The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up in the community titled "The Arbor".

Women in Cages

1971

English

5.0

♡ 7

24%

Gerardo de Leon Director

Holly Anders as

Pam Grier as Alabama

Paquito Diaz as Jorge

Roberta Collins as Stoke

Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.

Objective 500 Million

1966

French

6.2

♡ 4

Pierre Schoendoerffer Director

Jean-François Chauvel as (as J.F Chauvel)

Bruno Cremer as Capitaine Jean Reichau

Jean-Claude Bercq as L'homme à la Réunion

Marisa Mell as Yo

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...

McVicar

1980

English

6.7

♡ 3

85%

Tom Clegg Director

Harry Fielder as Harry Aitch

Georgina Hale as Kate

Tony Haygarth as Rabies Pendel

Malcolm Terris as Warder

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.

The Docks of New York

1928

English

7.5

♡ 10

100%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Richard Alexander as Lou's Sweetheart

Charles McMurphy as Policeman

John Kelly as Sailor Barfly

Guy Oliver as The Crimp

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Bandits

1997

German

6.4

♡ 4

88%

Katja von Garnier Director

Katja Riemann as Emma

Peter Rühring as Gefängnisdirektor / Jail House Head

Jutta Hoffmann as Marie

Heio von Stetten as Nick

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.

The Iceman and the Psychiatrist

2003

English

7.7

♡ 6

Arthur Ginsberg Director

Richard Kuklinski as Self

Park Dietz as Self

For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind of one of the most prolific killers in U.S. history--in this gripping documentary. Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski freely admits to killing more than 100 people, but in this special, he speaks with top psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz in an effort to face the truth about his condition. Filled with more never-before-revealed confessions, it's the most chillingly candid Iceman special yet as it combines often-confrontational interview footage between Kuklinski and Dietz with photos, crime reenactments and home movies that add new layers to this evolving and fascinating story.

America Undercover The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer

1992

English

7.5

♡ 9

Arthur Ginsberg Director

Chuck Scarborough as Self

Kent Manahan as Self

Michael Baden as Self

Lee Grant as Self - Narrator

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that features one of the most vivid and disturbing interviews ever recorded--taped behind the walls of the prison where Kuklinski is serving two consecutive life sentences for multiple homicide.

Carlito's Way

1993

English

7.9

♡ 137

84%

91%

Action

based on novel or book

Brian De Palma Director

Al Pacino as Carlito

John Hoyt as Club Bouncer

Viggo Mortensen as Lalin

Luis Guzmán as Pachanga

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. An encounter with shifty gangster Benny Blanco sets the duo on a dangerous path.

Stir

1980

English

6.8

♡ 4

Stephen Wallace Director

Bryan Brown as China Jackson

James Cameron as Kitchen Warder

Max Phipps as Norton

Peter Barton as Warder with Rifle

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

The Last Castle

2001

English

6.9

♡ 78

52%

Rod Lurie Director

Robert Redford as General Irwin

Robin Wright as Rosalie Irwin

Joe Keenan as Trustee / Lester

Mark Ruffalo as Yates

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

Barbed Wire Dolls

1976

French

4.4

♡ 13

Jesús Franco Director

Nathalie Mann as

Denis Torre as

Jesús Franco as Maria's Father

Ronald Weiss as Warden

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

The Innocent

2022

French

6.6

♡ 4

98%

Louis Garrel Director

Louis Garrel as Abel Lefranc

Noémie Merlant as Clémence Genièvre

Roschdy Zem as Michel Ferrand

Anouk Grinberg as Sylvie Lefranc

Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.

The Fear of 13

2015

English

7.6

♡ 2

94%

David Sington Director

Herbert A. Fuchs as Restaurant diner

Nick Yarris as Self

Sammy Silverwatch as Young Nick Yarris

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

Bandits

2001

English

6.5

♡ 48

64%

Barry Levinson Director

Kiersten Warren as Grace the bank teller

Bruce Willis as Joe Blake

Cate Blanchett as Kate Wheeler

Billy Bob Thornton as Terry Collins

After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.

Law Abiding Citizen

2009

English

7.4

♡ 196

26%

philadelphia, pennsylvania

prison

secret passage

Thriller

F. Gary Gray Director

Michael Kelly as Bray

Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton

Regina Hall as Kelly Rice

Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice

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.

Chasers

1994

English

5.2

♡ 15

33%

Dennis Hopper Director

Crispin Glover as Howard Finster

Seymour Cassel as Master Chief Bogg

Gary Busey as Sergeant Vince Banger

Erika Eleniak as Toni Johnson

Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.

Escape from L.A.

1996

English

5.7

♡ 63

56%

John Carpenter Director

Peter Jason as Duty Sergeant

Steve Buscemi as Map to the Stars Eddie

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

Valeria Golino as Taslima

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

First Blood

1982

English

7.7

♡ 210

86%

Ted Kotcheff Director

Stephen E. Miller as Guardsman #1

Bill McKinney as Kern

John McLiam as Orval

Sylvester Stallone as Rambo

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

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Carlito's Way

Stir

The Last Castle

Barbed Wire Dolls

The Innocent

The Fear of 13

Bandits

Law Abiding Citizen

Chasers

Escape from L.A.

First Blood