The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), The Circle (2000), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Maze (2017), A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), Licensed to Kill (1997), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prisoner 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: 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: Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him, and sedate him to avert a desperate suicide--and as his only companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell--the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. Then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. However, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: drunk, kidnapper, friend, police officer, prisoner, suspenseful, thrilling ...
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: Francois Truffaut's Hitchcockian account of a widow's efforts to take revenge against the men who killed her husband.
Plot Keywords: murderer, woman, mother, young boy, prisoner, widow, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist-type prisoners-of-war are all put in an "escape proof" camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the movie is played for comedy, as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use planes, trains, and boats to get out of occupied Europe.
Plot Keywords: military officer, soldier, prisoner, nazi, cheeky, engaging, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn't want to settle into a humdrum life and decides to set off to find his fortune. He travels the length and breadth of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction industry. When times get tough however, he finds himself living in a shelter where an acquaintance suggests they go out for a hamburger. What the friend really has in mind is to rob the diner and Allen soon finds himself working on a chain gang with a long jail sentence. Allen manages to escape however and heads to Chicago where over several years he slowly but surely works his way up the ladder to become one of the most respected construction engineers in the city. His past catches up with him and despite protestations from civic leaders and his many friends in Chicago, he finds himself again on the chain gang. Escaping for a second time, he accepts that to survive, he must lead a life of crime.
Plot Keywords: veteran, prisoner, guard, landlady, lawyer, bleak, brutal ...
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: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, warden, guard, police officer, mother, brash, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A semi-fictional account of Henri Charrière's time in the penal system in French Guyana - some of it spent on infamous Devil's Island - is presented. It's the early 1930s. Charrière - nicknamed Papillon because of his butterfly tattoo - and Louis Dega are two among many who have been convicted in the French judicial system, they now being transferred to French Guyana where they will serve their time, never to return to France even if they are ever released. A safe-cracker by criminal profession, Papillon is serving a life sentence for murdering a pimp, a crime for which he adamantly states he was framed. Dega is a wealthy counterfeiter, who expects his well-to-do wife eventually to get him released. On Papillon's initiative, Papillon and Dega enter into a business arrangement: Papillon will provide protection for Dega, while Dega will finance Papillon's escape attempt. As Papillon and Degas' time together lasts longer than either expects, their burgeoning friendship ends up being an ...
Plot Keywords: convict, forger, prisoner, doctor, indian, nun, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.
Plot Keywords: astronaut, slave, prisoner, dark, creative, outer space, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A lawyer (Al Pacino) in contempt of court agrees to defend a judge (John Forsythe) he hates, accused of rape.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, judge, prisoner, quirky, gritty, courtroom, maryland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An old executioner in early-1960s Spain, who is a very gentle, nice, caring man proud of traditions, is approaching retirement age. As his profession isn't the most popular, he worries about who might take his place. He worries about his daughter too; she seems doomed to spinsterhood because as soon as any prospective groom learns what her father's trade is, he flees in terror. Enter the local undertaker, a handsome young man with exactly the same problem: no girl wants him given his profession. So, you have the woman whom almost nobody would marry and the man whom almost nobody would marry. Obviously, they are meant for each other. But here the old executioner has something to say: He does not object to his daughter marrying the young undertaker; he seems a decent man--but he will only agree to the marriage if the prospective groom agrees to take the executioner's job when he retires. Father tells the worried fellow: "Don't worry, they sentence people, but they pardon them at the last moment!"—Jose Beltran <pepe@prince.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Plot Keywords: executioner, undertaker, daughter, prisoner, love child, crafty, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex-inmate and wandering musician travels to a small Arkansas town to get revenge on his absentee father. Once there, he unravels a complicated family history when he befriends the locals.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, musician, father, pilot, brooding, confident, engaging ...
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