Movies (162) tagged by 'Prisoner'
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Suicide Squad (2016)
A secret government agency recruits a group of imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in exchange for clemency, which inevitably leads...
Brothers (2009) (2009)
Jim Sheridan's film, adapted from Susanne Bier's 2004 movie, concerns Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) a Marine who receives orders to ship out for yet anothe...
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments". Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than ...
Midnight Express (1978)
Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by T...
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerou...
Escape Plan (2013)
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...
The Great Escape (1963)
Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of th...
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A likable Southern loner (Paul Newman) on a chain gang resists the captain and keeps trying to escape.
Sanguepazzo (2008)
Valenti and Ferida - executed by partisans. Idolised by the public, a famous and infamous couple on and off screen... See full synopsis »
The Experiment (2010)
Scientists conduct an experiment where subjects pretend to be inmates and guards at a prison.
Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story (1985)
An 18 year old Catherine Miles graduates from her boarding school and takes a trip with her parents to the Amazon. While on a boat ride, her parents are brutall...
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
A single mother who becomes the first victim of kidnapper Ariel Castro finds herself trapped in his home for 11 years, where she eventually becomes a friend and...
Caged Heat (1974)
A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow. The iron-handed superintendent takes exception to a skit performed by the girls and takes punitive st...
Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004)
In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the pow...
Death Warrant (1990)
In an abandoned house, detective Louis Burke confronts a maniac called the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, Burke manages to stop him with a b...
Shot Caller (2017)
A newly released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern Californi...
Andersonville (1996)
They left the nightmare...and entered Hell. Captured Union soilders cope with life inside the Civil War's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. A powerful, com...
Philosophy of a Knife (2008)
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Ja...
Proof of Life (2000)
In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in...
Das Experiment (2002)
A drama based on a real experiment carried out in Palo Alto, California where a group of scientists gathered 20 people and had them carry out a psychological ...
Rescue Dawn (2006)
This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organ...
Gettin' Square (2003)
Barry Whirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny "Spit" Spiteri and reformed gangster turned re...
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promisi...
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
A cop (Ethan Hawke) must arm prisoners to help fend off an attack by gunmen who want to kill a gangster (Laurence Fishburne) locked away in th...
Man Behind the Sun (1988)
Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-p...
Fateless (2005)
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary as he is sent to a concentration camp where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find hap...
Breaker Morant (1980)
One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Ba...
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975) (1975)
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest ...
Violenza in un carcere femminile (1982)
Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation t...
Two Rode Together (1961)
A Texas marshal (James Stewart) and a cavalry officer (Richard Widmark) recover long-held captives from Comanches.
The Package (1989)
Johnny Gallagher, a sergeant, is sent with a prisoner from Germany. The prisoner escapes in the men's room at National Airport and Hackman begins his search fo...
Lamhaa (2010)
Lamhaa movie is based on the Kashmir valley. An unknown company who is generating millions of unaccountable dollars benefiting politicians and bureaucrats in t...
Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987)
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutant...
Runaway Train (1985)
Manny is the "boss" of the convicts in an Alaskan high security prison. Renken, the heartless prison's administrator wants to kill him, so Manny escapes with th...
Maximum Conviction (2012)
When former black ops operative Tom Steele (Seagal) and his partner Manning (Austin) are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival o...
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Police ambush and kill several gang members in Los Angeles. Gang members make a pact of blood to strike back at police, and conduct a siege on the police statio...
The Torturer (2008)
A Military Interrogator returns from Iraq with Acute Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
They Live by Night (1949)
In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now...
The Grey Zone (2001)
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gr...
House of Blood (2006)
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners d...
Yol (1982)
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encount...
Police Story 2013 (2013)
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his v...
Son of Saul (2015)
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of...
Brute Force (1947)
At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented ...
Escape 2000 (1983)
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, o...
Maciste contro i Mongoli (1963)
Though Genghis Khan eventually sought peace with the West, his death in 1227 AD puts into power his three war-like sons: Sayan, Susdal, and Kin Khan. These sons...
Cold Summer of 1953 (1987)
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote ...
Mohawk (1956) (1956)
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But wh...
Land of the Blind (2006)
A political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit fri...
Few Options (2011)
When a convicted drug smuggler leaves prison after 22 years for one youthful mistake, he just wants to start over and obey the law. But, unable to find work, he...
In film nist (2011)
It's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahm...
The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler (1958)
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler,...
