The Green Mile (1999), Carandiru (2003), Midnight Express (1978), Brute Force (1947), Felon (2008), A Hidden Life (2019), Shot Caller (2017), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prison Life movies.
Storyline: For a handsome $1,000-a-day reward, the unemployed pacifist, Travis, decides to take part in a controversial two-week behavioural experiment that will attempt to simulate life within the prison walls. Now, inside a controlled environment, two hand-picked groups of twenty inmates and six guards must follow a simple set of basic rules, while high-tech cameras monitor the entire makeshift jail. However, devoid of their civil rights and their identities, the volunteers will soon find themselves dragged into a dangerous and volatile situation, as the sadistic warders begin to take extreme pleasure in enforcing their authority. Under those circumstances, Travis, or the rebellious Prisoner #77, will have to explore his limits. How long can he last?
Plot Keywords: sadism, caught masturbating, human experimentation, psychological torture, abuse of power, science experiment, guard ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After seven years in solitary, Jake Green is released from prison. In the next two years, he amasses a lot of money by gambling. He's ready to seek his revenge on Dorothy (Mr. D) Macha, a violence-prone casino owner who sent Jake to prison. He humiliates Macha in front of Macha's lieutenants, leaves, and keels over. Doctors tell him he has a rare disease and will die in three days; Macha also puts a hit out on him. Loan sharks, Zack and Avi, demand Jake's cash and complete fealty in return for protection. Jake complies, and through narration and flashbacks, we watch him through at least three days of schemes, danger, and redemption. Who is his greatest enemy?
Plot Keywords: gambling, fainting, female doctor, release from prison, prison sentence, revolver, con artist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George "Ice Man" Chambers (Rhames) is a top ranked heavyweight boxer. However Chambers has his world turned upside down when he is accused of rape and sent to prison. Upon his arrival he hears talk about Monroe Hutchen (Snipes) who is the top ranked prison boxing champ 10 years running. Immediately there is bad blood with Chambers not wanting to be second to no one which leads to a lunch room fight between the men. Figuring it will be a good way to make money fellow convict Emmanuel 'Mendy' Ripstein (Peter Falk) sets up a prison boxing match between the two men to decide who is the real UNDISPUTED champ. Michael Rooker plays a guard, Fisher Stevens, John Seda, and Master P co star.
Plot Keywords: prison, boxing match, fighting movie, fistfight, rap music, racial slur, prison warden ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Plot Keywords: bank heist, unlikely criminal, theater, stage play, actress, hit by a car, ex convict ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 2017, John Henry Brennick and his wife Karen are captured at a US immigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is run by a private corporation bent on mind control.
Plot Keywords: torture, action hero, u.s. mexico border, escaped convict, punishment, brain scan, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus;" and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe.—Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org>
Plot Keywords: frame up, kiss, prison visit, babysitter, wife and husband lead actors, underwater scene, airplane ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: father daughter relationship, vengeance, planting evidence, circumstantial evidence, prison life, frame up, embezzlement ...
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