The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Brubaker (1980), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013), The Big House (1930), Two Way Stretch (1960), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951), Clemency (2019), San Quentin (1937) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prison Official movies.
Storyline: In September 2001 several British Muslim friends go to Pakistan to attend a wedding. They decide to visit Afghanistan, but they find Kandahar under attack and flee to Kabul. From there the friends try to return to Pakistan but mistakenly end up in a Taliban stronghold. Following their capture, they are sent to a U.S. military base in Cuba, where they endure torture.
Plot Keywords: prison official, prisoner, friend, refugee, guard, dark, cuba ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the new warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees firsthand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials are running. When he reveals himself and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt prison system starts making political trouble for the new warden.
Plot Keywords: warden, prisoner, guard, prison official, doctor, townspeople, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to abandon peaceful protest for armed resistance after the Sharpeville Massacre, Mandela pays the price when he and his comrades are sentenced to life imprisonment for treason while his wife, Winnie, is abused by the authorities herself. Over the decades in chains, Mandela's spirit is unbowed as his struggle goes on in and beyond his captivity to become an international cause. However, as Winnie's determination hardens over the years into a violent ruthlessness, Nelson's own stature rises until he becomes the renowned leader of his movement. That status would be put to the test as his release nears and a way must be found to win a peaceful victory that will leave his country, and all its peoples, unstained.
Plot Keywords: nelson mandela, south african man, revolutionary, president, prison guard, prison official, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a manslaughter conviction from drunk driving, nice but foolish Kent is sent to a prison over-crowded and unable to properly deal with its inmates. There he meets veteran criminals like Morgan and his hardened pal Butch. And the system punishes them all, turning them against each other and bringing out the worst.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: prisoner, prison official, guard, warden, criminal, gritty, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days' sentence left, and the perfect alibi, what could possibly go wrong?—Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: inmate, accomplice, cellmate, prison official, con artist, witty, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Another in a unrelated series of Warner's penitentiary tours in three different decades. This one is California's notorious Folsom Prison prior to its 1944 reformation make-over. Ben Rickey, the prison's sadistic old-school warden who believes that the prison system if for punishment rather than reformation, rules Folsom with an iron-hand. He highly resents his university-trained assistant, Mark Benson, who does not share Rickey's beliefs. Rickey, hoping the results will be disastrous, gives Benson permission to try his modern method. He tolerates Benson's innovations until convict "Red" Pardue is killed by another prisoner. Benson blames Rickey, who had refused Pardue protection after he had reported an escape attempt. Benson resigns and Rickey brings back his concentration-camp program. Chuck Daniels, a hardened convict, then stage his long-planned prison break. A bloody riot ensues in which Rickey is murdered and the escapees are accidentally killed by a dynamite blast while taking revenge on a treacherous convict.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: warden, prison guard, prisoner, prison official, sergeant, inmate, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: attorney, prisoner, family, prison official, solemn, somber, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: captain, singer, brother, inmate, prison official, gritty, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man is accused of spying for the confedaracy, and sentenced to the notorious Hellgate Prison. After he unsuccessfully attempts to breakout, and is sentenced to solitary confinement, he redeems himself when the prison is taken down by a plague.—Buxx Banner <buxx572@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: prisoner, union soldier, prison guard, confederate soldier, cellmate, prison official, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Left to rot in prison for the past thirteen years after the blood-drenched events in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1989), the misunderstood virtuoso of mayhem, Dr Herbert West, finds an unexpected ally in the person of the young medical doctor, Howard Phillips. Behind the thick walls of the impenetrable Arkham State Penitentiary, the blasphemous duo of dreamers set up a secret laboratory to test an entirely new reanimating serum, which--when combined with West's original phosphorescent reagent--can work miracles on the prison's inmates. Now, the stage seems set for the ultimate experiment; however, once more, this is easier said than done. Can the good doctors escape from this concrete pit of death?
Plot Keywords: mad scientist, prison official, reporter, doctor, cellmate, warden, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Plot Keywords: father, racketeer, nanny, daughter, prison official, criminal, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the case of a man who became an authority on capital punishment, but was discredited when he got involved on the wrong side of a court case. Leutcher, a meek man whose appearance belies his grim expertise, develops what he says is a more effective electric chair. Before long he's in demand from officials who want his opinions on other kinds of execution. But when called to aid the case of an accused Holocaust denier, Leutcher's problems begin.
Plot Keywords: prison official, documentarian, chemist, engineer, dark, profound, prison ...
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