Genre "Prison Film" Movies
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| 1. Amazon Jail (year: 1985) |
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Elizabeth Hartman stars in this unpleasant Spanish-Italian action film. When a group of women escape from a prison deep in the Amazon jungle, they are ...
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| 2. An Innocent Man (year: 1989) |
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In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. T ...
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| 3. Animal Factory (year: 2000) |
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Actor-turned-director Steve Buscemi follows up on his restrained 1996 directorial debut Trees Lounge (1996) with this gritty, understated prison drama ...
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| 4. Beyond Re-Animator (year: 2003) |
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Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) continues his research in director Brian Yuzna's secon ...
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| 5. Blood In Blood Out (year: 1993) |
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Taylor Hackford directed this urgent melodrama about the realities of street crime, gangs, and prison life among the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Mik ...
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| 6. Born Innocent (year: 1974) |
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Born Innocent, originally telecast September 9, 1974, concerns the plight of a teenaged reform-school inmate, played by Linda Blair in her first impor ...
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| 7. Brubaker (year: 1980) |
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Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and vi ...
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| 8. Chained Heat (year: 1983) |
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The B-grade genres of sexploitation, blaxploitation, and jailhouse flicks mixed with this grotesque sex- and violence-filled melodrama. Linda Blair st ...
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| 9. Chicago (year: 2002) |
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A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation ...
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| 10. Das Experiment (year: 2001) |
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A man taking part in a scientific study finds the fine line between play-acting and reality has been blurred beyond recognition in this taut drama. Ta ...
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| 11. Dead Man Walking (year: 1995) |
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Tim Robbins' second directorial effort (after the political satire Bob Roberts) was this drama based on a true story, which explores the issue of capi ...
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| 12. Deathwatch (year: 1966) |
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| 13. Ernest Goes to Jail (year: 1990) |
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In Ernest Goes to Jail, Jim Varney returns as leering idiot savant Ernest P. Worrall, star of scores of TV commercials and feature films. Varney also ...
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| 14. Escape from Alcatraz (year: 1979) |
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No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood). This Donald Siegel-directed nailbiter is a reenactmen ...
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| 15. Half Past Dead (year: 2002) |
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Action hero Steven Seagal goes behind bars — though don't worry, he isn't really a bad guy — in this action thriller. Sascha Petro ...
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| 16. Half Past Dead 2 (year: 2007) |
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When a large-scale prison riot erupts and the man responsible for the chaos kidnaps the wife and daughter of a violent offender, the hardened inmate r ...
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| 17. In Hell (year: 2003) |
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When Kyle LeBlanc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is prosecuted for killing the man who murdered his wife, he is sent to the most notoriously violent prison i ...
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| 18. Last Light (year: 1993) |
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Kiefer Sutherland directed and stars in this death-row drama, playing an inmate who forms a complex relationship with a guard (Forest Whitaker).
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| 19. Levity (year: 2003) |
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Action comedy screenwriter Ed Solomon switches gears to psychological drama for his feature film directing debut, Levity. Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Tho ...
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| 20. Mean Machine (year: 2001) |
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The classic Burt Reynolds football-behind-bars flick The Longest Yard crosses the pond and gets an appropriate British accent in the process in this r ...
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| 21. Midnight Express (year: 1978) |
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Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naive American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad D ...
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| 22. Prison Break (year: 1938) |
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In this drama, a tuna fisherman is wrongly convicted for murder. Because he is a model, and oft-times heroic prisoner, he is up for early parole. Whil ...
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| 23. Red Heat (year: 1985) |
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| 24. Reform School Girls (year: 1986) |
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A softcore, low-budget film with no pretentions to a viable plot or character development, Reform School Girls just proceeds along the foul-mouthed, s ...
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| 25. Stir Crazy (year: 1980) |
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After the excellent audience response to their teaming in Silver Streak, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor reunited for this zany comedy. Wilder and Pryor ...
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| 26. The Glass House (year: 1972) |
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| 27. The Green Mile (year: 1999) |
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Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, ...
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| 28. The Hill (year: 1965) |
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| 29. The Hurricane (year: 1999) |
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In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a top-ranked middleweight boxer whom many fight fans expected to become world champion. When three peo ...
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| 30. The Last Castle (year: 2001) |
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Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed a ...
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| 31. The Longest Yard (year: 2005) |
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One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sand ...
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| 32. The New Guy (year: 2002) |
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Former Prada model and Road Trip co-star D.J. Qualls makes a bid for leading man status in this nerd-makeover comedy. Qualls stars as Dizzy, a dorky b ...
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| 33. The Shawshank Redemption (year: 1994) |
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In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced ...
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| 34. The United States of Leland (year: 2002) |
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Produced by Kevin Spacey, The United States of Leland is a psychological drama concerning the aftereffects of a brutal murder. It's also the first big ...
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