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Midnight Express (1978)

Summary: Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Release Date: October 06, 1978

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Alan Parker

Writers: Oliver Stone

, Billy Hayes

, William Hoffer

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Casablanca Filmworks

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Movie Channel, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Domestic: $ 35,000,000

Breaker Morant (1980)

Summary: Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Bruce Beresford

Writers: Jonathan Hardy

, David Stevens

, Bruce Beresford

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 800,000

Civil Brand (2002)

Summary: Frances is in the pen for killing her abusive husband. The abused the prisoners rise up against the "new plantation" that harvest human labor for profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for j...

Release Date: May 26, 2002

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Neema Barnette

Writers: Preston A. Whitmore II

, Joyce Renee Lewis

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mandalay Sports Entertainment, Neena Films

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Trimark Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Domestic: $ 254,293

The Longest Yard (1974)

Summary: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Release Date: August 30, 1974

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Robert Aldrich

Writers: Tracy Keenan Wynn

, Albert S. Ruddy

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions, Ruddy Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,900,000

Domestic: $ 43,008,075

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Summary: Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

Release Date: June 22, 1979

Genres: Action, Crime, Biography

Director: Don Siegel

Writers: J. Campbell Bruce

, Richard Tuggle

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, The Malpaso Company, The Malpaso Company

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), American Movie Classics (AMC), Paramount Television, Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 43,000,000

International: $ 5,351

A Prophet (2009)

Summary: A young Algerian man is sent to a French prison.

Release Date: March 26, 2010

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Jacques Audiard

Writers: Thomas Bidegain

, Jacques Audiard

, Abdel Raouf Dafri

Runtime: 2 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Why Not Productions, Chic Films, Page 114, BIM Distribuzione, Celluloid Dreams, France 2 (FR2), Canal+, CinéCinéma, La Région Île-de-France, Conseil Régional de Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Sofica UGC 1, Sofica Soficinéma 4, Soficinéma 5, Neon Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Celluloid Dreams, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,087,720

International: $ 15,786,324

Animal Factory (2000)

Summary: A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.

Release Date: August 01, 2000

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Steve Buscemi

Writers: Edward Bunker

, John Steppling

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Animal Productions LLC, Arts Production Corporation, Franchise Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Phoenician Entertainment

Distributor: Silver Nitrate, Arrow Video, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,600,000

Domestic: $ 43,805

Reform School Girls (1986)

Summary: A new group of girls arrives at Pridemore Juvenile Facility, where the brutal warden plays favoritism with a few, and treats the rest like animals. But one girl is not taking this horrible treatment lying down.

Release Date: August 22, 1986

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Tom DeSimone

Writers: Tom DeSimone

, Daniel Arthur Wray

, Jack Cummins

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Balcor Film Investors, International Cinevision Productions, New World Pictures

Distributor: New World Pictures, Image Entertainment, Vinegar Syndrome, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,510,433

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Summary: Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Release Date: October 14, 1994

Genre: Drama

Director: Frank Darabont

Writers: Stephen King

, Frank Darabont

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, CBS, Columbia TriStar Home Video, HBO Max, Starz, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), TBS Superstation, TNT

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,767,189

International: $ 117,527

Hart's War (2002)

Summary: A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.

Release Date: February 15, 2002

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Writers: John Katzenbach

, Billy Ray

, Terry George

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cheyenne Enterprises, David Foster Productions, David Ladd Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,077,641

International: $ 13,209,403

Carandiru (2003)

Summary: Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience and the tragic stories of hideous crimes w...

Release Date: April 11, 2003

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Hector Babenco

Writers: Hector Babenco

, Fernando Bonassi

, Victor Navas

Runtime: 2 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: BR Petrobrás, Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil, Globo Filmes, HB Filmes, Lereby Productions, Oscar Kramer S.A.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Brazil, Argentina, Italy

Language: Portuguese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 216,335

International: $ 10,565,300

The Escapist (2008)

Summary: Frank is 14 years into a life sentence when he decides to break out of the London prison to set things right with his ill junkie daughter. He plans an ingenious escape requiring 4 inmates with different skills.

Release Date: June 20, 2008

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Rupert Wyatt

Writers: Daniel Hardy

, Rupert Wyatt

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Picture Farm, Parallel Film Productions, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 13,439

International: $ 374,735

Unbroken (2014)

Summary: After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Release Date: December 25, 2014

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Angelina Jolie

Writers: Joel Coen

, Ethan Coen

, Richard LaGravenese

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 3 Arts Entertainment, Jolie Pas, Legendary Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,637,895

International: $ 45,821,402

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Summary: A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Release Date: November 01, 1967

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writers: Donn Pearce

, Frank Pierson

, Hal Dresner

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Jalem Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,200,000

Shot Caller (2017)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: August 18, 2017

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Ric Roman Waugh

Writer: Ric Roman Waugh

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bold Films, DirecTV, Participant, Relativity Media

Distributor: Saban Films, KVH Media Group, Lionsgate

Country: United States

Language: English

Carpinteros (2017)

Summary: Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of g...

Genre: Drama

Director: José María Cabral

Writer: José María Cabral

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Tabula Rasa Films

Country: Dominican Republic

Language: Spanish

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Summary: A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

Release Date: July 04, 1962

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: John Frankenheimer

Writers: Guy Trosper

, Thomas E. Gaddis

Runtime: 2 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Norma Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM Home Entertainment, Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE), TGG Direct, CBS/Fox, RCA (II), Tubi TV, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,650,000

The Hill (1965)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: June 27, 1965

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Ray Rigby

, R.S. Allen

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Seven Art Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), CBS, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Wentworth (2013)

Summary: The confronting look into the lives of the inmates and prison staff of Wentworth Correctional Centre as they navigate the ups and downs of their lives in the prison system.

Release Date: May 01, 2013

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 0 h 45 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: FremantleMedia Australia

Country: Australia

Language: English