The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), Shutter Island (2010), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Paddington 2 (2017), Brute Force (1947), They Live by Night (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Warden movies.
Storyline: A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Plot Keywords: warden, misogynist, bare chested male, hairy chest, american football, convict, florida ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money before they do.
Plot Keywords: prison escape, odd couple, on the run, buddy movie, tomb, prison life, police car ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity." Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay Madame Zeroni. From then on his family was cursed with bad luck. One hundred years later Stanley Yelnats IV is accused of stealing a pair of cleats from a major league baseball player and sent to Camp Green Lake (a dry lake bed in the middle of the desert). It never rains at Camp Green Lake, it hasn't for one hundred years. The secretive and mysterious Warden has each inmate spend every day digging one hole to "build character." But when an artifact from the famous "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they're digging because the Warden is looking for something. But what? And how is the mystery of Camp Green Lake connected to Stanley's family curse?
Plot Keywords: hole, based on novel, interracial relationship, curse, shoe, treasure, bad luck ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.
Plot Keywords: orphan, title spoken by character, based on true story, teenage boy, dance, friendship, governor ...
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: prisoner, passenger train, prison, diamond, robbery, milkman, sultan ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: reference to arizona, based on true story, gangster, 1930s, bank robbery, great depression, prostitute ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charm, intelligence and success in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in prison, in the middle of the Arizona desert. However, those years should pass quickly because of a $500,000 loot previously stashed away. New idealistic warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortune even sooner. He starts to manipulate everyone to achieve his goal.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: 1880s, caught having sex, voyeur, prison riot, peeping tom, money, male rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.
Plot Keywords: basketball, drugs, female nudity, athlete, university, prison, scholarship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The amazing career of master magician Harry Houdini is presented from his beginnings with a carnival "wild man" act to his emergence as an internationally-acclaimed illusionist, From his dramatic escape from a locked safe under the frozen Detroit River to an even more improbable one from a locked cell in Scotland Yard, he never failed to please and astound his audiences. Although Houdini's tricks are achieved through his marvelous physical dexterity and innate sleight-of-hand, he courted death with the hazardous illusions he performed and his compulsive quest to make contact with the spirit world.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, trial, one word title, wife and husband lead actors, coney island brooklyn new york city, new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: mistaken identity, reporter, robbery, taxi driver, theatre, trial, waitress ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gangster Joe Krozac is in prison for ten years. Reporter Paul North is fired by his newspaper for writing articles sympathetic to Krozac's wife and young son. She divorces Krozac and marries North. When Korzac gets out he goes looking for his former wife and son.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: father son relationship, villain played by lead actor, tough guy, pistol, main character shot, main character dies, death of title character ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: death row, mistaken identity, private detective, knife throwing, playing golf, prison, photographer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends have deserted him, and he makes an effort to reform. When his girlfriend Kay is injured in an accident, Warden Long gives Tommy a pass to go see her. But trouble erupts when Tommy encounters the man responsible for his imprisonment.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: based on book, self defense, convict, suicide, murder, priest, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frozen in 1996, Simon Phoenix, a convicted crime lord, is revived for a parole hearing well into the 21st century. Revived into a society free from crime, Phoenix resumes his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. John Spartan, the police officer who captured Phoenix in 1996, has also been cryogenically frozen, this time for a crime he did not commit. In 2032, the former cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara have merged into peaceful, utopian San Angeles. Unable to stop him with their non-violent solutions, the police release Spartan to help recapture Phoenix. Now after 36 years, Spartan has to adapt himself to the future society he has no knowledge about.
Plot Keywords: totalitarianism, censorship, cyberpunk, cryonics, laser gun, m 16, ak 47 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood), Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Louis Beachum (Isaiah Washington). His attractive colleague Michelle Ziegler (Mary McCormack) died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley (Denis Leary), Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Louis Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come. Now Steve only has a few hours left to prove the innocence of Frank and to be right with this theory, as he definitely will be history if he's not.
Plot Keywords: reporter, flirtation, governor, lawyer, locket, panties, police chase ...
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