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Prison
see all genres ›Lockup ranks low in the list of things people want to actually experience but many love to vicariously "go directly to jail" at the movies. While jail time might be mostly grinding tedium in real life, somehow on celluloid it's always rife with suspense and thrills.
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Genres / Crime / Prison
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Alice the Jail Bird
In this offbeat entry, Alice and her friends steal a pie from a windowsill and wind up on the wrong side of the law. The sight of a Disney character in prison stripes may seem incongruous today, but in fact this film anticipates a Mickey Mouse short, THE CHAIN GANG, produced five years later. Note that...Start your free trial to watch
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Amnesty
A new national law allowing conjugal visits for inmates brings together a man and woman visiting the same prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. Elsa’s dutiful contact with her husband is part of a routine consumed with job searching, raising her two sons, and getting along with her father-in-law. When she meets Spetim, a...Start your free trial to watch
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Convict 13
CONVICT 13 pushes boundaries with the darkness of its comedy, particularly the scene in which Buster Keaton is about to be hanged in prison while his fellow inmates sit as spectators cheering on the proceedings with concessions sold as if it were a baseball game.Start your free trial to watch
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Female Convict: Scorpion
When a band of assassins invade the home of their target, they find only his bride-to-be Nami and give her a cruel choice: either she kills her fiance's sister or they kill her fiance. Trapped, Nami becomes a killer and is sent to prison where she can only survive by becoming more ruthless than those...Start your free trial to watch
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Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
This all-time Japanese cult favorite inspired a series of sequels and remakes still extending today. It's a crazed mixture of “women in prison” and revenge-flick tropes that was a key inspiration for KILL BILL (which used some of its music as an homage). Gorgeous Meiko Kaji plays the girlfriend of an...Start your free trial to watch
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If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away, those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he finds himself mercilessly taunted and...Start your free trial to watch
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A Jail in Columbia
A look inside La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombian officials, the prison in reality is controlled more by the prisoners than the guards (with 5,000 prisoners for 2,400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to La Modelo). The prison is awash in violence...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mulberry Tree
It has been almost five years since Mickey (Louis Crugnali) has seen the inside of a jail cell, but he continues to struggle to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Trapped in the prison of his own mind and within the walls of a small town, he is constantly reminded of the past, unable to escape his...Start your free trial to watch
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My Time Will Come
A pre-dawn murder sets in motion a series of interlocking tragedies that eventually find their way to the city morgue's brooding Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated from the world around him, Arturo develops an oddly intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases,...Start your free trial to watch
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Poison
The second feature directed by Todd Haynes, POISON is a groundbreaking American independent film and was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s as well as a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes’ spectacular follow-up to his legendary SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY is...Start your free trial to watch
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Por sus propios ojos
"PROPER EYES, Liliana Paolinelli's first feature-length film, is a trip inside a maximum prison as seen through the eyes of the prisoners' female relatives; a sobering and intense drama made by a developing new talent in Argentine cinema. Filmed in a documentary-style technique, the film's strengths are a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Quare Fellow
Zealous rookie prison guard Thomas Crimmin (Patrick McGoohan) arrives at a crumbling correctional facility where inmates and turnkeys alike anxiously await a man's imminent trip to the gallows. Though the condemned (called the "quare fellow" in Hibernian jailhouse slang) remains unseen, the cruelty of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Riki-Oh
Ricky (Fan Siu-wong) is sentenced to prison for the pulpy murder of a lowlife responsible for his girlfriend's suicide. In the dystopian future of 2001, the prison system has been privatized and run by monsters far worse than the criminals they keep locked up. Ricky finds himself up against the Gang of Four, super-powered...Start your free trial to watch
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Shifting Sands
Marcia Grey is a struggling artist with a sick sister and an unpaid rent bill. The rent collector insults her and, after a struggle, he drops his wallet. Missing it, he calls a policeman and, by way of revenge, he returns to the flat where he accuses Marcia of theft. Unable to defend herself, she is tried, convicted and...Start your free trial to watch
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Women's Prison
This taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution using the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society. Her protagonist, Mitra, is in prison...Start your free trial to watch
