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51. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.
Director: Tim Metcalfe | Stars: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono
Votes: 2,409 | Gross: $0.07M
52. Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Richard Todd, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott
Votes: 1,455
53. Enjeru dasuto (1994)
116 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who ... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryôko Takizawa
Votes: 1,321
54. Unspeakable (2002)
R | 108 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman battles an unspeakable terror.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Pavan Grover, Michelle Wolff, Mark Voltura, Marco Rodríguez
Votes: 1,513
55. Edge of Fear (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being stabbed in the heart by ruthless home invaders, a man is left for dead. Now weak, outnumbered, and knife sticking from his chest, he attempts to do the impossible: save his wife from these murderers before he bleeds to death.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Rockmond Dunbar, Zhu Zhu, Shen Lin, Robert Knepper
Votes: 3,400
56. Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story (2011)
TV-14 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Biopic of the notorious late-1940s Manila gangster until his death at 26 in 1951: a legend known to this day who came from Tondo, a town in Manila known during that period as a tough and dangerous place.
Director: Tikoy Aguiluz | Stars: Jorge Estregan, Roi Vinzon, Danny Labra, Eddie Tuazon
Votes: 216
57. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Callow | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger
Votes: 874 | Gross: $0.18M
58. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 766
59. Moonbase (1997)
R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The first would-be moon colonists discover a horrifying, mysterious, and deadly secret hidden on their new lunar home.
Director: Paolo Mazzucato | Stars: Scott Plank, Jocelyn Seagrave, Robert O'Reilly, Kurt Fuller
Votes: 395
60. Stir (1980)
101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Gary Waddell
Votes: 397
61. Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft
Votes: 3,738
62. Johnny Apollo (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,506
63. The Last Gangster (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner, Lionel Stander
Votes: 1,762
64. Doin' Time (1985)
R | 81 min | Comedy
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Jeff Altman, Henry Bal, Gene Bell
Votes: 293
65. Asiong Salonga: Hari ng Tondo 1950 (1990)
Action
Well done bio pic of a notorious Filipino gangster in the late 40's until his death at the age of 26 in 1951.
Director: Armando De Guzman Jr. | Stars: Jorge Estregan, Baldo Marro, Orestes Ojeda, Val Iglesias
Votes: 70
66. Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.
Director: Kyle Bergersen | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Jeremy Renner, Ginnifer Goodwin, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 945
67. Tummien perhosten koti (2008)
108 min | Drama
A boy is sent to Saari, an isolated island and home to a home for troubled boys, where he falls in love with the daughter of the school's superintendent.
Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Niilo Syväoja, Tommi Korpela, Kristiina Halttu, Kati Outinen
Votes: 2,506
68. Why? (1971)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
The surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Lino Banfi, Andrea Aureli
Votes: 1,019
69. Bitayin si... Baby Ama! (1976)
118 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Depicting the life of executed gang leader and murderer Marciál "Baby" Ama.
Director: Jun Gallardo | Stars: Rudy Fernandez, Alma Moreno, Anita Linda, Paquito Diaz
Votes: 19
70. Spork (2010)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
A colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy. A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When ... See full summary »
Director: J.B. Ghuman Jr. | Stars: Savannah Stehlin, Rodney Eastman, Robert Bradvica, Kevin Chung
Votes: 1,079
71. The Family (2011)
88 min | Horror, Thriller
A family has a hard time tying to stay together, because murder seems to be in their blood, and a their favorite type of gathering is a massacre.
Directors: Joe Hollow, Wolfgang Meyer | Stars: Mark Hanson, Joe Hollow, Angie Stevenson, Shannon Lark
Votes: 5,059
72. Before I Hang (1940)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Edward Van Sloan
Votes: 1,425
73. Easter (2023–2024)
Approved | Mystery
The mental illness of our sleuth, Pascha, pits him against his most formidable foe - himself.
Stars: Lnq, Reginald VelJohnson, Olkens Graham, Gina Martino
74. 400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime (2010)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The real story behind creation of Comando Vermelho (Red Commando), powerful criminal organization terrorized Rio de Janeiro for several decades.
Director: Caco Souza | Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabrício Boliveira, Daniela Escobar, Branca Messina
Votes: 595
75. State Penitentiary (1950)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Roger Manners (Warner Baxter), a former aircraft manufacturer is wrongly accused and convicted of embezzlement of $400,000 and is given a long prison sentence. There he must decide rather ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth, Robert Shayne
Votes: 85
76. Salve Geral (2009)
119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The widow piano teacher Lúcia and her unemployed teenage son Rafa move to a poor neighborhood in the periphery of São Paulo after the bankrupting of her pension plan. Rafa a.k.a. Pilot ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Rezende | Stars: Andrea Beltrão, Denise Weinberg, Lee Taylor, Eucir de Souza
Votes: 543
77. The Way (II) (2010)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama
The saga about a young Latino boy who due to circumstances joins a gang and ultimately winds up in prison. After he does his time he meets a man who helps him from falling back into the gang life. In essence he finds "The Way".
