Films like I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

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   Sing Sing

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, h...

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   The Great Escape

   Film · 1963 · also drama

   The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof'...

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   Rescue Dawn

   Film · 2007 · also drama

   A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

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   Brute Force

   Film · 1947 · also drama

   Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going...

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   Riot in Cell Block 11

   Film · 1954 · also drama

   A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

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   Let Him Have It

   Film · 1991 · also drama

   In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and...

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   A Call to Spy

   Film · 2020 · also drama

   The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a di...

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   Dog Pound

   Film · 2010 · also drama

   Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

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   Some Mother's Son

   Film · 1996 · also drama

   Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals...

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    The Defiant Ones

    Film · 1958 · also drama

    Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

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