The Circle (2000), Lion's Den (2008), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Noem My Skollie (2015), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002), Prisoner of Paradise (2002), Woodpeckers (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prison Life movies.
Storyline: Two women in Iran are given temporary leave from prison and attempt to flee to one of the women's hometown, but are caught by police. Meanwhile, one of their friends who has escaped jail is pregnant and in need of an abortion. "The Circle" tells the story of each of these women by shifting back and forth between them.
Plot Keywords: woman, friend, husband, prostitute, prisoner, pregnant woman, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Argentine woman (Martina Gusmán) struggles to raise her newborn from behind the walls of a prison-ward nursery.
Plot Keywords: expectant mother, partner, boyfriend, police officer, psychologist, inmate, somber ...
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: 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: A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano.
Plot Keywords: boxer, trainer, young woman, mother, inmate, father, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "The Execution of Wanda Jean" chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen. By telling one woman's story, the film becomes an unforgettable exploration into one of America's most controversial moral and political dilemmas: the death penalty. "The Execution of Wanda Jean" is an unflinching investigation of the role that poverty, mental health, race, and sexuality play within the criminal justice system.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, african-american woman, death row inmate, lawyer, lesbian, disturbing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kurt Gerron was a star in Germany's theater and cabaret scene in the 1920s and 1930s, performing with some of the country's best artists and entertainers of the time. But with the rise of Adolf Hitler, the acclaimed Jewish entertainer was relegated to the role of prisoner in a Nazi-run concentration camp. There he was forced to put his talents to use writing and directing a propaganda film that sang the praises of his captors. This documentary tells Gerron's shocking and tragic story.
Plot Keywords: actor, prisoner, nazi, writer, director, shocking, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Plot Keywords: prison guard, prisoner, prisoners, messenger, gangsters, romantic interest, romantic rival ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: West of Memphis is an examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.—Production
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, convict, friend, suspect, family member, bleak, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At first, Brian (Clu Gulager) is thrilled to start his new job as a prison guard. But then he encounters an alarming amount of corruption involving the warden and his fellow guards. Meanwhile, an unlikely new inmate arrives: quiet professor Jonathan Paige (Alan Alda), convicted on charges of murder in self-defense. Things look bad for Paige when he runs afoul of Hugo Slocum (Vic Morrow), top dog of the vicious prison gangs. Brian wants to interfere, but the prison staff remains indifferent.
Plot Keywords: professor, prison guard, inmate, gang leader, warden, black man, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Plot Keywords: boxer, brother, girlfriend, mother, trainer, sister, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
Plot Keywords: inmate, officer, terrorist, mother, priest, orderly, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (Randy Quaid) (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich (Norbert ...
Plot Keywords: prison guard, prisoner, police officer, girlfriend, judge, bleak, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..—Aline
Plot Keywords: engineer, wife, son, soldier, nurse, lover, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In an Israeli penitentiary, a race war threatens to erupt between the two gangs. Jewish criminals, including drug users and rapists, are imprisoned next to Arab war criminals, and the hostility is only escalated by the interference of prison security, who frame the Arabs for the murder of a Jewish prisoner. The two rival camps -- headed by Israeli Uri (Arnon Zadock) and Arab Issan (Mohammed Bakri) -- decide to form an unlikely union that may or may not put a stop to the bloodshed.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, gang member, israeli, arab, prison guard, brooding, brutal ...
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