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Coming Out, Destiny, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film
The movie starts with Saxx in an LA prison, so high on drugs that he cannot be questioned. However, prison guard Johnson seems to take a special interest in him, bribes a colleague, and puts him in a holding cell for cellblock K-11, a unit…
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blaxploitation film, boxing film
Martel Gordone had been wandering aimlessly through the desert when he is finally picked up by an African-American woman driving a van dubbed the "Shaggin' Wagon". The woman, Linda, who picks him up is actually a prostitute on her way to s…
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Thriller, drama film, exploitation film, prison film
Dinah Hunter is an advertising executive living in Los Angeles who quits her job after arguing with client Mr. Bigelow and comes home to find her boyfriend David in the swimming pool with another woman, Candy. Sick of his constant philande…
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Action, Drama, Exploitation Film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, horror film
New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and submitted to torture, rape, sexual harassment and …
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Military Film, Satire On War, comedy film, drama film, war film
During World War II the British army is attempting to retrieve an Enigma machine from Germany. Having failed in previous attempts, they decide to send four men undercover to the factory that makes the devices in Berlin. Unfortunately the f…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, prison film
Ex-prizefighter Arnie Judlow (Jack Palance) is two years into a life sentence at California’s San Quentin prison for a murder committed in a jealous rage. He recently pushed a guard over a third floor railing, and knows he faces the gas ch…
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Adventure, Komödie, Melodrama, comedy drama, war film
Lance Corporal Stephen "Hannibal" Brooks is a British prisoner of war who is put to work in Munich zoo, looking after a female Asian elephant named Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by the Americans, the zoo director decides that the zoo is uns…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Emmett Foley is an American hero of the Korean War who attempts to commit suicide, first by provoking local police and then by shooting himself in the chest. After his recovery, he is sent to the Florida State Hospital, an institution in C…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, prison film
David Marshall "Marsh" Williams of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company company takes leave to tend to family matters. His embittered young son David has been teased in school and Marsh decides that the time has come to inform his son abo…
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Crime, Romance Film, drama film, prison film, romance film
After the break-up of her marriage to Simon (Peter Capaldi), dentist Rachel Clifford (Julia Ormond) throws herself into work by taking an extra assignment at a local British prison. One of her patients is Philip (Tim Roth), a man nearing t…
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Crime Comedy, prison film
James 'Jimmy' Hands and Rudy 'Rud' Guscott are two friends who used to play "Cops & Robbers" when they were young. Now adults, they plan to actually rob a bank, but the robbery goes wrong and Hands flees the bank leaving Guscott trapped be…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
Eddie Dodd is a burnt-out attorney who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Roger Baron is an idealistic young legal clerk, fresh out of law school, who encourages Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korea…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, prison film
One night, several prison inmates take guards prisoner to protest brutal conditions in their prison. They then make their demands known to prison warden Reynolds, a liberal-minded administrator who has complained for many years about the s…
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exploitation film, prison film
A woman is unsuspectingly used to carry her boyfriend's stash of cocaine in her skis and is caught by airport security. She is tried, convicted and sent to prison where she quickly learns to toughen up if she wants to survive.
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Drama, drama film, prison film
Cocky Tommy Connors is sentenced for up to 30 years in Sing Sing for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. His associate Joe Finn promises to use his contacts and influence to free Connors, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provid…
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Komödie, crime comedy film, prison film
Three prisoners nearing the end of their jail sentences, "Dodger" Lane, "Jelly" Knight and "Lennie the Dip", are visited by a vicar seeking to find employment for them. He is actually conman "Soapy" Stevens, who proposes a big diamond robb…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, drama film, prison film
After repeated convictions and prison sentences for robberies and violent crimes in the early 20th century, Carl Panzram (James Woods) is serving time again at Leavenworth penitentiary for burglary. Prison guard Henry Lesser (Robert Sean L…
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Drama, drama film, prison film
Three women are released from Holloway Prison in London. Monica Marsden is a well-bred young woman, led into crime by her smooth-talking lover David; Monica took the fall for a crime he masterminded. Stella Jarvis is a beautiful West End p…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, prison film, romance film
Expository narration Lilies is set in a Quebec prison in 1952. Jean Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin), the local bishop, is brought to the prison to hear the confession of Simon Doucet (Aubert Pallascio), a dying inmate. But Doucet in fact has a …
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Drama, drama film, prison film
Lee Umstetter is incarcerated in San Quentin for armed robbery, serving "life without possibility" (with no chance of parole). After two suicide attempts, Lee begins to read books from the prison library. He attends a performance of Waitin…
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blaxploitation film, boxing film, drama film, prison film
Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone earned his parole from jail by winning a prison boxing tournament. All Too Sweet wants to do is start a peaceful life, but a condition of his release is that he work for a boxing promoter. Too Sweet has no intere…
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Drama, War Film, war film
In Italian Libya during the North African campaign of the Second World War, a Royal Armoured Corps squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by German Afrika Korps panzers. A tank commanded by American Sgt. David Thatcher is hit and…
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Horror, War Film, Zombiefilm, horror film, zombie film
Slave traders bring back an evil voodoo entity that is accidentally freed by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses o…
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Drama, drama film, prison film
The story is set in Central Industrial Prison, a privately run maximum security prison in the middle of the Australian desert. An outbreak of violence within the prison has resulted in a total lockdown. A committee is appointed by the pris…
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