Sleepers

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 18 Oct 1996 · English

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Cracks

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 4 Dec 2009 · English

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Novitiate

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 27 Oct 2017 · English

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Movie · 8.4 / 10 · 19 Nov 1975 · English

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

In the Name of the Father

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 27 Dec 1993 · English

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

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.

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 26 Jul 1985 · English

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.

The Wonder

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 2 Nov 2022 · English

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

The Boys of St. Vincent

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 3 Jun 1994 · English

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.

Girl, Interrupted

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 21 Dec 1999 · English

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Speak

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 20 Jan 2004 · English

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.

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.