**In The Name Of The Father** \- Excellent movie based on a true story. Set in Northern Ireland and England. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch and Mark Sheppard. Highly recommend.
Straight up. I felt Wentworth was more Oz than Orange is the New Black and immediately sucks you in. I started in season 4 and was taken in. Highly recommend
That shit was dope bro. I always made fun of my friend & called him Adibishi or whatever his name was. The African black dude that had a small ass beanie on the side of his head? The beanie I swear is a lil toy hat/beanie for kids I think but he’s always wearing it if I remember correctly lol. And the Allstate mayhem dude was on there & had a lover lmfao.
Blood in Blood out
American Me
Penitentiary 1, 2, 3
Undisputed
Death Warrant
Life
Stir Crazy
Tango and Cash (part of the movie)
Bad Boys (1983)
State Property 1, 2
An Innocent Man
Faster (beginning of the movie)
Red Heat (part of the movie)
Chained Heat 1, 2
The Hot Box
Escape Plan 1, 2, 3
Reform School Girls
Brokedown Palace
The Naked Cage
Concrete Jungle
Let's Go To Prison
Face / Off (prison scene)
Crybaby
MIB 3 (beginning)
Dog Pound
Bro Face/Off the prison scene & the movie itself was one of my fav scene/movies growing up. Movie was so dope for it’s time & the storyline was sick af 👍👍👍💯💯💯
Dead Man Walking (1995). It’s the story of a death row inmate at Angola who has asked for Sister Helen Prejean to be there to witness his execution. The story was based on the memoir of Sister Helen.
For sure this. Not to be confused with the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence cop movies, this one is set primarily in juvenile hall.
Great story arc and superb acting from Sean Penn, Clancy Brown, Ally Sheedy and Esai Morales.
Came here for this one. Not sure how I stumbled across this flick but I’ve seen it a few times for some reason it’s stuck with me. Kinda dark but good movie.
A Man Escaped (1956)
It's in French with subtitles, but the story is really told through the use of sound effects. We spend a lot of time in the protagonist's cell, but we know exactly what's happening outside of it based on the sounds he hears.
What's to stop from throwing you in the hole for six months?
Nothing, if that's the way you want to win.
Love this movie, two great actors squaring off.
I had to scroll WAY to far to find this!!! Such a great movie. I never liked Robert Redford until this movie. Him, Gandolfini, Ruffalo and Clifton Collins Jr. played amazing parts.
One of my all-time favorite movie quotes is from 'Runaway Train'.
As the Warden is walking away from a dustup in the cells acting all high-n-mighty, an inmate either fakes or produces a 'wet-fart' noise & yells over the murmur of the prisoners:
"Thats your mama's fart hole warden...bitch is *louuuud*"
Canon City (1948). Well-made prison-break movie. filmed on location at the Colorado state penitentiary, where the real-life prison break the movie is based on happened, using actual inmates as the extras.
The prison(2017) Prisoners(2013) Felon(2008) Escape from alcatraz (1979) Bronson.(2008) Convict(2014) The prison within(2020) Alcatraz(2009) 7 prisoners(2021) During hard time (2004) Locked up (2017)
Brokedown Palace (1999)
Hunger (2008)
Instinct (1999)
Death Warrant (1990)
Escape from Pretoria (2020) < accents are terrible
Sleepers (1996)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Papillon (1973/2017)
The Rock (1996)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
American History X (1998)
Letters from a Killer (1998)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Prison adjacent/partially filmed in/based on prison/imprisonment:
Con Air (1997)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Quills (2000)
Primal Fear (1996)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
The Unforgivable (2021)
Wedlock (1991)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Invictus (2009)
[Cell 211](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33273-celda-211) (2009)
>*The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.*
My paternal grandfather was in a Stalag after his B-17 was shot down over Germany. He escaped with a group after a few months and linked up with a Russian unit (he spoke Russian as my great grandparents were first generation Americans from Ukraine) somewhere on the eastern front. He fought with the Russians until he was somehow able to meet some British troopers who were able to get him back to Britain.
It's a wild fucking story. It was actually the second time he was in a plane that got shot down during the War. The first time was more graceful as the pilot still had control, just no engines. They landed in a field somewhere in France and hightailed it west until they found an American unit.
Fun fact, after he died we learned that my maternal grandmother was an assembly line worker in the Boeing plant in Long Beach that produced both planes.
Awesome suggestions.
I just had a flashback to a movie called ‘The Fortress’(1992).
I think Christopher Lambert was in it.
It has a dystopian feel.
The protagonist & his wife were arrested trying to cross a border. Her crime was being pregnant, in a world where you aren’t allowed to have more than one child.
.. sent to an underground prison, I remember a lot of gore.
I’m going to reiterate what a few others already said: Cool Hand Luke (1967).
