Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "abandoned-prison"

1. Captain America: Civil War (2016)

PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man.

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 850,471 | Gross: $408.08M

2. The Stand (1994)

Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 38,427

3. Drive Angry (2011)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter.

Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke

Votes: 103,424 | Gross: $10.71M

4. Invictus (2009)

PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng

Votes: 167,926 | Gross: $37.49M

5. Odd Thomas (2013)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Ashley Sommers, Leonor Varela, Matthew Page

Votes: 57,465

6. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates

Votes: 179,243 | Gross: $60.13M

7. Point Blank (1967)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor

Votes: 23,241

8. Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured.

Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, 50 Cent, Jin Zhang

Votes: 16,994

9. The Assignment (1997)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An American naval officer is recruited for an operation to eliminate his lookalike, the infamous terrorist Carlos The Jackal.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri

Votes: 9,988 | Gross: $0.54M

10. The Odessa File (1974)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm

Votes: 12,079 | Gross: $1.11M

11. Mercenaries (2014)

Unrated | 89 min | Action, Adventure

The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.

Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Zoë Bell, Kristanna Loken, Vivica A. Fox, Brigitte Nielsen

Votes: 2,755

12. 6 Bullets (2012)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.

Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joe Flanigan, Anna-Louise Plowman, Charlotte Beaumont

Votes: 15,838

13. Armed Response (2017)

R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A remote facility, built as a prison with a secret super lie detector, is compromised and the five guarding it are possibly dead. An armed team of six investigates what's wrong.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Anne Heche, Dave Annable, Colby Lopez

Votes: 2,913

14. 13 Eerie (2013)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

Six forensic undergrads embark on a scientific expedition to a remote island that was once used as illegal biological testing grounds for life-term prisoners.

Director: Lowell Dean | Stars: Katharine Isabelle, Michael Shanks, Brendan Fehr, Brendan Fletcher

Votes: 3,180

15. Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)

R | 77 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A bioweapon leaks in Eastern Europe and spreads west. It mutates in a quarantine area, creating a killer monster. Can a group of cops stop it and the new virus?

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Natasha Henstridge, Norbert Weisser, Elizabeth Barondes

Votes: 3,849 | Gross: $0.04M

16. Against the Night (2017)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.

Director: Brian Cavallaro | Stars: Frank Whaley, Hannah Kleeman, Tim Torre, Luke Persiani

Votes: 2,277

17. The Task (2011)

R | 94 min | Horror

A group of reality show contestants must survive the night in a haunted jail.

Director: Alex Orwell | Stars: Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire, Sean McConaghy, Adam Rayner

Votes: 3,706

18. Homo Sapiens (2016)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Votes: 1,083

19. Black Dahlia (2006 Video)

Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Horror

Three psychopaths go on a killing spree, recreating the Black Dahlia murder.

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Elissa Dowling, Sutton Christopher, Christian Behm, Jack Quinn

Votes: 1,023

20. Paranormal Prison (2021)

70 min | Horror, Thriller

A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.

Director: Brian Jagger | Stars: Todd Haberkorn, Don Shanks, Paris Warner, Easton Lay

Votes: 328

21. Supermax (2016)

45 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures, supernatural odds and their worst enemy: themselves.

Stars: Mariana Ximenes, Cleo, Ademir Emboava, Bruno Bellarmino

Votes: 330

22. Îles du diable - L'archipel des mondes perdus (2001 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary, History

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Christophe Jeauffre | Stars: Jean-Christophe Jeauffre, Frédéric Dieudonné, Jean Galfione, Christopher Lee

Votes: 41

23. In Prison Air: A Book by Thomas Roma (2017)

23 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Milan Roganovic | Stars: Thomas Roma, Olivia Gray, Jack Sochet, Alex Jenkins

24. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: This Little Wiggy (1998)

TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Bart is reluctant to hang out with Ralph Wiggum, until he gains access to Chief Wiggum's master key to the city.

Directors: Neil Affleck, Jim Reardon | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 2,472

25. Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020– )
Episode: Cell 99 (2020)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The final entry in Henry Scarlet's casebook takes Eliza and Duke to a seemingly abandoned prison on the outskirts of London.

Director: Declan O'Dwyer | Stars: Stuart Martin, Nick Dunning, Danny Midwinter, Cathy Belton

Votes: 502

26. Defenders of the Earth (1986–1991)
Episode: Escape from Mongo (1986)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Flash Gordon and his family find out Ming plans on establishing a base on Earth to begin his conquest of the planet. Flash and his son, Rick, make it to Earth and gather some heroes to unite against Ming.

Directors: John Gibbs, Ray Lee | Stars: William Callaway, Adam Carl, Ron Feinberg, Buster Jones

Votes: 53

27. The Lost Room (2006)
Episode: The Eye and the Prime Object (2006)

TV-G | 84 min | Action, Fantasy, Mystery

Joe struggles to find the Prime Object and get Anna back.

Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Dennis Christopher

Votes: 611

28. Ghost Hunters (2004– )
Episode: Glimmer Men (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV, Thriller

The Ghost Hunters don sailor caps and head out to sea. Their mission - explore a haunted vessel and demystify the paranormal activity onboard. Then, the angry spirits of dead convicts are ... See full summary »

Stars: Amy Bruni, Joe Chin, Steve Gonsalves, Jason Hawes

Votes: 31

29. Jack Ryan (2018–2023)
Episode: Triage (2023)

16+ | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Jack, given the task of cleaning up the CIA, makes difficult decisions that have immediate consequences. A cartel operator moves in the shadows to organize an important meeting.

Director: Lukas Ettlin | Stars: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Okieriete Onaodowan

Votes: 1,976

30. Jack Ryan (2018–2023)
Episode: Wukong (2023)

TV-MA | 61 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Complications arise in Jack's plan to extract Chao and his family from the compound in Myanmar. Back in D.C., Greer comes to a shocking conclusion.

Director: Lukas Ettlin | Stars: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Okieriete Onaodowan

Votes: 1,602

31. Jack Ryan (2018–2023)
Episode: Proof of Concept (2023)

TV-MA | 63 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

If Wright wants to get Jack out alive, compromises must be made. Groundbreaking intel gives the CIA a chance to prevent a domestic terrorist act.

Director: Lukas Ettlin | Stars: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Okieriete Onaodowan

Votes: 1,928

32. Project Fear (2023– )
Episode: Confronting Pure Evil: Our Night From Hell (2023)

64 min | Adventure, History, Horror

We Confronted Pure Evil at Cresson Sanatorium and Prison. A Demonic "mimic" spirit and the ghost of a serial killer haunt this terrifying facility.

Stars: Chelsea Laden, Dakota Laden, Alex Schroeder, Connor Stallings

Votes: 6

33. Project Fear (2023– )
Episode: We're Never Returning to This Demonic Prison (2023)

53 min | Adventure, History, Horror

We slept alone at Cresson Sanatorium and Prison, confronting Pure Evil and uncovering Demonic Secrets. Watch why we're never going back.

Stars: Chelsea Laden, Dakota Laden, Alex Schroeder, Connor Stallings

Votes: 7