Convict movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant convict movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense and exciting films and TV shows about / with convict, prison, murder, death, escape, prisoner, confined, violence, criminal and blood plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Poland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as convict: 25 Years of Innocence (2020), The Last Castle (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Escapee (2011), The Way Back (2010), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), The Fugitive (1993), Pitch Black (2000), Oz (1997).

List of convict movies

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25 Years of Innocence (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A story of Tomasz Komenda - a man, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, for a crime he did not commit.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, suspense, poignant, emotional ...
Plot: convict, jail cell, prison, rape victim, murder, courtroom, investigation, victim, suicide attempt, released from prison, true crime, social injustice ...
Place: poland
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The Last Castle (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A Court Martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
Style: intense, exciting, tense, rough, inspirational ...
Plot: prison, fighting the system, military prison, convict, prison life, military, prison escape, murder, prison riot, manipulation, power struggle, rebellion ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, ...
Style: exciting, suspense, dramatic, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: vengeance, sword fight, treason, treasure, corruption, betrayal, lone hero, prison, greed, revenge, twists and turns, confined ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 1800s, year 2002 ...
Place: france, ireland, marseille, europe, paris france
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 3.1
 2K
Escapee (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 122K
The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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 8.6
 1.4M
The Green Mile (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: prison, death penalty, stephen king, death row, magic realism, supernatural, convict, false accusation, electric chair, life & death, life philosophy, psychic ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 1935
Place: usa, southern usa, louisiana, america, persia
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 7.8
 316K
The Fugitive (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, detective, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, investigation, fugitives, death row, doctor, manhunt, corruption, fugitive ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
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 7.0
 252K
Pitch Black (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, creature, survival, alien, space travel, alien life-form, one man army, outer space, dark hero, tough guy, anti hero, deadly creature ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place: oceania, space western
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 8.7
 106K
Oz (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison life, prison, life is a bitch, confined, violence spree, rape, homosexual rape, gay, rapist, strong sexual content, gang violence, racism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 6.3
 70K
Criminal (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, action adventure, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, spy, cia agent, terrorism, espionage, swat team, female agent, violence, brutality, prison, husband wife relationship, one against many ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: london, big ben london, west virginia, delaware
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 6.7
 256K
Escape Plan (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, clever, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: prison, prison escape, survival, escape, prisoner, revenge, escape plan, lone hero, outsmarting, planning, ship, convict ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: morocco, usa, colorado, florida, california ...
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, ...
Style: action packed, futuristic, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly
Plot: alien, space, dystopia, lone hero, outer space, bounty hunter, tough guy, space and aliens, space opera, distant planet, one man army, one against many ...
Time: future, year 2004, near future, 2000s
Place: space western
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 8.3
 575K
Prison Break (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prison, fugitives, escape, prison life, conspiracy, determination, confined, fbi, scheme, brother, self sacrifice, siblings relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, california, texas, usa
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 8.6
 24K
Wentworth (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, prison life, women's prison, protest, power struggle, lesbian relationship, life is a bitch, danger, government facility, survival ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: australia
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Desperate Measures (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, emotional, cult classic ...
Plot: chase, hospital, terminal illness, leukemia, hostage, father son relationship, life & death, life is a bitch, convict, family problems, parents and children, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, usa
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 7.2
 16K
Breakout Kings (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Driven by the fact that there are few things more dangerous than a prisoner who has just escaped, and tired of following protocol and resorting to outdated methods of law enforcement, veteran U.S. Marshals Charlie Duchamp and Ray Zancanelli are ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, thrilling ...
Plot: wanted, fugitives, convict, going straight, chase, law enforcement, expert, manhunt, partner, unlikely partners, prison, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Jailbreak Pact (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 135 min.
Story: During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: convict, prison break, danger, death, murder, pursuit, peril, fugitives, conspiracy, escapades, prison, fighting the system ...
Time: 90s
Place: chile
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 7.0
 387K
The Italian Job (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, ...
Style: suspense, clever, exciting, action packed, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot: heist, caper, robbery, car chase, vengeance, mentor, bank robbery, chase, perfect crime, gold, revenge, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, philadelphia, los angeles, california ...
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 7.4
 83K
Felon (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Style: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: prison, fighting the system, prison life, prison riot, life is a bitch, prison escape, prison gang, organized crime, life turned upside down, rivalry, murder, brutality ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.2
 46K
Conviction (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, trial, fighting the system, prison, injustice, false accusation, court, strong female character, freedom, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 1992, year 2001 ...
Place: massachusetts, rhode island, usa
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 7.8
 102K
A Prophet (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) 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 ...
Style: harsh, tense, bleak, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison, mafia, gangster, prison life, cruelty, organized crime, coming of age, prison gang, racial slur, jail, guilt, respect ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
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 7.6
 75K
Just Mercy (2019)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, death penalty, injustice, false accusation of murder, defense attorney, african american, perjury, prison, murder, innocence, death row ...
Time: year 1987, 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1993 ...
Place: alabama
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, assassination, convict, army, military life, heroic mission, confined, wartime life, escapades, heroes ...
Place: germany, europe
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, survival, police station, siege, claustrophobia, ambush, street gang, prison, gang, convict, revenge, gangster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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A Fork in the Road (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: on the run, murder, kidnapping, convict, escape, partner, chases and races, odd couple, danger, nothing goes right, confined, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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 5.1
 54K
Hot Pursuit (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.
Style: humorous, not serious, exciting, funny, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: chase, police, odd couple, on the run, friendship, shooting, policewoman, organized crime, corruption, danger, cop, witness protection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, san antonio texas, texas
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 6.6
 76K
Derailed (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, rough, twist ending ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, blackmail, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, police investigation, couples, rape, danger, betrayal, disorder, femme fatale ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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Great Expectations (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is ...
Style: atmospheric, historical drama, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: generosity, victorian england, charles dickens, lovers, rags to riches, orphan, convict, stranger, society, redemption, obsession, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, victorian era, regency period
Place: britain, london, england
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Midnight Express (1978)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: prison, torture, brutality, injustice, lawyer, escape, drug, court, escape attempt, trial, prison break, jail ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, year 1972, year 1975 ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece
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