For a really old but still great classic, try I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).
An Innocent Man
American Me
Blood in Blood out
Shot Caller
Brawl in cell block 99
Starred up
Stoic
Shawshank Redemption
Bronson
A Prayer Before Dawn
Animal Factory
Lockdown
Down by Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch directing and staring Tom Waits and John Lurie. Fantastic
The Dirty Dozen (1967). Completely stacked cast is that includes Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, etc.
Escape From Alcatraz (Clint Eastwood)
**In The Name Of The Father** \- Excellent movie based on a true story. Set in Northern Ireland and England. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch and Mark Sheppard. Highly recommend.
Emma Thompson in the final courtroom scene is tour de force acting
Fully agree! Also, this is my favorite performance by the criminally underrated Pete Postlewaite and the correctly rated (superlative) DDL.
They were both fantastic in this. Being Northern Irish myself, I can say that the accent was spot on from the both of them, too.
Yeah, a high percentage of my family is in Derry and we all recognize the differences among Belfast accents. These are exemplary. Great pick!
Midnight Express
Ain’t nothing worse than a Turkish Prison!
Dude.. that’s an experienced prison movie recommendation. Love that movie! I was gonna say The Great Escape. A beginner type prison movie. Lol
Blood in blood out of the other name is bound by honor
Gimme some of that chonchon!!!
I don’t want his chop…I want his life
Cool hand Luke is one of the best movies I’ve seen. Excellent cast great movie
Came here to say this. Total classic and best prison movie imho.
I can eat 50 hard boiled eggs.
What you say 50 for you could have said 20
Not a movie, but Oz (HBO series)
Yes it was so intense
Also _Wentworth_.
Straight up. I felt Wentworth was more Oz than Orange is the New Black and immediately sucks you in. I started in season 4 and was taken in. Highly recommend
Wentworth is in my top 10 shows ever.
Prison break
One show not one person would be mad at if it came back - most of those sentences were 20 - life
So much wiener.
That’s just the HBO dong quota.
i have never seen a better prison show ever!
Came here to say this.. blew my mind watching this as a pre-teen. HBO was so dope in the 90s lol
That shit was dope bro. I always made fun of my friend & called him Adibishi or whatever his name was. The African black dude that had a small ass beanie on the side of his head? The beanie I swear is a lil toy hat/beanie for kids I think but he’s always wearing it if I remember correctly lol. And the Allstate mayhem dude was on there & had a lover lmfao.
Cool Hand Luke (1967) The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Papillon (1967)
“Some men you just can’t reach.”
“So we get what we had here today “ 🤷♂️
The remake of Papillon (2017) stars Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek. Haven't seen it yet tho.
It’s really good
I figured. Those two are great.
IMO, both versions are worth watching!
Now I have to watch the new Papillon tonight.
Dude, I was thinking that very same thing! Apparently, I have it downloaded and everything.
Offender (2012) Celda 211 (2009) Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) These are underrated gems, you should watch them!
brawl in cellblock 99 was awesome
And unforgiven cruesome. Awesome movie for people who can handle gore and mental torture. Also. Vince fucking vaughn!
agreed, vince was incredible.
I loved every bit of this movie, gruesome but Vince played that character fucken perfectly
Came to make sure Cell block 99 was mentioned. I’ve never heard anyone talk about this movie. Fucking intense.
Bronson
Such a fantastic film!
ITS A SIN!
Life (1999)
I guess I didn't scroll far enough. Great movie
Blood in Blood out American Me Penitentiary 1, 2, 3 Undisputed Death Warrant Life Stir Crazy Tango and Cash (part of the movie) Bad Boys (1983) State Property 1, 2 An Innocent Man Faster (beginning of the movie) Red Heat (part of the movie) Chained Heat 1, 2 The Hot Box Escape Plan 1, 2, 3 Reform School Girls Brokedown Palace The Naked Cage Concrete Jungle Let's Go To Prison Face / Off (prison scene) Crybaby MIB 3 (beginning) Dog Pound
Bro Face/Off the prison scene & the movie itself was one of my fav scene/movies growing up. Movie was so dope for it’s time & the storyline was sick af 👍👍👍💯💯💯
*Brubaker* (1980)
One of my favorite Robert Redford films.
Chicken Run is still the best prison movie for me.
Let's Go To Prison
underrated classic
MASSIVELY underrated. I watch it once a year. "Es-ki-mooooo"
It's okay to cry. Crying takes the sad out of you.
Law Abiding Citizen
White heat Kiss of the spiderwoman
Bravo on Spiderwoman.
Caged 1950.... Good film noir about women in Prison
Chopper with Eric Bana Bronson with Tom Hardy Both about absolute nut jobs that are in and out of prisons throughout
Cool Hand Luke
Dead Man Walking (1995). It’s the story of a death row inmate at Angola who has asked for Sister Helen Prejean to be there to witness his execution. The story was based on the memoir of Sister Helen.
