Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life behind bars to escape thrillers to World War II team-ups to earnest ...

Prison movies are often pretty great, because seeing someone either persevere through difficult conditions or try to break free altogether makes for compelling drama. Hell, The Shawshank Redemption is ...

Prison movies are essentially a whole genre at this point, since so many films take place either wholly or entirely within prisons, and focus on things like survival and/or escape. It’s not ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

Though the case is nearly a decade old, the Clinton Correctional Facility escape is garnering interest once again thanks to a new audience giving it attention. The fictionalized true-crime series ...

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An early entry in the subgenre of women behind bars, John Cromwell's Caged is about a married 19-year-old (Eleanor Parker) who is locked up after a botched bank robbery in which her husband is killed.