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Plot Summary:
This is a story in jail. A story about learning a "new life”….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Knock Outs (2011)
Plot Summary:
When call girl Cindy (Joslyn James, notorious from the golfing scandal) gets busted under the new 36 Strikes Law, she receives the maximum sentence of "Life in Prison without Parole". Desperate to beat the rap, Cindy agrees to become a Special Agent for the Feds on the condition that she infiltrates the illegal Female Fight Club that exists in the prison. What happens next is the sexy fight of her life as she uses her skills to get inside the club and bring it tumbling down!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sex comedy
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Night of the Kings (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, social
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Jailbreak (2017)
Plot Summary:
What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force [Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam] gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness [Savin Phillip].
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Prison Playbook (2017)
Plot Summary:
With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dorama, thought provoking, touching, captivating, disturbing, contemplative, dark comedy, emotional, witty
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Escape from Death Block 13 (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his brother, Mick travels to America to seek Justice. Wrongly convicted of extortion and attempted murder, Mick is sent to Pleasant Hill Penitentiary's notorious death block 13. Seething with revenge after discovering the truth behind his brother's death, Mick's rage ignites an explosive riot as he makes a daring escape from Death Block 13.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sukiyaki (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with simple meal offerred in prison. The four other prisoners in his jail cell have no problems eating his food. On lunar new year's day the prison offers the traditional Osechi-Ryori dish. The inmates in the cell gather to play a game that has become an annual ritual. They compete for items from each other's dishes by boating about the most delicious things they have ever eaten. Shunsuke Aida (Motoki Ochiai) begins their game by talking about a dish which his mother made.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Loveling (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good
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Two Years and a Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
A famous actor is sentenced to two years and a day in prison over a controversial religious joke - and finds prison might not be as bad as it was made up to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Eun-ha (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eunha, who is a stateless person, is imprisoned for charged with murder. A warmhearted, coolheaded correctional officer goes through turbulent changes of his emotions after he meets the woman. The movie depicts the extraordinary love between the two in the limited space of a penitentiary facility.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Breakout Brothers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. With things going so badly for him in prison, Mak has no choice but to join in the breakout plot being hatched by Chan. However, Roller and Scar also end up being part of the plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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A Violent Man (2022)
Plot Summary:
Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black gang member becomes his unlikely new cell mate and a daughter he has never met, finally requests to meet her estranged father, face to face.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Camp: A Prison Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
Straightline Productions: All or Nothing. Presented by Transworld Snowboarding (2009).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 2150 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense
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Convict (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The 4th Company (2016)
Plot Summary:
Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a squadron of inmates at the service of the administration that controls the jail, its vice and its privileges. Corruption and crime have no limits; they ravage the city with car thefts, bank robberies and other crimes under the auspices of the authorities, the story takes place during the López Portillo presidency and his men.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art film
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Seven Women in Prison (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kamiwatari Kotone is a geisha in Kyoto. While she is sleeping after a night of drinking, her fellow geisha is killed. Kotone Kamiwatari is falsely accused of her murder and is sent to prison. There, she is bullied by other prisoners, but Kotone relies on her training from senior geishas to persevere. She also learns why she was framed for murder and sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Rise (2014)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a young man falsely accused of rape and sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison. He must rely on survival skills and an unlikely bond with an infamous inmate to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, art house, crime drama
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Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Plot Summary:
At long last, Madea returns to the big screen in TYLER PERRY'S MADEA GOES TO JAIL. This time America's favorite irreverent, pistol-packin' grandmomma is raising hell behind bars and lobbying for her freedom...Hallelujer!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, christian film, black comedy, teen, happy, black cinema, adaptation directed by original author
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Prisoner (2008)
Plot Summary:
Story of a Japanese man falsely imprisoned in Thailand who attempts to escape from jail.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Carandiru: The Series (2005)
Plot Summary:
A doctor volunteers to carry out AIDS prevention work at the largest prison in Latin America, Carandiru, in São Paulo. There he lives with reality behind the bars, which includes violence, overcrowding of cells and poor facilities. But despite all the problems, the doctor soon realizes that the prisoners are not demonic figures, there being in the prison a solidarity, organization and a great will to live.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Inner Cage (2021)
Plot Summary:
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Due West: Our Sex Journey (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in contemporary Hong Kong, several young people are searching for romance and struggling to learn the difference between lust and love in an adventure that takes them to the mainland where pleasure is much more readily available.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, erotic, sexual, sexy, banned
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Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, culinary, realistic
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Women's Prison (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Mean Machine (2001)
Plot Summary:
Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards. The prisoners are lead by Danny and the whole of the prison, guards aside, are behind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, sexy, inspirational, entertaining, witty, talky, stylized, intense, realistic, semi serious
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Screwed (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, disturbing, tense, serious, sincere, bleak, captivating, emotional, realistic, cult film
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The Prison (2017)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama
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Amar Akbar Anthony (2015)
Plot Summary:
Amar, Akbar and Anthony are close friends living in Kochi. They enjoy a carefree life. Their perceptions and beliefs get shattered with an unexpected event and the resulting story forms the plot of the movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, suspense, twisted
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Enemies of the State (2010)
Plot Summary:
Crime thriller inspired by the story of Jiri Kajinek, which is considered the first bounty hunter in the Czech Republic. Thanks to his escape from the prison fortress Mirov it became a legend and the most wanted man in Europe. Five weeks while eluding the police, is still shrouded in mystery. Kajínek Film is a powerful story of the most famous prisoner int the Czech Republic in our story of double murder, the story of lawyer looking for new evidence, the story of the underworld and its penetration into the government and handling of the story. George is a victim of conspiracy or Kajínek cold-blooded killer? Trying to prove his innocence or to intimidate and influence witnesses?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Life (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, hilarious, hood, black comedy, retro, realistic
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The Convict (2021)
Plot Summary:
Successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her severity towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit. She is sent to prison, where she has to survive among the women she previously condemned herself. She is kept alive by a teenage daughter and a desire to take revenge on those who set her up.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing