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1. Jailbait (2014 Video)
TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Anna Nix is sent to a juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive stepfather. In the prison, she discovers relationships, drugs, complex mental illness, and her eventual search for redemption.
Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Sara Malakul Lane, Erin O'Brien, Steve Hanks, Andray Johnson
Votes: 5,148
2. Lock Up (1989)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham
Votes: 46,582 | Gross: $22.10M
3. There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
R | 126 min | Comedy, Western
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates
Votes: 5,261 | Gross: $0.64M
4. The Inmate (2018– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
An American SPEC OPS infiltrates one of Mexico's toughest prisons in search of information on the whereabouts of an American politician's daughter.
Stars: Ignacio Serricchio, Ana Claudia Talancón, Flavio Medina, Luis Felipe Tovar
Votes: 3,289
5. The Naked Cage (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman wrongly convicted of a bank robbery is sent to a prison run by a corrupt warden. She struggles to survive the harsh prison life, where violent bullying, sexual assault and drug addiction run rampant.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer
Votes: 904 | Gross: $3.14M
6. Crime School (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.
Directors: Lewis Seiler, William Clemens | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids, Gale Page, Billy Halop
Votes: 1,425
7. Penitentiary III (1987)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.
Director: Jamaa Fanaka | Stars: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Anthony Geary, Steve Antin, Ric Mancini
Votes: 576 | Gross: $1.39M
8. Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
PG | 95 min | Action, Crime, Romance
The exploits of 1910s bounty hunter Thomasine and bandit Bushrod who, after rekindling their old romance, take to robbing banks to survive, stealing from rich whites and sharing their loot with the poor on the harsh frontier.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Max Julien, Vonetta McGee, George Murdock, Glynn Turman
Votes: 608
9. Riot (1969)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Votes: 659
10. Girls in Chains (1943)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a teacher loses her job because her brother-in-law is a racketeer, she takes a position at a girls' reformatory.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Arline Judge, Roger Clark, Robin Raymond, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 270
11. House of Correction (1992)
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Director: Lloyd Schpritzen | Stars: Lynn Ray, Nikki Dial, Bobbie Sox, Melinda
Votes: 11
12.
Moonlighting (1985–1989)
Episode:
Cool Hand Dave: Part 2
(1987)
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
David is released from solitary and ends up on a work gang. His fellow workers advise him to marry Maddie. He tries to get to a phone to speak to Maddie but all he finds is a bent warder. Agnes and Herbert go looking for David.
Director: Allan Arkush | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, Curtis Armstrong
Votes: 154
13.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Bars of Hell
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Jim goes undercover as a prison inspector to investigate a local prison. When Jim is sentenced to die in the electric chair, Arte poses as the executioner to save him.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Indus Arthur
Votes: 190
14.
The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode:
Roy Cain (No. 150)
(2020)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As the Task Force investigates a kidnapping executed by seemingly impossible abductors, Dembe lands in a perilous situation. Meanwhile, a recent health scare causes Red to think about a successor.
Director: Daniel Willis | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison
Votes: 1,137