The Concrete Jungle

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 3 Oct 1982 · English

An unfortunate and naive girl is set up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.

The Mustang

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 15 Mar 2019 · English

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.

The Life of David Gale

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 21 Feb 2003 · English

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Scum

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 12 Sept 1979 · English

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Dead Man Walking

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 29 Dec 1995 · English

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Lock Up

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 4 Aug 1989 · English

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

Brubaker

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 20 Jun 1980 · English

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

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.

The Trials of Cate McCall

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 28 Nov 2013 · English

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

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.

Rust Creek

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 4 Jan 2019 · English

When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.

Law Abiding Citizen

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 15 Oct 2009 · English

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.