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Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|200px|left|Lana Turner in the trailer for the film Drifter Frank Chambers hitches a ride with District Attorney Kyle Sackett. Kyle drops Frank off at "Twin Oaks", a rural diner/service station on a highway in the hills outside Los An…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film, thriller film
Frank Leone, a mechanic in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a model prisoner nearing the end of his sentence in Norwood, a low-security prison. He occasionally spends time outside prison on furlough fixing cars, playing American football and seeing…
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Komödie, buddy film, prison film
In New York City, aspiring actor Harry Monroe is fired from his job as a waiter when cooks accidentally use his stash of marijuana as oregano at a dinner party. His friend, aspiring playwright Skip Donahue, is fired from his job as a store…
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Drama, Film Noir, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, melodrama, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
thumb|right|upright|Newspaper ad in 1939 In 1920, two Irish-American youths, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly, attempt to rob a railroad car carrying fountain pens. Jerry escapes from the police, while Rocky is caught and sentenced to ref…
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Action, action film, boxing film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film
Some years after fighting Monroe "Undisputed" Hutchen in prison, former boxing champion George "Iceman" Chambers visits the Russian Federation for a series of boxing matches and commercial airings, where he is subsequently framed for posse…
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Action, Adventure, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, medieval film
In 12th century Scandinavian Scotland, a mysterious mute one-eyed thrall is held captive by a Norwegian chieftain from Sutherland and forced to fight to the death against others. He receives his meals from a young thrall boy, who seems to …
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Drama, Komödie, Sport, association football film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film
Danny "The Mean Machine" Meehan is a retired footballer and former captain of England who was banned from football for life for fixing an unspecified match they played against Germany. In the present day, after a long drinking session, he …
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drama film, prison film
The synopsis of the plot appears on RogerEbert.com describing the opening to the film stating that: "The first half hour or so of Mamet’s new film, 'Henry Johnson,' adapted from a recent theatrical work, is the playwright undistilled. Evan…
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Cannibal-Movie, Horror, Splatter Film, horror film, prison film, slasher film
Several years after the reality TV show massacre, 4 college students – Alex, Brent, Sophie, and Trey – go to the West Virginia backcountry on a rafting trip. As they are camping by the riverside, the inbred cannibal Three Finger appears an…
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Drama, Justice Drama, drama film, prison film
In 1969, Henry Brubaker arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas disguised as an inmate. He witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden food, fraud, and rampant graft. During…
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Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film, war film
In 1805, most of Europe is torn apart by Napoleon Bonaparte's drive to conquer more and more territory. In Moscow, many young men have joined the army, including Nicholas Rostov, the son of Count Ilya Rostov and his wife Nataly, and the br…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, docudrama, prison film, thriller film
Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a psychological experiment to investigate the hypothesis that roles in social situations, rather than individual personality traits, cause participants' behavior. In the exp…
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High School Comedy Film, Sitcom, comedy film, prison film, teen film
Prison inmate Luther speaks directly to the camera in the opening, telling the story of Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, an 18-year-old nerdy high school senior in Austin, Texas. Dizzy is friends with Nora, Kirk, and Glen, who together started a …
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
Rhoda Williams, a brilliant 17-year-old girl who has spent her young life fascinated by astronomy, is delighted to learn that she has been accepted into MIT. She celebrates, drinking with friends, and in a reckless moment, drives home into…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Following a failed sting operation in which two fellow undercover officers are killed months prior, Detroit PD's Sergeant Jake Roenick begins to regularly abuse alcohol and painkillers while clinging to his unambitious assignment as a desk…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, drama film, heist film, prison film
A 19-year-old youth, JR, is sent to an Australian prison for a minor crime. His cellmate is being sexually abused by a prison gang led by a man named Dave. JR also meets the charismatic Brendan Lynch, a notorious Scottish armed robber.
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Corporal Rolf Steiner is a veteran soldier of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. During a raid on an enemy mortar position, his reconnaissance platoon captures a Russian boy soldier. They set off for friendly lines just as…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Ray Breslin continues to operate his security company to some success, with senior members Hush and Abigail and newcomers Shu Ren, Jasper Kimbral, and Luke Graves as field operators. During a hostage rescue mission in Chechnya, Kimbral, tr…
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Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the future, a totalitarian government will employ a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature. They can search anyone, anywhere, at any time, and burn any books they find. One of the firemen, Guy Montag, meets one of…
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Dark Comedy, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, independent film, prison film, road movie
In New Orleans, radio disc jockey Zack lives with his girlfriend Laurette. After an argument, she throws him out of their apartment. Later, an acquaintance offers Zack money to drive a car across town.
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Documentation, documentary film, drama film, prison film
On October 24, 2001, 50-year-old nurse Sandra Stotler was murdered in her house in a gated community outside of Conroe, Texas, and her body was dumped in a nearby lake. A few days later, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, both 19 years old, …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
Ron Decker, a twenty-one-year-old young man convicted for drug possession, is sent to prison where veteran con Earl Copen takes Decker under his wing and introduces him into his own gang. Copen first helps out Decker when three Puerto Rica…
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Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In California, psychotic criminal Arthur "Cody" Jarrett leads the ruthless Jarrett gang alongside his wife Verna, his beloved mother "Ma" Jarrett, and his right-hand man "Big Ed" Somers. During a robbery of a mail train in the Sierra Nevad…
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Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction film
In 2017, the United States is a military dictatorship. Ex-army officer John Henry Brennick and his wife Karen attempt to cross the Canada–United States border to Vancouver to have a second child. A strict one-child policy forbids a second …
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