A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Casts Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Women's Prison
Le Deuxième Souffle
Tales from the Hood
Scum
The Get-Away
Guncrazy
Salty Air
Techniquement Si Simple
Gangs of New York
Before the Rains
Boycott
Public Hero Number 1
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
For a Lost Soldier
Castle on the Hudson
Escape from Sobibor
Caro diario
Home Is Where Your Heart Is
The Unseeable
Prison Nurse
SIMILAR MOVIES
Women's Prison
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 1955
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.Le Deuxième Souffle
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 1966
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.Tales from the Hood
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1995
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.Scum
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1979
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.The Get-Away
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 1941
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.Guncrazy
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 1992
California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classmates. This all changes when a pen-pal school project connects her with convict Howard. Anita secures Howard's parole and violently squares off against Rooney after he rapes her. Soon enough, the gun-crazy teen is on the run with Howard, with his parole officer in pursuit.Salty Air
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2007
An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.Techniquement Si Simple
IMDB 8.3 | Jan , 1971
Gangs of New York
IMDB 4.8 | May , 1938
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.Before the Rains
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 2007
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.Boycott
IMDB 4.7 | Feb , 1986
Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his comrades pressure him to make a sacrifice for their cause, and his beloved wife experiences personal problems and economic hardships.Public Hero Number 1
IMDB 6.2 | May , 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2005
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.For a Lost Soldier
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1992
Separated from his family in the Dutch countryside, young boy Jeroen crosses paths with Walt, a Canadian soldier who takes him under his care.Castle on the Hudson
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1940
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.Escape from Sobibor
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1987
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.Caro diario
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1993
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.Home Is Where Your Heart Is
IMDB 4.7 | Mar , 2017
Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...The Unseeable
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2006
Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualchan who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.Prison Nurse
IMDB 5.1 | Mar , 1938
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.