Escape from Sobibor

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 12 Apr 1987 · English

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Lost Highway

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 15 Jan 1997 · English

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Land of the Blind

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 1 May 2006 · English

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

Nothing but the Truth

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 19 Dec 2008 · English

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Cape Fear

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 13 Nov 1991 · English

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Chopper

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 21 Jun 2000 · English

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.

Lockdown

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 15 Sept 2000 · English

Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.

Dead Man's Shoes

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 29 Sept 2004 · English

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

The Untouchables

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 3 Jun 1987 · English

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.

The Nightingale

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 23 Sept 2018 · English

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

In Hell

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 24 Nov 2003 · English

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

Extremities

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 22 Aug 1986 · English

A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the information in her bag and comes to her apartment with the intent of rape, but she sprays him in the face with insect repellent, and then holds him captive. She is then faced with deciding whether to go to the police who might not believe her and release him, or to kill him.