Papillon

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 16 Dec 1973 · English

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

The Shawshank Redemption

Movie · 8.7 / 10 · 23 Sept 1994 · English

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, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Bronson

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 13 Mar 2009 · English

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 time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

The Green Mile

Movie · 8.5 / 10 · 10 Dec 1999 · English

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Cool Hand Luke

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 1 Nov 1967 · English

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

Convict

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 23 Jan 2014 · English

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 2 May 2019 · English

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

GoodFellas

Movie · 8.5 / 10 · 12 Sept 1990 · English

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 the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Lord of the Flies

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 16 Mar 1990 · English

When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.

The Unforgivable

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 24 Nov 2021 · English

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Bad Boys

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 25 Mar 1983 · English

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 drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.

The Silence of the Lambs

Movie · 8.3 / 10 · 14 Feb 1991 · English

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.