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The Criminal Code

The Criminal Code is a pre-Code American drama film released in 1931, directed by Howard Hawks and distributed by Columb...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

7.5 Good

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Two Seconds

Two Seconds is a 1932 Warner Bros. pre-Code drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson as a condemned m...

Classic Drama 1930S Pre Code

7.4 Good

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The Last Mile

The Last Mile is a 1932 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by Samuel Bischoff, based on the 1929 Broadway play...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

7.1 Good

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20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American pre-Code prison drama directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Spencer Tracy...

Classic Drama 1930S Sing Sing

6.9 Fair

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Killer: A Journal of Murder

Killer: A Journal of Murder is a 1995 American film starring James Woods as real-life serial killer Carl Panzram, based...

Drama True Story 1990S Reform

6.7 Fair

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Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway is a 1932 American pre-Code drama directed by Rowland Brown and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film...

Classic Drama 1930S Chain Gang

6.4 Fair

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So Young So Bad

So Young So Bad is a 1950 American drama directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Paul Henreid as a progressive psychiatris...

Drama Youth 1950S Reform

6.4 Fair

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Prison Without Bars

Prison Without Bars is a 1938 British drama directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Set in a French girls' reformatory, it exam...

Drama British 1930S Women In Prison

6.2 Fair

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San Quentin

San Quentin is a 1937 Warner Bros. crime film starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart, set inside California's San Quen...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

6.1 Fair

10

Ladies of the Big House

Ladies of the Big House is a 1931 Paramount drama directed by Marion Gering, starring Sylvia Sidney as a woman unjustly...

Classic Drama 1930S Pre Code

6.1 Fair

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Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island is a 1939 American crime drama directed by William C. McGann and released by Warner Bros. John Garfie...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

6.1 Fair

12

Born Innocent

Born Innocent is a 1974 American television film broadcast by NBC and starring Linda Blair. Blair plays a teenage girl p...

Drama Youth 1970S TV Film

6.1 Fair

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Prison Song

"Prison Song" is a 2001 musical drama directed by Darnell Martin. The film stars rapper Q-Tip as Elijah, a young artist...

Drama Youth System Musical

6.1 Fair

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Devil's Island

Devil's Island is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama film starring Boris Karloff. The story concerns a French surgeon who is unju...

Classic Drama Escape 1930S

6.0 Fair

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Hell's House

Hell's House is a 1932 American pre-Code drama directed by Howard Higgin. The film follows a young boy who is sent to a...

Classic Drama 1930S Juvenile

5.7 Mediocre

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Within These Walls

Within These Walls is a 1945 Columbia Pictures drama directed by B. Reeves Eason, starring Thomas Mitchell as a prison w...

Classic Drama Reform 1940S

5.7 Mediocre

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Condemned Women

Condemned Women is a 1938 American prison drama released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Lew Landers. Sally Eilers...

Classic Drama 1930S Women In Prison

5.4 Mediocre

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Reform School Girl

Reform School Girl is a 1957 American International Pictures exploitation film directed by Edward Bernds, about an innoc...

Drama Youth Exploitation 1950S

5.2 Mediocre

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Behind Stone Walls

Behind Stone Walls is a 1932 independent American drama directed by Frank Strayer, depicting the harsh conditions inside...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

5.0 Mediocre

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Riot in Juvenile Prison

Riot in Juvenile Prison is a 1959 American film about an uprising at a youth reformatory. Its plot follows a reform-mind...

Drama Youth Exploitation 1950S

4.6 Poor