Films like Papillon
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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Papillon
Film · 2017 · also crime and dramaHenri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, w...
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The Shawshank Redemption
Film · 1994 · also crime and dramaImprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his acco...
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Cool Hand Luke
Film · 1967 · also crime and 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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Bronson
Film · 2009 · also crime and dramaA young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is s...
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The Green Mile
Film · 1999 · also crime and dramaA supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's...
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Escape from Alcatraz
Film · 1979 · also dramaSan 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...
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Birdman of Alcatraz
Film · 1962 · also crime and dramaAfter 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...
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Room
Film · 2015 · also dramaHeld 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.
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Midnight Express
Film · 1978 · also crime and dramaBilly Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has...
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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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