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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 510 films · Page 18.
LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film, prison film, romance film
Set in 18th-century South Africa, the film dramatises the true story of Claas Blank (Rouxnet Brown) and Rijkhaart Jacobsz (Neil Sandilands), two prisoners on Robben Island. Herder Claas Blank is serving 10 years for "insulting a Dutch citi…
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crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
Undercover FBI agent Jeff Crane is planted in the same prison as Sonny Black, who is suspected of belonging to the notorious Purple Gang. Jeff helps Sonny escape in the hope that he will lead Jeff to the rest of the gang. Sonny is seriousl…
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Dark Comedy, Satire On Media, prison film
Chuck Toedan is a TV producer who hosts a game show named Live or Die, where condemned prisoners participate for the chance to earn their freedom. If they fail, they are executed on live TV. The show is successful, however there are those …
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women in prison film
Two women named Kelly and Angie lead a gang of modern-day pirates in the South Seas, passing on the valuables taken from rich travelers and shippers to comparably poor villagers. A Justice Department official informs Kelly that her sister …
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Crime, Drama, Romance Film, drama film, prison film, trial film
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for a burglary he did not commit. Later, while riding in a boxcar with two brothers, he gets into a fight with a robber (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is…
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Crime, crime film, prison film
A bus transporting criminals from court to prison is held up by crooks who rescue one of their gang. The bus is driven to a deserted farm and the other occupants of the bus are locked in a barn. To give the gang leader plenty of time to es…
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Action, action film, thriller film
Eric Matthew Daniels, an ex-Army Ranger, is driving with his 16-year old sister Maddie and encounters traffic on the Tobin Memorial Bridge outside Boston, Massachusetts. There is a holdup as police transport prisoner Samantha "Doc" Brown. …
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Drama, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film
A young adolescent Bobby (Gary McCleery) decides to accompany his brother along for a drive in his vehicle. While on this venture, associates of his sibling steal from a drugstore and kill a police officer who was investigating the break-i…
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Documentation
The film covers the Attica Prison riot in 1971, using news footage and interviews from prisoners of Attica. It also features footage of the McKay Commission, which investigated the leadup to the riot.
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prison film
A reporter (Garfield) covers the racketeering of a mobster (Fields) which caused the assault of a boat captain. The mobster has a police officer (Purcell) beaten and the reporting causes the mobster to go to prison for it. The reporter the…
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prison film
Upon receiving a message from death row inmate "Dapper Dan" Malloy (Michael Ames), "Scoop" Conner (George Meeker), top investigative reporter for the Morning News, visits him in prison and learns that before he is to die in the electric ch…
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drama film, film noir, prison film
Inmates pull a prison break, taking the warden and another prisoner as hostages. But when the car gets into a crash, killing the others, the warden makes off with the gang's loot and places the blame on the other hostage.
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crime film, drama film, prison film
The film opens in a documentary style with narration and the introduction of two government officials associated with the prison system, as themselves, talking across a desk in an office setting. The story is then presented as being based …
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drama film, prison film
O'Brien plays an Irish mine worker, Barney Slaney. Later Barney gets a job as a fireman on the local train for an engineer named Mileaway. He gets married, but finds his wife having an affair with Grover Perkins, a childhood nemesis.
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drama film, prison film
The film centers around brutal conditions in a prison of the Southern United States. Chain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship. Duke Ellis is the most influential i…
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war film
Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) is shot down over Germany on a bombing raid. He sees his brother, Danny (Richard Graham), serving on the same aircraft, shot dead as he parachutes out of the stricken aircraft. Imprisoned in a camp, D…
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crime film, prison film
Master diamond thief Malichi is framed for murder and put on death row. When the corrupt warden finds that he has hidden diamonds, he tries anything he can to get him to reveal the location of the diamonds, including extending his sentence…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, three American veterans who have never resigned themselves to defeat decided to organize a mission to return to Indochina. Their goal is to liberate the "missing in action", i.e. all those fellow…
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drama film, prison film
Joaquin Shannon, a fisherman, takes the blame for a crime to protect his brother-in-law Chris Nelson, whom he thinks accidentally killed the odious Joe Fenderson in a drunken brawl, but who really died from injuries from a mugging. He is s…
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drama film, prison film
An outspoken scientist is sent to a brutal Soviet labor camp in Siberia. As he dreams of escape, his tormentors can't break his independent spirit.
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crime film, drama film, prison film
Ed Novak (Perry Lopez), a two-bit bookie, goes to prison rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly Garland), who is expecting a child. The longer Novak remains in prison, the…
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drama film, prison film
After her husband is killed, a woman executes a series of robberies with her husband's gang while searching for his murderer.
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drama film, film noir, prison film
A young man sits in prison on the night before his execution, while his girlfriend waits for the inevitable in the prison governor's house. The warden and his wife sympathize with both of them. It is the first use of the electric chair in …
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parody film
The evil and incompetent Dr. Hurtrider kidnaps an innocent young woman named Callista to conduct experiments on her to cure diseases, even if she does not have any. It is up to her dimwitted sister, Janie, to solve the obvious clues left b…
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