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Plot Summary:
Rico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspiring to bring him down and tear him between what he holds dear and what he most fears.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Stronger Than Blood (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of juvenile prison, Tommy has sworn off the drugs. But when the going gets tough, the only support he finds is from his best friend Sule - who has "the master plan": one last drug deal to finance their own auto body shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The Way (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young Latino boy grows up in a poor barrios of Los Angeles. "Ramon Sanchez" lives with his single mother, a sister, a grandfather and his mother's abusive and violent boyfriend. When Ramon sees that his mother can't pay the rent, he decides to take matters into his own hands and joins a local gang. At first Ramon makes much needed money for his mother. But things go from bad to worse and Ramon ends up in prison. After his release he finds it hard to get back into society and is ready to go back to the gang. Will Ramon choose the gang life again or will he find another way?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: crying, hispanic
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Sollers Point (2017)
Plot Summary:
Keith, a small-time drug dealer is under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Family On Edge (2013)
Plot Summary:
"A Family On Edge" is about two brothers, Michael and Gabriel Bonds, who were thick as thieves growing up in Atlanta who protected each other by any means necessary.When a fatal mistake separates the siblings, their rock-solid relationship is forever changed. Shocking secrets from past and present create intensifying tension between the brothers who find themselves faced with a perilous choice, resulting in A Family On Edge. This highly realistic urban drama is layered with unpredictable twists and turns that appeal to an intergenerational audience. This is a must see for those love suspense, drama and action.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Return (1966)
Plot Summary:
An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Stone Cold Killers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four drug dealers with completely different backgrounds band together to become the most feared force in the business.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Penitent (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being imprisoned for dangerous driving, causing the death of a child and possession of illegal substances, Jason Buckley is finding it difficult to adjust to life outside prison.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Pigs (1984)
Plot Summary:
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, Ronnie a drug dealer, Tom a paranoiac, Orwell a Jamaican pimp and his prostitute Mary.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Goodbye, Mr. Cool (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ekin Cheng stars in this gritty triad action drama as Dragon, a talented former hitman who has reformed and is now a waiter at a blue collar cafe. However, when his ex-girlfriend becomes the queen of the Underworld, she becomes determined to entice him back to a life of crime. Resistant at first, Dragon gets pulled back into the crime world as a violent gang war erupts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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White Night (1995)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Arnon Zadok.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Manners of Dying (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, Parlington feels confident that he and his team can deal with the situation. When Barlow makes an unusual final request, a strange duel ensues between the condemned man and the prison director. In this struggle there can be no winner or loser, only two men faced with doubts and difficult choices to make.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Five Years (2013)
Plot Summary:
How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Only God Can Judge Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Film from Tody Walker.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gutter Trash (1969)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Crime Of Innocence (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an unfair legal system.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Rolling Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Summer in the City (1971)
Plot Summary:
Released from prison a man wanders through a new reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: student film
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
Plot Summary:
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the experiences of women on the eve of its release.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Stuck! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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The Heist (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Women in Chains (1972)
Plot Summary:
1972 ABC Movie of the Week. Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Conviction of Kitty Dodds (1993)
Plot Summary:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Hammer (2017)
Plot Summary:
When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The Guardian (2012)
Plot Summary:
After 16 years of imprisonment, 40-years-old Gogliko is released from jail. He doesn't exactly know what he did that deserved 16 years of jail time. A free man, a changed country awaits him. His personal life has drastically altered. His parents have passed and most of his friends have died during the Civil War period. Gogliko realizes that he will not be able to find his place in this "new" Georgia, only thing he has to do is to care about his passed friend's 16-years-old son.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Left to Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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On the Way (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Short Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, grim, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Women of San Quentin (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Weeds (1987)
Plot Summary:
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy