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   The Stanford Prison Experiment

   Film · 2015 · also drama and thriller

   In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the p...

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   Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

   Film · 2013 · also drama

   Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscien...

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   Kiss of the Spider Woman

   Film · 1985 · also drama

   The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The othe...

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   Midnight Express

   Film · 1978 · also drama

   Billy 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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   Escape from Alcatraz

   Film · 1979 · also drama and thriller

   San 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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   Shutter Island

   Film · 2010 · also drama and thriller

   World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromi...

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   Palmetto

   Film · 1998 · also thriller

   After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her s...

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   Emancipation

   Film · 2022 · also drama

   Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his...

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   Cool Hand Luke

   Film · 1967 · also drama

   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 hea...

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    Monster

    Film · 2021 · also drama

    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.

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