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Netflix
86
8.2
/39008/
81
/2467/
78
/772/
4.3
/115785/
97
/105/
90
/240/
81
/29/
cc age 16+

13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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Netflix
83
7.8
/464533/
75
/16494/
76
/7254/
3.9
/848676/
95
/468/
86
/325/
94
/55/
cc age 17+

The Irishman (2019)
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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fuboTV
82
7.5
/3275/
76
/207/
69
/42/
3.8
/8430/
100
/56/
87
/17/
87
/11/

Attica (2021)
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
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Criterion Channel
79
76
7.5
/12568/
72
/236/
72
/197/
3.8
/14124/
95
/20/
87
/151/
80
/14/

Brute Force (1947)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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MGM Plus
76
7.2
/36059/
70
/862/
69
/620/
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.
poster
75
7.1
/11329/
76
/529/
74
/382/
3.5
/7453/
73
/11/
90
/450/
66
/11/
cc age 17+

American Me (1992)
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
73
7.1
/4232/
72
/835/
73
/152/
3.5
/11587/
92
/12/
76
/35/

Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Suspicious of the events ensnaring their former colleagues, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are spurred out of retirement to investigate. As they grapple with personal ethics, inner demons and a society turned against them, they race the clock to uncover a deepening plot that might trigger global nuclear war.
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Hoopla
73
7.2
/3142/
67
/54/
67
/37/
3.5
/912/
75
/16/
86
/58/
cc age 15+

Some Mother's Son (1996)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
7.3
/111318/
75
/7863/
69
/2151/
3.5
/73845/
69
/49/
81
/343/
59
/10/
cc age 17+

Shot Caller (2017)
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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YouTube TV
67
6.9
/335915/
71
/9880/
67
/4496/
3.5
/190957/
59
/70/
75
/12750/
52
/23/
cc age 17+

Con Air (1997)
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
poster
The Roku Channel
60
6.1
/22566/
63
/513/
65
/587/
2.9
/6250/
53
/317/

In Hell (2003)
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
poster
63
59
6.6
/6134/
69
/277/
64
/217/
3.2
/1702/
70
/23/
54
/41/
58
/12/

The Prey (2011)
A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
poster
Hoopla
59
6.1
/36367/
66
/1300/
65
/780/
2.9
/12795/
50
/106/
46
/280/
58
/29/
cc age 17+

Undisputed (2002)
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
poster
Netflix
59
6.4
/208363/
67
/6518/
66
/3568/
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.
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Fandor
65
56
6.8
/5178/
65
/153/
62
/147/
3.4
/7679/

The Untold Story (1993)
Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.
poster
75
54
7.7
/2198/
74
/117/
75
/37/
3.7
/2363/

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars (2008)
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.
poster
52
5.9
/31801/
62
/1053/
60
/700/
3.0
/11850/
38
/16/
40
/316/
48
/18/

Fortress (1992)
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
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Starz Apple TV Channel
50
6.4
/226755/
65
/6788/
62
/3996/
2.8
/71770/
41
/155/
60
/9437/
43
/24/
cc age 18+

Death Race (2008)
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
45
5.7
/4210/
60
/137/
62
/138/
2.8
/2586/
33
/7779/

Island of Fire (1990)
Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
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Netflix
42
4.9
/44645/
52
/4320/
55
/1331/
2.1
/237319/
35
/26/
25
/220/
45
/7/
cc age 16+

The Platform 2 (2024)
After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.
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Kanopy
42
4.5
/76106/
57
/3567/
51
/1959/
2.1
/31120/
17
/138/
32
/2363/
37
/31/
cc age 14+

xXx: State of the Union (2005)
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert.
poster
70
41
6.9
/1816/
67
/28/
69
/22/
3.3
/365/
83
/101/
66
/4/

The Great Impostor (1960)
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
poster
47
39
4.8
/4372/
54
/148/
53
/138/
2.6
/1552/
32
/40/

Bloodsport II (1996)
After thief Alex Cardo gets caught while stealing an ancient katana in East Asia, he soon finds himself imprisoned and beaten up by the crowd there. One of the guards, Demon, feels upset by Alex appearance and tortures him as often as he gets the opportunity. Alex finds a friend and mentor in the jailhouse, Master Sun, who teaches him a superior fighting style called Iron Hand. When a 'best of the best kumite' is to take place, Demon gets an invitation. Now Master Sun and Alex need to find a way to let Alex take part in the kumite too.
poster
42
38
4.5
/7611/
50
/262/
50
/210/
2.3
/1758/
21
/93/

Fortress 2 (2000)
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 a man to give in easily, and with a 10 year old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
37
4.2
/4988/
52
/181/
43
/120/
2.3
/1084/
44
/149/

Today You Die (2005)
A former thief who is trying to go straight seeks vengeance on those who framed him.
poster
66
32
7.3
/1680/
63
/31/
56
/26/
3.7
/1065/

