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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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Gothic architecture. A five-tiered lockup. An authentic Death Row with an unplugged electric-chair chamber. When Hollywood seeks gritty realism for prison movies, the century-old ...

Prison escape stories have long seemed to capture our imagination because they speak to our love of antiheroes and underdogs, ...

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 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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 ...