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1) Escape plan
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
2) Lockout
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
3) Imprisoned
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dylan Burke attempts to move from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgotten him for an old crime.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Paralegal Janet Gregory takes on a pro bono case to help an African-American husband and father who she believes has been wrongly accused of raping a girl in his neighborhood. Her 22-year battle with the justice system will eventually bring him the freedom he deserves and bond the two of them in a life-long friendship.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An ex-cop, falsely imprisoned for stealing a diamond from a powerful tycoon, escapes from prison and stages a suicide attempt to clear his name, while his brother breaks into the tycoon's vault to prove the jewel was never stolen in the first place.
6) Hannah
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.
7) Slamma jamma
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Wrongfully accused and sent to prison, a former basketball star prepares for the national slam dunk competition while finding redemption in himself and in those he loves.
8) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tobey Marshall, a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver, strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.
10) Lady Vengeance
Series
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Korean
Description
After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and Hugh Dillon, it follows the McLusky family - power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
12) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
13) Crown Heights
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1980, a young man named Marvin Grant was gunned down in Flatbush Brooklyn. Clarence Lewis, a fifteen-year-old with a penchant for lying, told the police he saw what happened and was pressured to identify a suspect. This set into motion a series of events that led to the arrest of Colin Warner, an innocent teenager who lived in nearby Crown Heights.
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley, LLC
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
None
Description
Bardelys the magnificent: "In France "in an age of light loves and lively scandals, ' the Marquis de Bardelys (Gilbert), casual womanizer and accomplished swashbuckler, is entranced by Roxalanne de Levedan (Eleanor Boradman) and against a background of knavery and intrigue, he sets out to woo and win her."--Container.
Monte Cristo: "Gilbert is Admond Dantes, a sailor unjustly imprisoned for twenty years, time he spends acquiring education and finesse....
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Harold & Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay: Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, where Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiancé of Kumar's old girlfriend, Vanessa, can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, co-creator of Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family--power brokers in Kingstown. Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither. The release includes all 10 episodes...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
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