Prison Movies, Movies about Prison

Here we've displayed a list of the best Prison films : The Shawshank Redemption(1994), The Dark Knight(2008), Goodfellas(1990), The Silence of the Lambs(1991), The Green Mile(1999), Modern Times(1936), Braveheart(1995), A Man Escaped(1956), A Clockwork Orange(1971), The Great Escape(1963), Satya(1998), Raging Bull(1980) ... ...

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The Shawshank Redemption

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

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The Dark Knight

When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.

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Goodfellas

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.

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The Silence of the Lambs

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

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The Green Mile

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

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Modern Times

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

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Braveheart

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

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A Man Escaped

A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.

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A Clockwork Orange

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

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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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Satya

An innocent man is embroiled in underworld after being falsely charged and sets out to punish the perpetrators who subjected his life to misery.

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Raging Bull

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

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Army in the Shadows

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

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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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The Battle of Algiers

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

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In the Name of the Father

A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

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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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White Heat

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

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The Executioner

An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

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Sin City

A movie that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.

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The Raid 2

Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

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Guardians of the Galaxy

A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe.

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Crossing the Line

A collection of personal accounts stemming from Arizona's illegal immigration crisis.

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The Thin Blue Line

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

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12 Monkeys

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

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In Cold Blood

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

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West of Memphis

An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

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His Girl Friday

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

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Fury

When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

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