Movies like San Quentin

20 movies like San Quentin, ordered by similarity : Papillon(2017), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang(1932), Maze(2017), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints(2006), August(2008), The Bottom of the Bottle(1956), House of Numbers(1957), The Good Bad Girl(1931), Lady Gangster(1942), Apprentice(2016), Brothers ... Blood Against Blood(2015) ...

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San Quentin

An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.

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Papillon

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

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The Old Man & the Gun

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

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Maze

Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.

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August

The co-founder (Josh Hartnett) of an Internet company tries to win back his lover (Naomie Harris), while his business teeters on the brink of disaster.

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The Bottom of the Bottle

In the border town of Nogales, Arizona, a wealthy attorney and rancher is solicited by his escaped convict brother in aiding him to cross the border into Mexico where his wife and children are living in poverty.

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House of Numbers

San Quentin prison inmate Arnie Judlow asks his twin brother Bill and his wife Ruth to assist him in a daring escape plan.

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The Good Bad Girl

Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark), a gangster's moll, quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (Jmaes Hall), but after giving ... See full summary »

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Lady Gangster

Dot Burton (Faye Emerson) has acted as a decoy in a bank robbery and fails to get away. Her arrest attracts the attention of Ken Phillips (Frank Wilcox), a former childhood sweetheart who ... See full summary »

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Apprentice

Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.

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Brothers ... Blood Against Blood

Two estranged, street-fighting brothers square off against each other in a mixed martial arts tournament.

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Paul, Apostle of Christ

Luke travels Roma looking for apostle Paul, turned in Nero's prisoner, to tell his story before his execution.

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Heartlock

A rogue love story centered on a female correctional officer whose life is turned upside down by the fleeting affections of her lover - a male convict whose charm is only as genuine as his desire to be free.

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The Criminal Code

After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.

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Cool Hand Luke

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

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South Central

A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.

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When a Man Loves

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

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Custody

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.

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The Great Escape

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

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