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89
IMDb 71
9.3
/3128869/
91
/51309/
87
/29334/
4.6
/2312347/
89
/146/
98
/53487/
82
/22/
cc age 15+

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
poster
81
8.5
/1256428/
84
/23335/
83
/12194/
4.2
/754967/
84
/88/
96
/34093/
62
/32/
cc age 17+

American History X (1998)
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
poster
79
7.3
/15865/
74
/488/
70
/289/
3.7
/14619/
100
/9/
88
/757/

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.5
/5744/
66
/79/
66
/59/
3.7
/2585/
96
/28/
83
/91/

Bandit Queen (1994)
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
poster
75
7.1
/11289/
76
/529/
74
/381/
3.5
/7421/
73
/11/
90
/450/
66
/11/
cc age 17+

American Me (1992)
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
74
6.8
/27852/
69
/1663/
67
/614/
3.6
/27705/
92
/64/
75
/92/
76
/17/

A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in prison Muay Thai tournaments.
poster
73
7.5
/248957/
76
/4800/
76
/3725/
3.8
/155780/
73
/56/
85
/3007/
49
/18/
cc age 18+

Sleepers (1996)
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
7.2
/18398/
72
/485/
70
/286/
3.6
/9457/
89
/19/
81
/508/
53
/10/

Bad Boys (1983)
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
7.9
/37031/
81
/908/
81
/1465/
4.0
/21884/
64
/14/
94
/1854/
47
/12/

Bound by Honor (1993)
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
7.3
/111070/
75
/7856/
69
/2149/
3.5
/73530/
69
/49/
81
/343/
59
/10/
cc age 17+

Shot Caller (2017)
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
poster
69
7.1
/21013/
74
/697/
70
/504/
3.6
/9814/
74
/23/
74
/195/
54
/11/

Brubaker (1980)
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
poster
Kanopy
67
7.0
/14206/
71
/494/
72
/384/
3.6
/10991/
63
/27/
69
/213/
57
/8/

Dog Pound (2010)
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.3
/7072/
62
/247/
67
/248/
3.2
/10221/
79
/42/
58
/43/

Moebius (2013)
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
poster
65
6.3
/2470/
60
/21/
55
/21/
3.3
/456/
79
/19/
72
/56/
76
/18/

Children of the Revolution (1996)
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
poster
Netflix
67
65
6.6
/15792/
67
/343/
63
/251/
3.3
/8124/
83
/35/
59
/228/
65
/12/

Animal Factory (2000)
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
poster
Peacock Premium
64
7.3
/605426/
73
/15530/
72
/10717/
3.4
/429003/
53
/227/
74
/35703/
56
/43/
cc age 16+

Troy (2004)
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
poster
Hoopla
63
7.6
/549187/
77
/18105/
75
/7930/
3.6
/537161/
34
/169/
81
/27985/
30
/35/
cc age 18+

The Butterfly Effect (2004)
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.7
/17804/
65
/414/
62
/258/
3.3
/3196/
67
/45/
63
/579/
56
/9/

The Escapist (2008)
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
poster
61
6.7
/1557/
62
/14/
60
/25/
3.3
/489/
56
/9/
60
/10/

The Fixer (1968)
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kyiv. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
6.4
/59350/
65
/1726/
63
/1266/
3.0
/18936/
49
/814/

The Experiment (2010)
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
poster
The Roku Channel
60
6.1
/22543/
63
/513/
65
/587/
2.9
/6250/
53
/317/

In Hell (2003)
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
poster
56
6.6
/614/
48
/7/
53
/13/
3.2
/290/
57
/7/
53
/6/

Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)
Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.
poster
56
6.3
/2508/
55
/34/
57
/48/
3.2
/613/
47
/20/

Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.
poster
The Roku Channel
52
6.4
/32591/
67
/989/
62
/289/
3.3
/37084/
21
/58/
66
/1171/
24
/15/

Dirty Work (1998)
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
poster
Kanopy
70
48
6.3
/1902/
63
/71/
72
/58/
3.2
/2816/
93
/15/
64
/7/

The Prince (2019)
Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
poster
65
46
6.2
/2836/
67
/95/
60
/49/
3.3
/362/
58
/12/
78
/83/

Lockdown (2000)
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
46
4.9
/17300/
53
/385/
47
/203/
2.8
/5860/
35
/82/
40
/2573/
50
/22/

