| Porridge (1974) | 8.3 | |
| Room (2015) | 8.1 | |
| Oz (1997) | 8.7 | |
| Screw (2022) | 7.0 | |
| Taken 2 (2012) | 6.2 |
Imprisonment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant imprisonment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful, psychological and tense films and TV shows about / with imprisonment, murder, violence, prison, isolation, brutality, torture, survival, danger and betrayal plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as imprisonment: Room (2015), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Sweet Whip (2013), Level 16 (2018), Taken 2 (2012), Oldboy (2003), Monster (2018), Rupture (2016), Heartlock (2018), Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018).
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477K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
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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, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
dominatrix, sadism, sex worker, held captive, masochism, rape and revenge, rape victim, imprisonment, sexual abuse, sadomasochism, torture, murder ...
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19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dark secret, boarding school, punishment, female protagonist, distopia, discipline, isolation, girls' boarding school, obedience, imprisonment, pervert, vaccine ...
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336K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Turkey, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, action packed, action thriller, saga ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, family outing, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, vigilante, one man army, kidnapped, hostage, brutality, lone hero, chase, retribution, secret service, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, europe, los angeles, balkan ...
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709K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, incest, violence, psychopath, captivity, older man younger woman relationship, hypnosis, mind game, plot twist, psychological torture, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k ...
Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
Style:
captivating, anamorphic
Plot:
teenager, imprisonment, murder, black, fight for justice, social issues, social injustice, teenage life, society, showdown, social relations, injustice ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, scary ...
Plot:
fear, body horror, paranoia, human experiment, arachnophobia, spider, conspiracy, abduction, violence, car, car breakdown, damsel in distress ...
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394
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a female guard becomes a prisoner of his mind, a male inmate struggles to keep the truth from escaping.
Style:
captivating, romantic, romantic drama, independent film, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prisoner, imprisonment, husband wife relationship, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love and romance, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, reformatory, couple relations ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten ...
Style:
christian film, biblical, psychological, sentimental, tense ...
Plot:
christianity, christian, apostle, faith, religious, bible, imprisonment, new testament, roman empire, jesus, antiquity, friendship ...
Time:
1st century, 60s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Mary Stuart attempts to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, only to find herself condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
royal family, throne, queen elizabeth i, royal court, queen of england, tudors, queen, british history, betrayal, intrigue, protestant, royalty ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times
Place:
scotland, england, scottish highlands, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, stylized, sexy, soap opera ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
intrigue, tudors, queen, power struggle, historical character, royal family, british history, king, royalty, heir, monarchy, british royal family ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times
Place:
england, britain, ireland, europe
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4K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film is about a man, who has been imprisoned for 14 years, who has been released and has four days to figure out why he was imprisoned in the first place.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, mysterious villain, vengeance, kidnapping, tragic event, secret, retribution, voice over narration, violence, flashback, anti hero, torture ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
bangkok thailand
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating
Plot:
held captive, disappearance, locked in a room, kidnapping, imprisonment, prison, deception, female protagonist, robbery, professor, stalker, stockholm syndrome ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
imprisonment, world war two, army general, trial, moral dilemma, communism, secret service, assassination, arrest, post war, death sentence, prison ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
poland, ussr, siberia
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3K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of ...
Style:
serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, imprisonment, survival, danger, surrealism, trapped, confined space, asian prostitute, gory, twists and turns, struggle for survival, asian school ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
Style:
sexy, historical drama, atmospheric, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
medieval, knight, throne, siege, ancient, battlefield, war, king, husband wife relationship, scottish history, exile, castle ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times
Place:
scotland, britain, scottish highlands, europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Style:
disturbing, touching, thought provoking, suspense, compassionate ...
Plot:
unfaithful husband, imprisonment, selfishness, debt, jealousy, hysteria, money problems, desperation, domineering mother, marriage, husband wife relationship, humiliation ...
Place:
warsaw poland, poland
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3K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Rob Williams' darkly comic crime drama portrays prison as you've never seen it before: through the embattled and inspiring characters who work there.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
prison, imprisonment, problem, jail, prison guard, prison sentence, prison life, prison warden, jail cell, life is a bitch, violence, danger ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, prisoner, american politics, brutality, american imperialism, prison, torture, terrorist, defense attorney ...
Time:
year 1988, year 2001, year 2003, year 2005, year 2002 ...
Place:
north africa, jordan, germany, hamburg germany, baltimore ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer finds out that she has a half-brother who is imprisoned in a secure hospital after he brutally murdered his neighbor and their baby.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
autism, murder, legal investigation, family secret, investigation, uncover truth, siblings relations, imprisonment, family relations, disability, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Escape from Alcatraz tells the story of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison escape, alcatraz, escape, prison life, freedom, jail, island, prison warden, harassment, prison guard, convict ...
Time:
year 1960, 20th century, year 1979, year 1961, year 1962 ...
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, rough, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
prison, escape, prisoner, prison break, death, prison life, runaway, convict, prison escape, egg, freedom, fugitive ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1967, 60s, 50s
Place:
florida, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the wake of their father’s death, two children gradually come to realize the perverse nature of their upbringing.
Style:
psychological horror, teen horror, art house, period drama
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
childhood, female protagonist, fire, torture, child abuse, imprisonment, religion, panic, hanging, ignorance, suicide, grudge ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The military have captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity. And now it wants to play.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
supernatural, entity, military base, experiment, paranormal investigation, spirit, military, supernatural power, imprisonment, jail, paranormal activity, escape ...
Place:
britain
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Bridal Mask is a 2012 KBS2 period drama based on the popular Korean manhwa by Huh Young-man. The setting takes place in Seoul, Korea during the 1930s Japanese colonial era.
The plot of the TV drama is slightly modified from the original graphic ...
Style:
dorama, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, rebellion, tragic hero, military, japanese occupation, asian history, imprisonment, undercover, assassination, heroism, tough guy, family in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
seoul, korea
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, UK, Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. ...
Style:
fairy tale, visually stunning, dark fantasy, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, chick flick
Plot:
treasure hunt, swashbuckler, sword fight, fantasy world, pirate, ship, sailboat, revenge, sea, ship captain, ghost, jungle ...
Time:
18th century, year 2017, georgian era
Place:
caribbean
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nationwide quietness. The streets are empty. Everyone’s glued to their screens at home, watching the final game. In the outskirts of Denmark, close to the German border, a small gas station needs to be open for service, even on this special night. ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, dark, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
killer clown, serial killer, sadistic horror, evil clown, psychological torture, mutilation, psychopath, characters killed one by one, brutality, murder, torture device, sadism ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
espionage, alternate reality, alternate history, fascism, resistance, multiverse, freedom fighter, assassination, political intrigue, politics, undercover, seppuku ...
Time:
60s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
japan, berlin germany, usa, san francisco, cuba ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
sex horror, starvation, destructive relationship, love affair, couples, human nature, haunted by the past, sexual dysfunction, sexual relations, infidelity, anorexia, imprisonment ...
Place:
italy, europe
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