swap_horiz Crown Heights Alternatives

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Starred Up

Starred Up is a 2013 British prison drama by David Mackenzie, notable for Jack O'Connell's violent young offender placed...

Youth British Violence 2010S

8.2 Great

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A Twelve-Year Night

A Twelve-Year Night is Alvaro Brechner's 2018 Uruguayan-led drama about Tupamaro prisoners, including future president J...

True Story Political Uruguayan 2010S

7.8 Good

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In Prison Awaiting Trial

In Prison Awaiting Trial is a 1971 Italian drama by Nanni Loy, notable for Alberto Sordi's Kafkaesque ordeal in Italy's...

Italian Drama 1970S Legal

7.6 Good

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The Prisoner (1955)

The Prisoner is a 1955 British psychological drama by Peter Glenville, starring Alec Guinness and nominated for five BAF...

Drama Political 1950S Interrogation

7.6 Good

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Clemency

Clemency is Chinonye Chukwu's 2019 U.S. death-row drama; she was the first Black woman to win Sundance's U.S. Dramatic G...

Drama 2010S Death Row Warden

7.6 Good

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King Rat

King Rat is a 1965 POW film written and directed by Bryan Forbes, adapted from James Clavell's Changi Prison-based novel...

Drama 1960S War Pow

7.5 Good

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The Hurricane (1999)

The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical prison drama by Norman Jewison, notable for Denzel Washington's Oscar-nominated por...

Boxing Biopic 1990S Wrongful

7.4 Good

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The Inner Cage

The Inner Cage is a 2021 Italian prison drama by Leonardo Di Costanzo, notable for its standoff between guards and inmat...

Modern Italian Drama 2020S

7.3 Good

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Bad Boys (1983)

Bad Boys is a 1983 juvenile prison drama by Rick Rosenthal, notable for Sean Penn's early starring role as a Chicago you...

Drama Crime 1980S Juvenile

7.2 Good

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The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away is a 1957 British war film about Franz von Werra, the only Axis POW to escape Allied captivity and...

True Story Escape 1950S Pow

7.2 Good

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Everynight... Everynight

Everynight... Everynight is Alkinos Tsilimidos's 1994 Australian prison drama set in Pentridge's H Division; it won Mont...

Drama Australian 1990S Violence

7.2 Good

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The Mustang

The Mustang is Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's 2019 prison drama, starring Matthias Schoenaerts as an inmate in a wild-hors...

Drama Rehabilitation 2010S Horse Training

7.2 Good

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The Criminal (1960)

The Criminal is a 1960 British neo-noir prison crime film by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker as paroled gangster Jo...

Drama Crime British 1960S

7.1 Good

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Animal Factory

Animal Factory is a 2000 prison drama directed by Steve Buscemi, notable for adapting Edward Bunker's novel with Willem...

Drama Survival 2000S Gang

7.0 Good

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Life (1999)

Life is a 1999 American prison comedy-drama, notable for Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as bootleggers serving life se...

Comedy 1990S Period Wrongful

7.0 Good

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Stir (1980)

Stir is Stephen Wallace's 1980 Australian prison drama, based on writer Bob Jewson's experience of the 1974 Bathurst pri...

Drama Australian 1980S Riot

7.0 Good

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20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 Michael Curtiz pre-Code prison drama, based on warden Lewis E. Lawes's nonfiction bo...

Classic Drama 1930S Sing Sing

6.9 Fair

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O.G.

O.G. is Madeleine Sackler's 2018 U.S. prison drama starring Jeffrey Wright, filmed entirely inside Indiana's Pendleton C...

Modern Drama 2010S Reentry

6.9 Fair

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Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson is a 1940 Anatole Litvak prison film starring John Garfield, remaking 20,000 Years in Sing Sing fro...

Classic Drama 1940S Sing Sing

6.6 Fair

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An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man is a 1989 American prison drama by Peter Yates, notable for casting Tom Selleck as a framed engineer for...

Drama Revenge 1980S Wrongful

6.3 Fair