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Movies and series about prison brutality·10 titles
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A Hidden Life
2019 · 2h 53m · PG-13 · Drama, History, War
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Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · 2h 2m · R · Drama, History, Thriller
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In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
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Midnight Express
1978 · 2h 1m · R · Crime, Drama
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · 1h 32m · NR · Drama
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A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Titicut Follies
1967 · 1h 24m · NR · Documentary
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Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.
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The Prince
2019 · 1h 36m · NR · Drama
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Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, lonely 20-year-old Jaime is sentenced to prison. There, he meets The Stallion, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, Jaime faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
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