The Steel Jungle

Life for Christine(en)

1980-12-02

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?

1980-12-02

Führer Ex(de)

2002-08-31

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.

2002-08-31

The Dead Pool(en)

1988-07-13

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.

1988-07-13

75%

My Cousin Vinny(en)

1992-03-13

Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

1992-03-13

74%

The Hurricane(en)

1999-09-17

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

1999-09-17

72%

Hunger(en)

2008-05-15

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

2008-05-15

The Limey(en)

1999-10-08

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.

1999-10-08

64%

Gangster No. 1(en)

2000-06-09

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.

2000-06-09

73%

The Captain from Kopenick(de)

1956-08-15

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...

1956-08-15

Gridiron Gang(en)

2006-09-15

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together. Based on a true story.

2006-09-15

Buffalo '66(en)

1998-01-20

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

1998-01-20

67%

He Got Game(en)

1998-05-01

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

1998-05-01

54%

Männerpension(de)

1996-01-31

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of integrating into society. Now Gerd stupidly kills a bar owner. This puts an end to their excursion into freedom for the time being.

1996-01-31

A Second Chance(fr)

1976-09-30

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

1976-09-30

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Johnny O'Clock(en)

1947-01-07

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

1947-01-07

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They Made Me a Fugitive(en)

1947-06-24

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

1947-06-24

Framed(en)

1947-05-25

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

1947-05-25

70%

Plunder Road(en)

1957-12-05

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

1957-12-05

The Web(en)

1947-06-04

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

1947-06-04

64%

711 Ocean Drive(en)

1950-07-01

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

1950-07-01

64%

M(en)

1951-03-01

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

1951-03-01

69%

Nightfall(en)

1956-11-09

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

1956-11-09

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Ride the Pink Horse(en)

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A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

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Caged(en)

1950-05-19

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

1950-05-19

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Pitfall(en)

1948-08-11

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

1948-08-11