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1 Oz (1997 TV series)

A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.

 9.0/10 24,891
2 Prison Break (2005 TV series)
Episode: Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 2

Michael saves Dr. Tancredi from the rioting prisoners, but Lincoln and Veronica are in need of their own rescue.

 "   777
3 Prison Break (2005 TV series)
Episode: Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 1

Michael's idea to get more drilling time by provoking a lock-down backfires horribly.

 "   824
4 Men Without Souls (1940)

Johnny Adams arrives in a brutal prison under an assumed name after deliberately framing himself in order to kill White...

 8.5/10 15
5 Attica (1974 documentary)

In 1971, inmates at Attica State Prison seized control of D-yard and took 35 hostages after peaceful efforts for reforms failed. Attica investigates the rebellion and its bloody suppression, revealing institutionalized injustices, sanctioned dishonesty, and abuses of power.

 8.2/10 28
6 Burn Notice (2007 TV series)
Episode: Hard Time

After Vaughn sets up a meeting with Simon for Michael about his Bible, Michael gets himself placed in a prison to help one of Sam's friends who has been targeted for death by a gang leader.

 8.1/10 100
7 Un prophète (2009)

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

 8.0/10 36,272
8 Utol (1996) 7.9/10 6
9 Scum (1977 TV movie)

This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this TV film was made...

 7.8/10 551
10 Das Experiment (2001)

The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab...

 "   39,238
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11 Superjail! (2007 TV series)
Episode: Bunny Love 		7.8/10 21
12 Brute Force (1947) 7.7/10 3,237
13 Prisoner (1979 TV series) "   525
14 Bound by Honor (1993) "   13,663
15 Watchmen (2009) "   201,997
16 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) 7.6/10 3,316
17 Bad Girls (1999 TV series) "   802
18 Tumberos (2002 TV mini-series) "   140
19 Felon (2008) "   38,797
20 Magyar rekviem (1990) 7.5/10 16
21 Carandiru (2003) "   8,055
22 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) "   122,591
23 Virumandi (2004) 7.4/10 819
24 Banned from Television: Prison Files (1998 video documentary) "   6
25 Murder, She Wrote (1984 TV series)
Episode: Jessica Behind Bars 		"   53
26 Deux hommes dans la ville (1973) 7.3/10 1,439
27 The Beautiful Country (2004) "   2,529
28 Talk to Me (2007) "   6,447
29 Convict 13 (1920 short) 7.2/10 1,041
30 Each Dawn I Die (1939) "   1,284
31 Runaway Train (1985) "   12,456
32 Bespredel (1989) "   123
33 Selda (2007) "   39
34 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) 7.1/10 2,123
35 There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) "   1,673
36 Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988) "   864
37 Natural Born Killers (1994) "   97,351
38 O Primeiro Dia (1998) "   459
39 Stir (1980) 7.0/10 100
40 Nadzór (1985) "   39
41 Ghosts of Attica (2001 documentary) "   21
42 Kanikuly strogogo rezhima (2009) "   858
43 We Who Are About to Die (1937) 6.9/10 52
44 Brubaker (1980) "   6,901
45 American Me (1992) "   3,499
46 The Last Gangster (1937) 6.8/10 577
47 Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (1974) "   60
48 Attica (1980 TV movie) "   257
49 Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971) 6.7/10 220
50 Against the Wall (1994 TV movie) "   1,275
51 Con Air (1997) "   118,828
52 Novaya Zemlya (2008) "   849
53 Animal Factory (2000) 6.6/10 7,629
54 The Last Castle (2001) "   31,303
55 CSI: Miami (2002 TV series)
Episode: 48 Hours to Life 		"   94
56 The McKenzie Break (1970) 6.4/10 792
57 Gli invisibili (1988) "   9
58 Jailhouse Rock (1957) 6.3/10 3,611
59 Ann Vickers (1933) 6.2/10 260
60 Blackwell's Island (1939) "   162
61 Crazy Joe (1974) "   165
62 Toy Soldiers (1991) "   9,277
63 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) "   39,193
64 Lockout (2012) "   4,601
65 Condemned Women (1938) 6.0/10 65
66 Lockdown (2000) "   1,358
67 The Killing Yard (2001 TV movie) "   176
68 Beyond Re-Animator (2003) 5.9/10 5,516
69 Weeds (1987) 5.8/10 534
70 Prison (1988) 5.7/10 1,539
71 Fortress (1992) "   11,195
72 Up Close & Personal (1996) "   7,504
73 Reindeer Games (2000) 5.6/10 20,530
74 Death Race 2 (2010 video) "   9,611
75 Tyubeu (2003) 5.5/10 967
76 Go for Broke (2002) 5.4/10 87
77 Screwed (2011) "   715
78 Walker, Texas Ranger (1993 TV series)
Episode: Fight or Die 		5.3/10 20
79 Death Warrant (1990) 5.1/10 6,261
80 Girls in Prison (1994 TV movie) 4.9/10 357
81 So Evil, So Young (1961) 4.6/10 28
82 Civil Brand (2002) "   409
83 Reform School Girls (1986) 4.3/10 1,111
84 Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992) 4.2/10 238
85 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (1999 TV movie) "   100
86 Half Past Dead (2002) "   8,625
87 Fortress 2 (2000) 4.1/10 3,406
88 Half Past Dead 2 (2007 video) 4.0/10 1,135
89 Today You Die (2005 video) 3.9/10 2,470
90 Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995) 2.2/10 265
91 Notoryus (1998)
92 Kanto Boy 2: Anak ni Totoy Guapo (1994)
93 Hatulan Bilibid Boys 2 (1995)
94 Bihagin: Bilibid Boys (1981)
95 Shakedown in Santa Fe (1988 TV series documentary)
96 Sons of Butcher (2005 TV series)
Episode: Doin' the Time
97 Bilibid Gays (1981)
98 Longines Chronoscope (1951 TV series)
Episode: Episode dated 14 February 1955
99 Mysteries at the Museum (2011 TV series documentary)
Episode: Flying Car, Prison Riot, Dreamland Fire

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