Films like Clemency
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to k...
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The Mustang
Film · 2019 · also dramaWhile participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to c...
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The Concrete Jungle
Film · 1982 · also dramaAn unfortunate and naive girl is set up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggl...
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The Life of David Gale
Film · 2003 · also dramaA man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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The Trials of Cate McCall
Film · 2013 · also dramaIn order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfull...
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Scum
Film · 1979 · also dramaCarlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy o...
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Dead Man Walking
Film · 1995 · also dramaA death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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Lock Up
Film · 1989 · also dramaFrank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned...
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Film · 1996 · also dramaCarl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends...
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Brubaker
Film · 1980 · also dramaThe new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Cool Hand Luke
Film · 1967 · also dramaWhen 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 hea...
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