The White Warrior (1959)
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
Destiny of a Man (1959)
This was Sergei Bondarchuck's debut feature which he not only directed but also acted the main part of Andrei Sokolov in the screen adaptation of Nobel Prize ...
Solitary (2020)
'Solitary' is a contained sci-fi film about a man who wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse...
Vychislitel (2014)
Ten prisoners condemned to exile on a hostile planet XT-59 must pave the way through swamp to reach the Islands of Happiness, the only safe area on the planet, ...
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough com...
Showdown at Breakheart Pass (1975)
Train with medical supplies and small U.S. Army unit is heading through Rocky mountains towards plagued Fort Humboldt. Among its passengers are territory govern...
Die Atempause (1997)
Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
Thelma Jordon is in love with a jewel thief, Tony Laredo, and he persuades her to go live with her rich aunt, and steal her jewels. During the robbery, she shoo...
Star Worms II Attack of the Pleasure Pods (1985)
Jessup, forced to hide his true identity, is imprisoned on a deadly and desolate planet, the Star Prison. banished to mine rabid rivers for the elusive Fire Gem...
Rollin’ Plains (1938)
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected to...
Locked Up A Mother's Rage (1991)
A Mother’s Rage is a 1991 TV movie starring Cheryl Ladd and Jean Smart about a mother wrongly convicted of drug trafficking. This movie highlights the problems ...
Convict 13 (1920)
Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hang...
The Red Blood of Courage (1935)
A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan ...
This Is Martin Bonner (2013)
Martin Bonner has just moved to Nevada from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building. He's there...
Hell Ship Mutiny (1957)
Jim Knight is the captain of a ship trading in the South Seas. He runs into trouble when he makes port at an island where crooks Malone and Ross hold the native...
The Face at the Window (1940)
In 1880, the criminal called The Face is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is m...
The Hoose-Gow (1929)
Stanley and Oliver protest that they were only bystanders to the raid, but are hauled off to a prison labor camp anyway. They procede with their usual mayhem, S...
Diamond Ruff (2015)
Orphan, con artist, crime boss, millionaire, Diamond Ruff has seen it all. Seemingly in control, his next big job has deadly consequences.
The Oklahoma Cyclone (1930)
Disguising himself as a bandit, diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele infiltrates the gang who abducted his father, the sheriff.
Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Blackie The Pirate (1971)
Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounter...
Guizi lai le (2000)
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the...
American Kickboxer (1991)
Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and then challeng...
Wilderness (2006)
Juvenile delinquents gets sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoners death, where they have to fight for survival.
Sonbahar (2008)
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
SS Experiment Love Camp (1976)
Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.
Kaput lager - gli ultimi giorni delle SS (1977)
Durng World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping th...
Vulcan Son of Jupiter (1962)
A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony f...
The Witness Files (1999)
A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
Convict 762 (1997)
A spaceship with an all female crew runs into a meteor field because of a navigational mistake. They lose a lot of their fuel and realise they cant get home on ...
Enigma (I) (2009)
Floating dead in space, transport ship Genesis becomes an unsolvable mystery. All hands on board have been killed. What began as a simple transport mission for ...
Three on the Trail (1936)
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major ou...
Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr (2015)
Omar Khadr: child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, ...
Prison, My Parents & Me (2016)
Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight into their li...
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)
Another in a unrelated series of Warner's penitentiary tours in three different decades. This one is California's notorious Folsom Prison prior to its 1944 refo...
Terminal Invasion (2002)
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this E...
Les Miserables (1952)
A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.
Karla Faye Tucker Forevermore (2004)
Based on a true story that rocked the world. An emotional journey that takes a former drug-crazed prostitute and convicted pickax killer from the depths of desp...
Patmos (1985)
The elderly apostle John lives as a prisoner in the penal colony on the island of Patmos, where he gets inspiration to write the Book of Revelation.
Killing for Love (2016)
The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, a...
The Grave (1996)
Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.
American Bomber (2013)
A disgraced ex-soldier travels to New York City to become the first American born and raised suicide bomber, but an unexpected relationship complicates his plan...
New Eden (1994)
Two fellow prisoners, one a renegade and another mild-mannered engineer, are released on a desert planet with barren resources. Repeatedly Kyne and Adams come i...
Dirty Heroes (1967)
Holland. Spring 1945. Two armies face each other in the final confrontation of World War II. On the one hand are the powerful forces of the Allies, on the other...
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
At the end of WW2, a German POW doing hard labor in the Soviet Gulag escapes from his Siberian camp to return to Germany but he's pursued by a Soviet NKVD offic...
