Jails, prisons, camps... wherever, but people are prisoners
Well, I'll put of course mainly movies happening entirely (or almost) in prison, but also movies where the jail has a crucial importance, even if the jail scenes represent only a small part of the movie, and/or where the prison in question is really crazy, original.
For exemple in The Chronicles of Riddick, where prisoners enter by the rooftop, have mortal alien dogs to watch after them, and where the entire planet is a prison also, or in Guardians of the Galaxy, where the jail is at the origin of their crew of superheroes, and where they face many kind of aliens, technologies, and where we see some great scenes of escape.
To conclude, hostages are of course prisoners, but I keep them for another list.
For exemple in The Chronicles of Riddick, where prisoners enter by the rooftop, have mortal alien dogs to watch after them, and where the entire planet is a prison also, or in Guardians of the Galaxy, where the jail is at the origin of their crew of superheroes, and where they face many kind of aliens, technologies, and where we see some great scenes of escape.
To conclude, hostages are of course prisoners, but I keep them for another list.
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