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drama film, prison film
The film centers around 10-year-old intelligent Elijah Butler (Justin 'DJ' Spaulding) living in New York. His mother (Mary J. Blige) is a hard-working woman who has spent the last several years attending night school – with the eventual go…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, prison film, romance film
James, a man with nothing to lose, owes his life to his older brother Frankie, who took the rap for a crime they did together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around: he manages to get a job as a mechanic, and begi…
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Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film
American sergeant James Allen returns to civilian life after World War I. He has served with distinction, earning a medal for his bravery, but his war experience has made him restless. His mother and minister brother feel Allen should be g…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, action film, exploitation film, women in prison film
A young woman named Collier enters prison, having been found guilty of killing her husband and sentenced to 99 years. As she familiarizes herself with the prison, she meets five other women. Alcott, a political prisoner, Grear, a prostitut…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
By 2038, all of Earth's natural resources have been depleted. Multinational corporations have taken control of the galaxy and rival companies battle each other for access to mining planets. A major battle is for Moon 44, a fuel mining oper…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
thumb|Spencer Tracy as Joe Wilson En route to meet his fiancée Katherine Grant, gas-station owner Joe Wilson is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing mo…
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Documentation, documentary film, prison film
Drama, drama film, prison film, romance film, war film
In the early 1950s, Lily Kawamura tells her pre-adolescent daughter Mini about her father and the life that she barely remembers, as the two of them are walking to a rural train station. In 1936, Jack McGurn is a motion picture projectioni…
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Drama, Film Noir, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Glenn Griffin is the leader of a trio of escaped convicts who invade a randomly selected suburban home in Indianapolis and hold four members of the Hilliard family, who live in the home, hostage. There they await the arrival of a package, …
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Thriller, horror film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
The film tells the story of a couple, Elise Landry (Erika Christensen) and her husband, Craig Landry (Jesse Metcalfe), whose lives are shattered when a serial killer named John Kozlowski (Bill Moseley), kidnaps, tortures, and kills their o…
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Drama, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, drama film, prison film
In 1883, Paris Pitman Jr. and his crew enter the home of wealthy rancher Mr. Lomax, and rob him of $500,000 Lomax keeps in a safe disguised as a table.
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Drama, drama film, women in prison film
Two girls escape from an open borstal. Annetta wants to visit her baby daughter who is being raised in a convent. Carol plans to be recaptured and sent to the closed borstal where her girlfriend Doreen is being held.
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Action
Terry Savage is a former Marine whose daughter is in need of money for surgery. Desperate and unemployed, he robs drugs from a local gang but is apprehended. The police commissioner makes a deal with Terry to infiltrate a prison to investi…
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crime film, drama film, prison film
Steve Davitt is held in a medium security prison and is struggling with a choice between two options: serving his full sentence and returning legitimately to his wife and family, or escaping and ending up on the run. Having received what h…
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Documentation, documentary film, prison film
Biographical picture, Political Drama, drama film, political film, prison film
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Dai…
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biographical film, drama film, prison film
At 19 years old, Terry Jean Moore was convicted of armed robbery. Soon after entering prison, she meets a guard named Jack Hansen. The two start an affair, which falls apart after Moore becomes pregnant with his child.
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Horror, horror film, prison film
In Wyoming, corrupt prison guard Ethan Sharpe watched as an innocent man named Charles Forsyth was executed in Creedmore Penitentiary's electric chair in 1964 for a murder that he did not commit. Creedmore was closed in 1968. In the presen…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, prison film, science fiction film
Ten years after the events of the first film, John Brennick is somewhere in North America, still on the run from Men-Tel and living in the rural mountains. His son Danny tells him to come home immediately. When they arrive, there are three…
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Action, Drama
In 2005, close friends "Cal" (Jai Courtney), "Milk" (Beau Knapp), "Jaeger" (Finn Wittrock), "Snowball" (Arturo Castro) and "Oyster" (Nat Wolff) bowl at Westside Lanes in Bridgewater, NY. Their nicknames are carved into their respective bal…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, prison film
On a dark, rainy morning at Westgate Prison, prisoners cram into a small cell to watch through the window as Joe Collins returns from his term in solitary confinement. Joe is angry and talks about escape. The beleaguered warden A.J.
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Silly Movie, Sitcom, Splatstick
Rabbi Jacob (Marcel Dalio) is one of the most beloved rabbis of New York. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar mitzvah of young David, and he boards a plane for his native France after more …
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, comedy film, thriller film
An interrogator prepares a man to take the stand against mob boss Frank Matajano on an Air Force base. A driver delivers takeout, which is taken to the interrogation room. Once opened, it explodes, killing the witness.
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Dark Comedy, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, prison film
The film is a satire of the women in prison film genre and deliberately implements many of the tropes commonly found in such films. Such scenes include nude shower scenes, fight scenes, and a suggested romantic relationship between one of …
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