The Ten (2007)
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
poster
58
43
6.3
/3859/
63
/148/
58
/114/
3.1
/729/
45
/50/

Secrets of State (2008)
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
poster
61
43
6.3
/7558/
61
/57/
53
/50/
3.0
/3201/
65
/15/
66
/6/

Rhino Season (2012)
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
poster
49
41
5.2
/8362/
54
/195/
56
/133/
2.5
/1070/
37
/378/

The Long Weekend (2005)
Cooper is an actor who sees life as one big party, while Ed is in advertising and takes life too seriously. When Ed gets stressed over a deadline he has to meet, his brother Cooper works hard in trying to get his brother hooked up with a girl, thus a long weekend of stress and beautiful women, culminating in Ed meeting, and making love to, the woman of his dreams.
poster
49
39
5.0
/2806/
53
/105/
50
/66/
2.9
/1507/
63
/8/
43
/27/
30
/6/

Chained Heat (1983)
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.
poster
42
38
5.1
/6186/
55
/213/
50
/138/
2.6
/2213/
17
/6/
31
/32/
39
/4/

Moon 44 (1990)
Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.
poster
64
37
6.4
/738/
63
/18/
50
/20/
3.4
/249/
78
/32/
69
/72/
55
/14/

A Jihad for Love (2007)
A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
37
5.2
/3001/
55
/57/
52
/57/
3.0
/1052/
45
/59/

Stoic (2009)
A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
33
6.2
/1352/
59
/44/
63
/56/
3.2
/817/
55
/25/

Born Innocent (1976)
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.
poster
66
32
7.3
/1671/
63
/31/
56
/26/
3.7
/1065/

Bespredel (1989)
Using an elaborate system of denunciation, the chief of the Zone keeps his prisoners in check. A new inmate, allegedly imprisoned for speculating on postage stamps, tries to rebel against the system.
poster
70
31
7.1
/838/
64
/12/
67
/19/
3.5
/474/
79
/760/

Night Zoo (1987)
Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess.
poster
56
29
6.1
/1579/
62
/50/
55
/36/
3.2
/1029/
39
/18/

Jackson County Jail (1976)
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
poster
61
28
6.1
/763/
55
/34/
57
/25/
3.4
/598/
64
/37/

Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
poster
74
25
8.4
/1973/
75
/14/
69
/20/
3.5
/249/

The Earth's Most Beloved Son (1993)
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.
poster
64
24
6.6
/1599/
65
/30/
61
/31/
3.3
/354/
62
/9/

Führer Ex (2002)
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.
poster
47
24
5.0
/1176/
55
/30/
48
/33/
37
/38/

Locked Up (2005)
Dennis is a new inmate. Mike is an older black inmate. Together the two face hostile prison officals and inmates in their attempts to become a loving couple.
poster
65
22
6.7
/707/
68
/20/
68
/32/
3.3
/746/
56
/3/

Unbowed (2011)
Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.
poster
64
21
6.5
/1008/
67
/53/
61
/27/
3.3
/236/

Lynch (2010)
The story unfolds about the murder of an old man living in a remote village and six locals who may have been connected with the murder. Things get messy when the dead man turns out to be an ex convict. The accused ones find it very hard to deal with the preconceived attitude. The villagers, led by the families of the accused, have to fight for their innocence.
poster
Netflix
59
21
6.7
/608/
63
/13/
54
/10/
54
/93/

Too Young The Hero (1988)
TV movie based upon the true story of Calvin Graham, who, as a 12 year old boy, enlisted in the US Navy during WWII.
poster
54
21
5.4
/729/
62
/20/
55
/27/
3.2
/388/
35
/64/

Shamo (2007)
Ryo Narushima is a student who has served prison time for killing his parents. Once he is released, he trains to become a professional kick-boxer.
poster
51
21
5.8
/682/
61
/27/
52
/22/
36
/11/

Ghosted (2011)
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack’s cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path that involves saving Paul from the clutches of the wing beast, Clay.
poster
48
18
5.3
/904/
58
/22/
47
/29/
36
/18/

Back Soon (2007)
Back Soon is a story of love, loss, identity and hope. It follows the relationship between aspiring actor Logan Foster and reformed drug dealer Gil Ramirez, two men who find themselves inexplicably drawn together despite their disparate backgrounds, and the fact that they both regarded themselves as straight. However, their bond is soon threatened by Gil's mysterious past and a startling revelation about the true nature of their connection. Neither man is prepared for this, nor the impact it will have on their lives.


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