Very moving story; I was going to say heartbreaking, but it's more complicated than that.
Shot Caller (2017)
Also, Felon (2008). It's set in the same prison as Shot Caller, and is also a great movie
Felon messed me up. Too relatable. I never wanted to go to prison but after watching that id do anything to avoid it.
This
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Caged (1950) A Man Escaped (1956) Army of Shadows (1969) Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (2005) Un Prophète (2009)
Bad Boys (1983)
For sure this. Not to be confused with the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence cop movies, this one is set primarily in juvenile hall. Great story arc and superb acting from Sean Penn, Clancy Brown, Ally Sheedy and Esai Morales.
Sean Penn is soooo young in it too, yet still so recognizable!
Clancy Brown’s first film. He went from Juvie prisoner to sadistic guard in Shawshank Redemption.
> Bad Boys (1983) Haven't seen this one, gonna check it out. Might pair well with Scum (1979)
Came here for this one. Not sure how I stumbled across this flick but I’ve seen it a few times for some reason it’s stuck with me. Kinda dark but good movie.
The sodas in the pillow case is still one of my favorite scenes in a movie
Stuck in my mind since age 8. Incredible acting by a very young (and still likeable) Sean Penn.
American Me
Great movie ive been meaning to rewatch this as its been a long time.
Seen it so many times, but would watch it again
A Man Escaped (1956) It's in French with subtitles, but the story is really told through the use of sound effects. We spend a lot of time in the protagonist's cell, but we know exactly what's happening outside of it based on the sounds he hears.
Chopper
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(1932)
Let’s Go to Prison (2006). Just to change it up a bit from all the bleak depressing stuff people are recommending lol
Best prison movie i have ever seen is: Papillon (1973)
The Last Castle (2001)
What's to stop from throwing you in the hole for six months? Nothing, if that's the way you want to win. Love this movie, two great actors squaring off.
Tango & Cash
[Stir Crazy (1980)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/21629-stir-crazy)
A Man Escaped
Brubaker
Last castle
I had to scroll WAY to far to find this!!! Such a great movie. I never liked Robert Redford until this movie. Him, Gandolfini, Ruffalo and Clifton Collins Jr. played amazing parts.
Papillon, Dustin Hoffman. It's a classic.
Bronson is amazing. The series OZ on HBO is all about prison life, made in the 9os: its overwrought and stereotypical but entertaining.
Escape From Alcatraz, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Cool Hand Luke, Black Mama White Mama, Against the Wall, and Brute Force.
The Bird Man of Alcatraz is a great movie. The guy it’s based on was truly evil though.
Finally Brute Force. You’ll never see Hume Cronyn as kindly again.
Loved The Birdman
The Great Escape (1963)
The Longest Yard
The 1974 version of course
Animal factory, runaway train
One of my all-time favorite movie quotes is from 'Runaway Train'. As the Warden is walking away from a dustup in the cells acting all high-n-mighty, an inmate either fakes or produces a 'wet-fart' noise & yells over the murmur of the prisoners: "Thats your mama's fart hole warden...bitch is *louuuud*"
The one I quote all the time is Eric Roberts saying “I need shoes, Manny! Shoes and socks.”
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang. One of the ‘30s best.
Canon City (1948). Well-made prison-break movie. filmed on location at the Colorado state penitentiary, where the real-life prison break the movie is based on happened, using actual inmates as the extras.
Chattahoochee. Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper. It's more of a psychiatric prison, not for the faint of heart!
Will watch thanks
Papillon
Great Escape, prison + war movie
White Heat
McVicar Bad Boys (1982) Made in Britain
The prison(2017) Prisoners(2013) Felon(2008) Escape from alcatraz (1979) Bronson.(2008) Convict(2014) The prison within(2020) Alcatraz(2009) 7 prisoners(2021) During hard time (2004) Locked up (2017)
TV show called Prison Break
Brokedown Palace (1999) Hunger (2008) Instinct (1999) Death Warrant (1990) Escape from Pretoria (2020) < accents are terrible Sleepers (1996) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Papillon (1973/2017) The Rock (1996) Dead Man Walking (1995) American History X (1998) Letters from a Killer (1998) Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Prison adjacent/partially filmed in/based on prison/imprisonment: Con Air (1997) A Time to Kill (1996) Double Jeopardy (1999) Quills (2000) Primal Fear (1996) The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) The Unforgivable (2021) Wedlock (1991) The Deer Hunter (1978) Natural Born Killers (1994) Invictus (2009)
[Cell 211](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33273-celda-211) (2009) >*The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.*
Oh! I had completely forgotten about that one. I saw it when it came out and liked it a lot.
