Prison Movies
I'm looking for Prison movies that are like The shawshank Redemption and The Last Castle
Actually I'm looking for any movie that resembles The Shawshank Redemption. But anyways....let me know guys. |
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The Green Mile with Tom Hanks and Michael Duncan Clark is about as close as you can get, taken from the same trilogy as Shawshank Redemption.
Also recommend The Animal Factory with William Dafoe and Edward Furlong. Based on the book by Edward Bunker(Resevoir Dogs Mr. Blue, the old guy with the moustache in the cafe scene near the start) it was a great book, and the film is arealistic big screen adaptation, plus if you fancy seeing Mikey Rouke in drag(hey, it'll float somebody's boat) then this is the film for you. Classic prison film is Papillion with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. |
hmm thanks for the recommendations
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I love cool hand Luke ... has anyone else seen Histoire de Pen AKA Inside AKA Banged up?
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Cool Hand Luke
Shawshank Redemption Brubaker Escape From Alcatraz The Great Escape |
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dead man walking is another one you could try...susan sarandon and sean penn...
birdman of alcatraz midnight express kiss of the spider woman stalag 17 (about a pow camp really) the defiant ones |
Green Mile with Tom Hanks...that movie is so special!!
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Try Murder in the first, starring Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater and Gary Oldman. It's very powerful with one of Bacon's best performances and Oldman is brilliant as the evil warden.
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"My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs." For me Cool Hand Luke is definitely the prison movie and towers above them all. Some of the other greats that haven't been mentioned yet or discussed in any depth... http://images.rottentomatoes.com/ima.../22/241022.jpg http://www.criterion.com/content/ima...re_350x180.jpg
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...KED_MAN-10.jpg Others not yet mentioned include Runaway Train, Before Night Falls, The Hurricane, Mrs. Soffel, Out of Sight and a key segment of GoodFellas. For purposes of this list I didn't count all the P.O.W. (prisoner of war) flicks either, although The Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17 and The Great Escape are all fantastic films. And I didn't even get into the Sci-Fi takes on the genre, things like THX-1138, Escape from New York, The Running Man, Alien³ and No Escape, especially as they all pale in comparison to the classic small-screen "The Prisoner" (1967-1968). Happy renting. |
Originally Posted by Holden Pike
For me Cool Hand Luke is definitely the prison movie and towers above them all.
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I really don't like prison movies...but I saw one once called 'Tomorrow La Scala' about some prisoners putting on a play or an opera or something.
Sleepers which is about a kids' prison, if you don't mind brutal and depressing. |
The Green Mile, American Me, Blood In Blood Out
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The Rock is a decent action film with Cage and Connery about the Rock, not really all about the prison, but still has it.
The last Castle with Gandolfini and Redford is a good film about a general in prison. Hart's War is about prison with Bruce Willis. Chronicles of Riddick has a prison in it, futuristic, but not too much about it. An Innocent Man is a good prison flick, probably most well known. No Escape is about a futuristic prison, haven't seen it but i know it's there. Escape from New York/LA - - Weird Prison flick. Fortress is a very weird futuristic prison flick - whole movie is about the prison. Just thought of this but Midnight Express is a really good movie about the turkish Prison system. Goodfellas has one of the greatest prison scenes ever when they are cooking and Ray Liota goes outside to get the bread, classic. Can't think of any more right now, but these will get you started. |
Hello,
I need some help looking for some drawing reference for a scene of a prisoner walking while shackled. Can you guys recall any films with scenes similar to this? http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...1-17-52-82.jpg Sean Connery, The Rock So far I've seen The Rock, Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption. |
almost any other prison film (than the ones you listed) would have scenes like that..cool hand luke, dead man walking...
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Papillon
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The Lock Up (1989) starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland is pretty good.
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Originally Posted by Thursday Next
Sleepers which is about a kids' prison, if you don't mind brutal and depressing.
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