| The Fugitive (1993) | 7.8 | |
| Let Him Have It (1991) | 7.1 | |
| Bernie (2011) | 6.8 | |
| Shabas (2019) | 7.8 | |
| The Next Three Days (2010) | 7.3 |
Prison visit movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Germany, Norway, Lithuania, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the ...
Style:
dark comedy, uplifting
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heavy metal, road trip, friendship, live performance, escape, prison break, subculture, irreverent, brotherhood, satire, family crisis, freedom ...
Place:
germany, scandinavia, finland, helsinki finland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Can you really get away with murder? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspense, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
life sentence, family relations, murder, dark humor, suburbs, teenage life, family feud, attempted murder, single parent, intrigue, youth, parents and children ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Iran, the retired dance teacher Tarlan witnesses her friend Rana's murder by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan must decide whether to bow to political pressure or risk her ...
Style:
political thriller, suspense, grim, tense
Plot:
female protagonist, moral dilemma, murder witness, oppression, abuse of power, corruption, cover up, social commentary, whistleblower, surveillance, female friendship, fear ...
Place:
tehran, iran
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169K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben ...
Style:
funny, humorous, clever, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
gangster, psychiatrist, mafia, organized crime, anger, childhood trauma, canceled wedding, mob hit, guilt, hitman, psychiatrist patient relationship, therapist ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1957
Place:
new york, florida, miami beach, usa, miami ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
sincere, tense, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, male pubic hair, prison life, reformatory, sodomy, juvenile detention, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
montana
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Gru and Lucy and their girls — Margo, Edith and Agnes — welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, and the family is ...
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
superhero, minion, villain, heist, baby, superpower, super powers, adventurer, adventure hero, superhuman powers, supernatural ability, supernatural power ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, f word
Plot:
female prisoner, terminal illness, criminal, prison, criminal gang, crime boss, money, robbery, armed robbery, money problems, needing money, confined ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, redemption, childhood, poverty, child abuse, boyhood, boy, injustice, orphanage, chess, children, corporal punishment ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, 1800s, year 2005 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government ...
Style:
political thriller, neo noir, political, cult classic, serious ...
Plot:
spy, journalism, political corruption, member of parliament, cover up, cold war, secret service agent, government conspiracy, newspaper reporter, reporter, death of protagonist, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, violent, criminal, prisoner, violence, police, blood, forensic, killing, murderer, killing spree ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
europe, dover england, london
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
courtroom, death penalty, injustice, lawyer, false accusation of murder, defense attorney, perjury, african american, murder, prison, innocence, convict ...
Time:
year 1987, 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1993 ...
Place:
alabama
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665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, f word
Plot:
cons and scams, father daughter relationship, family relations, counterfeiter, fraud, money problems, family secret, social problems, con artists, investigative journalism, frog, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 1985, year 1975, year 1981, year 1992, 70s ...
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, taj mahal, minnesota
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, France, Ukraine
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A middle aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her town. She resorts to sabotage and is willing to risk everything for nature and these virgin highlands… until a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.
Style:
light, captivating, feel good, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot:
environmental activist, adoption, climate change, sabotage, strong female character, tourist, sister sister relationship, dog, twins, environmentalism, musician, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, sarajevo, reykjavik iceland, ukraine
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of friends get together in a remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation. Soon they start turning up dead one by one. The group gets together to determine the identity of the killer amongst them.
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, slasher, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot:
desert island, serial killer, murder, exploitation, killer, sexual attraction, hairy chested man, whodunit, macabre, murderer, lost soul, old dark house ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The first of several social realism films by Ken Loach, this had less impact than those made as TV plays. Poor Cow follows the tangled life of Joy, who turns to Dave after her lover is jailed for theft. When Dave in turn is jailed, she is left with ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
kitchen sink realism, female protagonist, sexual favor, working class, childbirth, female nudity, prison, pub, single mother, baby, domestic violence, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
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553
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The 7th film of Ramesh Sippy.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, f word
Plot:
christian, drunkenness, tough cop, loneliness, mercilessness, identical twins, righteous rage, frustration, trial, death of friend, grief, arrest ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
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325K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, buddy comedy, hilarious, action comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, police, reluctant partners, kung fu, buddy cop, fight scenes, two man army, african american, buddy, chase, cop, triad ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
los angeles, china, california, hong kong, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, teen, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cheerleading, cheerleader, satire, friendship, dark humor, teenage girl, bad girl, girl gang, teenage love, rebel, money ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 80s
Place:
kansas, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, old love, crush, mistaken identity, three friends, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, group of friends, school, friendship between men, scotsman ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, scottish highlands
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Style:
intense, realistic, serious, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction, prison, prison life, false accusation, friendship, sex scene, african american, husband wife relationship, lie, injustice, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
Style:
period piece, slasher, disturbing, rough, tense ...
Plot:
murder, sociopathy, psychopath, music industry, music business, killer, male nudity, masturbation, male masturbation, cocaine, male star appears nude, manipulative person ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, year 1981, year 1996, year 1983 ...
Place:
new york, united kingdom, mississippi, texas, london ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social worker, juvenile delinquent, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, juvenile detention, mother's boyfriend, truancy, nervousness ...
Time:
year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, cyber ...
Plot:
cyberspace, friendship, teenage life, youth, lie, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loner, cheating girlfriend, social network, murder, social relations, mistaken identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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35K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous, clever ...
Plot:
caper, robbery, jewel theft, gay club, jewelry, new year, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, on the run ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1967, year 1973, year 1972 ...
Place:
france, europe, paris france, marseille
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Banafsheh, a young prostitute who has fled with a man to the seaside in hope of starting a new life has to return to her profession as she learns about the betrayal of her lover. Penniless and emotionally broken, she also has to bear with the taunts ...
Plot:
existentialism, capitalism, anti fascism, spying, promiscuous past, ex prostitute, drug traffic, class society, brothel, fight, fall in love, speech impediment ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tehran iran, iran
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
Style:
freeze frame, slang
Plot:
youth, childhood, police officer, wealth, profanity, love, singing, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, death of brother, prison ...
Place:
chile
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Faced with a sobering death sentence of execution by lethal injection, a convicted murderer and former prostitute embraces religion, marries a prison minister and focuses on making the most of her last days on Earth.
Plot:
death row, meal, marriage proposal, faith, prison, love, prisoner, murderer, jail cell, pastor, death sentence, religious conversion ...
Place:
texas
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702
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, touching, exciting, captivating
Plot:
actress, aspiring actress, film set, father daughter conflict, older woman younger man relationship, working class, father daughter estrangement, blonde, little girl, world war two, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
london
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