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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film, prison film, romance film
Construction worker Vince Everett accidentally kills a drunken man in a brawl that he did not start and is sentenced to between a minimum of one to a maximum of ten years in the state penitentiary. His cellmate, washed-up country singer Hu…
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Justice Drama, drama film, hood film, prison film
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Avery Montgomery (Jones) is taking time off from college to spend time with his girlfriend Krista Wells (Melissa De Sousa) and help raise their young son. Avery is an avid swimmer and develops to a championship …
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker, from local custody to the courthouse sixteen blocks away to testify on a p…
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Action, Sport, action film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Years after his defeat by George "Iceman" Chambers, Yuri Boyka, now a prison janitor, hears about the Prison Spetz Competition (PSC), an inter-prison fighting tournament offering a chance at early release. Boyka trains privately to recover…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, prison film
Robert Stroud is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. He is shown as a rebellious inmate, fighting against a rigid prison system; while being transported with other prisoners by train, he breaks open the window to a…
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Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula. During his time i…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
In 1950 San Francisco, petty criminal and prostitute Barbara Graham faces a misdemeanor charge for soliciting sex. She returns to her native San Diego, but is soon charged with perjury after she provides two criminal friends a false alibi.…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, prison film, psychological experiment, thriller film
Volunteers arrive for a psychological study led by Dr. Archaleta (Stevens), among them Travis (Brody), a proud anti-war protester, and Michael Barris (Whitaker), a 42-year-old man who still lives with his domineering mother. After intervie…
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Drama, drama film, prison film, thriller film
As a 17-year-old orphan, Henri Young went into a grocery store where he was denied work. This leads him to steal $5.00 from a grocery store to feed himself and his little sister Rosetta, both of whom are destitute. He is apprehended by the…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, prison film, science fiction film
In 2022, the penal system is run by corporations, and prisoners are seen as assets. Highly trained ex-Marine J.T. Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer after being ordered to kill innocent civilians in Benghaz…
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Action, Secret Agent, action film, buddy film
After retrieving a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn retires to Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife. A governmen…
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Adventure, Horror, drama film, horror film
On their honeymoon in Hungary, American mystery novelist Peter Alison and his new wife Joan are told that, due to a mix-up, they must share a train compartment with Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a Hungarian psychiatrist, who says he is traveling to…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In December 1944, the Kempeitai massacred prisoners of war on Palawan. By 1945, American forces are closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines. The Japanese hold over 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, heist film, prison film, science fiction film
A gang robs a bank on behalf of crime boss Markus Kane. When two police officers unexpectedly enter the building, getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas urges his accomplices to abort the robbery, but they refuse. Luke intervenes, resulting in t…
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Drama Documentary, Fake Documentary, science fiction film
In the near future, the Vietnam War is escalating, South Korea's capital of Seoul is under bombardment, and the Soviet Union is deploying their U-boats off the coast of Cuba. As a "preventive measure" against possible attacks and sabotages…
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Drama, drama film
The film begins with the September 11 attacks shown on television when Ali Amir enters a house and begins to perform salah (Islamic prayer) when he is kidnapped and taken to Guantanamo Bay detention camp, specifically Camp Delta. Eight yea…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, prison film
Detective Louis Burke of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Quebec confronts the maniac that killed his partner: a psychopathic serial killer who calls himself "The Sandman". Burke searches an abandoned house in Los Angeles, where he c…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film
Eric, 19, is "starred up" from a juvenile prison to a high security adult prison, based on his age and his history of violent behaviour. His father, Neville, is serving a life sentence at this prison, and is a lieutenant for the crime boss…
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Drama, Psychodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, prison film
In a flashback, Leland P. Fitzgerald, an emotionally detached teenage boy, explains that he cannot remember the details of the day he killed Ryan Pollard, an intellectually disabled boy. The murder shocks Leland's quiet Arizona community, …
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Drama, drama film, prison film
Franklin Bean (Charlie Sheen), an Army private, is sentenced to 90 days in the stockade for drunkenly assaulting a military policeman on his base in West Germany in the 1960s. Master Sergeant McKinney (Martin Sheen) is the stockade command…
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Thriller, prison film
The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a New York prison — Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly), and Carlito (Hernandez) — controlling their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, they all look to control the drug…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, prison film
The film examines the mind of anthropologist Ethan Powell who had been missing for a few years, living in the jungle of Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with mountain gorillas. He is convicted of killing and injuring several supposed Wi…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film, romance film
Ruth Guthrie walks across a field and is followed by Bob Muldoon, who tries to dissuade Ruth from leaving him to return to her mother's. Ruth is adamant and reveals that she is angry because Bob told Freddy that he was going to 'strike out…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, prison film, science fiction film
In 2079, CIA operative Snow is arrested for murdering Colonel Frank Armstrong, who had uncovered evidence of a mole selling secrets about the United States space program. Secret Service Director Scott Langral, on advice from the President,…
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