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7) Stir crazy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
9) Brubaker
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
10) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Days away from retirement, parole officer Jack Mabry is asked to review the case of arsonist Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, now eligible for early release; Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
11) The quare fellow
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A prison guard, who advocates capital punishment, has a change of heart after he begins an affair with a condemned man's wife and discovers that key evidence was withheld from his trial.
12) The hill
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The story of an officer imprisoned for refusing to obey a suicidal order.
13) The Purple Heart
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
14) The longest yard
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location at the Georgia State Prison, semi-pro football is played with the cons as the heroes and the guards as the heavies.
15) S.W.A.T
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
When things get too tough for the cops, the cops call on the Special Weapons and Tactics unit, better known as S.W.A.T. Two wisecracking, battle-hardened veterans team up with a pair of street smart rookies to form the most free-wheeling, but effective, S.W.A.T. team ever. Their first assignment: transport an international drug kingpin to federal custody, after he's offered $100 million to anyone who will free him.
16) Carbine Williams
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A real-life convicted killer who, while in prison, invents the short-stroke piston, an innovation that revolutionizes the M1 carbine.
17) City of fear
Series
Columbia Pictures film noir classics volume 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A criminal escapes from jail with what he thinks is pure heroin, but is actually a radioactive powder. Now, the cops must find him before he exposes the whole city.
18) Pitch black
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
20) King Rat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
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