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51. Olga (2004)
141 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and... See full summary »
Director: Jayme Monjardim | Stars: Camila Morgado, Caco Ciocler, Luís Melo, Eliane Giardini
Votes: 3,662
52. Weeds (1987)
R | 115 min | Drama
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Nick Nolte, Rita Taggart, Ernie Hudson, Mark Rolston
Votes: 923 | Gross: $2.33M
53. The Consequence (1977)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 1,039
54. Kill Kill Faster Faster (2008)
97 min | Thriller
Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in prison. As he sets about adapting his ... See full summary »
Director: Gareth Maxwell Roberts | Stars: Gil Bellows, Lisa Ray, Esai Morales, Shaun Parkes
Votes: 712
55. Caged Men (1971)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
Elliot is a loser who robbed a bank and landed in jail after being setup by his girlfriend. As the new guy, Elliot is considered fresh meat and encounters inmates trying to make him their own at every turn.
Director: Ed Forsyth | Stars: Ross Stephenson, Maureen McGill, Jeremy Hart, Edward Blessington
Votes: 95
56. A Sense of Freedom (1981)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: David Hayman, Jake D'Arcy, Sean Scanlan, Alex Norton
Votes: 616
57. Imprisoned (2018)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
Dylan attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden has not forgiven him for an old crime.
Director: Paul Kampf | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, John Heard
Votes: 304
58. Stir (1980)
101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Gary Waddell
Votes: 397
59. Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980 TV Movie)
196 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Fact based story of the lives and attempted 1946 escape of several inmates in the famous correctional facility. Young inmate Clarence Carnes masterminds a grand escape involving several ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Michael Beck, Art Carney, Alex Karras, Telly Savalas
Votes: 341
60. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Musical
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 4,979
61. The Quare Fellow (1962)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly
Votes: 407
62. On the Inside (I) (2011)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Director: D.W. Brown | Stars: Nick Stahl, Dash Mihok, Olivia Wilde, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Votes: 2,167
63. In Your Hands (2004)
101 min | Drama
Anna begins as a rookie chaplain in a women's prison and meets an inmate who can perform miracles and cure drug addicts with a touch. She says Anna is pregnant and a test confirms it. But not all is well.
Director: Annette K. Olesen | Stars: Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Trine Dyrholm, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Sonja Richter
Votes: 1,194
64. The Second 100 Years (1927)
Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Thrown in prison for a hundred years, Little Goofy and Big Goofy finally break free, posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters. Soon, the boys wind up in a private party as visiting French dignitaries; however, who are they kidding?
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 875
65. You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel
Votes: 1,295
66. Bespredel (1989)
102 min | Crime, Drama
A drama from the life of the prisoners in a regular jail in Soviet Union.
Director: Igor Gostev | Stars: Andrey Tashkov, Anton Androsov, Aleksandr Mokhov, Lev Durov
Votes: 1,401
67. Last Rites (1998 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man (Quaid) is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striking a transformer at the moment of execution, he survives. As soon as he's well, ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Dowling | Stars: Randy Quaid, Embeth Davidtz, A Martinez, Clarence Williams III
Votes: 613
68. Convicts 4 (1962)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
Director: Millard Kaufman | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price
Votes: 547
69. Justice (I) (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 103 min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
A lawyer and her partner run from the Colombian Mafia and the corrupt U.S. marshals and attorneys assigned to protect them.
Director: Jack Ersgard | Stars: Charles Durning, Tracey Needham, JoBeth Williams, Tony Plana
Votes: 444
70. Hoodwink (1981)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
True story about a jailed bank robber who pretends he's become blind to get an early release. Cops don't believe him, but a lonely minister's wife arrives to teach him how to live with his "condition". They fall in love. Big mistake.
Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Dennis Miller, Wendy Hughes
Votes: 170
71. The Break (1997)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Dowd, who's IRA, escapes an Irish prison in a bloody jailbreak, making his way to New York City where he lives alone, avoids Irish hangouts, and works as a dishwasher. When a good deed gets... See full summary »
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Stephen Rea, Alfred Molina, Rosana Pastor, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 405
72. Brothers (1977)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
Director: Arthur Barron | Stars: Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal, John Lehne
Votes: 193
73. The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
88 min | Documentary
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Directors: Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack | Stars: Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford, Wilbert Rideau
Votes: 819
74. Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars (2004)
56 min | Documentary
Estimates are that 20 percent of all men serving in US prisons have been raped. This film looks at the social system within prisons that allows this violent sexual behavior to occur.
Director: Jonathan Schwartz | Stars: David Mendenhall Jr., Danny Trejo
Votes: 120
75. 'P' fung bou (2019)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime
William Luk, goes undercover as a prisoner to investigate correctional officers who are receiving bribes.
