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Related: Best new Racing movies in 2024 & 2023 (Netflix, Prime, Hulu & Cinema List) Prison life intrigues audiences. ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ has been number one on the top 250 IMDb list for ages. In recent years, there have been several gripping prison movies as well, that we summed up below. Best crime-themed popular culture.
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- Escape from Pretoria 2020, 106 min. Francis Annan • Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart. Prison Film • Thriller 5 find this movie on ► Buy or Rent on iTunes.
- Attica 2021, 120 min. Stanley Nelson • Starring: Clarence B. Jones. Culture and Society • Documentary • Law and Crime 2 find this movie on ► Buy or Rent on iTunes.
- Alex Wheatle 2020, 66 min. Steve McQueen • Starring: Sheyi Cole, Elliot Edusah, Jonathan Jules. Based-on-a-True-Story • Coming-of-Age • Direct-to-Stream.
- Night of the Kings 2020, 93 min. Philippe Lacôte • Starring: Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Jean Cyrille Digbeu. Drama • Foreign Language Film • Prison Film.
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- 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (2023) Director: Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese has been making feature films for well over half a century at this point, and 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon shows that the legendary filmmaker - now in his early 80s - is still capable of greatness.
- 'Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)' (2021) Director: Questlove. With the well-received re-release of Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, as well as the huge success of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, it's possible to see the 2020s as one where the concert film is making a comeback.
- 'Poor Things' (2023) Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Yorgos Lanthimos was very prolific from the mid to late 2010s, putting out three films in relatively quick succession: 2015's The Lobster, 2017's The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and 2018's The Favourite.
- 'Drive My Car' (2021) Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. The 2020s has, so far, been a particularly great decade for Japanese cinema, as demonstrated by the aforementioned The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla Minus One.
- The Shawshank Redemption. 54 votes. The Shawshank Redemption, a captivating drama directed by Frank Darabont, hinges on the resilience of the human spirit.
- The Green Mile. 39 votes. In the poignant drama The Green Mile, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) supervises death row in a 1930s Southern prison. Among the inmates, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle giant with mysterious abilities, arrives for a ghastly crime he didn't commit.
- Escape from Alcatraz. 21 votes. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison.
- Sleepers. 30 votes. In Sleepers, a gripping drama of retribution and justice, four young boys - Shakes (Jason Patric), Michael (Brad Pitt), Tommy (Billy Crudup), and John (Ron Eldard) - find their lives irrevocably changed after being sentenced to a brutal reform school.
We may have watched more films at home then ever before, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been memorable cinematic experiences in 2020. The market is changing but quality will always matter. These are the best films and mini-series of 2020, as chosen by the writers of RogerEbert.com, all given 3.5 or 4 stars by the assigned writer.
Feb 27, 2021 · General. The 50 Best Movies of 2020, According to Over 230 Film Critics. "Never Rarely Sometimes Always," "Nomadland," and "First Cow" have been named the best films of 2020 in IndieWire's annual ...
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4. Cool Hand Luke. 1967 2h 7m Approved. 8.1 (191K) Rate. 92 Metascore. A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform. Director Stuart Rosenberg Stars Paul Newman George Kennedy Strother Martin. 5.
