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77
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76
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4.2
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96
/163/
89
/2109/
90
/31/

A Prophet (2009)
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
poster
83
7.5
/8572/
73
/274/
72
/189/
4.0
/33584/
97
/62/
91
/11/
89
/18/

Great Freedom (2021)
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
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Starz
83
7.5
/90418/
75
/2847/
73
/1377/
4.0
/128840/
94
/212/
87
/1811/
85
/46/
cc age 17+

Fruitvale Station (2013)
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
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Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/17507/
72
/320/
69
/244/
3.8
/4204/
100
/93/
90
/751/
82
/25/

Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
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Kanopy
80
7.3
/50887/
72
/1781/
70
/985/
3.9
/34473/
99
/116/
84
/435/
81
/26/
cc age 17+

Starred Up (2014)
19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
poster
79
7.7
/34201/
76
/632/
74
/602/
3.9
/32144/
88
/26/
86
/654/
76
/5/

Cape Fear (1962)
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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78
8.2
/926055/
80
/18036/
81
/13473/
4.1
/1269985/
86
/84/
93
/29697/
77
/22/
cc age 17+

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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Amazon Prime Video
78
7.2
/16895/
69
/351/
72
/346/
3.8
/20200/
94
/83/
76
/159/
86
/22/

Barbara (2012)
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
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Netflix
77
7.6
/82946/
79
/4954/
78
/2410/
3.8
/122141/
85
/310/
99
/4320/
68
/50/
cc age 13+

Just Mercy (2019)
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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Criterion Channel
79
76
7.2
/10920/
70
/280/
72
/244/
3.9
/30986/
100
/26/
84
/267/

Branded to Kill (1967)
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
7.4
/25611/
74
/676/
71
/366/
3.5
/12984/
86
/7/
86
/254/

Citizen X (1995)
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
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fuboTV
76
7.5
/92788/
74
/1929/
75
/1813/
3.7
/67499/
90
/31/
88
/1399/
59
/11/
cc age 16+

Midnight Express (1978)
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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Kanopy
75
7.3
/16174/
75
/666/
77
/1277/
3.9
/48247/
86
/83/
79
/207/
74
/25/

Polisse (2011)
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.
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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
6.8
/1781/
62
/52/
68
/23/
3.5
/26200/
96
/96/
62
/22/
77
/28/
cc age 15+

Urchin (2025)
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters unexpected chances for a fresh start.
poster
73
72
7.3
/18439/
70
/320/
70
/242/
3.7
/6614/
83
/65/
85
/951/
61
/25/

13 Tzameti (2006)
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
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Kanopy
70
7.0
/1769/
67
/23/
61
/25/
3.4
/693/
83
/6/
69
/16/

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverent musings on aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished one day when Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face, not only his presumed guilt, but their own.
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Kanopy
70
7.4
/86996/
73
/3359/
71
/1640/
3.4
/54389/
74
/206/
79
/774/
60
/33/
cc age 16+

Trumbo (2015)
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.5
/1072/
67
/12/
53
/11/
3.4
/227/
80
/10/
67
/15/
68
/17/

Bopha! (1993)
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
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69
7.2
/47855/
72
/1176/
71
/635/
3.4
/9921/
67
/189/
71
/1656/
61
/32/
cc age 16+

Conviction (2010)
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.
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Kanopy
69
7.1
/2571/
70
/58/
67
/23/
3.6
/1016/
60
/20/
86
/142/
73
/19/

Slam (1998)
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.
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Kanopy
69
6.8
/62418/
69
/1896/
67
/743/
3.5
/60328/
70
/54/
70
/5733/
64
/16/
cc age 13+

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
7.4
/87124/
72
/1735/
71
/934/
3.4
/14027/
60
/25/
82
/1569/
58
/10/

Felon (2008)
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
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78
68
7.2
/5334/
73
/99/
65
/89/
100
/6/
84
/129/

Uprising (2001)
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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Kanopy
68
6.4
/40139/
65
/1721/
63
/749/
3.1
/39425/
89
/141/
60
/1179/
68
/32/

Compliance (2012)
On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.
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
66
6.6
/1551/
71
/40/
64
/70/
3.3
/1822/
74
/23/
64
/12/
61
/22/

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
65
7.2
/2585/
73
/119/
64
/53/
3.6
/2515/
100
/9/
77
/45/

Cloudburst (2011)
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
poster
Netflix
65
64
6.2
/22574/
65
/1729/
63
/942/
3.0
/16479/
86
/7/
54
/38/
cc age 17+

Below Zero (2021)
When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.
poster
Netflix
64
6.7
/111116/
69
/6258/
70
/3463/
3.1
/225277/
54
/191/
57
/442/
52
/31/
cc age 16+

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
poster
Hoopla
64
6.8
/22875/
69
/407/
66
/325/
3.2
/9467/
53
/138/
69
/445/
55
/33/
cc age 17+

Veronica Guerin (2003)
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
poster
64
6.8
/15096/
68
/414/
65
/226/
3.3
/5046/
56
/99/
61
/207/
54
/28/
cc age 17+

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
poster
The Roku Channel
62
6.4
/10844/
67
/692/
62
/173/
2.9
/4923/
71
/7/
64
/81/
54
/6/

Kid Cannabis (2014)
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
poster
72
61
7.1
/5585/
68
/102/
68
/230/
3.6
/2156/
91
/11/
73
/20/
67
/6/

R (2010)
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
61
6.4
/30773/
66
/1520/
64
/797/
3.0
/11742/
63
/75/
63
/178/
49
/20/
cc age 18+

Son of a Gun (2014)
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.
poster
Hoopla
72
58
7.0
/3113/
65
/75/
66
/51/
3.6
/1378/
90
/21/
77
/30/
66
/8/

Breathing (2011)
Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
6.4
/15923/
66
/850/
59
/1152/
3.0
/16794/
43
/88/

Nothing to Declare (2010)
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
poster
Hoopla
57
6.4
/22728/
66
/558/
61
/310/
3.0
/7394/
48
/109/
54
/686/
47
/32/
cc age 16+

Big Trouble (2002)
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
poster
Kanopy
70
56
7.3
/2916/
65
/49/
70
/75/
3.8
/4331/
67
/289/

Marianne and Juliane (1981)
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
poster
Kanopy
63
56
6.5
/4755/
59
/102/
62
/59/
3.4
/3234/
58
/24/
68
/114/

Head On (1998)
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.
poster
Hulu
56
6.5
/372639/
64
/14410/
61
/6054/
3.0
/497909/
51
/155/
48
/3926/
52
/33/
cc age 17+

The Interview (2014)
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
55
7.2
/2310/
71
/54/
71
/101/
3.7
/1701/
84
/531/

L.627 (1992)
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
poster
Kanopy
72
54
7.0
/1696/
68
/62/
67
/36/
3.7
/2260/
92
/12/
84
/24/
53
/4/

Short Eyes (1977)
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
64
53
6.7
/3580/
64
/109/
61
/88/
3.3
/2125/
63
/733/

Against the Wall (1994)
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
poster
52
6.1
/39102/
64
/1278/
61
/462/
3.0
/18969/
50
/30/
66
/2359/
48
/17/

Orgazmo (1998)
A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
4.8
/22531/
53
/1259/
49
/748/
2.3
/33846/
72
/36/
33
/281/
44
/6/

Zombeavers (2014)
College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.
poster
65
45
6.8
/2058/
58
/34/
56
/35/
3.6
/1426/
74
/54/

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)
The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalized until they erupt in violence.
poster
Starz
45
5.6
/57140/
63
/2082/
60
/1031/
2.6
/26519/
11
/89/
46
/1111/
31
/25/
cc age 15+

National Security (2003)
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on opposite sides of the law during a routine traffic stop that escalated out of control; now as lowly security guards they're thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.


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