Most Similar Movies to San Quentin (1937)
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933), This Day and Age (1933), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), The Big House (1930), Castle on the Hudson (1940), Coldwater (2013), The Mayor of Hell (1933) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933)
Hardened criminal Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) enters Sing Sing prison convinced that his reputation and some bribery through his lawyer, Joe Finn (Louis Calhern), will control warden Paul Long (Arthur Byron). But Long rejects the bribe and insists that Connors accept his role as just another convict. After initial hostility, Connors knuckles under, and over time wins Long's trust. However, when his girlfriend, Fay (Bette Davis), is gravely injured by Finn, his reformation is put to the test.
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This Day and Age (1933)
High school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
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The Big House (1930)
A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
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Castle on the Hudson (1940)
An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
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Coldwater (2013)
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
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The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives - complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the adm...Read all
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)
At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.
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Alcatraz Island (1937)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Sleepers (1996)
After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, they get their chance for revenge.
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Johnny Apollo (1940)
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
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Canon City (1948)
Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.
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Doing Time (2002)
A gun collector, Hanawa (Tsutomu Yamazaki), is arrested and convicted of possessing illegal firearms. He's sentenced to three years inside a minimum-security prison. Although the facility is no hell on earth, most people would understandably hate the ordeal -- but not Hanawa, who considers the clockwork minutiae of prison life anything but depressing. He finds an odd comfort in his daily routines and feels that he is more whole with his fellow prisoners than with the world beyond the walls.
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Riot (2012)
A cop who was once a soccer hooligan is unsure whether to do his job or side with his old pals when riots tear through London.
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Lockdown (2003)
Avery (Richard T. Jones) has finally gotten his life back on track. A competitive swimmer, he had to drop out of college to support his girlfriend, Krista (Melissa De Sousa), and their son, Jordan. He's back on the swim-meet circuit, and starting to have some success. When he's approached by a college scout after winning his latest race, he goes out to celebrate with his friends, Cashmere (Gabriel Casseus) and Dre. In an instant, Avery's luck is about to run out.
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Prince of the City (1981)
A New York police detective (Treat Williams) wears a "wire" for federal agents to nail his friends on the take.
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The Round Up (2010)
During World War II, France's Vichy government takes part in the collection of 13,000 French Jews and holds them in various venues, including an indoor cycling stadium, before shipping them off to their deaths.
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The Concrete Jungle (1960)
The mastermind (Stanley Baker) of a racetrack robbery escapes from prison to the loot and is double-crossed by his gang.
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