Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life behind bars to escape thrillers to World War II team-ups to earnest ...

Prison movies are essentially a whole genre at this point, since so many films take place either wholly or entirely within prisons, and focus on things like survival and/or escape. It’s not ...

The prison movie genre brings life’s most fundamental struggles to the fore, as characters are forced to confront isolation, subjugation, and the inhumanity of having their agency stripped away. From ...

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