Most Similar Movies to On the Yard (1979)
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Woodpeckers (2017), Noem My Skollie (2015), The Glass House (1972), The Chase (1966), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951), The Sicilian Clan (1969), Shot Caller (2017) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Woodpeckers (2017)
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
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Noem My Skollie (2015)
A young man becomes a gifted storyteller while serving time in jail.
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The Glass House (1972)
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.
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The Chase (1966)
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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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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The Sicilian Clan (1969)
A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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Shot Caller (2017)
A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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Brubaker (1980)
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Papillon (2017)
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
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Mean Machine (2001)
A football star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.
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Bless You, Prison (2003)
Wrongfully accused of espionage, a Romanian woman (Maria Ploae) spends four years at a Communist labor camp.
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The Hill (1965)
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
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Midnight Express (1978)
Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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Beyond the Walls (1984)
Arabs and Israelis in an Israeli jail set aside mutual hatred of each other for mutual hatred of their jailers.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, b...Read all
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The Battleship Island (2017)
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
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Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Last Light (1993)
A prison guard (Forest Whitaker) and a murderer (Kiefer Sutherland) on death row find common ground in unexpected ways.
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