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1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes: 882,430 | Gross: $6.21M

2. Nefarious (2023)

R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller

On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

Directors: Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, Tom Ohmer, Glenn Beck

Votes: 27,404

3. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabs and murders his landlord, claiming to be under demonic possession while Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the case and try to prove his innocence.

Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook

Votes: 139,464 | Gross: $65.63M

4. True Crime (1999)

R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods

Votes: 38,575 | Gross: $16.64M

5. Time Without Pity (1957)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Paul Daneman

Votes: 1,904

6. Yield to the Night (1956)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama

Woman abused by men meets a man she thinks loves her. He cheats, she kills his mistress. Based on Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in Britain. Less than

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney

Votes: 1,487

7. You Only Live Once (1937)

Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon

Votes: 7,662

8. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 2,961

9. 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: 546

10. 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: 862

11. Buried Alive (1939)

Approved | 62 min | Drama, Thriller

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Beverly Roberts, Robert Wilcox, Paul McVey, Ted Osborne

Votes: 222

12. Men Without Souls (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Johnny Adams arrives in a brutal prison under an assumed name after deliberately framing himself in order to kill White, a captain of the guards, because he had beaten Johnny's father to ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barton MacLane, John Litel, Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford

Votes: 83

13. Ann Vickers (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 660

14. Over the Wall (1943)

Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama

After a Catholic priest is unhappily transferred out of the prison he loves, he has an opportunity to help reform an escaped convict.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Dane Clark, Tom Tully, Clarence Muse, William B. Davidson

Votes: 25

15. Over the Wall (1938)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance

Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Dick Foran, June Travis, John Litel, Dick Purcell

Votes: 148

16. Silence (I) (1931)

60 min | Crime, Drama

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin | Stars: Clive Brook, Marjorie Rambeau, Peggy Shannon, Charles Starrett

Votes: 78

17. Ristikon varjossa (1945)

91 min | Drama

Set in Helsinki, the story follows Lauri Haapa and Anna Kauhto as they are released from prison.

Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Edvin Laine, Mervi Järventaus, Yrjö Tuominen, Aku Korhonen

Votes: 51

18. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Episode #5.1 (2003)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama

Fenner and the Larkhall screws visit Amsterdam for a dirty weekend. With the mystery firearm still missing, G Wing remains in lockdown. Snowball is released from solitary, and Denny is out for revenge.

Director: Mike Adams | Stars: Jack Ellis, Tristan Sturrock, Eugene Walker, Isabelle Amyes

Votes: 33

19. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Episode #5.2 (2003)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama

Shell settles back in to life on G Wing. Sylvia and Bobby's financial woes continue. Barbara's hearing returns.

Director: Mike Adams | Stars: Tristan Sturrock, Debra Stephenson, Helen Fraser, Geoffrey Hutchings

Votes: 31

20. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Episode #5.3 (2003)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama

Snowball meets up with Ritchie following her escape. Sylvia is distraught following Bobby's suicide. Two new inmates arrive on G Wing.

Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Claire King, Nicole Faraday, Alex King, James Gaddas

Votes: 30

21. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Episode #7.10 (2005)

TV-14 | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Julie S has revenge on her mind. The inmates hold a remembrance service on the one year anniversary of Yvonne's death. Sylvia and Bev return after their eventful time in Spain.

Director: Laurence Moody | Stars: Andrew Scarborough, Jack Ellis, Victoria Alcock, Kika Mirylees

Votes: 34

22. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Episode #7.11 (2005)

TV-14 | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Fenner's murder investigation gets underway. The new no-nonsense governor is quick to make a number of unpopular changes. Phyl is far from happy to be back on G Wing.

Director: Declan O'Dwyer | Stars: Jack Ellis, Tony Slattery, Lucy O'Connell, Dannielle Brent

Votes: 30

23. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Christmas Special (2005)

TV-14 | 68 min | Crime, Drama

It's Christmastime at Larkhall. A new prisoner is left at reception without any paperwork to say who she is or what she's in for. The two Julies are reunited. A snowstorm sweeps England causing a blackout.

Director: Martin Hutchings | Stars: Nicola Redmond, Michael Fish, Gaynor Howe, Ellie Haddington

Votes: 36

24. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: The Way Through the Woods (1995)

TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a serial killer is murdered in prison, his deathbed confession disavows one of the murders he had previously confessed to. Morse wants to reopen the case.

Director: John Madden | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Gary Powell, Vivienne Ritchie

Votes: 857

25. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Capital P (1997)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Governor Devlin has reinstated capital punishment in the state--and the first Oz prisoner scheduled to die is Jefferson Keane, who killed a Latino in their skirmish. Before he's executed, Keane donates a kidney to his ailing sister.

Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 2,407

26. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: God's Chillin' (1997)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Friction is growing in the wake of two deaths so Said, Wiseguy leader Schibetta and Gangbanger Jefferson Keane are brought together by Warden Glynn, who tells them to keep their boys quiet or else he'll lock the prison down.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 2,456

27. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: To Your Health (1997)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ricardo is discovered to suffer from Alzheimer's; Beecher flips out and sends Schillinger to the hospital; mob boss Schibetta develops stomach problems thanks to some ground glass; and Said has a heart attack.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 2,270

28. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (1997)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

With Schibetta and the prison brass in a race to uncover Ortolani's killer (for very different reasons), we see how inmates react to visits both from their wives and (in one case) family members who are also in prison.

Director: Nick Gomez | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 2,600

29. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Solitary Confinement (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Peter goes undercover as new inmate in prison to investigate the baffling death of a convicted murderer, who somehow choked on dirt while being in solitary confinement known as Room 216, a place where terrors from the past can kill.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 17

30. Grantchester (2014–2025)
Episode: Episode #6.7 (2021)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Leonard's cell-mate, Joe Davies, is accused of murdering another inmate, he asks Will and Geordie for their help. But the brutal prison stirs up memories for Geordie.

Director: Jermain Julien | Stars: Robson Green, Tom Brittney, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones

Votes: 245

31. Monster (2022–2024)
Episode: God of Forgiveness, God of Vengeance (2022)

TV-MA | 54 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In prison, Jeff's newfound fame makes him a target. His parents seek closure and Glenda pushes for a memorial on familiar grounds to honor the victims.

Director: Paris Barclay | Stars: Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, Molly Ringwald, Niecy Nash

Votes: 4,131

32. La justice des hommes (1959–1960)
Episode: Prisons de Fresnes et de Melun (1959)

52 min | Documentary

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Directors: Igor Barrère, René Lucot | Stars: Étienne Lalou, Edmond Michelet, Claude-Henri Salerne

33. La justice des hommes (1959–1960)
Episode: La peine capitale (1960)

44 min | Documentary

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Director: Igor Barrère | Star: Étienne Lalou

34. Katie Fforde (2010–2021)
Episode: Hexensommer (2016)

90 min | Drama, Romance

A young female Lutheran prison chaplain is sent to assist an aging pastor at a small church in New England who does not want her help. Becoming the choir director there, she then searches for clues to her deceased mother's past.

Director: Helmut Metzger | Stars: Catherine Bode, Nina Franoszek, Marcel Mohab, Kristina Klebe

Votes: 24