A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape.

Rio

1939

English

6.1

♡ 3

John Brahm Director

Sidney D'Albrook as Convict

Samuel S. Hinds as Lamartine

Irving Bacon as 'Mushy'

Eddie Hall as Prison Guard

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Van Diemen's Land

2009

English

5.9

75%

Jonathan auf der Heide Director

Mark Leonard Winter as Alexander Dalton

Jason Glover as Lieutenant Cuthbertson

Arthur Angel as Robert Greenhill

Thomas M. Wright as Thomas Bodenham

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.

Citizen Gangster

2011

English

6.1

♡ 2

56%

Nathan Morlando Director

Kelly Reilly as Doreen Boyd

Scott Speedman as Edwin Boyd

Brian Cox as Glover Boyd

Kevin Durand as Lenny Jackson

Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.

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.

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.

Martin's Day

1985

English

5.9

♡ 3

Alan Gibson Director

John Ireland as Brewer

Philip Akin as Cop 1

Richard Harris as Martin Steckert

Richard Donat as Senior Policeman

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.

Crashout

1955

English

7.0

♡ 2

50%

Lewis R. Foster Director

Fred Sherman as Cy Ellerby - Mechanic

Luther Adler as Pete Mendoza

William Bendix as Van Morgan Duff

Bing Russell as Young Man with Girl in Bar

Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.

Black Tuesday

1954

English

6.7

♡ 8

Hugo Fregonese Director

Harold Goodwin as Fire Commissioner

Jack Kelly as Frank Carson

Carleton Young as Radio Broadcaster

Edward G. Robinson as Vincent Canelli

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

Big House, U.S.A.

1955

English

6.6

♡ 2

33%

Howard W. Koch Director

Charles Bronson as Benny Kelly

Ralph Meeker as Gerry Barker

Stafford Repp as Prison Warden Machek

Robert Bray as Ranger McCormick

A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.

Spiderhead

2022

English

5.5

♡ 94

39%

psychological thriller

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Joseph Kosinski Director

Miles Teller as Jeff

Nathan Jones as Rogan

Daniel Reader as Ryan

Chris Hemsworth as Steve Abnesti

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

The Desperadoes

1943

English

6.4

♡ 8

80%

Charles Vidor Director

Bill Patton as Cattleman

Irving Bacon as Dan Walters

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Nitro Rankin

Edgar Buchanan as Uncle Willie McLeod

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

Get the Gringo

2012

English

6.9

♡ 86

80%

Adrian Grunberg Director

Dean Norris as Bill

Mel Gibson as Driver

Peter Gerety as Embassy Guy

Peter Stormare as Frank

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Runaway Train

1985

English

7.2

♡ 36

83%

Andrey Konchalovskiy Director

Danny Trejo as Boxer

Eric Roberts as Buck McGeehy

Norman Alexander Gibbs as Queen Con

John P. Ryan as Warden Ranken

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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.

The Baader Meinhof Complex

2008

German

7.3

♡ 12

85%

Uli Edel Director

Michael Gwisdek as Helmut Ensslin - Gudruns Vater

Anna Thalbach as Ingrid

Christian Näthe as Kommunarde

Rainer Reiners as Polizist

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

1950

English

7.1

♡ 6

71%

Gordon Douglas Director

Ward Bond as Inspector Charles Weber

Luther Adler as Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon

Mack Williams as Mr. Hartford

Barton MacLane as Police Lt. John Reece

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.

Stir Crazy

1980

English

6.7

♡ 30

69%

wrongful imprisonment

Sidney Poitier Director

Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson

Erland van Lidth as Grossberger

Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham

Lee Purcell as Susan

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

Papillon

1973

English

8.0

♡ 106

73%

90%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Franklin J. Schaffner Director

Fred Sadoff as Deputy Warden

Len Lesser as Guard

Victor Jory as Indian Chief

Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega

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.