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On the Yard
On the Yard is a 1978 American prison drama set in a California state penitentiary. Adapted from Malcolm Braly's novel, it examines the informal hierarchy, social codes, alliances, coercion, and survival strategies that shape life among inmates and the people who supervise them. Its focus is institu...
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The top alternative to On the Yard in 2026 is In Prison Awaiting Trial with a score of 7.6/10, followed by The Criminal Code (7.5) and The Old Man and the Gun (7.3).
In Prison Awaiting Trial
In Prison Awaiting Trial (Italian: Detenuto in attesa di giudizio) is a 1971 Italian comedy-drama directed by Nanni Loy...
The Criminal Code
The Criminal Code is a pre-Code American drama film released in 1931, directed by Howard Hawks and distributed by Columb...
The Old Man and the Gun
2018 American biographical crime film directed by David Lowery, in which Robert Redford portrays real-life bank robber F...
Bad Boys (1983)
"Bad Boys" is a 1983 American crime drama directed by Rick Rosenthal. The film is notable for featuring Sean Penn in an...
The Criminal (1960)
Short Eyes is a 1977 American prison drama film directed by Robert M. Young and adapted by Miguel Piñero from his own pl...
Short Eyes
The Criminal is a 1960 British crime film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Stanley Baker. The film follows Johnny B...
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...
Animal Factory
"Animal Factory" is a 2000 prison drama film directed by Steve Buscemi. The screenplay is an adaptation of Edward Bunker...
Riot
Riot is a 1969 American prison film directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Gene Hackman and Jim Brown. Its story depicts in...
Convicted
Convicted is a 1950 Columbia Pictures crime drama directed by Henry Levin. Glenn Ford plays a man who is wrongfully sent...
San Quentin
San Quentin is a 1937 Warner Bros. crime film starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart, set inside California's San Quen...
Blackwell's Island
Blackwell's Island is a 1939 American crime drama directed by William C. McGann and released by Warner Bros. John Garfie...
Born Innocent
Born Innocent is a 1974 American television film broadcast by NBC and starring Linda Blair. Blair plays a teenage girl p...
Penitentiary
Penitentiary is a 1979 American exploitation film directed by Jamaa Fanaka. The story follows a man who is sent to priso...
Murder in the Big House
Murder in the Big House is a 1942 Warner Bros. B-picture directed by B. Reeves Eason, following a reporter who goes unde...
Terminal Island
Terminal Island is a 1973 American exploitation film directed by Stephanie Rothman. Its story is set on an isolated isla...
Behind Stone Walls
Behind Stone Walls is a 1932 independent American drama directed by Frank Strayer, depicting the harsh conditions inside...
Serving Time
American comedy-drama in which a crime boss serves a prison sentence while his associates struggle to manage his crimina...
Girls on the Loose
Girls on the Loose is a 1958 American crime film directed by Paul Henreid and produced for Universal-International. It f...
Doing Hard Time
Doing Hard Time is a 2004 American crime drama directed and written by Preston A. Whitmore II. Boris Kodjoe plays Michae...
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