Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

The Edge of Heaven

2007

German

7.7

♡ 10

90%

Fatih Akin Director

Idil Üner as Ärztin

Nurgül Yesilçay as Ayten Öztürk

Önder Çakar as Riza Bey

Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Staub

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

Veer-Zaara

2004

Hindi

7.8

♡ 28

93%

Yash Chopra Director

Boman Irani as Jahangir Hayaat Khan

Shah Rukh Khan as Veer Pratap Singh

Kulbir Badesron as Woman in Veer's village

Anupam Kher as Zakir Ahmed

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

My Cousin Vinny

1992

English

7.6

♡ 94

85%

Jonathan Lynn Director

Austin Pendleton as John Gibbons

Bob Penny as Juror #2

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito

Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

Tough Guys

1986

English

6.3

♡ 16

50%

Jeff Kanew Director

Ernie Sabella as Hotel Clerk

Jake Steinfeld as Howard

Billy Barty as Philly

Hilary Shepard as Sandy

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

The Exorcism of God

2021

English

5.3

♡ 46

57%

Alejandro Hidalgo Director

Juan Ignacio Aranda as Bishop Balducci

María Gabriela de Faría as Esperanza

Joseph Marcell as Father Michael Lewis

Will Beinbrink as Father Peter Williams

An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one final time.

Escape Plan

2013

English

♡ 320

50%

Mikael Håfström Director

Sam Neill as Dr. Kyrie

Jim Caviezel as Hobbes

Vincent D'Onofrio as Lester Clark

Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

1953

English

5.9

♡ 5

14%

Fred F. Sears Director

David Brian as Egan

John Qualen as Jonas P. Travis

Harry Cording as Stableman

Trevor Bardette as Twin Forks Sheriff

Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.

Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem

2006

German

6.9

♡ 2

cold war

Documentary

german democratic republic

prison

stasi

true-to-life

Marc Bauder Director

Salli Sailmann as

Lisbeth Rachowski as

Utz Rachowski as

Sebastian Gollin as

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German reunification in 1990, talk about their times of trial and their lives today. Neither they, nor their families have come to terms with what happened.

Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding

1999

German

7.5

♡ 6

Peter Thorwarth Director

Til Schweiger as Brown

Hans Bayer as Fillialleiter

Hilmi Sözer as Hilmi

Martin Semmelrogge as Schlucke

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

In the Name of the Father

1993

English

8.1

♡ 121

94%

95%

Action

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

prison

rebellion

Jim Sheridan Director

Emma Thompson as Gareth Peirce

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone

Peter Howitt as Remand Prison Officer

Paul Warriner as Soldier

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.

The Consequence

1977

German

7.2

♡ 2

53%

Wolfgang Petersen Director

Erwin Parker as

Hans Putz as Enrico

Walo Lüönd as Giorgio Manzoni, der Vater

Jürgen Prochnow as Martin Kurath

Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.

Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

1999

English

5.1

♡ 20

9%

Jack Sholder Director

Chris Weber as Eric

Scott Klace as Fox

Paul Johansson as Gregory

Holly Fields as Morgana

During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the woman who set him free accidentally, Morgana, tries to find a way to stop him, aided by a young priest.

Human Experiments

1979

English

4.6

♡ 3

Gregory Goodell Director

Wesley Marie Tackitt as Jimmy

Aldo Ray as Mat Tibbs

Phil Proctor as Prosecutor

Jackie Coogan as Sheriff Tibbs

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Paul, Apostle of Christ

2018

English

6.7

♡ 69

49%

Andrew Hyatt Director

John Lynch as Aquila

Maxime Durand as Jewish Chief Priest #2

Jim Caviezel as Luke

James Faulkner as Paul

Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.

Strul

1988

Swedish

5.9

♡ 6

Jonas Frick Director

Allan Svensson as Advokaten

Stefan Sauk as Brinke

Thorsten Flinck as Prison Guard

Lars Dejert as Susanne's Neighbour

Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drug possession. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret exit some inmates "persuade" him to participate in a heist. Things become extremely hectic as he tries to prove his innocence as well as "helping" his inmates. When Conny thinks that it couldn't possibly get any worse he meets Susanne, a policewoman...

The Valachi Papers

1972

English

6.4

♡ 11

52%

Terence Young Director

Joe Don Baker as Irish member of Valachi gang

Charles Bronson as Joe Valachi

Joseph Wiseman as Salvatore Maranzano

Arny Freeman as Warden

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.

The Naked Cage

1986

English

5.3

♡ 13

38%

Paul Nicholas Director

Larry Gelman as Doc

William Bassett as Jordan

Christopher Doyle as Police Officer

Rick Avery as Security Officer

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Island of Doomed Men

1940

English

5.8

♡ 7

wrongful imprisonment

Charles Barton Director

Don Beddoe as Brand

Trevor Bardette as District Attorney

Addison Richards as Jackson

Peter Lorre as Stephen Danel

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

The Prison

2017

Korean

6.5

♡ 18

40%

Hyeon Na Director

Dong-ju Ji as

Bae-soo Jeon as Chief of security

Seong-gyoon Kim as Dr. Kim

Woong-in Jeong as Warden Kang

An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.

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Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem

Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding

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The Consequence

Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

Human Experiments

Paul, Apostle of Christ

Strul

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