When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

O.G.

2018

English

6.2

♡ 15

89%

Madeleine Sackler Director

William Fichtner as Danvers

David Patrick Kelly as Larry

Jeffrey Wright as Louis

Ryan Cutrona as Piner

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.

4 Dollars of Revenge

1966

Spanish

5.1

♡ 2

Jaime Jesús Balcázar Director

Antonio Molino Rojo as Dave Griffith

Dana Ghia as Mercedes

Osvaldo Genazzani as Secretario de Hamilton

José Palomo as Viejo del pueblo

Bandits ambush Capt. Roy Dexter of the U.S. Cavalry while he and his men escort a fortune in Confederate gold coins. Only Dexter survives the attack. He's subsequently sentenced to life in prison on the false belief he masterminded the ambush. Escaping from prison, Dexter sets about tracking down and exposing the true culprits.

Body Heat

1981

English

7.4

♡ 49

96%

Lawrence Kasdan Director

Kim Zimmer as Mary Ann

Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker

Ted Danson as Peter Lowenstein

Mickey Rourke as Teddy Lewis

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Le cercle rouge

1970

French

7.9

♡ 35

96%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Alain Delon as Corey

Yves Montand as Jansen Bourvil

Bourvil as Le Commissaire Mattei

Gian Maria Volonté as Vogel

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

Bronson

2008

English

7.0

♡ 91

75%

74%

Action

based on a true story

biography

Biography

breaking the fourth wall

Nicolas Winding Refn Director

Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson / Michael Peterson

Amanda Burton as Charlie's Mum

James Lance as Phil

Hugh Ross as Uncle Jack

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 Stanford Prison Experiment

2015

English

6.8

♡ 50

84%

75%

1970s

Action

based on a true story

Kyle Patrick Alvarez Director

Michael Angarano as Christopher Archer

Olivia Thirlby as Dr. Christina Maslach

Billy Crudup as Dr. Philip Zimbardo

Miles Heizer as Marshall Lovett

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.

True Story

2015

English

6.3

♡ 59

Action

based on a true story

Rupert Goold Director

James Franco as Christian Longo

Robert Stanton as Jeffrey Gregg

Daniel Sauli as Reporter

William Jackson Harper as Zak Rausch

A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

Reindeer Games

2000

English

5.8

♡ 51

25%

christmas movie alternative

John Frankenheimer Director

Charlize Theron as Ashley

Ashton Kutcher as College Kid

Danny Trejo as Jumpy

Ben Affleck as Rudy Duncan

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

Starred Up

2013

English

7.3

♡ 47

99%

David Mackenzie Director

Jack O'Connell as Eric Love

Anthony Welsh as Hassan

Ben Mendelsohn as Neville Love

Rupert Friend as Oliver Baumer

19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.

Pickpocket

1959

French

♡ 26

93%

Robert Bresson Director

Pierre Leymarie as Jacques

Marika Green as Jeanne

Dolly Scal as La mère

Jean Pélégri as L'inspecteur principal

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Dark Blue Almost Black

2006

Spanish

7.1

♡ 6

parent child relationship

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo Director

Ana Wagener as Ana

Raúl Arévalo as Israel

Quim Gutiérrez as Jorge

Roberto Enríquez as Roberto

Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part time to get a business degree. When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge’s older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend.

Ocean's Eleven

2001

English

7.7

♡ 273

83%

Steven Soderbergh Director

Roger Jackson as Butcher

George Clooney as Danny Ocean

Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell

Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

Dead Man Walking

1995

English

7.5

♡ 55

97%

Tim Robbins Director

Jack Black as Craig Poncelet

Celia Weston as Mary Beth Percy

Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean

Clancy Brown as State Trooper

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.

Project Wolf Hunting

2022

Korean

6.1

♡ 69

88%

Hong-seon Kim Director

Ahn Ji-hye as Cho Soo-jin

In-Guk Seo as Jong Du

Jung So-Min as Lee Da Yeon

Sung-Wook Lee as Lee Kyeong-ho

While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.

South Central

1992

English

6.8

♡ 13

78%

83%

Action

arrest

based on novel or book

Stephen Milburn Anderson Director

Carl Lumbly as Ali

Tim DeZarn as Buddha

Starletta DuPois as Nurse Shelly

Julius LeFlore as Prison Guard #1

During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to convince Jimmie to leave the gang that was his only family during the painful years his absent father spent behind bars.

Lucknow Central

2017

Hindi

6.2

♡ 49

40%

Ranjit Tiwari Director

Ronit Roy as Jailer

Ravi Kishan as Pawan Singh Chaturvedi

Sanjay Bhatia as Police Officer

Rajesh Sharma as Purushottam Madan Pandit

After being accused of murder and awaiting his death penalty, Kishen Mohan Girhotra is compelled by NGO worker Gayatri Kashyap to form a musical band of prisoners to compete at band competition held at the dreaded jail of ‘Lucknow Central’. Kishen befriends and convinces a talented bunch of criminals to form a band that provides them with a purpose and a new lease of life.