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Movies: Best "imprisonment" Movies

A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape. These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as A Man Escaped, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Express, Brubaker, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Kiss of the Spider Woman to actioners like Lock Up and Undisputed, and even comedies satirizing the genre like Stir Crazy, Life, and Let's Go to Prison. Prison films have been asserted to be "guilty of oversimplifying complex issues, the end result of which is the proliferation of stereotypes". For example, they are said to perpetuate "a common misperception that most correctional officers are abusive", and that prisoners are "violent and beyond redemption". ()

Related keywords: "prison" | "prison escape" | "prisoner" | "prisoners of war" | "release from prison"

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Girl in the Basement(2021)

1h 30min | Crime, Thriller, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 236 votes)

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.

Directed by Elisabeth Röhm - With Judd Nelson, Stefanie Scott, Joely Fisher, Emma Myers, Braxton Bjerken

Alien³(1992)

R
| 1h 54min | Science Fiction, Action, Horror
3.2/5 (with 2,482 votes)

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

Directed by David Fincher - With Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, ...
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Snow White and the Huntsman(2012)

PG-13
| 2h 7min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3,667 votes)

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.

Directed by Rupert Sanders - With Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Vincent Regan, Noah Huntley, ...
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Room(2015)

R
| 1h 58min | Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 4,215 votes)

Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson - With Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Sean Bridgers, Megan Park, ...
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Oldboy(2013)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action
3.0/5 (with 916 votes)

A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson, James Ransone, Lance Reddick, ...
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Dark Shadows(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 3,407 votes)

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

Directed by Tim Burton - With Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham-Carter, ...
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Climax(2018)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror, Music
3.6/5 (with 893 votes)

Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.

Directed by Gaspar Noé - With Sofia Boutella, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Giselle Palmer
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Gandhi(1982)

PG
| 3h 11min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 1,000 votes)

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, ...
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Cool Hand Luke(1967)

PG
| 2h 7min | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 616 votes)

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg - With Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Robert Drivas, Dennis Hopper, Luke Askew, ...
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Megalomaniac(2023)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Felix and Martha, the two offspring of legendary serial murderer The Skinner of Mons, grapple with the grotesque legacy bequeathed to them. While Martha works a menial janitorial job, Felix continues his father's reign of terror. But following a brutal attack at work, Martha quickly descends into madness, finding she must come to terms with the infamous blood that flows through her veins.

Directed by Karim Ouelhaj

Level 16(2018)

1h 42min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 253 votes)

The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.

Directed by Danishka Esterhazy - With Katie Douglas, Peter Outerbridge, Sara Canning
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The Experiment(2001)

2h | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 466 votes)

Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence — a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel - With Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Polat Dal, Danny Richter, ...
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The Breadwinner(2017)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Animation, War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 351 votes)

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Directed by Nora Twomey
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Monster(2021)

R
| 1h 38min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.

Directed by Anthony Mandler - With Kelvin Harrison Jr.
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Pet(2016)

R
| 1h 34min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 293 votes)

A man bumps into an old crush and becomes obsessed. After several failed attempts at winning her over, he kidnaps her and holds her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works.

Directed by Carles Torrens - With Ksenia Solo, Dominic Monaghan, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Parsons, John Ross Bowie
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The Chessplayer(2017)

1h 38min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

Directed by Luis Oliveros

Lolita 2000(1998)

NR
| 1h 23min | Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Sex is banned but lolita becomes a sexual rebel and broadcasts erotic adventures throughout the universe while satisfying her own forbidden fantasies.

Directed by Cybil Richards - With Jacqueline Lovell, Gabriella Hall, Taylor St. Claire, Nikki Nova, Lisa Comshaw, Caroline Alexander, ...

Haze(2006)

R
| 49min | Horror, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.

Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto - With Shinya Tsukamoto, Masato Tsujioka

A Man There Was(1917)

56min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Directed by Victor Sjöström - With Victor Sjöström

Soy un prófugo(1946)

1h 35min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 32 votes)

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Emilia Guiú, Chino Herrera, Agustín Isunza, Rafael Alcayde, Carmelita González, ...

Daylight(2013)

1h 55min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.

Directed by Diederik van Rooijen - With Angela Schijf, Derek de Lint, Monique van de Ven, Fedja van Huêt, Victor Löw, Thijs Römer, ...
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Guilty(2011)

1h 42min | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep his family.

Directed by Vincent Garenq - With Philippe Torreton, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Michelle Goddet, Noémie Lvovsky, Olivier Claverie, Raphaël Ferret, ...

Allegiance(2016)

2h 10min | History, Drama, Music
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story following the events of Pearl Harbor. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their spirit could never be broken.

The House of the Seven Gables(1940)

NR
| 1h 29min | Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

Directed by Joe May - With George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Alan Napier, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Trowbridge, ...
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A Second Chance(1976)

1h 45min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

Directed by Claude Lelouch - With Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Charles Denner, Francis Huster, Jacques Villeret, Niels Arestrup, ...

Purgatory(1988)

NR
| 1h 29min | Action, Drama
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

Directed by Ami Artzi

The Thieving Hand(1908)

6min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', where he buys him a new arm. The recipient soon discovers that this new arm has a will of its own - causing him considerable embarrassment.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton - With Paul Panzer

Johan(1976)

NR
| 1h 21min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Johan details the director's quest for an actor to play his titular lover, the real deal having been incarcerated just prior to shooting on charges of petty theft.

Directed by Philippe Vallois

The Life of Vergie Winters(1934)

NR
| 1h 22min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.

Directed by Alfred Santell - With Edward Van Sloan, Dorothy Sebastian, Frank Albertson, Lon Chaney Jr., Ben Alexander, Ann Harding, ...

Gone in a Heartbeat(1996)

1h 26min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.

Directed by Jerry Jameson
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