The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Arise, My Love

1940

English

6.9

♡ 3

71%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Douglas Kennedy as College Boy

Jean Del Val as Conductor

Amzie Strickland as Girl at Maxim's

Nestor Paiva as Uniformed Clerk

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Assault on Precinct 13

2005

English

6.3

♡ 52

59%

Jean-François Richet Director

Arnold Pinnock as Carlyle

Maria Bello as Dr. Alex Sabian

Laurence Fishburne as Marion Bishop

Ethan Hawke as Sgt. Jake Roenick

On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.

Women's Prison

1955

English

6.5

♡ 2

27%

Lewis Seiler Director

Ida Lupino as Amelia van Zandt

Jan Sterling as Brenda Martin

Howard Duff as Dr. Crane

Juanita Moore as Polyclinic 'Polly' Jones

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

2037

2022

Korean

6.6

♡ 1

Hong-jin Mo Director

Ji-yeong Kim as Kyung-sook

Ji-young Kim as Kyung-sook

Seok-jeong Hwang as Li-ra

Mi-hwa Kim as Soon Je

Yoon-young, a 19-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a civil servant, is framed as a murderer and imprisoned in a women's prison.

Goodbye Bafana

2007

English

7.1

♡ 2

41%

Bille August Director

Diane Kruger as Gloria Gregory

Joseph Fiennes as James Gregory

Dennis Haysbert as Nelson Mandela

Eduan van Jaarsveldt as Sgt Chris Brits

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2022

Indonesian

7.6

♡ 4

Hanung Bramantyo Director

Rukman Rosadi as Dodo's Lawyer

Denny Sumargo as Hendro Sanusi

Makayla Rose Hilli as Melati Wibisono

Marsha Timothy as Mrs. Juwita

Dodo Rozak just wants to be a good father to his daughter, Kartika, despite his limited intelligence, acts and behaves like children. In fact, it is Kartika who takes care of her father most of the time. Both live happily.

Amerikatsi

2022

Armenian

7.3

♡ 7

88%

Michael A. Goorjian Director

Michael A. Goorjian as Charlie Bakhchinyan

Jean-Pierre Nshanian as Prison Warden Sargsyan

Aram Karakhanyan as Sgt. Melikov

Hovik Keuchkerian as Tigran

In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.

Standard Operating Procedure

2008

English

7.4

♡ 1

79%

Errol Morris Director

Cyrus King as Military Intelligence

Joshua Feinman as Military Police

Shaun Russell as Military Police

Alim Kouliev as OGA / Interrogator

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

The Mill

2023

English

5.4

♡ 11

46%

Sean King O'Grady Director

LilRel Howery as

Pat Healy as

Karen Obilom as

Patrick Fischler as Neighbor

A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2013

Korean

8.1

♡ 77

89%

parent child relationship

prison cell

wrongful imprisonment

Hwan-kyung Lee Director

Ki-chun Kim as Old man Seo

Man-sik Jeong as Sin Bong-sik

Dal-su Oh as So Yang-Ho

Shin-Hye Park as Ye-Seung

A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.

2nd Miracle in Cell No. 7

2024

Indonesian

7.2

♡ 5

Herwin Novianto Director

Elly D. Luthan as Foundation Chairman

Denny Sumargo as Hendro Sanusi

Marsha Timothy as Juwita

Rizky Hanggono as Social Services Lawyer

As a group of cellmates continues to protect the daughter of their peer, they tackle a new challenge when authorities thwart her adoption by caretakers.

Brute Force

1947

English

7.5

♡ 15

95%

Jules Dassin Director

Ella Raines as Cora Lister

John Roy as Guard

Gene Roth as Hoffman

Howard Duff as Robert 'Soldier' Becker

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2019

Turkish

8.2

♡ 64

85%

parent child relationship

prison cell

remake

wrongful imprisonment

Mehmet Ada Öztekin Director

Ferit Kaya as Ali

Ilker Aksum as Askorozlu

Hayal Köseoglu as Ova

Deniz Baysal as Teacher Mine

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

Undisputed 3: Redemption

2010

English

7.3

♡ 157

Isaac Florentine Director

Scott Adkins as Boyka

Robert Costanzo as Farnatti

Anton Trendafilov as Old Waterman

Vernon Dobtcheff as Rezo

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

Beyond Re-Animator

2003

English

5.7

♡ 30

55%

Rob Cohen Director

Enrique Arce as Cabrera

Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West

Elsa Pataky as Laura Olney

Santiago Segura as Speedball

Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.

R

2010

Danish

7.1

♡ 10

91%

Michael Noer Director

Tobias Lindholm as

Omar Shargawi as Bazhir

Roland Møller as Mureren

Pilou Asbæk as Rune

The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.

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Brute Force

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Undisputed 3: Redemption

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