Le Doulos (1961), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), The Circle (2000), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Maze (2017), Licensed to Kill (1997), After Innocence (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prison movies.
Storyline: After serving time in prison for the murder of a child, Jan Thomas (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) finds work as a church organist, where he wins the affections of Anna (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), a single mother and pastor. Having acquired the job under his middle name, Thomas, Jan conceals his past from Anna as their relationship progresses. However, he cannot maintain his secret when the mother of the murdered child (Trine Dyrholm) recognizes him at the church.
Plot Keywords: organist, pastor, mother, son, daughter, tense, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A French government agent (Tcheky Karyo) turns a Paris drug punk (Anne Parillaud) into a chic assassin whose skill is cued by her code name.
Plot Keywords: convict, junkie, assassin, man, love interest, thrilling, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A med student (Emayatzy Corinealdi) considers leaving her long-imprisoned husband (Omari Hardwick) for a charming bus driver (David Oyelowo).
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, couple, medical student, convict, emotional, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Returning from a military campaign abroad, General Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) discovers that a new religion has taken hold in Rome: Christianity. When Vinicius encounters Lygia (Deborah Kerr), a follower of the strange religion, he quickly becomes smitten and tries to win her affections. Lygia is reluctant due to their differing beliefs. Complicating matters is the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov), who blames the Christians for his own burning of Rome, beginning a wave of persecution.
Plot Keywords: general, emperor, concubine, slave, uncle, wife, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?
Plot Keywords: mobster, gangster, thief, partner, agent, mob enforcer, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Plot Keywords: guard, prisoner, emotional, somber, powerful, prison, household ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: F.B.I. trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) works hard to advance her career, while trying to hide or put behind her West Virginia roots, of which if some knew, would automatically classify her as being backward or white trash. After graduation, she aspires to work in the agency's Behavioral Science Unit under the leadership of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn). While she is still a trainee, Crawford asks her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist imprisoned, thus far, for eight years in maximum security isolation for being a serial killer who cannibalized his victims. Clarice is able to figure out the assignment is to pick Lecter's brains to help them solve another serial murder case, that of someone coined by the media as "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who has so far killed five victims, all located in the eastern U.S., all young women, who are slightly overweight (especially around the hips), all who were drowned in natural bodies of water, and all who ...
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, psychopath, student, agent, serial killer, police officer, 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: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia (Krystyna Janda) decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Plot Keywords: singer, guard, government official, husband, dark, gritty, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man becomes a gifted storyteller while serving time in jail.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, prisoners, gangsters, concubine, loved one, love interest, criminal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The classic radio show (which also inspired a novel, a TV special, and a film) is performed in front of a live audience.
Plot Keywords: father, brother, teenager, prisoner, family, community member, friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Interviews, archival footage and photographs help illustrate a biography of the life of former boxer Mike Tyson, in and out of the ring.
Plot Keywords: boxer, mentor, trainer, emotional, engaging, brooklyn, n.y., new york state ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital - When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.
Plot Keywords: factory worker, orphan, police officer, amusing, witty, playful, countryside ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother's, Danny Vineyard, narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
Plot Keywords: neo-nazi, gang member, single father, police officer, brother, dark, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.
Plot Keywords: warrior, hero, wife, prince, rebel, dark, thrilling ...
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