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Prison Drama Movies

Name: Prison Drama Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Dramatic films set behind bars — survival, injustice, and the fight for freedom.

Prison Drama Movies is a structured movies dataset with 67 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: 40-row preview of 67
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

Sorting and filtering apply to the 40 loaded preview rows. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 67 records.

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Year span: 1955 to 2021; Across 40 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 7.2 to 8.7; Across 40 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont	8.7	Drama, Crime	United States of America	142	Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmate...
The Green Mile	1999	Frank Darabont	8.5	Fantasy, Drama, Crime	United States of America	189	A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's exec...
American History X	1998	Tony Kaye	8.3	Drama	United States of America	119	Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throug...
Miracle in Cell No. 7	2019	Mehmet Ada Öztekin	8.3	Drama	Turkey	132	Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
Oldboy	2003	Park Chan-wook	8.2	Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action	South Korea	120	With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Incendies	2010	Denis Villeneuve	8.1	Drama, War, Mystery	Canada	131	A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring ...
Bound by Honor	1993	Taylor Hackford	8.1	Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	180	Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influ...
Room	2015	Lenny Abrahamson	8	Drama, Thriller	Canada	118	Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Ben-Hur	1959	William Wyler	7.9	History, Drama, Adventure	United States of America	212	In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	7.9	Adventure, Drama, War	United States of America	173	The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War ...
In the Name of the Father	1993	Jim Sheridan	7.9	Drama	Ireland	133	A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton	7.9	Crime, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	93	In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Papillon	1973	Franklin J. Schaffner	7.8	Crime, Drama	United States of America	151	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.
Land of Mine	2015	Martin Zandvliet	7.8	War, Drama, History	Germany	100	In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the...
The Count of Monte Cristo	2002	Kevin Reynolds	7.7	Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Thriller	Ireland	131	Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
The Color Purple	1985	Steven Spielberg	7.7	Drama, History	United States of America	154	An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find compani...
Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg	7.7	Drama, Crime	United States of America	127	When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the p...
Sleepers	1996	Barry Levinson	7.6	Crime, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	147	Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
A Prophet	2009	Jacques Audiard	7.6	Crime, Drama	France	155	Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As...
The Reader	2008	Stephen Daldry	7.5	Drama, Romance	Germany	124	The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He ...
Escape from Alcatraz	1979	Don Siegel	7.5	Drama, Thriller	United States of America	113	San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
We Need to Talk About Kevin	2011	Lynne Ramsay	7.5	Drama, Thriller	United Kingdom	113	After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Lost Highway	1997	David Lynch	7.5	Drama, Thriller, Mystery	France	134	A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Empire of the Sun	1987	Steven Spielberg	7.5	Drama, History, War	United States of America	153	Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile en...
Lady Vengeance	2005	Park Chan-wook	7.5	Drama, Thriller	South Korea	115	Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Malcolm X	1992	Spike Lee	7.5	Drama, History	United States of America	202	A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Unbroken	2014	Angelina Jolie	7.4	Drama, War	United States of America	137	A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
The Life of David Gale	2003	Alan Parker	7.4	Drama, Thriller, Crime	Germany	130	A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Midnight Express	1978	Alan Parker	7.4	Drama, Crime	United Kingdom	121	Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish 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 ...
The Hurricane	1999	Norman Jewison	7.4	Drama	United States of America	146	The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Cell 211	2009	Daniel Monzón	7.4	Action, Thriller, Drama	France	108	The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
The Mauritanian	2021	Kevin Macdonald	7.4	Drama, Thriller	United Kingdom	129	The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
The Experiment	2001	Oliver Hirschbiegel	7.4	Drama, Thriller	Germany	120	20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided...
Cape Fear	1991	Martin Scorsese	7.3	Drama, Crime, Thriller	United States of America	128	Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client ...
Papillon	2017	Michael Noer	7.3	Adventure, Crime, Drama	Czech Republic	134	Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Dead Man Walking	1995	Tim Robbins	7.3	Drama	United States of America	122	A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
War for the Planet of the Apes	2017	Matt Reeves	7.2	Drama, Science Fiction, War	United States of America	140	Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar ...
Seven Years in Tibet	1997	Jean-Jacques Annaud	7.2	Adventure, Drama, History	United States of America	136	Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where h...
Good Time	2017	Josh Safdie	7.2	Crime, Thriller, Drama	United States of America	102	After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Escape from Pretoria	2020	Francis Annan	7.2	Drama, History, Thriller	Australia	102	South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

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The complete dataset contains 67 entries. This page loads the first 40 rows as a fast preview, so on-page sorting and filtering apply to that preview. Downloads contain all 67 rows.

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