Bespredel (1989)
Using an elaborate system of denunciation, the chief of the Zone keeps his prisoners in check. A new inmate, allegedly imprisoned for speculating on postage stamps, tries to rebel against the system.
poster
The Roku Channel
46
32
5.0
/2123/
51
/89/
50
/66/
2.8
/2089/
24
/18/

Women in Cages (1971)
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.
poster
64
28
6.4
/286/
63
/13/
70
/25/
3.3
/593/
5.9
/2236/

Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell (1989)
In the late 1990s, society is descending into ecological collapse and totalitarianism. Saiga Riki-Oh, a mysterious man with a six-pointed star on his fist, finds himself at the privately-owned Tokyo State Prison. Serving a term of three years due to assault, his first offense, Riki-Oh openly antagonizes The Four Emperors, four powerful prisoners that control the prison and keep the rest of the inmates in line...
poster
64
27
6.8
/781/
56
/18/
64
/42/
3.5
/640/

The Cop (1970)
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
poster
62
27
6.4
/2421/
55
/40/
58
/34/
3.4
/520/
66
/8/

Breaking Out (1999)
The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
42
26
4.2
/3250/
46
/83/
46
/61/
2.8
/490/
20
/76/

Direct Contact (2009)
An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring her out into the open.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
39
23
4.3
/2352/
35
/14/
38
/30/
2.9
/650/
23
/1918/
35
/5/

Born American (1986)
A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
poster
50
23
5.0
/1109/
60
/36/
54
/27/
36
/30/

Animal 2 (2007)
Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However, with his newfound fame as a fighter, Animal uncovers a jailhouse conspiracy that threatens to cause racial tensions to explode.
poster
60
22
6.7
/966/
67
/18/
59
/20/
3.3
/352/
42
/70/

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
34
22
3.1
/2493/
45
/148/
43
/82/
2.2
/827/
8
/20/

Jurassic City (2015)
When a top-secret laboratory is unexpectedly breached, thousands of rampaging raptors are unleashed on Los Angeles! A black-ops unit is mobilized to contain the creatures before they cause city-wide chaos. Simultaneously, a truckload of raptors is rerouted to a nearby prison. Upon their escape, these ferocious flesh-eaters are beyond containment. This is Jurassic judgment night for smoking hot sorority girls, sinister scientists, muscle-bound military and doomed death-row inmates! It's about to get bloody in Jurassic City!
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
19
4.9
/724/
44
/25/
46
/20/
3.0
/414/
41
/364/

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992)
Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.
poster
64
15
6.5
/489/
68
/96/
60
/11/
3.3
/239/

Inside: Russia's Toughest Prisons (2009)
Three Russian prisons unlock their doors to an international film crew and reveal what life inside is like for the nation's most brutal criminals.
poster
?
7.7
/48/
30
/1/

Amerikan Violence (2014)
A rebellious youth blaming society for wrongful incarceration reunites with friends to terrorize the good citizens of Detroit by abducting random victims then forcing them to perform in their twisted online show, Amerikan Violence.
poster
?
7.2
/42/
70
/4/

Médecin-chef à la Santé (2012)
A woman replaces a co-worker as a medical doctor at La Sante prison in Paris.
poster
?
7.6
/44/
75
/2/

The Prison Within (2020)
Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debilitating constraints of trauma, and shattering preconceptions of "us and them."
poster
?
7.5
/37/
60
/1/

Rikers (2016)
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island Jail. They tell their compelling stories direct to the camera, revealing the violent arc of the Rikers experience – from the trauma of entry to extortion and control by inmates, to oppressive corrections officers, violence and solitary confinement.
poster
47
?
6.1
/441/
60
/6/
48
/8/
20
/4/

House of Women (1962)
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
poster
35
?
6.1
/258/
26
/3/

Unchained (1955)
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.
poster
67
?
6.5
/252/
60
/3/
68
/4/

We Who Are About to Die (1937)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
poster
58
?
6.3
/210/
50
/4/
62
/9/

Revolt in the Big House (1958)
A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.
poster
?
7.1
/33/

Prison for Profit (2019)
The Mangaung Prison opened in 2001 as South Africa’s first privately run penitentiary. Its operator, the multi-billion-dollar British security firm G4S, promised the most humane treatment and the best facilities for its nearly 3,000 prisoners—and naturally at the lowest cost. Testimonials from whistleblowers and former prisoners, and the findings of investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins expose the reality of prison privatization. Guards are underpaid, overworked and fear every day for their lives. Prisoners are a source of income, so rehabilitation isn’t a priority. Prison for Profit shows how this profit maximization system works, and what happens when governmental tasks like detention are outsourced to powerful international corporations. And what are the negative consequences for society at large?
poster
47
?
4.5
/228/
52
/7/
45
/6/

The Fury (1997)
The life of federal judge Raúl Lombardi and his journalist son, Marcos, changes forever when they become entangled in a web of corruption and drug trafficking involving law enforcement officers, judges, and other high-ranking officials.
poster
HBO Max
62
?
6.6
/485/
55
/14/
64
/8/

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)
A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.


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