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MGM Plus
74
7.2
/84577/
74
/4182/
70
/1371/
3.6
/46163/
84
/62/
84
/2367/
65
/18/
cc age 10+

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.
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Kanopy
73
8.0
/144985/
78
/2758/
78
/2058/
4.0
/59414/
73
/33/
90
/1635/
58
/10/
cc age 15+

Papillon (1973)
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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MUBI
73
7.3
/40395/
73
/2000/
70
/639/
3.7
/74890/
87
/241/
73
/5/
77
/36/

The Nightingale (2018)
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
poster
72
67
7.2
/23011/
71
/1166/
70
/1570/
3.5
/35489/
78
/46/
83
/21/
60
/15/

An Officer and a Spy (2019)
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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Kanopy
64
7.2
/94736/
74
/4538/
73
/2068/
3.5
/65075/
52
/110/
71
/183/
51
/31/
cc age 16+

Papillon (2017)
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
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Amazon Prime Video
56
6.1
/24178/
65
/779/
62
/462/
3.0
/10184/
59
/22/
41
/238/

No Escape (1994)
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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FXNow
56
6.4
/349705/
66
/12464/
63
/6190/
2.8
/389628/
44
/126/
46
/9225/
59
/20/
cc age 16+

Alien³ (1992)
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
poster
68
55
6.9
/3204/
68
/47/
70
/54/
3.4
/2042/
75
/8/
60
/37/

Strange Cargo (1940)
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
poster
60
47
5.9
/3577/
63
/83/
53
/49/
3.2
/1077/
75
/8/
48
/126/

Van Diemen's Land (2009)
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
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Netflix
45
5.9
/99357/
64
/3732/
61
/1679/
2.8
/40562/
13
/89/
51
/2691/
25
/21/
cc age 14+

The One (2001)
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
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Netflix
90
42
7.0
/657/
78
/35/
76
/5/
3.6
/14536/

Green Bones (2024)
A soon-to-be released criminal and a corrections officer is still grieving over the death of his sister opposing the prisoner's release.
poster
78
40
7.7
/468/
74
/22/
57
/10/
4.0
/2174/
100
/13/
85
/12/

Utopia (2013)
Documentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional relationship with Indigenous Australians
poster
77
36
7.9
/1375/
79
/44/
75
/25/
3.8
/1098/

Carol of the Bells (2023)
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.
poster
60
29
5.9
/812/
62
/14/
54
/46/
3.2
/1602/

The Dreyfus Affair (1899)
The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.
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The Roku Channel
51
27
5.9
/1355/
59
/25/
61
/31/
3.0
/1110/
20
/104/

The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
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64
19
6.7
/103/
70
/9/
60
/11/
3.1
/1749/

Les Misérables: The Story of Jean Valjean (2025)
Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is repeatedly turned away. Desperate, he unknowingly finds refuge at the house of Bishop Bienvenu, who lives simply, with his sister and a single servant. There, he is surprised by their warm welcome, and his inner demons start to waver. But the temptation to be what society sees in him still haunts him, and he steals the Bishop’s silverware. When the police ultimately catches him, the Bishop forgives him and gifts him the candlesticks. This acts becomes the starting point of Jean Valjean’ transformation into a new man who reclaims his humanity.
poster
61
19
6.4
/730/
49
/14/
57
/19/
3.2
/269/
86
/4/
47
/11/

Proteus (2003)
An exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the passionate (true) story of two men caught in an unjust system rife with racism, homophobia and cruelty.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
17
5.3
/1440/
55
/18/
61
/19/
3.0
/229/
37
/17/

Battle of the Brave (2004)
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
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Amazon Prime Video
50
15
5.4
/652/
52
/18/
48
/24/
3.1
/682/
36
/5/

I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
poster
52
13
5.0
/287/
47
/8/
51
/21/
2.9
/486/

Dreyfus Put in Irons (1899)
Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell. Two guards stealthily approach the cot upon which Dreyfus is sleeping. They awake him and read to him the order from the French minister–M. Lebon–to put him into irons, which they proceed at once to accomplish. Dreyfus vigorously protests against this treatment, which protests, however, fall on deaf ears. The chief sergeant and guards before leaving the hut, inspect the four corners of same by means of a lantern.
poster
50
12
4.8
/293/
43
/10/
51
/17/
2.9
/465/

Devil's Island - Within the Palisade (1899)
A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.
poster
59
11
6.5
/727/
71
/5/
54
/14/
3.2
/289/
45
/6/

Devil's Island (1939)
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
poster
51
7
5.9
/447/
61
/9/
54
/11/
33
/2/

Hell's Island (1955)
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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Fandango at Home Free
32
5
3.7
/421/
37
/13/
44
/12/
12
/3/

Fatal Conflict (2000)
In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing it into Los Angeles destroying what is left of civilization. Time is running out.
poster
85
?
8.2
/491/
100
/1/
3.7
/327/

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day (2026)
Four close friends, Lovro (21), Nenad (20), Stevan (22), and Ivan (20), fought against the Ustashas and Nazis by joining the partisans in WWII. Sixteen years later, they became renowned filmmakers. In 1957, in Communist Yugoslavia, their sexual orientation raises suspicion, and a communist party loyalist named Emir (52) is assigned to sabotage their careers and lives. The pursuit of freedom becomes a fight for survival for the artists, while Emir's beliefs are challenged.
poster
?
4.9
/21/

Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine
Truncated feature version of the serial 'Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)', in which Captain Mephisto attempts to take over the world's supply of a valuable ore.
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?
6.5
/18/
55
/4/

La hija del penal (1949)
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
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?
7.5
/44/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The Grepor Butch Belgica Story (1995)
The Grepor Butch Belgica Story is a 1995 Filipino biographical action film directed by Toto Natividad. The film stars Joko Diaz as the title role.
poster
55
?
5.6
/307/
47
/4/
55
/2/

Prestige (1931)
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
poster
52
?
6.2
/251/
46
/9/
50
/10/

Rio (1939)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
poster
?
8.0
/42/
20
/2/
60
/1/

The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz (2001)
Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana, in South America: The Devil's Islands. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle, lay the lost remains of what had been for a hundred years the most storied convict prison in history. There, while most of the prisoners faded into oblivion, a few became legends. Some because they were innocent, as in the scandalous Dreyfus Affair, some because they somehow escaped the islands of nightmare, as did the "butterfly", Henry Charrière, immortalized by Steve McQueen in Papillon. Now 50 years after the prison doors slammed shut for the last time, we explore what's left of the Devil's Islands' unbelievably dark and oppressive realm.
poster
49
?
6.3
/225/
10
/2/
76
/7/

Adam's Woman (1970)
Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.
poster
?
4.8
/28/
10
/1/
35
/2/

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)
In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
poster
68
?
7.0
/106/
70
/1/
67
/7/

The Little Convict (1979)
In old New South Wales a new bunch of convicts arrives including the little convict, young Toby Nelson. Consigned to a Government farm they are subjected to the cruelty of Sergeant Billy Langdon and Corporal Weazel Wesley. Toby escapes and flees into the Australian bush where he is saved from death by the aboriginal boy, Wahroonga. Together, with another escapee, the highwayman, Jack Doolan, and Wahroonga’s animal friends, they launch a spectacular mission to rescue the blacksmith, Big George, and Toby’s sister, Polly.
poster
48
?
5.6
/186/
35
/2/
62
/4/
40
/2/

Isle of Missing Men (1942)
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
poster
59
?
5.9
/146/
60
/8/
60
/10/

For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
A convict, wrongfully accused and sent a harsh prison colony, attempts to escape.
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Amazon Prime Video
55
?
5.2
/154/
58
/5/
58
/9/

Island of Lost Souls (1974)
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
poster
55
?
6.2
/104/
41
/5/
51
/29/

K (2002)
Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. Another salesman may beat him to the punch, but not before disorienting changes. A maid scrubs the floor. "In the Penal Colony": a man arrives at a penal colony where an officer demonstrates a bizarre apparatus, one that punches a message into the skin of a prisoner strapped beneath it. Who will be punished? In "Fratricide," a man is murdered at night by someone he knows well. A woman grieves.
poster
?
6.9
/21/

Restricted Area (1975)
The life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system. The "restricted area" is a penal colony and Borstal, a "work camp" for delinquent children and young people. The film shows the contradictions in the notion of corrective education.
poster
?
6.1
/32/
60
/1/

Escape from Devil's Island (1935)
Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.
poster
?
6.3
/87/
55
/2/

Visiting Vera Cruz (1946)
This Traveltalk series short looks at the people, customs, and landmarks in Vera Cruz, the main port city of Mexico.
poster
49
?
6.0
/127/
40
/2/

Samar (1962)
In 1870, in the Spanish Philippines, the commandant of an island penal colony, aided by an American doctor and local villagers, decides to relocate his coastal camp to a fertile valley inland but the arduous trek is fraught with dangers.
poster
42
?
4.3
/403/
45
/5/
39
/11/

New Eden (1994)
Prisoners are dumped on a sand planet dubbed Earth 21-523 where most are immediately killed by the sand people and the remainder struggle for existence. That is until a new prisoner arrives with ideas of providing irrigation of the desert. But he still must first fight the nomadic sand people.
poster
?
6.3
/39/
30
/2/
55
/2/

Patmos (1985)
As an older man, the Apostle John was sentenced to forced labor on the Island of Patmos. God honored John with His visions, faithfully transcribed to become the Book of Revelation.
poster
66
?
6.9
/190/
65
/12/
60
/7/

Les Misérables (1948)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Cultpix
40
?
4.2
/308/
41
/9/
37
/10/

Women of Devil's Island (1962)
Italian costume drama about convicted women in France being sent to the penal colony on Devil's Island where they must wade through alligator-infested waters and find gold. Life on the island is tough for these buxom, beautifully-swept coiffed maidens - virtually none who look like they had even the slightest knowledge of crimes worthy of such a punishment. Here, if the girls want to get a day of rest they must work the night with the guards and/or warden of the island, but some changes come when Guy Madison arrives as the new warden out to change the horrible lives led by these playmate-wannabes.
poster
54
?
5.9
/146/
30
/3/
59
/7/

Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990)
Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.
poster
?
6.2
/74/
10
/1/
50
/8/

The Penal Colony (1970)
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.


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