swap_horiz San Quentin Alternatives

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Clemency

"Clemency" is a 2019 American drama film directed by Chinonye Chukwu that explores the profound psychological toll of ca...

Drama 2010S Death Row Warden

7.6 Good

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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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Each Dawn I Die

"Each Dawn I Die" is a 1939 Warner Bros. gangster and prison drama directed by William Keighley. The film pairs James Ca...

Classic 1930S Gang Wrongful

7.4 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 Old Man and the Gun

2018 American biographical crime film directed by David Lowery, in which Robert Redford portrays real-life bank robber F...

Drama Crime True Story 2010S

7.3 Good

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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...

Drama Crime 1980S Juvenile

7.2 Good

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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...

Drama Crime British 1960S

7.1 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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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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Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film by Lloyd Bacon, starring George Raft as an ex-con struggling after p...

Classic Crime 1930S Parole

6.6 Fair

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Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway is a 1932 American pre-Code chain-gang drama from RKO, noted for its blunt depiction of brutal Southern p...

Classic Drama 1930S Chain Gang

6.4 Fair

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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

1939 Warner Bros. crime film in which John Garfield plays a journalist who goes undercover inside a corrupt New York Cit...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

6.1 Fair

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Devil's Island

1939 Warner Bros. drama starring Boris Karloff as a French surgeon unjustly exiled to the notorious Devil's Island penal...

Classic Drama Escape 1930S

6.0 Fair

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Hell's House

Hell's House is a 1932 pre-Code reform-school drama directed by Howard Higgin, featuring Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien dur...

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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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...

Classic Drama Mystery Crime

5.5 Mediocre

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Condemned Women

Condemned Women is a 1938 RKO drama directed by Lew Landers, starring Sally Eilers as a prisoner who falls in love with...

Classic Drama 1930S Women In Prison

5.4 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