry's team is transporting terrorist Adem Qasim through London when the convoy is attacked, allowing Qasim to escape and a CIA operative to be killed. Realising…
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drama film, prison film
Sabrina Downs narrates an experience that she had while serving time as a convict in the Whitehead Correctional Institute. Her story begins as she meets Frances Shephard, a timid woman that is new to the prison system, during their bus rid…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, prison film
James "Jimmie" Rainwood (Tom Selleck) is an ordinary, model citizen. Happily married to his beautiful wife Kate (Laila Robins), he has a modest home in Long Beach, California. Jimmie works as an expert American Airlines aeronautics enginee…
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Drama, Melodrama, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Eddie Quinn's unruly wife Maureen drinks and smokes to excess, even though she is pregnant. Eddie has troubles of his own, disappearing for days at a time. When she is physically and sexually assaulted by Kiefer, a neighbor, it is more tha…
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Drama, drama film, historical film, prison film, romance film
Kate Soffel is married to a Pittsburgh prison warden in 1901. They have four children. After several months of being sick in bed for no discernible reason, she suddenly regains her strength.
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Drama, Komödie, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film
Drama, association football film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Dave Bjorno, along with other members of the Green Street Elite, are arrested for participating in the fight at the end of the first film, and end up being sent to a tough prison. In prison, the GSE quickly discover the brutality of life o…
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Larry Murphy was convicted of first degree murder and is serving a life term in Folsom Prison for shooting his father, which he feels was justified because his father was raping his stepsister. In prison he is nicknamed "Lickety Split" by …
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Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film
The film runs two narratives simultaneously: the preparation for the escape and the escape itself. Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. When Perry receives his first letter in f…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, prison film
19-year-old Marie Allen is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her husband, Tom, who is killed. While receiving her initial prison physical examination, she learns that she is two months pregnant. Marie has trouble ad…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film, sexploitation film, thriller film
The film takes place in the California women's prison in which naïve teenager Carol Henderson is sentenced to serve 18 months for accidentally killing a man. Warden Ernie Backman has a hot tub in his office; his assistant, Captain Taylor c…
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drama film, prison film
Randy (Pitt), a 20-year-old convict, is taken to his cell by a Correctional Officer (David Zayas). He is greeted by his new cellmate, Jake (Guirgis), a veteran prisoner serving a life sentence. Randy explains that he is serving 25 years fo…
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Action, Thriller, action film
After the events of Rogue, Detective James Knight is in prison for the murders of Winna and Brigga. During the Christmas season, Knight gets caught up in the middle of a jailbreak, led by a violent fanatic named Ricky Conlan, "The Christma…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Karen McCoy, a renowned bank robber, is released from prison after serving six years and resolves to lead a law-abiding life. Upon returning home, she discovers that her ex-husband has told their young son, Patrick, that she died, further …
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, speculative fiction film
Set in San Tiburon, the world's most dangerous maximum-security prison, designed to incarcerate supervillains and enhanced individuals. The facility is equipped with power inhibitors to neutralize the abilities of its inmates, ensuring con…
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Action, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, crime film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
In Los Angeles, undercover police officers arrive at a motel where those inside, including Jacqueline Wilson, are trafficking illegal drugs. During the escape, an officer and one of Jacqueline's accomplices are shot, while two of them esca…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
After surviving a Nazi POW camp where comrades were murdered by guards during an escape attempt, Frank Enley is respected for his fine character and good works in the small California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife Edith and …
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LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film
Christine "Chris" Parker is a 14-year-old runaway who, after getting arrested many times, is sentenced to spend time in a girls' juvenile detention center. It is revealed that Chris comes from an abusive home. Her father beats her on a reg…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, drama film, war film
The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II. Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, Horror comedy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, Splatter Film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
For the past thirteen years, Dr. Herbert West has been serving a prison sentence due to a murder at the hands of one of his zombies. With what scant supplies he has on hand in the prison medical center, Dr.
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Horror, exploitation film, prison film, slasher film, splatter film
As a boy, a reclusive and antisocial Sufferton resident, Max Seed, was disfigured in a school bus crash that killed everyone involved. In 1973, Seed began torturing and murdering people, filming some of his victims starving to death in his…
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Social Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Bill is paroled after serving an eight year prison sentence for drug related offences. Returning to his home in East London, Bill finds his two sons, 15-year-old Dean and 11-year-old Jimmy abandoned by their mother, Dean having dropped out…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court rep…
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Film Noir, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir
Harry Powell is a misogynistic serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. …
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