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The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems.
Style: sadistic, bloody, slasher, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: prison, sadistic horror, sadist, serial killer, brutality, insanity, torture, violent, body horror, kidnapping, storytelling, vengeance ...
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 7.3
 399K
Face/Off (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent's ...
Style: exciting, suspense, stylized, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, revenge, prison, fbi, transformation, violence, master criminal, hidden identity, switching bodies, murder, undercover, death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 4.8
 6K
Dante 01 (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: prison, trapped in space, space station, space, spacecraft, space travel, survival, prison life, danger, supernatural ability, mental illness, female psychiatrist ...
Time: future
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 7.0
 99K
Out of Sight (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if ...
Style: sexy, neo noir, romantic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, prison, bank robbery, hot and sexy, fbi, hotel, robbery, love story, crime gone awry, opposites attract, character study, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, miami, florida
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 7.1
 41K
Chopper (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true and intense story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, cynical, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: prison, brutality, jail, gangster, character study, murder, eccentricity, judge, self destructing, criminal heroes, prison life, notoriety ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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 7.6
 16K
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, martial arts, revenge, prison, childbirth, rape and revenge, murder, female killer, female protagonist, samurai, female assassin, rape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1973, 1800s, 1870s, 1890s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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 7.4
 60K
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style: black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, cult classic ...
Plot: alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, bowling, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, gambling, relationships, blackmail, debt, strip club ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, usa
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An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
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Prison Break: The Final Break (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The movie covers the events which occurred in between the downfall of The Company and the finale of the series. It details the arrest and incarceration of Sara Tancredi, the final escape plan which Michael devises for Sara. It also reveals the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, clever, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, fugitives, self sacrifice, woman in danger, prison escape, twists and turns, resilience, murder mystery, vengeance, survival, redemption, depression ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida
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 5.9
 30K
Fortress (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, mind control, dystopia, isolation, overpopulation, maximum security prison, androids and robots, prison escape, dystopian future, escape, heroes, prison life ...
Time: future, near future, year 1992, year 2017
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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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 8.4
 104K
Capernaum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
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 2K
Animal (2005)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: prison, prison life, starting over, redemption, murder, gangster, social misfits, society, haunted by the past, parent child relationship, hopes, urban ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.2
 2K
Lucky Break (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to ...
Style: intense, semi serious, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: prison, buddies, moral ambiguity, prison life, confined, fall in love, cons and scams, social worker, friendship, stage play, jail, coming of age ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: england
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The Longest Yard (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' ...
Style: inspirational, intense, suspense, talky, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, american football, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships, prison life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida, usa, america, georgia
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 7.9
 15K
The Hill (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a ...
Style: black and white, tense, bleak, noir, retro ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, prison, military, desert, brutality, prison escape, sadism, military prison, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner ...
Time: 1940s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: africa, libya, north africa
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 6.2
 2K
Affinity (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspense, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: prison, lesbian, lesbian interest, lgbt, gays and lesbians, supernatural ability, obsession, death in the family, lgbtq, women's prison, lesbian relationship, lesbian teen ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: britain, europe, england
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 5.7
 39K
The Paperboy (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, surreal, serious, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: reporter, prison, small town, investigation, journalism, paperboy, dangerous attraction, bdsm, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, uncover truth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place: florida, everglades, usa, miami
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 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 6.9
 51K
He Got Game (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Style: inspirational, hood, captivating, rough, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: basketball, prison, redemption, college, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, hip hop, forgiveness, ghetto, black, released from prison, parent child relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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 4.5
 7K
Fortress 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, futuristic, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, fugitives, on the run, chase, race against time, rivalry, heroes, heroic mission, isolation, totalitarian regime, mind control, space ...
Time: future, near future
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 5K
Breakout (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bush pilot is hired for $250,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Style: light, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, chase, fugitives, manhunt, danger, rescue, prison life, captivity, helicopter, murder, warden ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: mexico, latin america
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 6.8
 54K
Life (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, hilarious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, twists and turns, life sentence, prison escape, prison life, redemption, african american, friendship, black, adaptation, criminal, escape attempt ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
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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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The Wrath of Cain (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A former kingpin of the streets, Miles “Cain” Skinner is doing life in prison. He is feared and respected among the inmates. When Cain learns that his sentence will be shortened only by brain cancer, his urgency to change his ways goes into ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, captivating ...
Plot: life sentence, prison life, prison, terminal illness, uninhibited rivalry, life is a bitch, family problems, rivalry, hopes, redemption, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Perfect World (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style: road movie, sincere, suspense, touching, neo noir ...
Plot: kidnapping, life philosophy, fugitives, prison escape, prison, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, friendship, child abuse, small town, road trip ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1993, year 1963
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska
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 4.2
 3K
Locked Down (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Danny, a respected cop, is setup after an investigation goes wrong. While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit. With the help of Irving, a former mixed martial arts ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, martial arts, mixed martial arts, captivity, frame up, prison warden, corrupt cop, law enforcement, contests and competitions, investigation, prison life, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.8
 7K
Greenfingers (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His ...
Style: feel good, touching, compassionate, inspirational, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: prison, friendship, adaptation, unlikely friendships, happy ending, solitude, going straight, starting over, hopes, fish out of water, misfit, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 6.6
 166K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 9K
For Life (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, inspirational
Plot: wrongful conviction, confined, lawyer, prison, prisoner, mind game, attorney, life sentence, legal, jail, jailed, confinement indoors ...
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