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Kanopy
80
7.5
/161615/
76
/4690/
75
/3038/
3.8
/158943/
97
/31/
85
/1593/
76
/9/
cc age 13+

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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MUBI
76
7.1
/82188/
72
/5328/
69
/1516/
3.7
/85171/
90
/99/
73
/587/
79
/21/
cc age 18+

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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MGM Plus
76
7.2
/36160/
70
/867/
70
/621/
3.6
/22839/
83
/35/
76
/393/
67
/11/

Runaway Train (1985)
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
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Kanopy
74
6.5
/5783/
67
/360/
63
/115/
3.5
/8567/
92
/154/
65
/17/
77
/32/
cc age 17+

Clemency (2019)
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
poster
69
7.1
/21109/
74
/703/
70
/506/
3.6
/9814/
74
/23/
74
/195/
54
/11/

Brubaker (1980)
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Netflix
67
65
6.6
/15884/
67
/350/
63
/251/
3.3
/8708/
83
/35/
59
/228/
65
/12/

Animal Factory (2000)
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
poster
70
61
7.6
/5429/
68
/69/
71
/81/
3.8
/5022/
50
/8/
83
/73/

Caged (1950)
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
poster
59
6.4
/43630/
66
/1028/
62
/603/
3.1
/13077/
33
/55/
72
/1173/
45
/25/

Mean Machine (2001)
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
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FXNow
59
6.4
/208825/
67
/6543/
67
/3575/
3.1
/188664/
31
/167/
62
/1313045/
48
/35/
cc age 14+

The Longest Yard (2005)
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
poster
56
6.4
/49195/
67
/1387/
68
/1274/
3.1
/15148/
31
/16/
51
/414/
52
/6/

Lock Up (1989)
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
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Amazon Prime Video
56
6.7
/268979/
69
/11926/
67
/5444/
2.9
/108937/
50
/117/
55
/2277/
49
/33/
cc age 17+

Escape Plan (2013)
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 framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
poster
55
6.1
/3854/
60
/56/
60
/56/
3.2
/1214/
46
/13/
44
/28/

Mrs. Soffel (1984)
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
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The Roku Channel
57
51
5.3
/3399/
53
/122/
50
/82/
3.0
/4704/
76
/17/
40
/51/
67
/5/

Caged Heat (1974)
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
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The Roku Channel
47
42
4.7
/4120/
57
/355/
53
/169/
2.2
/1479/
36
/26/

Vendetta (2015)
A hard-nosed detective deliberately commits a crime to get thrown in prison, allowing him the chance to seek vengeance on a criminal serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his wife.
poster
44
34
4.5
/2888/
45
/114/
46
/81/
2.6
/1605/
31
/58/

Greta, the Mad Butcher (1977)
A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the disappearance of her sister, a former patient. Meanwhile, the hospital warden and her attendants abuse and torture their charges, forcing them to star in cheap skinflicks.
poster
65
33
6.8
/1461/
74
/21/
61
/29/
3.4
/877/
80
/5/
42
/3/

Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
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Netflix
73
26
7.0
/651/
77
/34/
76
/5/
3.6
/14051/

Green Bones (2024)
A soon-to-be released criminal and a corrections officer is still grieving over the death of his sister opposing the prisoner's release.
poster
45
26
4.4
/1719/
49
/123/
45
/59/
2.8
/975/
31
/17/

Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.
poster
62
25
6.8
/1696/
66
/29/
60
/30/
3.3
/837/
50
/3/

Convicted (1950)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
24
6.4
/668/
54
/9/
64
/16/
3.3
/356/
65
/187/

Condemned! (1929)
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
poster
50
24
4.7
/1300/
46
/40/
50
/45/
3.0
/681/

Sadomania (1981)
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.
poster
56
22
6.1
/705/
58
/11/
57
/10/
3.2
/948/
45
/64/

Cry of the Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
poster
40
19
3.6
/1565/
54
/13/
35
/25/
36
/44/

Unspeakable (2003)
Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
15
5.8
/948/
54
/14/
55
/21/
3.1
/505/
14
/9/

Lady Gangster (1942)
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
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Amazon Prime Video
56
14
5.7
/977/
71
/32/
59
/16/
40
/5/

Abducted (2007)
Melanie is married to Tom, a controlling, cold and self-centered man who happens to be a prison warden. He finds her to be a liability to his career aspirations and secretly plans to have her kidnapped and killed, by Jack, a dangerous inmate.
poster
60
12
7.1
/438/
43
/3/
54
/5/
3.6
/681/

Bulaklak sa City Jail (1984)
A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.
poster
?
5.8
/31/
50
/1/

Rolling Stone (1919)
A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
poster
?
6.5
/27/

Penitentiary (1938)
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
poster
?
5.1
/57/
20
/1/
25
/2/

Never Look Back (2000)
Jailed ex-fighter Donavan Wallace strikes a deal with the prison warden for early parole - he is to go into a town to pick up a mysterious crate. He finds himself framed for the murder of a local waitress but before being thrown behind bars once again he is able to retrieve, and then hide, the crate. Donavan manages to break free from jail but finds himself pursued by various conspirators who are after the contents of the crate
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?
5.5
/41/
10
/2/

Prison Warden (1949)
The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.
poster
?
5.7
/56/

The Daring Young Man (1935)
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
poster
?
6.1
/47/
33
/3/
55
/4/

Jail in Burning Island (1997)
A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
poster
?
51
/5/
59
/4/

Stanford Prison Experiment: Psychology of Imprisonment (1991)
The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life, and the effects of imposed social roles on behaviour. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.
poster
50
?
5.8
/325/
40
/1/
53
/5/

Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
poster
?
6.7
/94/
75
/2/
60
/2/

Men Without Souls (1940)
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Amazon Prime Video
50
?
5.2
/110/
45
/2/
55
/2/

They Never Come Back (1932)
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."


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