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Cast

Jonah Hill

James Franco

Felicity Jones

Maria Dizzia

True Story (2015)

6.3 2.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

Plot: prison, journalist, prisoner, based on true story, prison visit, identity theft, accused of murder

Cast

Farhan Akhtar

Diana Penty

Deepak Dobriyal

Gippy Grewal

Lucknow Central (2017)

6.3 33 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 147 min.

Story: After being accused of murder and awaiting his death penalty, Kishen Mohan Girhotra is compelled by NGO worker Gayatri Kashyap to form a musical band of prisoners to compete at band competition held at the dreaded jail of ‘Lucknow Central’. Kishen befriends and convinces a talented bunch of criminals to form a band that provides them with a purpose and a new lease of life.

Plot: prison

Cast

Danny Trejo

Zach McGowan

Danny Glover

Frederick Koehler

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018)

6.2 397 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Bulgaria

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.

Plot: prison, car race, sequel, street race, infiltration, death game

Cast

Jason Bateman

Jason Sudeikis

Charlie Day

Jennifer Aniston

Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

6.2 4.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

Plot: prison, kidnapping, sex addiction, sequel, sex tape

Snitch (2013)

6.1 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Arab Emirates, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

Plot: prison, undercover, parent child relationship, arrest, based on true story, drugs, agent, dea

Cast

Rosamund Pike

Shiloh Fernandez

Nick Nolte

Rumer Willis

Return to Sender (2015)

6.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled from prison.

Plot: prison, rape, nurse, date, flirting, rape and revenge

Cast

Diego Luna

Tonatiuh

Jennifer Lopez

Bruno Bichir

Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)

6.1 76 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.

Plot: prison, based on novel or book, politics, homophobia, male friendship, musical, based on play or musical, male homosexuality, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: argentina, latin america

Cast

Will Ferrell

Kevin Hart

Alison Brie

Craig T. Nelson

Get Hard (2015)

6.0 2.9K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

Plot: prison, fbi, training, ignorance, securities, stocks and bonds, house arrest, betrayal, ...

Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

6.0 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: prison, drug dealer, san francisco, california, gas station, investigation, betrayal, shootout, ...

The Cable Guy (1996)

6.0 2.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.

Style: satirical

Plot: prison, prostitute, karaoke, obsession, dark comedy, cable guy, frenemies, bold, ...

Time: medieval

Cast

Charlize Theron

Nicholas Hoult

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Christina Hendricks

Dark Places (2015)

5.9 1.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Plot: prison, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, satanism, witness, stripper, strip club, ...

Poison (1991)

5.9 94 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

Plot: prison, sexual abuse, sexuality, poetry, punishment, love, murder, domestic abuse, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jeffrey Combs

Jason Barry

Elsa Pataky

Enrique Arce

Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

5.9 404 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Spain, United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.

Plot: prison, monster, experiment, nurse, insanity, prison cell, revitalization, gore, ...

Cast

Jodie Foster

Tim Robbins

Todd Graff

John Turturro

Five Corners (1987)

5.9 67 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

Plot: prison, new york city, rape, alcohol, love, theft, bronx, new york city

Cast

Kurt Russell

Stacy Keach

Steve Buscemi

A. J. Langer

Escape from L.A. (1996)

5.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Plot: prison, martial arts, showdown, usa president, war veteran, dystopia, anti hero, post-apocalyptic future, ...

Cast

Jason Bateman

Melissa McCarthy

Jon Favreau

Amanda Peet

Identity Thief (2013)

5.8 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Plot: prison, bounty hunter, dual identity, police, bathroom, identity, women's prison, thief, ...

Analyze That (2002)

5.8 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

Plot: prison, gold, therapist, gangster

Cast

Thomasin McKenzie

Anne Hathaway

Shea Whigham

Sam Nivola

Eileen (2023)

5.8 405 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.

Style: dark, psychological

Plot: prison, sexual abuse, based on novel or book, winter, kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, female friendship, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: new england

Cast

Judith Brown

Pam Grier

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Brooke Mills

Roberta Collins

The Big Doll House (1971)

5.6 80 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America, Philippines

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women, along with the help of two men, plot an escape.

Style: exploitation

Plot: prison, rape, sadism, women's prison, torture, prostitution, catfight, eye gouging, ...