Time in Prison
Or, "Life in The Big House". The prison film has proved to be a popular subject for cinema and many superb titles are represented in this canon of work. Here the human spirit is often shown to thrive in what are generally hostile and oppressive settings. There are the tales of the 'wrongly accused man' protesting his innocence, the 'race against time' thrillers to save the condemned from execution, and the 'prison as hell' where your worst nightmares have come true. There are also the comedies where the familiar prison 'cliches' are parodied, and the science-fiction variants that show the possible shape of things to come...
Now, go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
Pictured: Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in "The Shawshank Redemption".
Ocean's Eight (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Elliott Gould, Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaw...
Five years, eight months, 12 days and counting -- that's how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it's go... Read more
Ocean's Eight (Blu-ray) (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway
Five years, eight months, 12 days and counting -- that's how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it's go... Read more
Papillon (2017)
7.1/10
Director: Michael Noer
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Yorick van Wageningen, Roland Moller, Tommy Flanagan...
The epic story of Henri "Papillon" Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorio... Read more
Sweet Country (Blu-Ray) (2017)
7.4/10
Director: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Sam Neill, Thomas M Wright, Tremayne Doolan, Anni Finster...
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a... Read more
Shot Caller (2017)
7.3/10
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Lake Bell, Jeffrey Donovan, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Bernthal,...
Recently released from prison, a gang member finds himself forced by his leaders to orchestrate a major crime with a rival gang. Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 4 (2016)
8.2/10
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Taryn Manning, Taylor Schilling, Jessica Pimentel, Michael Harney,...
From Jenji Kohan, the creator of "Weeds", "Orange Is the New Black" is a thought-provoking, funny, and evocative show about life in a women's prison.... Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 3 (2015)
8.2/10
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Michael Harney,...
The women of Litchfield unapologetically return for the third coming. With a crisis of faith and their beliefs and loyalties being tested, each charac... Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 2 (2014)
8.2/10
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Abuda, Danie...
All 13 episodes from the second season of the Netflix comedy drama adapted from Piper Kerman's memoir about her time spent in a women's prison. Taylor... Read more
Starred Up (2013)
7.4/10
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend, Jack O'Connell
Vastly enjoyable prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as Eric Love, an 18-year-old inmate moved up to full blown prison after being too violent and vo... Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 1 (2013)
8.2/10
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Jessica Pimentel, Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Joel Garland,...
The story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transp... Read more