Director: Barry Shay | Stars: Alex Alvardo, Lorraine Amaya, Ruben Amaya, George Angelo
Votes: 16
78. Anabelle Huggins Story: Ruben Ablaza Tragedy - Mea Culpa (1995)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Carlo J. Caparas | Stars: Dawn Zulueta, Cesar Montano, Maggie de la Riva, Robert Arevalo
Votes: 18
79. Secret Service of the Air (1939)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes, James Stephenson
Votes: 267
80. The Year of the Tiger (2011)
82 min | Drama
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Luis Dubó, Sergio Hernández, Viviana Herrera
Votes: 167
81. G-Men Never Forget (1948)
Passed | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
G-Man and a female detective sergeant pursue racketeers, unaware that her police commissioner is actually a gang boss altered by plastic surgery.
Directors: Fred C. Brannon, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Clayton Moore, Roy Barcroft, Ramsay Ames, Gil Frye
Votes: 110
82. Death Row Diner (1988)
Unrated | 68 min | Horror
A wealthy Hollywood tycoon is framed for murder and sent to the electric chair without the customary last dinner. Years later he comes back looking for revenge, and he's hungry.
Director: D3 | Stars: John Henry Richardson, Michelle Bauer, John Content, Salvatore Richichi
Votes: 179
83. Eastern State: Living Behind the Walls (2008)
76 min | Documentary
Eastern State: Living Behind the Walls is a chilling exploration of one of America's most notorious prisons. It opened it's doors in 1829 and operated for 142 years, closing in 1972. This ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Alosi
84. The Chain Gang (1930)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey Mouse escapes from prison.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: George Magrill, Theodore Santoro, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney
Votes: 645
85. Pardon My Stripes (1942)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Sport
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: William Henry, Sheila Ryan, Edgar Kennedy, Harold Huber
Votes: 17
86. Boots Oyson: sa katawan mo ... aagos ang dugo! (1989)
Action, Drama
THIS ACTION-DRAMA TACKLES BIG-TIME CRIME.
Director: Joey Del Rosario | Stars: Lito Lapid, Vic Vargas, Maria Isabel Lopez, Lito Legaspi
87. Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell
Votes: 38
88. Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Det. Norman Craig assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan, Paul Fix
Votes: 39
89. Beating Back (1914)
60 min | Adventure, Biography, Western
Oklahoma lawyer Al Jennings, whose father was a famous and respected judge, is enraged at the murder of his brother Ed, shot in the back by two killers. As if that wasn't enough, he finds ... See full summary »
Director: Caryl S. Fleming | Stars: Al J. Jennings, J. Morris Foster, Frank Farrington, Albert Froom
Votes: 23
90. Santo Stefano (1997)
84 min | Crime, Drama
In 1959, in the prison of Santo Stefano, located on an Italian island, Bruno D'Assisi, the just arrived new director, tries to make is best to improve prisoners' life conditions, with the ... See full summary »
Director: Angelo Pasquini | Stars: Lucio Allocca, Gaetano Amato, Claudio Amendola, Claudio Bigagli
Votes: 12
91. Quinto patio (1970)
94 min | Drama, Crime
A poor amateur singer is deeply in love with his boss's daughter, but the spoiled girl rejects him because he has no fortune.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Manuel López Ochoa, Jacqueline Andere, Norma Lazareno, Rogelio Guerra
Votes: 13
92. Outside These Walls (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Dan Sparling (Michael Whalen) is a brilliant, crusading journalist, but also a man with a prison record, earned after he had embezzled to meet the needs of an extravagant wife. He plunges ... See full summary »
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Michael Whalen, Dolores Costello, Virginia Weidler, Don Beddoe
Votes: 31
93. Lure of the Wasteland (1939)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Drama, Western
Federal agent Smitty assists Butch Cooper, leader of a gang that robbed a train in which the loot was never recovered, in making an escape and accompanies him to the Utah badlands. Parker, ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Grant Withers, LeRoy Mason, Ruth Findlay, 'Snub' Pollard
Votes: 23
94. Life at Stateville: The Wasted Years (1961 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary
A look inside the Illinois maximum-security penitentiary known as Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, long known as one of the toughest penitentiaries in the US. Shown are the various... See full summary »
Director: Bill Robbins | Stars: Clark B. George, Jesse Gonzales, Hugh Hill, Paul Jencott
95. Daniel Midas: Sprawa dla stand-upera (2023 TV Special)
68 min | Comedy
Director: Pawel Dybich | Stars: Daniel Midas, Piotr Kaszewiak, Marlena Mysza
96. Main Street Lawyer (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Flossie, girl friend of gangster Tony Marco, is released from the state penitentiary. With Marco and Ballou, his lawyer, she goes to Corinthia to deliver a letter to "Link" Boggs, from her ... See full summary »
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Edward Ellis, Anita Louise, Robert Baldwin, Harold Huber
98. Women in Prison (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Wyn Cahoon, Scott Kolk, Arthur Loft, Mayo Methot
Votes: 22
99. Don't Be Foolish (I) (1922)
18 min | Short, Comedy
Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
Director: Billy West | Stars: Billy West, Frank Hayes, Tom Murray
Votes: 20
100. El presidio (1930)
89 min
Spanish language version of the Big House. 3000 men crammed in a prison, tensions mount.
Directors: Edgar Neville, Ward Wing | Stars: José Crespo, Juan de Landa, Luana Alcañiz, Tito Davison
Votes: 39