Le Doulos (1961), After Innocence (2005), Oasis (2002), Bound (1996), I've Loved You So Long (2008), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), The Concrete Jungle (1960), A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ex-convict movies.
Storyline: A former convict (Serge Reggiani) suspects his best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a burglar with police contacts, of being a stool pigeon.
Plot Keywords: friend, jewel thief, informant, ex-convict, gangster, superintendent, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following the stories of seven exonerated prisoners, "After Innocence" documents how DNA evidence led to the release of these wrongfully imprisoned, innocent men. Free after years -- and in some cases decades -- behind bars and on death row, these men struggle to transition back into society with inadequate support from the judicial system that wronged them. "After Innocence" brings to light flaws in the criminal justice system and the need for reform.
Plot Keywords: innocent man, ex-convict, activist, cop, soldier, father, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After serving time for killing a man in a hit-and-run car accident, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) is released with no money and nowhere to go. His family has abandoned him. While trying to make amends, he meets Han Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), his victim's adult daughter. She is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy and all but abandoned in a cheap apartment by her callous family. Gong-ju's innate tenderness appeals to the uncontrollably impulsive Jong-du, and the pair begin an improbable relationship.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, disabled person, brother, sister-in-law, neighbor, quirky, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mobster's (Joe Pantoliano) disgruntled girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) steals $2 million from him with the help of her lesbian lover (Gina Gershon).
Plot Keywords: lesbian, gangster, boyfriend, girlfriend, neighbor, ex-convict, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After serving a lengthy prison sentence, a woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged sister (Elsa Zylberstein).
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, sister, husband, co-worker, niece, probation officer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.
Plot Keywords: thief, ex-convict, entertainer, girlfriend, police chief, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The mastermind (Stanley Baker) of a racetrack robbery escapes from prison to the loot and is double-crossed by his gang.
Plot Keywords: criminal, mastermind, gang member, traitor, ex-convict, girlfriend, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard) is an odd sort of criminal, utterly passive and willing to do what is asked of him, demanding little in return. For the last crime he committed he was sent to jail, but he's now getting out, and the prospect of freedom is less than enticing. His boss, Jensen (Bjørn Floberg), wants him to pursue revenge against the snitch who put him in prison. On top of that, Ulrik has to deal with his son, who has a new fiancée, and a family that doesn't think much of his profession.
Plot Keywords: hit man, gangster, son, landlady, fiancé, ex-convict, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four tales of crime adapted from Frank Miller's popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile, and a hitman looking to make a little cash.
Plot Keywords: thug, tough guy, ex-convict, vigilante, girlfriend, killer, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck's iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family -- led by just-paroled son Tom -- loads up a truck and heads West. On the road, beset by hardships, the Joads meet dozens of other families making the same trek and holding onto the same dream. Once in California, however, the Joads soon realize that the promised land isn't quite what they hoped.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, sharecropper, priest, uncle, grandfather, grandmother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex-con seeks help from his father when his plan to rob a drug-dealing friend goes awry.
Plot Keywords: father, estranged son, drug dealer, criminal, family, ex-convict, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the eve of his release after five years imprisoned, the thief Corey is contacted by one guard of the prison that offers him a jewelry heist. However Corey seeks out his former boss Rico and steals money from him. Rico sends two gangsters to hunt Corey down and retrieve the stolen amount. Meanwhile the criminal Vogel is transported by train by the Police Officer Mattei and succeeds to escape. Corey drives from Marseille to Paris and Vogel hides in the trunk of his car. Corey finds him but does not object to ride Vogel to Paris hidden in the trunk. When the gangsters sent by Rico cut in Corey's car, Vogel saves him from the criminals, but Corey loses the money. Without money, Corey decides to heist the jewelry with Vogel and invites the former police detective Jansen to team-up with them. The trio executes a perfect heist but Rico is seeking revenge and Mattei is an unethical but efficient police officer capable to use any means to resolve the case.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, escaped convict, ex-cop, police chief, mob boss, cool, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is having a tough time with his relatives (yet again). He runs away after using magic to inflate Uncle Vernon's (Richard Griffiths') sister Marge (Pam Ferris), who was being offensive towards Harry's parents. Initially scared for using magic outside the school, he is pleasantly surprised that he won't be penalized after all. However, he soon learns that a dangerous criminal and Voldemort's trusted aide Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban Prison and wants to kill Harry to avenge the Dark Lord. To worsen the conditions for Harry, vile creatures called Dementors are appointed to guard the school gates and inexplicably happen to have the most horrible effect on him. Little does Harry know that by the end of this year, many holes in his past (whatever he knows of it) will be filled up and he will have a clearer vision of what the future has in store.
Plot Keywords: harry potter, witch, wizard, ex-convict, professor, rat, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of running a nightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world of violence and mistrust.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, lawyer, friend, dancer, girlfriend, gangster, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, waitress, safecracker, thief, lawyer, intricate, tense ...
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