The Shawshank Redemption
1994
Rating: 8.7
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank ...
prison movies
Indexed titles: 45
GoodFellas
1990
Rating: 8.5
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs ...
Incendies
2010
Rating: 8.1
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad'...
Megamind
2010
Rating: 7.0
After Megamind, a highly intelligent alien supervillain, defeats his long-time nemesis Metro Man, Megamind creates a new hero to fight, but ...
Boyka: Undisputed IV
2016
Rating: 7.2
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him qu...
The Accountant
2016
Rating: 7.1
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise....
Now You See Me 2
2016
Rating: 6.8
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to...
Shrek 2
2004
Rating: 7.3
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King, who are shocked to discover Fiona h...
Law Abiding Citizen
2009
Rating: 7.4
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only ...
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
Rating: 6.6
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to ...
Despicable Me 3
2017
Rating: 6.5
Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination....
Straight Time
1978
Rating: 7.1
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back i...
Avengement
2019
Rating: 6.8
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turn...
First Blood
1982
Rating: 7.5
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains a...
Bad Boys
1983
Rating: 7.0
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local...
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
Rating: 7.5
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he wa...
American History X
1998
Rating: 8.3
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narrat...
Decoy
1946
Rating: 5.8
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies....
Fanged Up
2017
Rating: 5.2
A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims...
Stone
2010
Rating: 5.3
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case i...
Larceny
2017
Rating: 3.9
After being busted for a heist, a former CIA contractor is sent to a Mexican prison. His former CIA boss offers him freedom if he can break ...
Jamesy Boy
2014
Rating: 6.4
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardene...
Mercenaries
2014
Rating: 5.1
A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a ...
Second Life
2024
Rating: 7.7
28 years ago, Liang gives birth to a boy named "Little Bean Jelly" in prison. When the kid turns one, the mother and son lose contact. Years...
Face/Off
1997
Rating: 7.1
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The p...
Undisputed
2002
Rating: 6.5
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionat...
The Butterfly Effect
2004
Rating: 7.6
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy ...
The Living Daylights
1987
Rating: 6.5
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new h...
Breakout
2013
Rating: 4.3
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods....
Fortress
1992
Rating: 6.0
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause p...
The Blues Brothers
1980
Rating: 7.7
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised...
The Longest Yard
2005
Rating: 6.7
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise ...
My Cousin Vinny
1992
Rating: 7.5
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murde...
Bronson
2009
Rating: 7.0
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this ...
Death Race
2008
Rating: 6.3
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monoli...
Traitor
2008
Rating: 6.7
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back ...
Brubaker
1980
Rating: 7.1
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate....
Carandiru
2003
Rating: 7.6
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Car...
15 Minutes
2001
Rating: 5.9
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and ...
Ariel
1988
Rating: 7.1
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide....
Ruby & Quentin
2003
Rating: 6.7
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin bo...
Instinct
1999
Rating: 6.5
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Cauld...
Lawless Street
1971
Rating: 5.0
The film takes on Ali, a member of a wealthy family, and his shared infatuation with a night club worker by the name of Tülay. Ali and Tülay...
Cape Fear
1991
Rating: 7.3
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in ...
Malcolm X
1992
Rating: 7.5
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ...