Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sadistic-warden"

1. Oz (1997–2003)

TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.7

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

Stars: Ernie Hudson, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters

Votes: 106,559

2. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

7.7

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61 Metascore

A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Christopher Adamson, JB Blanc

Votes: 148,321 | Gross: $54.23M

3. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama

8.1

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92 Metascore

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon

Votes: 188,371 | Gross: $16.22M

4. Escape Plan (2013)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

6.7

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49 Metascore

When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 257,280 | Gross: $25.13M

5. Chained Heat (1983)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

5.0

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30 Metascore

Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.

Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson

Votes: 2,627 | Gross: $6.15M

6. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

PG | 112 min | Action, Biography, Crime

7.6

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76 Metascore

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau

Votes: 147,300 | Gross: $43.00M

7. The Last Castle (2001)

R | 131 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

6.9

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43 Metascore

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.

Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Burton

Votes: 85,245 | Gross: $18.21M

8. Lock Up (1989)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.4

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52 Metascore

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: 46,390 | Gross: $22.10M

9. Women in Cellblock 9 (1978)

Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

4.3

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Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Susan Hemingway, Karine Gambier, Howard Vernon, Cesar Anahory

Votes: 1,042

10. The Hill (1965)

Approved | 123 min | Drama, War

7.9

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81 Metascore

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch

Votes: 15,152

11. Prison (1987)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

5.8

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47 Metascore

The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Votes: 4,761 | Gross: $0.35M

12. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

5.8

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After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.

Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry, Bárbara Elorrieta

Votes: 13,015

13. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

7.1

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A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,040

14. Character (1997)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.7

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Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Director: Mike van Diem | Stars: Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman

Votes: 11,296 | Gross: $0.71M

15. Escape from Hell (1980)

93 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller

4.7

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Abused female prisoners at an all-women's prison camp in the tropics plot revenge against their sadistic overseers.

Director: Edoardo Mulargia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Cristina Lay, Cintia Lodetti

Votes: 644

16. Stir (1980)

101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

6.8

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When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.

Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Gary Waddell

Votes: 386

17. The Prey (2011)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.6

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58 Metascore

Bank-robber Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence after robbing a national bank. Before he was caught he managed to hide the money but now it's not just the police who are looking for ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Valette | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac, Sergi López

Votes: 5,853 | Gross: $0.01M

18. Women's Prison (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.5

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A sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician tries to improve the jail's brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter

Votes: 1,151

19. Lock Up (2010)

92 min | Drama

5.6

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A father with problems to communicate with his son and to educate him decide to send the problematic child to a correctional center. The father can't imagine the type of education that this correctional center is going to give to his son.

Director: Xavi Giménez | Stars: Marcel Borràs, Ona Casamiquela, Carlos Cuevas, Cristina Dilla

Votes: 306