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Resident Evil: Death Island(2023)

1h 27min | Animation, Action, Horror
3.8/5 (with 372 votes)

In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new T-Virus, Leon Kennedy is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist, and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous fish that is killing whales in the bay. Joined by Chris Redfield and Rebecca Chambers, they discover the trail of clues from their separate cases all converge on the same location, Alcatraz Island, where a new evil has taken residence and awaits their arrival.

Directed by Eiichirō Hasumi

The Rock(1996)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2,022 votes)

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the stills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,203 votes)

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

The Enforcer(1976)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 36min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 366 votes)

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

Murder in the First(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 258 votes)

Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in complete darkness, only to emerge a madman and soon to be a murderer. The story follows a rookie lawyer attempting to prove that Alcatraz was to blame.

Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 27min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 120 votes)

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

Point Blank(1967)

1h 32min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 154 votes)

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

Rise of the Zombies(2012)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 30min | Action, Horror, Thriller
2.0/5 (with 36 votes)

When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.

Half Past Dead(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Crime, Action, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 150 votes)

A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

Six Against the Rock(1987)

1h 36min | Action, Drama, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.

Directed by Paul Wendkos - With David Carradine

Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection(2001)

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Secretly operating his cruiser as a casino at sea isn’t enough for mafia don Lukino Marcano. He’s also looking for the gold-laden boat wreckage worth the budget of a small country! Lupin sniffs out the plan to recover this long-lost treasure and brings along his partners Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko for the ride to crash Lukino’s party.

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story(1980)

3h 16min | Crime, Drama, Action, TV Movie
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison. Serving a 99-year sentence for a gas station holdup and murder, Carnes makes periodic attempts to escape, the final attempt being the most violent. Many of the subordinate characters are fictional (as are most of the details concerning Carnes' escape efforts); the one exception is Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", here portrayed by Art Carney as a gentle, kindly philosopher. Telly Savalas, a costar of the Burt Lancaster vehicle Birdman of Alcatraz, also guest starred in the 1980 film. Originally titled Alcatraz and Clarence Carnes, this made-for-TV movie wavers between gritty realism and "I'm bustin' outta here!" artifice.

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The Last Gangster(1937)

1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.

Alcatraz Island(1937)

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Directed by William C. McGann - With John Litel

Experiment Alcatraz(1950)

57min | Crime
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone(2009)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.

Inside Alcatraz: Legends of the Rock(2015)

42min | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

New and revealing interviews from those who know the truth about The Rock.

Curse of Alcatraz(2007)

1h 27min | Horror
1.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A curse borne of torture and isolation comes to life and terrorizes a group of scientists who travel to the Alcatraz Prison to investigate a series of unsolved murders. The very last film ever to be shot on The Rock, prepare to experience the terror yourself inside the prison's haunted and deadly walls!

The Rock(1967)

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A promotional short for John Boorman's "Point Blank" shot on and around Alcatraz. Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and former inmate Joe Giles share their thoughts on the former prison.

Malaya(1949)

1h 38min | Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.

Reptilicant(2006)

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A team of treasure hunters take over Alcatraz Island in search of diamonds and encounter a shape-changing alien.

Directed by Desi Singh - With Tina-Desiree Berg, Gary Daniels

Train to Alcatraz(1948)

1h | Crime

Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.

Directed by Philip Ford - With Don "Red" Barry

Road to Alcatraz(1945)

1h | Mystery

The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.

Directed by Nick Grinde - With Robert Lowery

Seven Miles from Alcatraz(1942)

1h 2min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 1 vote)

After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?

Vanished from Alcatraz(2011)

45min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

It's one of the most complex prison breaks in history. Their escape is legendary, but their fate has never been revealed until now.

Taking Alcatraz(2015)

40min | Documentary

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.

Passport to Alcatraz(1940)

George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.

Directed by Lewis D. Collins

Vacant Boy(2018)

8min | Comedy, Music

Music is everything. Tom listens to music to get by day to day, but what would happen if he had to suffer through his first world problems without his beloved earbuds?

Alcatraz: Search for the Truth(2015)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

More than 50 years after three men broke out of the world's toughest penitentiary, HISTORY's 'ALCATRAZ: SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH' uncovers new leads and exclusive family secrets that may solve this country's most notorious cold case.

King of Alcatraz(1938)

1h 8min | Crime
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.