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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 510 films · Page 15.
LGBTQ-related film, Sexploitation Film, drama film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
The film is set in a South American jungle prison during a revolution and starts with the camp's warden and its physician (Dr Costa), waiting at a roadblock for a truck. On board are six young women, three of whom are suspected of revoluti…
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Thriller, horror film, prison film
A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for two more mur…
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Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film, prison film
During Prohibition, Stan and Ollie are outside a malt-and-hops store offering ingredients for brewing. Ollie announces his intention to brew 15 gallons of beer, but Stan protests that they can't drink 15 gallons. Ollie says, "What we can't…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Gary Tison is serving two consecutive life sentences for murder, while his three young adolescent sons try to move on with their lives. The oldest, Donny, is the only son making something of his life. He is a pre-law student and is in a lo…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, prison film
Cliff Taylor is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job due to his criminal past. Cliff's younger brother Tim is worried and increasingly disillusioned bec…
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Drama, drama film
Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Frank Ross, a crusading newspaperman on the trail of a crooked district attorney, is framed for manslaughter and sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison. There, he encounters the notorious Stacey, a lifer who is falsely accused of fatall…
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comedy drama, prison film
Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman, travels around the South, in 1918, with his own portable electric chair, going from prison to prison with his young assistant, Jimmy, charging one hundred dollars per execution. Two of Jonas' poten…
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Drama, drama film, prison film
Jean Raymond, a young woman from a wealthy family, becomes addicted to gambling despite objections from her boyfriend Michael Hale, a medical student. After Michael qualifies as a doctor, he gives Jean an ultimatum to stop gambling or lose…
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Western, Western film, prison film
In 1897 Arizona, female outlaw Abby Nixon warns lawman Billy Reynolds that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds kills both men in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert pr…
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Film Noir, crime film, film noir, women in prison film
A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life very hard for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions. The newcomer Helene Jensen is not a hardened criminal by any means, but a woman convicte…
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Drama, drama film, prison film
The film begins at a psychiatric institution in 1962. A young doctor (Peter Falk) on a staff headed by a senior psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) is frustrated with his patient, who is black and detests him because he is white. The doctor has …
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, prison film
While the warden (real-life warden Frank A. Eyman) of a state prison is away, the isolation block erupts and 35 of the most violent criminals stage a riot and take over their portion of the prison. Cully Briston, in for five years and awai…
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drama film, prison film
Frank Miniver, aka Fast-Walking, is a corrupt but lovable Oregon state prison guard. Not the most obliging or honest of public servants, he smokes and peddles marijuana and complements his meager salary by running prostitutes for Mexican l…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, prison film
Joe Hufford is arrested after a fistfight in which a man is killed. District attorney George Knowland knows that Hufford did not intend to kill the man and offers his attorney a viable line of defense, but the attorney refuses to listen an…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, prison film
Five individuals unknown to each other—Jordan, Grant, Luke, Anna, and Alex—wake up in complete darkness surrounded by stone walls. They realize they have been abducted and make their way through a dark corridor trying to find a way out. Th…
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Gangster Film, Melodrama, crime film, drama film, prison film
thumb|thumbtime=15|The film Thunderbolt (1929) thumb|right|Still with Fay Wray and George Bancroft Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft), wanted on robbery and murder charges, ventures out with his girl, "Ritzie" (Fay Wray), to a Harlem n…
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Drama, docudrama, drama film, prison film
A few hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives treatment to a man with a broken leg who shows up at his door. Mudd does not know that the president has been assassinated, and also does not know the …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
An aspiring young singer is sent to prison after getting wrongly convicted of murdering a record company president in 1950s Hollywood. With the help of two other convicts, she must survive as the real culprits send "hit girls" to kill her …
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Drama, drama film, prison film
The film stars Tom Courtenay as the title character, a prisoner in the Soviet gulag system in the 1950s who endures a long prison sentence. It tells of a routine day in his life.
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drama film, prison film
The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle). They are forced to leave thei…
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action film, horror film, prison film, slasher film
Ivan Moser (Lyle Alzado) is a serial killer who has been convicted of the rape, torture, and murder of 23 people. Moser is given the death penalty by electrocution. At his execution, he boasts of having killed 24 people.
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erotic thriller, prison film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is sent to a violent women's prison. While she is in prison, she comes into confrontation with the "top dog" inmate Albina (Ursula Flores), ending in a series of fights. Albina gets the worse of it, including a bro…
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crime film, drama film
Lynn Schaffer is a loving mother and wife, who gets arrested for a crime she did not realize she had committed. She does not take the arrest seriously at first. Viewing herself as innocent, she goes against the advice of her lawyer to take…
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