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1. Alien 3 (1992)
R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Votes: 320,217 | Gross: $55.47M
2. Lost Highway (1997)
R | 134 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito
Votes: 153,576 | Gross: $3.80M
3. Law of Tehran (2019)
131 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani
Votes: 18,718
4. Lock Up (1989)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham
Votes: 46,533 | Gross: $22.10M
5. Corrective Measures (2022)
TV-MA | 106 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In the world's most dangerous maximum security prison filled with supervillain inmates and corrupt staff, tensions rise leading to anarchy and destruction.
Director: Sean Patrick O'Reilly | Stars: Michael Rooker, Tom Cavanagh, Brennan Mejia, Kevin Zegers
Votes: 4,609
6. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,184 | Gross: $0.48M
7. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry, Bárbara Elorrieta
Votes: 13,062
8. Brute Force (1947)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 11,585
9. On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018)
TV-MA | 100 min | Biography, Drama
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime but in just one week's time, a family is changed forever.
Director: Alessio Cremonini | Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Massimiliano Tortora, Milvia Marigliano, Jasmine Trinca
Votes: 10,206
10. Escape (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova
Votes: 1,164
11. You Only Live Once (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Votes: 7,668
12. The Criminal Code (1930)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff
Votes: 1,390
13. Anything for Her (2008)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Director: Fred Cavayé | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch, Olivier Marchal
Votes: 9,786
14. Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)
R | 102 min | Drama
The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He's assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out ... See full summary »
Directors: Harvey Hart, Jules Schwerin | Stars: Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Zooey Hall, Danny Freedman
Votes: 569 | Gross: $0.18M
15. Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov
Votes: 3,946
16. Decoy (1946)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley
Votes: 2,200
17. Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.
Director: Kyle Bergersen | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Jeremy Renner, Ginnifer Goodwin, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 945
18. Belly of the Beast (I) (2020)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
Director: Erika Cohn | Stars: Lynn Acosta, Pamela Baker, Teresa Brown, Cynthia Chandler
Votes: 103
19. Convicts 4 (1962)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
Director: Millard Kaufman | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price
Votes: 547
20. Devil's Canyon (1953)
Approved | 92 min | Western
In 1897 Arizona, an ex-marshal is sent to the territorial prison where many of his enemies, among guards and inmates alike, are eager for a chance at payback.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 489
21. Before I Hang (1940)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Edward Van Sloan
Votes: 1,421
22. Everybody Wants to Kill Me (1957)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Five French criminals pull a jewelry heist, hide the loot and create an alibi by getting themselves sent to prison for a minor infraction but there they are targeted by someone who seeks information about their hidden loot.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: François Périer, Peter van Eyck, Anouk Aimée, Darío Moreno
Votes: 154
23. Isle of Missing Men (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance
A penal colony governor invites a ravishing blond vagabond to join him for a week on his island prison grounds, unaware that she has manipulated their meeting for ulterior motives.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: John Howard, Helen Gilbert, Gilbert Roland, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 181
24. Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of prisoners are planning an escape. They take hostages. Warden Duffy tries to convince one of the inmates that their plight is useless, and to give up.
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 121
25. School for Girls (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 31
26. Prison Nurse (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes, Ben Welden
Votes: 99
27. Ombline (2012)
95 min | Drama
The journey of a young mother in a prison with her baby boy.
Director: Stéphane Cazes | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Nathalie Bécue, Corinne Masiero, Catherine Salée
Votes: 306
28. They All Come Out (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan
Votes: 316
29. Prison Warden (1949)
Approved | 62 min | Drama
Victor Burnell (Warner Baxter) is a public health official who is appointed warden, by the state governor (Charles Evans), of a state prison badly in need of reforms. In the process of ... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Warner Baxter, Anna Lee, Harlan Warde, James Flavin
Votes: 37
30. Honor Bound (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George O'Brien, Estelle Taylor, Leila Hyams, Tom Santschi
Votes: 26
31. Smrt pedofila (2004 TV Movie)
84 min | Crime, Thriller
In a Czech school friendship grows between a teacher and a student. The friendship turns into an intimate relationship. Till the student begin to blackmail the teacher.
Director: Ivan Pokorný | Stars: Jana Janeková, Jan Hrusínský, Robert Jasków, Vojtech Kotek
Votes: 42
32. Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell
Votes: 37
33. Millionaires in Prison (1940)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama
As a crop of millionaire inmates struggles to acclimate to prison life, inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Lee Tracy, Linda Hayes, Raymond Walburn, Morgan Conway
Votes: 200
34.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #6.10
(2004)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama
Di and Jim do battle with Grayling as the tribunal gets underway. Buxton presses charges against Kris for physical assault.
Director: Nigel Douglas | Stars: James Gaddas, Jack Ellis, Tracey Wilkinson, Fiona Gillies
Votes: 36
35.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #6.11
(2004)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama
Myers receives the anonymous fax sent by Fenner linking Selena and Kris together. The private investigator hired by Grayling looks into Karen's case. Tina and Benjamin become close.
Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Eva Pope, Holly Palmer, Charlotte Lucas, Tracey Wilkinson
Votes: 30
36.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #6.7
(2004)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama
The cause of Al's death remains undetermined. G Wing is quarantined following the suspected viral outbreak. Fenner returns and spreads the rumour that Colin may be responsible for Yvonne's murder.
Director: Ian White | Stars: Tracey Wilkinson, Tristan Sturrock, Jack Ellis, Eva Pope
Votes: 32
37.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #7.1
(2005)
TV-14 | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Fenner adjusts to life on the inside, whilst Tina adjusts to life on the outside. Grayling plans to turn G Wing into a flagship for change in the prison system. The Julies catch Ben kissing Buxton. Two new inmates arrive at Larkhall.
Director: Julian Holmes | Stars: Jack Ellis, Frank McCusker, Helen Fraser, Tracey Wilkinson
Votes: 31
38.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #7.4
(2005)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama
A high profile murder suspect arrives at Larkhall. Jim plans to have a vasectomy unbeknownst to Di. The two Julies get their own back on Darlene.
Director: Lance Kneeshaw | Stars: Alan Fisher, Francesca Fowler, Tracey Wilkinson, Helen Fraser
Votes: 28
39.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #7.5
(2005)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama
A thieving catholic nun arrives at Larkhall. Fenner discovers Buxton's note to Di. Arun stresses out over her facial hair.
Director: Laurence Moody | Stars: Colette O'Neil, Helen Fraser, Philip McGough, Jack Ellis
Votes: 32
40.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #7.6
(2005)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama
Sylvia's in a quandary over Aunty Margaret's will stipulation, unaware of Malcolm's gold digging intentions. Buxton enlists Janine's help to get out of lock up. Kerrigan wastes no time exacting revenge on Sister Thomas.
Director: Laurence Moody | Stars: Liz May Brice, Philip McGough, Helen Fraser, Jack Ellis
Votes: 30
41.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Babes Behind Bars
(2000)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama
Yvonne corrals the girls into joining her new money-making scheme: the "Babes Behind Bars" phone sex hot line. Zandra's medical test results are revealed. Shell's mum comes to visit.
Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Joe Shaw, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Nathan Constance, Lara Cazalet
Votes: 46
42.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Do or Die
(2001)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama
The two Julies discover a stray cat. Di shows Josh the ropes. Helen moves Podger to G Wing, much to the annoyance of everyone else. Someone sets fire to Nikki's cell.
Director: Jo Johnson | Stars: Simone Lahbib, Debra Stephenson, Mandana Jones, Lindsey Fawcett
Votes: 43
43.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Losing It
(2000)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama
Karen reprimands Sylvia for her recent bad attitude and signs her up for physical training. Zandra discovers she needs glasses. Shell acts up during group therapy causing unrest throughout the entire wing. Josh makes Crystal an offer.
Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Claire King, Helen Fraser, Philip McGough, Lara Cazalet
Votes: 49
44.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
The Leaving
(2000)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama
Josh calls it quits with Crystal and leaves Larkhall. The girls have a "leaving" party for Zandra. Shell steals Barbara's diary. New arrival Shaz causes a stir.
Director: Mike Adams | Stars: Joe Shaw, Victoria Alcock, Kika Mirylees, Debra Stephenson
Votes: 44
45.
Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode:
The Box
(1969)
Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Oahu State Prison, cons led by Big Chicken want to bring Swanson to heel because he doesn't show enough respect for "the system." But Swanson manages to shoot one of his attackers with ... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong
Votes: 201
46.
Oz (1997–2003)
Episode:
4giveness
(2003)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Arif and the others have trouble getting Augustus' book published. Tobias confesses to Chris he's started dating someone on the outside.
Director: John Henry Davis | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno
Votes: 1,879
47.
Oz (1997–2003)
Episode:
Even the Score
(2001)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
McManus can't turn his back on White. Beecher tells the parents of the girl he killed that he's up for parole. Howell tries to blackmail O'Reily so she can get to Cyril, but he throws her ... See full summary »
Director: J. Miller Tobin | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 1,909
48.
Oz (1997–2003)
Episode:
Laws of Gravity
(2002)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
McManus thinks White may reform if he spends quality time with Said; Alvarez offers Guerra a unique solution to their dispute; O'Reily's mother, Suzanne Fitzgerald, begins a community service term teaching music at Oz.
Director: Rob Morrow | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno
Votes: 1,867
49.
Oz (1997–2003)
Episode:
Wheel of Fortune
(2002)
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Robson stirs up problems between White and Said. Meanwhile, Pancamo's illness might save some work for his enemies, Schillinger makes a friendly but suspicious overture towards Beecher, and... See full summary »
Director: Terry Kinney | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno
Votes: 1,885
50.
Porridge (1974–1977)
Episode:
No Way Out
(1975)
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Crime
Christmas Special. Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsale
Votes: 181