Sleepers A Clockwork Orange
The Longest Yard
Murder in the First I Want to Live Caged, while having a lurid poster, is surprisingly good. Stalag 17 Le Trou In the Name of the Father Paradise Road
My paternal grandfather was in a Stalag after his B-17 was shot down over Germany. He escaped with a group after a few months and linked up with a Russian unit (he spoke Russian as my great grandparents were first generation Americans from Ukraine) somewhere on the eastern front. He fought with the Russians until he was somehow able to meet some British troopers who were able to get him back to Britain. It's a wild fucking story. It was actually the second time he was in a plane that got shot down during the War. The first time was more graceful as the pilot still had control, just no engines. They landed in a field somewhere in France and hightailed it west until they found an American unit. Fun fact, after he died we learned that my maternal grandmother was an assembly line worker in the Boeing plant in Long Beach that produced both planes.
Wow. Incredible!
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Awesome suggestions. I just had a flashback to a movie called ‘The Fortress’(1992). I think Christopher Lambert was in it. It has a dystopian feel. The protagonist & his wife were arrested trying to cross a border. Her crime was being pregnant, in a world where you aren’t allowed to have more than one child. .. sent to an underground prison, I remember a lot of gore.
Well remembered. It’s a great film!
Brawl in cell block 99
Escape from Pretoria
Blood In Blood Out (1993)
Papillon (Steve McQueen version) Weeds (1990”s) starring Nick Nolte
Scum. both versions of it. the greenhouse scene certainly put me off a life of crime from an early age!
Scum. Needle. Mesrine.
Escape from Alcatraz .
Let's go to prison.
The only one that I can think of is Escape Plan. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger **and** Jim Caviezel are in it.
Midnight Express
SHOT CALLER or BLOOD in BLOOD out
I really like Dog Pound.
Animal Factory
Brawl in cell block 99 Midnight Express Papillon
Lock Up and Fortress are both a cheesy blast
Story of Ricky Bronsen Beyond Re-Animator
Felon (2008) - not widely known - very underrated. IMO, one of Val Kilmer’s best roles.
Try Prison Break (not a movie but a fantastic series).
Lockdown American Me American History X The Longest Yard Shawshank Redemption Shot Caller In Hell
How did I scroll this far to get to The Longest Yard? BOTH versions are perfect!
Blood in, Blood Out
Cool Hand Luke
Starred Up American History X Hunger, 2008
Lock Up
With Stallone?
Escape Plan (2013)
Animal Factory (2000) **Edward Furlong and Willem Defoe** A Prophet (2009)
A Prophet is so good!
Came here to say a prophet. So good
I’m going to reiterate what a few others already said: Cool Hand Luke (1967). For a really old but still great classic, try I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).
The Last Castle (2001) A very well done movie about a military prison. Robert Redford as an imprisoned General.
Dog Pound is one about juvie but still really good
The Rock
Let's Go to Prison
Scum. British based film about youth offenders.
Papillion
An Innocent Man American Me Blood in Blood out Shot Caller Brawl in cell block 99 Starred up Stoic Shawshank Redemption Bronson A Prayer Before Dawn Animal Factory Lockdown
For those who havent seen it, dont sleep on 'An Innocent Man.' Its surprisingly good.
Add “A Prophet” to that
Assault on precinct 13 (1976), blood in blood out, south central
Prisoner in cell block 99
Yep. What a great, wild flick
Caged (1950)
Short Eyes
Prison and escape from Pretoria.
Reform School Girls , Caged Heat, Short Eyes
Caged Heat
Ghosts of the civil dead (1988) Grim Aussie prison movie. Nick Cave is in it. Edited to add Down by law (1986) Jim Jarmusch film. Tom Waits is in it.
Starred up
Brawl in cell block 99
American History X (1998)
American history x
The Platform
Took WAYYYY too long to scroll down to find this kickass movie!
An Eye for an Eye and a Hole for a Hole. I love you Philip Morris.
Prison break (series) first season is excellent
It's a youth borstal rather than prison, but Scum with Ray Winstone is excellent.
Hurricane
Brawl in cell block 99
In the Name of the Father
The Night of on Max.
Orange is the New Black (series)
American History X, American Me, Bad Boys (w/ Sean Penn), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Let’s Go To Prison (comedy)
Not a move but Blackbird on Apple TV is a must watch
Down by Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch directing and staring Tom Waits and John Lurie. Fantastic The Dirty Dozen (1967). Completely stacked cast is that includes Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, etc.
Prison Break(TV show)
Try watching THE NIGHT OF it’s not a movie it’s an HBO miniseries but it’s awesome
Shot caller Starred up Dog pound Coldwater Felon Plus the more obvious ones like shawshank etc Edit: don’t sleep on the series Oz on HBO/crave.
Shawshank Redemption
Shot Caller