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1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.

Director: Andy Serkis | Stars: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris

Votes: 259,596 | Gross: $213.55M

2. Venom (2018)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it.

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze

Votes: 539,473 | Gross: $213.52M

3. Changeling (2008)

R | 141 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

After Christine's son goes missing, she reaches out to the LAPD to find him. But when they try to pass off an impostor as her son to quieten public protests, she refuses to accept him or give up hope.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith

Votes: 265,473 | Gross: $35.74M

4. Felon (2008)

R | 104 min | Crime, Thriller

Locked up for killing an intruder in self-defense, a family man must cope with life in the violent penal system.

Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller, Anne Archer

Votes: 83,636 | Gross: $0.04M

5. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly

Votes: 23,642 | Gross: $20.34M

6. Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)

Approved | 77 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a ... See full summary »

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant

Votes: 492

7. Cool Breeze (1972)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama

Thalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to find a new bank.

Director: Barry Pollack | Stars: Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Votes: 415 | Gross: $1.18M

8. Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)

Unrated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Alan Ladd, Edward G. Robinson, Joanne Dru, William Demarest

Votes: 738

9. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.56M

10. Chandler (1971)

GP | 85 min | Crime, Drama

A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.

Director: Paul Magwood | Stars: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier, Mitchell Ryan

Votes: 631

11. Prison Break (1938)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Joaquin Shannon arrives home from a cruise on his fishing boat. His first mate, Charles Nelson, is to marry Shannon's sister the next day. Nelson gets drunk and Shannon finds him near the ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Barton MacLane, Glenda Farrell, Paul Hurst, Constance Moore

Votes: 319

12. San Quentin (1946)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Ex con Lawrence Tierney, hunts a supposedly reformed inmate, MacLane who escapes during a trip to San Francisco.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Marian Carr, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon

Votes: 391

13. Escape from San Quentin (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

An escaped convict decides to quit running and turn himself and his fellow escapee in to the authorities - but not without complications.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders, Richard Devon, Roy Engel

Votes: 110

14. Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

Passed | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A group of prisoners are planning an escape. They take hostages. Warden Duffy tries to convince one of the inmates that their plight is useless, and to give up.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 120

15. Hitch Hike Lady (1935)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama

In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin.

Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Mae Clarke, Arthur Treacher, James Ellison

Votes: 133

16. Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor (2006 Video)

23 min | Short, History, Biography

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Stars: Judith Anderson, Lauren Bacall, Rudy Behlmer, Humphrey Bogart

17. The Last Mile (2015)

20 min | Documentary, Short

There's a tech incubator popping up, but it's not in Silicon Valley-it's inside San Quentin State Prison.

Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Wes Bailey, Tulio Cardozo, Shawn Drost, Sheila Goodman

Votes: 8

18. Men of San Quentin (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A crooked deputy warden at San Quentin Penitentiary tries to frame a sergeant of the guards, Jack Holden, for the killing of a guard and a prisoner during a jailbreak.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: J. Anthony Hughes, Eleanor Stewart, Dick Curtis, Charles Middleton

Votes: 64

19. The Impossible Itself (2010)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Is an in depth remembering and re-creation of the famous 1957 production of Waiting For Godot--so famously used by writer Martin Esslin as the introduction to his important work: The ... See full summary »

Director: Jacob Adams | Stars: Jacob Adams, Herbert Blau, Rick Cluchey, Alan Mandell

20. Sickness in the System (2022)

24 min | Documentary, Short

At the beginning of the pandemic, none of the 3500 people incarcerated in San Quentin prison in Northern California had tested positive for COVID-19. Six weeks later almost 50% of the ... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Gibel | Stars: Dorian Lockett, John Mercer

21. The Pulse of San Quentin (2014)

2 min | Short

The San Quentin News is one of the country's few inmate-produced publications.

Director: Mark Boster

22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Enough Rope for Two (1957)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

An ex-convict plans on killing his double-crossing partner and maybe his ex-girlfriend, after they help him recover the stolen money he hid.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Hagen, Steven Hill, Steve Brodie

Votes: 653

23. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Manacled (1957)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Merrill, William Redfield, Rusty Lane

Votes: 748

24. The Big Valley (1965–1969)
Episode: Point and Counterpoint (1969)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

A dying prisoner asks his son to kill the two people whose testimony caused his death, a Stockton banker named Clark and Victoria Barkley. After Clark is murdered, Jarrod, unaware that ... See full summary »

Director: James F. Lichtman | Stars: Richard Long, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Linda Evans

Votes: 86

25. Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode: Fagin 1986 (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Hunter and McCall's investigation of a teenager's death leads them to a contemporary Fagin who commands a group of barrio boys to commit crimes for him.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Trinidad Silva, Doug Toby

Votes: 102

26. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Wandering Widow (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Riley Morgan is freed from prison after a seaman comes forth after six years to confirm his alibi for a murder. However, the seaman indirectly tries to use Morgan's situation to blackmail the principals in the case and is murdered.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Ray Collins

Votes: 317

27. The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode: Timelock (1972)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a parolee whom Stone once coached in the Police Athletic League is accused of murdering another ex-con, Stone, Keller and a caring social worker rally to his defense.

Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Peter Strauss, Bernie Casey

Votes: 169

28. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
Episode: José Ferrer (1955)

Family, Game-Show

Betty White fills in for Arlene Francis again this week and joins series regulars, Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen and Bennett Cerf. The first contestant to sign in is Mr. Merle Trantham, who... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Heller | Stars: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Betty White, Bennett Cerf

Votes: 34

29. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: The Dating Game Killer: The Bite Mark Pt. 2 (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

With a string of murders already behind him, Rodney Alcala appears on the TV show, "The Dating Game" where he wins the prize: a date.

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Casey Jordan, Gina Satriano, Stephanie Elam

Votes: 17

30. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: The Fight (2010)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The BAU team travels to San Francisco to investigate the murders of several homeless men and teams up with a separate group of BAU operatives who are working another case they think is connected.

Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 2,057

31. Outlaw Empires (2012– )
Episode: Aryan Brotherhood (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

An outgrowth of the racial desegregation of the late 1960s, the Aryan Brotherhood had its origins in American prisons. But as the decades passed, it widened its influence past prison walls ... See full summary »

Director: Tiller Russell | Stars: Fred M., Kurt Sutter, Michael T., John Greschner

Votes: 17

32. Dateline NBC (1992– )
Episode: The Laci Peterson Story: A Dateline Investigation (2017)

TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, News

A look at the 2004 murder of pregnant California woman Laci Peterson, including previously unseen interrogation footage of her husband, Scott Peterson, who was convicted of the crime.

Stars: Lester Holt, Keith Morrison, Gloria Allred, Stacy Boyers

Votes: 23