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Prison movies

Explore prison life, imprisonment and escapes.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 510 films · Page 19.

The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)

crime film

Boston Blackie helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder. Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's…

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Caged in Paradiso (1990)

action film, drama film, prison film

A domestic-terrorist is convicted. His wife agrees to accompany him, when they are placed on a futuristic island prison. On this isolated, tropical island the unsupervised inmates spend the rest of their days fending for themselves.

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Everynight ... Everynight (1994)

prison film

Dale, who is held on remand, is awaiting a court hearing and yet to be sentenced, highlighting the horrific injustice of the repeated beatings he's subjected to. Although the first depicted beating lasts less than 3 minutes of screen time,…

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Prison Farm (1938)

crime film, prison film

Jean Forest gets in a relationship with criminal Larry Harrison, even though she is advised not to, he wants to elope to Canada and Jean gives up her job to go with him. On the way they are arrested for a small crime and Harrison pleads gu…

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The Abductors (1957)

Crime, Drama, crime film

Illinois, 1876: Tom Muldoon turns up in the capital city of Springfield, telling an old acquaintance, undertaker John Langley, that he has just gotten out of prison in Joliet. He shows Langley a new $50 bill created by a counterfeiter who …

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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)

Drama, Psychological Thriller

Johnny Bristol, is a Vietnam veteran who, as a prisoner, kept his sanity by remembering his home town of Charles, Vermont. He recalls a happy town with picnics and band concerts in a small town atmosphere. All the while suffering in a cage…

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Prison for Children (1987)

drama film, prison film

The date is May 10, 1974, and John Parsons (Raphael Sbarge) is an orphaned teenage boy living in rural New Mexico. For ten years, he has lived in a cabin on the Saunders Ranch, along with his older brother Chris, who serves as his legal gu…

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Seven Keys (1962)

crime film, prison film

Russell is a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered, on his release Russell sets out to find the cash. However, he…

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Hold Back Tomorrow (1955)

drama film

In an unnamed country, Joe Cardos, a double murderer awaiting hanging in an isolation cell the next morning, is allowed by law to have one last request before his execution. He tells the warden that despite his earlier wishes to be left al…

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6,000 Enemies (1939)

crime film, drama film, prison film

Steve Donegan is an elected district attorney and launches an anti-organized crime campaign. Joe Silenus, a crime boss, plots to frame Donegan for accepting a bribe. Donegan is sentenced to prison, where he re-encounters all the men he con…

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Scorpion's Revenge (1997)

women in prison film

Nami Matsuhima and her husband Jiro were a Japanese couple living in the United States. Unfortunately, Nami's life changes for the worse, when Jiro is killed by an explosion from a bomb that was planted in his car. The police believe that …

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Con Games (2001)

action film, drama film, prison film

A senator's grandson is murdered while incarcerated at California's notorious "Doscher State Prison", nicknamed "Dachau" by convicts for the number of unsolved murders of inmates that have taken place therein. Hired by the senator, Gulf Wa…

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Face of a Stranger (1964)

crime film, prison film

Vince Howard and John Bell are prison cellmates awaiting their release. When Bell is found with a knife his release is delayed by three months. He asks Howard to visit his wife Mary, who is blind.

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Penitentiary (1938)

drama film, prison film

William Jordan is befriended by the man who sent him to prison on a manslaughter charge, former DA (District attorney) now prison warden Matthews. In order to give Jordan the opportunity to rehabilitate himself Matthews allows him to work …

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Manners of Dying (2004)

drama film, prison film

Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to t…

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Condemned Women (1938)

drama film, prison film

Linda Wilson does not care about life both outside and inside of jail, but that changes once she falls in love with the prison psychiatrist Dr. Phillip. All is good until she is asked to leave Phillip in order to not damage his career.

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Los años bárbaros (1998)

Adventure, Drama, Komödie, comedy film

When two young men speak out against their country's dictator through the artistic medium of graffiti, their rebellious act is taken quite seriously, and they are both sent to jail. Little does their government know that these two youths a…

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King of the Damned (1935)

prison film

At a convict settlement in the Caribbean, the convicts suffer under a new commandant, who sends them to do road work. The convicts, led by Convict 83, lead a revolt. Convict 83 falls for the commandant's daughter, Anna.

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