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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 510 films · Page 9.
Drama, Fugitive Drama, Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
In Sarajevo, 1992, Ajla Ekmečić is an ethnic Bosniak artist and lives with her sister, Lejla, who is a single mother of a baby boy. One evening, she meets her boyfriend, ethnic Serb police officer Danijel Vukojević, at a club. They enjoy t…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, drama film, prison film, romance film, thriller film
Three friends, Lewis McBride, Sheriff and Tony, are vacationing in Malaysia. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. They a…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, association football film, drama film
In 1945, German paratrooper Bert Trautmann is captured while fighting in the forests near Kleve. Transferred to a British POW camp in Lancashire, he and his comrades are kept under strict conditions and made to work to repair the damage th…
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, prison film
The film opens with a getaway driver and his wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American Border Patrol toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican polic…
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Documentation, documentary film
An examination of the intended consequences of the Iraqi war with a focus on events at Abu Ghraib prison which began to appear in global media in 2004. The prison quickly became notorious for the photos of the abuse of terror suspects, the…
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Thriller, action film, drama film, prison film
Vince Majestyk is a farmer, and a former U.S. Army Ranger instructor and Vietnam War veteran, who owns and operates a 160-acre watermelon farm in rural Colorado near a small town called Edna. He needs to harvest his crop soon in order to k…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Aboard a commercial Boeing 747 airliner, U.S. Marshals brothers Terry and Pete Nessip are escorting computer expert Earl Leedy to a high-security prison. When an apparent terrorist hijack attempt blows a hole in the airliner, Terry is suck…
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Christmas film, Criminal Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy film, prison film
In 1935, Great Depression-era convicts Ned and Jim, jailed on unspecified charges and abused by a ruthless warden, become escaped convicts when a vicious killer named Bobby escapes the electric chair. The two escape to a small upstate New …
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Komödie, Splatstick, children's film, comedy film, prison film
Ernest P. Worrell is employed as a night janitor at the Howard Country Bank & Trust where his friends and neighbors, Chuck and Bobby, work as security guards. While trying to use a floor polisher, Ernest makes an enormous mess that results…
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Family Drama, Forensic, drama film, prison film, thriller film
In April 1967, the office of Marvin Kramer, a Jewish civil rights lawyer in Indianola, Mississippi, is bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing Kramer's young twin sons Josh and John and leading to the amputation of Kramer's legs and his later …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, prison film
In a British Army "glasshouse" (military prison) in the Libyan desert, prisoners convicted of service offences such as insubordination, being drunk while on duty, going AWOL or petty theft are subjected to repetitive drill routines as a pu…
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Action, Thriller, action film, prison film, thriller film
In San Francisco, FBI agent Sasha Petrosevitch goes undercover as a Russian car thief and is brought in by criminal Nick Frazier to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall, who apparently shot and killed Sasha's wife. After some time, FBI Specia…
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Action, action film
Frank Walsh is a skilled big-game hunter specializing in rare and dangerous species. He has recently caught an extremely rare white jaguar in the rain forests of Brazil by illegally tranquilizing it while sitting on a wooden platform high …
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Christmas film, Drama, Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
On Christmas Eve in New York City, down-on-his-luck ex-convict Nick Bianco and his three colleagues rob a jewelry store. Before they can exit the building, however, the injured proprietor sets off his alarm. While attempting to escape, Nic…
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Psychodrama, action film, drama film, prison film
Young mother Madylyn Mabry puts her daughter to bed while her husband Jack watches golf on television. After the child is asleep, Madylyn goes downstairs and announces that she is leaving Jack. Jack runs upstairs to the bedroom and holds t…
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Action, action film, drama film, thriller
Former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance Scout Sniper Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), who was discharged after his finger was amputated in the first film, is met by CIA officer James Eckles (Dan Butler) and Colonel Dan McKenna (Linden …
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Action, action film, drama film, prison film, thriller film
While working overseas in Magnitogorsk, Russia, Kyle LeBlanc finds his wife dead after hearing her being attacked over the phone. The culprit, Sergio Kovic, bribes the judge and is not convicted. Enraged, Kyle steals a gun from the bailiff…
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Drama, Historie
Following the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of Denmark from German occupation in May 1945, the Wehrmacht and SS occupiers became prisoners of war. A group of young German prisoners are sent to the west coast where they a…
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Drama, prison film
After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, and Warren Murfett, a soon to be paroled inmate.
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Action, Bad Cop, Christmas film, Crime, Slasher Horror, Thriller, action film, crime film, horror film, prison film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
After being impaled by a pipe and plunged into a body of water, the now-undead "Maniac Cop" Matthew Cordell acquires a junked police cruiser and restarts his killing spree through New York City. Finding a convenience store in the middle of…
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Drama, drama film, sport film
The film opens with Colin Smith running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In a brief voiceover, he says that running is the way his family has always coped with the world's troubles, but that, in the end, the r…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction film
Death Race owner R. H. Weyland has been forced to sell the rights to Niles York, a British billionaire who acquired the rights by a hostile takeover and intends to relocate the Death Race to South Africa.
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Komödie, comedy film, prison film
Convicted car thief and passionate Chicago Cubs fan Jimmy Dworski wins tickets to the World Series. Unfortunately, he still has a couple of days to serve in prison, and the warden Frank Toolman will not trust him to leave and come back. Wi…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Ten years before freeing the US POWs from a brutal general, Colonel James Braddock was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named François, and tries to …
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