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Drama, drama film, prison film
College student William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) is visited by his aunt Ruth who persuades him to drive to see his father, which he opts to do rather than attend a talk with his girlfriend Jane (Barbara Hershey), later that evening, much …
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Drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Manuel Jordan, a man who served nearly 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery, is released on parole in spite of his objections. After spending his time staring at a clipping of Abner Easley, the boy he killed, he retu…
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Crime, Romance Film, crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=20|The Criminal Code In the film, Robert Graham, convicted of manslaughter after a drunken brawl, underwent 6 years of hard labor in the prison jute mill, which changed Graham from a polite man into a hardened convict. Mark…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film
The love story of Confederate Captain Robert Adams II and a northern girl, Eveline McCord. The story begins with Captain Adams falling in love with Eveline, a governess from Pennsylvania who moved to South Carolina to work for Robert's fir…
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Destiny, drama film, war film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, prison film
The young revolutionary and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is arrested, and it is the task of censor and prison guard James Gregory to watch him. He has long since moved to South Africa with the family for his work in the prison of…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film
Nan Taylor is a member of a gang of bank robbers, posing as a regular customer to distract the security guard while her accomplices take the money. Her cover is blown by a policeman who had arrested her before, and she is arrested again. R…
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Action, Horror, Thriller, women in prison film
After seeing her mother murdered by a killer, Susan, an amnesiac woman, is sent to a mental institution presided over by Dr. Fletcher, a power-crazed female doctor who performs lobotomies on the patients.
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Documentation, documentary film, prison film
Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Sex Film, pornographic film, thriller film
Katja Kean stars as a photo journalist, Mila, who breaks into a men's penitentiary to get an interview with the mysterious warden and thus win a bet with her publisher. Encounters with various inmates and staff members, including the helpf…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
This religious-themed thriller follows Daniel Clemens (Christian Slater), a priest serving as public-relations representative for the Catholic Church, who embarks on an investigation against the will of Church authorities to prove the inno…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War Film
In the film's opening sequence, young reporter Jim Benton asks train engineer Mr. Wilson about three menGriffin, Cook and Landiswho hopped his freight train five years earlier, in 1961. "He ran all the way to hell," the engineer remarks ab…
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Documentation, documentary film
Western, Western film, prison film
Hellgate Prison is an aptly named facility in the desert where the worst criminals are sent. Hanley, a veterinarian and former Civil War soldier, is falsely accused, convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term in the prison. He clashes wi…
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War Film, war film
An escape tunnel for the naval officer prisoners during the Second World War at a German prisoner-of-war camp is discovered. Lieutenant Ainsworth devises a scheme with the escape committee to use the components of a mannequin named Albert …
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Western, Western film
Three wagons converge in the middle of nowhere. The first is carrying Jonah, an Indian trader and his wares. Jonah finds Army captain Matt Riordan, the only survivor of an ambush by Chief Yellow Claw and his Apache braves, in the middle of…
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Action, action film, prison film, thriller film
After the New Alcatraz massacre, long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transferred to another. He claims it's to be closer to his lady, but his real motives are a bit more grandiose than that. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bil…
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Drama, drama film, exploitation film, prison film
Sisters Penny and Jane Lowe, on their way to Los Angeles, are arrested for hitchhiking and skinny-dipping and are sentenced to work on a rural Texas farm for corrupt agricultural magnate Russ Tropp. Cecilia Steele, the female judge who sen…
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biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
It is Christmas, 1931, and John Resko wants to give his baby daughter a new teddy bear. He goes, without money, into a shop and tries to get the shopkeeper to give it to him saying he will pay him later. The prosperous shopkeeper, who clea…
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Affinity is set in Victorian England; the story of an upper-class woman, Margaret (Anna Madeley), who becomes an official "Visitor" to a woman's prison; however, she becomes emotionally attached to one of the inmates, Selina (Zoe Tapper). …
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action film, prison film
Drama, Horror, erotic film, exploitation film, horror film, prison film, sexploitation film
Greta works as the warden in a psychiatric hospital for young women. Unbeknownst to her, a patient, Abby is actually the sister of Rosa, one of the hospital's other patients. Abby has lied in order to get herself admitted so that she can f…
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crime film, docudrama, drama film, prison film
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, prison film, science fiction film
In New Alcatraz, the world's most secure prison located in Antarctica, a drilling operation inadvertently releases a giant, boa constrictor (fictional species Serpuca largas) from a large, hollow rock that had been preserving it in suspend…
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