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Movies: Best "ex detainee" Movies


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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!(1990)

NC-17
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 256 votes)

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

The Killing(1956)

NR
| 1h 25min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 625 votes)

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

21 Grams(2003)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,361 votes)

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Frankie and Johnny(1991)

R
| 1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 231 votes)

When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.

The Grapes of Wrath(1940)

NR
| 2h 9min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 400 votes)

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

The Woodsman(2004)

R
| 1h 27min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 202 votes)

A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.

Cape Fear(1962)

PG
| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 239 votes)

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

Johnny Handsome(1989)

R
| 1h 34min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 106 votes)

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

Mona Lisa(1986)

3.4/5 (with 93 votes)

George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

Damage(2009)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 71 votes)

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.

Waist Deep(2006)

R
| 1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 113 votes)

An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

Crazy on the Outside(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 53 votes)

A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars after getting caught committing a crime and taking the rap for his much more dangerous pal.

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The Free Will(2006)

2h 43min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.

Wild Seven(2006)

R
| 1h 38min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the brain, leveling the score with career criminal, Mackey Willis.

Berlin is in Germany(2001)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

Blood Brothers(1974)

2h 10min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls into a life of crime and violence.

Gods of the Plague(1970)

1h 31min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.