Director: David Lam | Stars: Louis Koo, Kevin Cheng, Raymond Lam, Ka-Tung Lam
Votes: 792 | Gross: $0.33M
76. Tumberos (2002)
60 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
Follows a lawyer sentenced to prison and his life inside an Argentinian jail.
Stars: Mirta Busnelli, Gastón Pauls, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Luis Machín
Votes: 411
77. The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
104 min | Crime, Drama
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Burkhard Driest, Fritz Hollenbeck, Marianne Kehlau
Votes: 187
78. Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama
An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 864
79. Symetria (2003)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
A man falsely accused of assaulting an old woman tries to adapt to his new life in prison.
Director: Konrad Niewolski | Stars: Arkadiusz Detmer, Andrzej Chyra, Janusz Bukowski, Marcin Jedrzejewski
Votes: 3,773
80. They All Come Out (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan
Votes: 316
81. Life (1996)
85 min | Drama
Life is a 1996 Australian film about life in a section of a prison reserved for those infected with HIV.
Director: Lawrence Johnston | Stars: John Brumpton, David Tredinnick, Kevin Hopkins, Robert Morgan
Votes: 75
82. My Buddy (1944)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Ruth Terry, Lynne Roberts, Alexander Granach
Votes: 51
83. Belli dentro (2005–2008)
24 min | Comedy
Stars: Geppi Cucciari, Stefano Chiodaroli, Leonardo Manera, Alessandra Ierse
Votes: 29
84. 14 Days to Life (1997)
105 min | Thriller
Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Michael Mendl, Katharina Meinecke, Axel Pape
Votes: 565
85. Les Milles (1995)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A World War II drama where people, many of whom opposed to Nazism, get on board a train from France that could lead them to freedom.
Director: Sébastien Grall | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ticky Holgado, Rüdiger Vogler, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 312
86. Revolt in the Big House (1958)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gannon is an imprisoned racketeer kingpin who tries to manipulate his young cell mate into staging a riot and prison break, but the cell mate tries to back out when he realizes other inmates may be killed in the process.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Gene Evans, Robert Blake, Timothy Carey, John Qualen
Votes: 198
87. Accadde al penitenziario (1955)
95 min | Comedy
A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Alberto Sordi, Mara Berni, Walter Chiari
Votes: 157
88. Louis Theroux: Behind Bars (2008 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.
Director: Stuart Cabb | Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 2,132
89. Scared Straight! Another Story (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A sequel to the documentary "Scared Straight," this dramatic film tells a similar story of teenagers who have committed crimes such as vandalism, petty theft and intoxication. They are ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Cliff De Young, Stan Shaw, Terri Nunn, Randy Brooks
Votes: 63
90. The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Drama
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Frank Coghlan Jr., Lloyd Hughes, Dickie Moore, Ann Doran
Votes: 49
91. Turning to Stone (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
An innocent girl gets framed by her boyfriend and end up with a seven year sentence on a drug charge. Now she has to survive the brutal world of a women's federal prison.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Nicky Guadagni, Shirley Douglas, Bernard Behrens, Jackie Richardson
Votes: 54
92. Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.
Director: Hank Rogerson
Votes: 380 | Gross: $0.05M
93. Mutiny in the Big House (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival is a good man who's had some bad ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Pat Moriarity, Dennis Moore
Votes: 95
94. The Outer Gate (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: Ralph Morgan, Kay Linaker, Ben Alexander, Eddie Acuff
Votes: 100
95. The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967)
118 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Kong Lung | Stars: Yin Tse, Ling Ka, Tsai-Jung Chan, Wai Wong
Votes: 87
96. Everynight... Everynight (1994)
R | 92 min | Drama
A new prisoner struggles to retain his humanity in a brutal maximum security division.
Director: Alkinos Tsilimidos | Stars: David Field, Bill Hunter, Robert Morgan, Phil Motherwell
Votes: 73
97. The Guys from Paradise (2000)
114 min | Crime, Drama
Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike's "The Guys from Paradise" weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salary man Kohei Hayakawa is sent to ... See full summary »
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kôji Kikkawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Endô, Kaei Okina
Votes: 391
98. The Big House (2001)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Drama
Big House - Andy Griffith
Director: Rachel Ward | Stars: Tony Martin, Gary Sweet, Kick Gurry, Paul Pantano
Votes: 142
99. Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Documentary
Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago, by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.
Director: Arnold Shapiro | Star: Danny Glover
Votes: 249
100. A Kind of Sisterhood (2015)
75 min | Documentary
Follows female political prisoners in Armagh and Maghaberry jails, told in their own words.
Directors: Michele Devlin, Claire Hackett | Stars: Raymond Murray, Rosina Brown, Nell McCafferty, Jackie Upton
Votes: 11