OSS 117: Alerte rouge en Afrique noire (2021)
The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.
The Road Killers (1994)
At a desert truck stop, a gang of joyriders kidnaps a man's family and kills his brother. The local sheriff is of no help, so the man goes after them himself.
Two Way Stretch (1960)
Peter Sellers has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before...
Genghis Khan (1965)
During the 13th century the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe and t...
Yu zhong long (1990)
Henry, a juvenile delinquent, trying to escape life in the ghetto. After releasing from jail, he is bullied by a local tyrant, Charlie. His rich jail mate Wayne...
Blood in the Streets (1973)
An Italian official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets ...
Accused (2005)
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, ha...
Playing for Time (1980)
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Why Must I Die? (1960)
Debra Paget commits a murder for which Terry Moore (as club singer Lois King) is arrested, tried, and condemned to die. The story line wanders through the trial...
7 Stones (2012)
Laura Brummels is determined to avenge the death of a young boy - a death she could have prevented, but didn't. It's placed her in a prison of guilt dri...
Agent Beetle (2012)
An undercover cop visits a drug company to get information on a program that gives convicted felons superpowers. With heat on his trail, he must use his newly a...
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
After crashing their small plane in the wilderness, a sheriff deputy and his prisoner take shelter at an isolated farm.
The Boxer (1963)
In a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing abi...
Imprisoned (2015)
A young girl gets involved in a family drama when she starts a secret friendship with a prison inmate. All parts involved, inside and outside, will have to deal...
The Wild Pussycat (1969)
A woman imprisons and tortures a womanizing drug dealer to avenge her abused sister.
Doin' Time (1985)
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Women of San Quentin (1983)
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
D' Fightin' Ones (1961)
Sylvester and a bulldog are handcuffed together on the way to the pound. They break loose, but they're stuck together with cuffs.
The Mysterious Island (1975)
A young boy and his brave friends face tremendous dangers and incredible perils when they are shipwrecked on a strange, exotic island in Jules Verne's science-f...
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permit...
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite s...
Broncho Billy's Sentence (1915)
A robber on the run from the law hides out in a house with a young girl and her grandfather, and treats them shabbily. He is later shot and badly wounded, but i...
Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a serge...
Dead Heart (1996)
A no holds barred look into the gaping divisions which exist within an Aboriginal settlement in outback Australia. These separations split the inhabitants, stra...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as...
Attica (1980)
The behind the scenes of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
A wealthy American couple are hostages on an arduous jungle journey.
Signpost to Murder (1964)
Alex Forrester, convicted of murdering his wife, fails to gain his release after spending 5 years in a British asylum for the criminally insane. Dr. Mark Flemin...
The Second 100 Years (1927)
Two convicts (Laurel & Hardy), in an escape attempt, tunnel into the warden's office, instead. They then disguise themselves as painters and walk out th...
The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002)
The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the moder...
Cyclotrode 'X' (1966)
Edited-down feature version of the serial 'Crimson Ghost, The (1946)', in which the evil Crimson Ghost tries to make away with an atomic device capable ...
Smoke Signal (1955)
A suspected cavalry deserter proves to be resourceful in helping the surviving members of a fort, flee Indians along a dangerous river.
The World's Most Luxurious Prison (2020)
Ann Widdecombe visits Norway's Halden Prison, where inmates share plush flats, dine on sushi and even record their own rap records. While this humane approach t...
Break to Freedom (1953)
In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
The Desert Song (1953)
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow,...
Detained (1924)
Stan Laurel is a man who is robbed of his civilian clothing by an escaped prisoner, who then dresses Stan in the striped uniform. Naturally, since it's Stan, a ...
The Fabric (2018)
In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist with no memory, sits incarcerated. One thing occupies his mind: escaping - to what or where, he has no clue. Ha...
Brothers (2004)
Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.
Inside (1996)
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning i...
La niña de tus ojos (1998)
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to ari...
The Pot Carriers (1962)
James Rainbow is a first time offender sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. Redband, a trusty and Mouse, a diminutive housebreaker take him under their wing.
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
Kaatru Veliyidai (2017)
Set during the Kargil War, fighter pilot Varun recalls his romance with Leela while being held prisoner in Pakistan.
Kalibre .45 (1980)
THE KALIBRA .45 CALIBER GUN BECOMES A HERO'S INSTRUMENT FOR JUSTICE.
O Que é Isso, Companheiro? (1998)
Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government ...
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