Posts Tagged 'prison-escape'

Carlito’s Way

Categories: 1993, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA

Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer [...]

Defiant Ones, The

Categories: 1958, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA

Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and [...]

Perfect World, A

Categories: 1993, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA

A Perfect World touches you from the bottom of your heart. It is a story about a man and a boy. A man escapes from a prison with his partner who he does not like. After escaping, they kidnap a little boy. It is not a simple kidnapping story as people expect with violence and [...]

X-Men: The Last Stand

Categories: 2006, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, UK, USA

It has been several months since The X-Men stopped William Stryker, but that victory came at a price, they have lost Jean Gray when she tried to save them from the collapsed reservoir. Scott Summers (Cyclops) is still grieving about her loss. One day, he came out to the place which is where Jean Gray [...]

X2

Categories: 2003, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA

Having returned from the north after finding nothing, Wolverine/Logan watches over the school students for a night as Charles Xavier visits Magneto in his plastic confinement prison and Storm and Jean Grey search for a teleporter mutant known as Nightcrawler who attempted to assassinate the president. Things become deadly as William Stryker, a scientist who [...]

Escapist, The

Categories: 2008, Ireland, Thriller, UK

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it’s too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists – misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but [...]

Man Who Came Back, The

Categories: 2008, Action, Drama, Western

Framed for murder & left for dead a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family.

Borstal Boy

Categories: 2000, Drama, Ireland, Romance, UK

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he [...]

Cool Hand Luke

Categories: 1967, Crime, Drama, USA

Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will [...]

Cool Hand Luke

Categories: 1967, Crime, Drama, USA

Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will [...]

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