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Aug 3, 2009 · Steve McQueen plays Henri “Papillon” Charriere, a large man with a tattoo of a blue butterfly on his chest, giving him the nickname “Papillon” which means “butterfly”. Charriere was convicted of killing a pimp named Roland le Petit, but maintained a strong opposition to his sentence of life in prison plus ten years hard labor.
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- Crown Heights (2017) Events in Crown Heights kick off in the year 1980. After a Jamaican teenager gets killed in New York, Trinidadian immigrant Colin Warner (LeKeith Stanfield) gets arrested for the crime.
- Atonement (2007) Atonement. R. Release Date. September 7, 2007. Director. Joe Wright. Cast. Saoirse Ronan , Ailidh Mackay , Brenda Blethyn , Julia West , James McAvoy , Harriet Walter.
- The Exonerated (2005) Adapted from an award-winning play of the same name, the CourtTV movie,The Exonerated, tells the stories of six different people who were all charged with different murders and placed on death row.
- Anything for Her (2008) In the opening minutes of Anything for Her, schoolteacher Julien Auclert and his wife, Lisa (Diane Kruger), are shown to have a dream life.
- 8 Escape from Alcatraz
- 7 Watchmen
- 6 Con Air
- 5 Ernest Goes to Jail
- 4 Silence of The Lambs
- 3 The Fugitive
- 2 Life
- 1 The Shawshank Redemption
Alcatraz was designed to be inescapable. Officially, no prisoner successfully escaped in the 29 years it was open. Unofficially, three men escaped —Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, in 1962. The reason it isn't considered a successful escape is due to the fact no one has seen the men since the escape. According to official records...
Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen is widely regarded as one of the best comic book movies. The action specifically stands out, and one of the best examples of this happens to be a prison break. Rorschach is imprisoned right as heroes are beginning to resurface. A riot breaks out, and he wastes no time getting to work. In a brutal and brilliant a...
This film doesn't include a prison break per se, but the plot revolves around a group of prisoners ensuring they never return to prison. Nicolas Cage, who is starring in the highly anticipated The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, leads the film (with a great cast including John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, and John Malkovich) as a prisoner on his way...
When imagining great prison movies, Ernest Goes to Jail likely isn't on the list. However, fans of Ernest P. Worrell often rank this film among their favorites. Ernest is wrongly imprisoned when an inmate who looks just like him switches places. Ernest, believed to be a criminal, is put in the electric chair (in a rather dark moment for kidsmovie)....
Silence of the Lambs is one of the best horror movies from the '90s, and Anthony Hopkins steals the show. It makes perfect sense that Hopkins is in one of the best scenes in the movie. After Bill is found, Hannibal Lecter feels his time is over. He steals a pen and when he knows the time is right, he picks the locks on his handcuffs. The camera cut...
The escape scene in The Fugitive is not only a great prison escape sequence but a great showcase of practical effects. Harrison Ford plays Richard Kimble, a man wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife. While on a bus heading for prison, some inmates attempt to hijack it. Things go terribly south, and a train ends up crashing into it in a sp...
Life follows two men played by Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. They are wrongfully accused of murder and are sentenced to life in a prison camp. The film follows the two over several decades, as they try and fail to escape many times. Near the end, the two men, now senior citizens, are killed in a fire at their nursing home. The film is told from...
There is little that can be said about The Shawshank Redemption that hasn't been said before. The film is a masterpiece, plain and simple. There seems to be a pattern with this list with wrongfully accused prisoners (possibly because it allows the audience to root for what is commonly seen as an unethical and dangerous act, a prison escape), and Sh...
- The Shawshank Redemption. It had to be "Shawshank." The extraordinary film adapted from a Stephen King novella is a hopeful, nearly perfect experience about an unexpected friendship formed behind prison walls.
- A Man Escaped. French master filmmaker Robert Bresson has a notably distant style, and he employs largely non-professional actors, limited music and stylistic choices to tell his stories.
- Cool Hand Luke. "What we've got here is... failure to communicate" goes the famous line from the effortlessly cool movie "Cool Hand Luke," which features an incredible performance from screen icon Paul Newman.
- Starred Up. David Mackenzie's "Starred Up" is the most recent film in the top reaches of the list, but it's a rare example of a movie that becomes an instant classic upon release.
Sep 22, 2024 · The Great Escape, in a word, is great.It's perhaps the quintessential prison escape movie, being a nearly three-hour epic centering on a team of prisoners and their plan to break out of a heavily ...
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Feb 5, 2021 · 8. Escape from Alcatraz, dir. Don Siegel (1979) Grrr, it’s Clint Eastwood as a genius criminal plotting to escape from the most difficult place to escape from, in this classic film, based on J. Campbell Bruce’s novel of the same name (which is, in turn, based on a real escape from Alcatraz in 1962). A classic.
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Jun 24, 2024 · Escape from Alcatraz. “Escape from Alcatraz” plunges viewers into the gritty, real-life story of Frank Morris and his daring escape from the infamous high-security island prison. Starring Clint Eastwood, this classic thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat with its tension-filled scenes and meticulous planning.
