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Thriller, Western, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1884 Arizona Territory, Dan Evans is a poor rancher and Civil War veteran who owes money to Glen Hollander, a local banker in the town of Bisbee. Hollander's men burn down his barn and scatter his cattle as a warning to pay his debts. T…
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Action, Thriller, action film, action thriller, adventure film
Commercial pilot Brodie Torrance, a former RAF pilot from Scotland, flies Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo using an DC-9 aircraft. Among the 14 passengers is fugitive homicide suspect Louis Gaspare, who …
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Computeranimation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film, science fantasy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In Modesto, California, Susan Murphy prepares for her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl, who switches their honeymoon in Paris, France to Fresno, California for a career opportunity. However, just before the ceremony, a meteorite from a de…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
West Virginian Jimmy Logan is laid off from his construction job in the tunnels underneath the Charlotte Motor Speedway for failing to inform the manager about his leg injuries during his football career in high school. He is close to his …
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, prison film
In 1972, after a violent confrontation with his abusive father, Miklo Velka, a teenager of half-Mexican descent, leaves Las Vegas for East Los Angeles. He moves in with his cousins, Paco and Cruz, who are members of the Vatos Locos gang. M…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, prison film, thriller film
Former prosecutor Ray Breslin is the founder and co-owner of Breslin-Clark, a security firm specializing in testing the security measures of supermax prisons. Posing as an inmate to study facilities from within and exploit their weaknesses…
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Crime, Destiny, Thriller, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film, vigilante film
In 1978 Victoria, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells Mark not to cross the line as it marks the Painters and Dockers territory. The next day, Mark rus…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1939, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer leaves behind his pregnant wife to join Peter Aufschnaiter in a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in India (now part of Pakistan). When World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by th…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Political Satire, Splatstick, prison film, screwball comedy film
Frank Drebin has retired from Police Squad and lives a seemingly happy life with his wife, Jane Spencer Drebin. In reality, Frank is unfulfilled as a househusband and attends marriage counseling with Jane. Six months after Frank's retireme…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, Romance Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, hood film, prison film
The film spans 30 years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles. The story opens with the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 and depicts a young Latino couple, Esperanza and Pedro Santana, being racially targeted by sailors. Pedro is beaten alongside oth…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, martial arts film, ninja film, science fiction film
A year after stopping Shredder, which Vern Fenwick was mutually credited for, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are informed by April O'Neil that scientist Baxter Stockman is working for Shredder and plans to bust him out of prison. As the …
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Adventure, drama film, prison film, survival film, war film
After the Soviet invasion of Poland in World War II, Polish army officer Janusz Wieszczek is held prisoner and interrogated by the NKVD. Unable to force a confession of espionage from him, the Soviets torture his wife until she denounces h…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film, buddy film, drama film, prison film
In 1997, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, elderly convict Willie Long tells two inmates his friends' life stories at their burial. Ray Gibson and Claude Banks, vastly different New Yorkers, meet at the club Spanky's in 1932. Small-ti…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, action comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
While driving through the Alps, thief Roger Beckerman is murdered by the local Mafia and his body disposed of in the river below. In the United Kingdom, his friend and fellow thief, Charlie Croker, is released from prison. After reuniting …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Romance Film, action film, crime film, heist film, prison film, romantic comedy film
The movie intercuts between flashbacks and the present day. This plot summary follows the true chronology. Career bank robber Jack Foley is incarcerated at Lompoc Penitentiary in California along with his friend and accomplice Buddy, after…
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Christmas film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, War Film, drama film, prison film
In 1942, Captain Yonoi is the commander of the POW camp in Lebak Sembada in Japanese-occupied Java. A strict adherent to the bushido code, his only connection to the prisoners are the empathetic Lieutenant-Colonel John Lawrence, the only i…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, independent film, prison film
The film centers on a dialogue between two very different individuals who share a prison cell during the Brazilian military dictatorship: Valentin Arregui, who is imprisoned (and has been tortured) due to his activities on behalf of a left…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, prison film
Stan Minton is a wealthy real estate con artist who is married to Mindy. One day, he is arrested for conning elderly people out of their savings. His lawyer Mal defends him at the trial presided over by Judge Perry.
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, prison film
In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a promising and top-ranked middleweight boxer from Paterson, New Jersey, who was expected by many fans to become the world's greatest boxing champion. However, a bartender and two customers were shot t…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction action film, thriller film
In 2012, the United States' failed economy and rising crime rates led to an increased number of privatized prisons. At one such prison, Terminal Island Penitentiary, Warden Claire Hennessey profits from livestreaming Death Race, a three-da…
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Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, drama film
Barbara Covett is a history teacher at a comprehensive school in London. She is unpopular with the students and her fellow teachers, for whom she has contempt. Having never married and nearing retirement, her only comfort is her diary.
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, prison film, thriller film
Steel mill worker Russell Baze lives with his brother, Rodney, a United States Army veteran who served four tours in the Iraq War, in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. Russell finds Rodney at a horse racing simulcast. Rodney reveals that the m…
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Drama, drama film, prison film
In 2001, former corporate raider Gordon Gekko is released from prison after serving time for insider trading and securities fraud. By 2008, Gekko has begun promoting his new book Is Greed Good?, warning about a possible 2008 financial cris…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In New York City, two Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Special Agents are killed during a briefcase exchange in a United Nations (UN) parking garage. The murders are caught on a security camera, but the killer escapes with top-secret file…
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