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Favorite Prison Movies?

posted a year ago by BillHicksFan (10562)
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(in order)

Le Trou
Birdman of Alcatraz
A Man Escaped
Papillon
Lonely Are the Brave
Midnight Express
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Want To Live!
Cool Hand Luke
Brubaker
Escape From Alcatraz
The Hill

I notice this is the one time where I only have a couple of foreign movies, although they are among the best. I'd love to see some Eastern European movies like these in the 60s, when there were a lot of great directors. "Two Half Times in Hell" is a good movie, and was re-done by John Huston with Sylvestor Stallone in "Victory". There's another good prison movie with a really long name I can't remember.

[–] samoanjoes (56648) a year ago

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Hunger (2008)
La trou (1960)
Starred Up (2013)
A Prophet (2009)

[–] joej2923 (3021) a year ago

The Jericho Mile - A lifer in prison trains to break the world record in the mile run.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21457) a year ago

Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Women’s Prison Massacre (1983)
Turkey Shoot (1982)
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Midnight Express (1978)
Violence in a Women’s Prison (1982)
99 Women (1969)
Naked Gun 33 and 1/3 The Final Insult (1994)

[–] [deleted] a year ago

sitting target 1972

[–] mikethemartian (6710) a year ago

Did Russ Meyer ever direct one?

[–] BoysDontCry (41) a year ago

The documentary on Attica. It broke my heart and I was balling by the end of it, but it speaks very loudly of the society we live in.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21457) a year ago

Robert, remember boys don’t cry.

[–] BoysDontCry (41) a year ago

Oops.

[–] roger_dat (1563) a year ago

No love for shawshank redemption??

[–] BillHicksFan (10562) a year ago

It's a good movie, just not a Top 10 for me.

[–] rex (2828) a year ago

Lets Go to Prison