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In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their story. They'd served 65 years for a murder they didn't commit, framed by a local sheriff while buying moonshine whiskey for a Manhattan club owner to whom they β¦owed money. In flashbacks we see this odd couple thrown together (Ray is a fast-talking con man, and Claude is a serious man about to start work as a bank teller), the loss of Ray's watch (sterling silver, from his daddy), the murder and trial, the hardships of Parchman, and the love-hate relationship of Claude and Ray as they spend 65 years bickering and looking for a way to escape. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escaperacismprisondeathfriendship |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | prison violenceprison farmprison fightbaseballnew york city |
Characters: | sheriffinterracial relationshipbullyafrican american |
Period: | 1930s1990s |
Story: | bully comeuppanceprison laborprison lifeprison cellprison guardbootleg liquorcrop dusterlife imprisonmentcomic violenceracial injusticebootleggingbootleggerbare knuckle fightingrepeating riflewinchester rifle β¦mississippisegregationgreat depressionpiesouthern u.s.watchbloopers during creditsracistfat manescape attemptobesitypump action shotgunblack humorfriendship between menpokerprofanityfalse accusationf wordcriminaljailheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolenceflashback (See All) |
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that L β¦eone never sees the light of day. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisonfriendship |
Locations: | prison violenceprison fight |
Characters: | bully |
Story: | bully comeuppanceprison cellprison guardescape attemptf wordcriminaljailheld at gunpointfistfightflashbackviolence |
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Themes: | racismprison |
Characters: | african american |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | prison lifeprison guardracial injusticesouthern u.s.pump action shotgunfalse accusationcriminaljailsurprise endingflashback |
The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no-one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris masterminded this elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In 29 years, this seemingly β¦ impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates never heard of again. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprison |
Locations: | prison violenceprison fight |
Characters: | bully |
Story: | bully comeuppanceprison cellprison guardjailfistfightviolence |
A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second tho β¦ughts about bringing them in. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprison |
Locations: | prison fight |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | prison guardpump action shotgunf wordcriminaljailfistfightflashbackviolence |
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas β¦ for the two unlikely lovers. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisondeath |
Characters: | sheriffinterracial relationshipafrican american |
Story: | prison guardracistobesity |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Themes: | prisondeathfriendship |
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | african american |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | escape attemptpokerprofanityf wordcriminalheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He β¦ needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisonfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | prison fight |
Characters: | sheriff |
Story: | prison guardescape attemptf wordheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingflashbackviolence |
Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man's unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners β¦, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisonfriendship |
Story: | prison cellprison guardlife imprisonmentpiefriendship between menfalse accusationjailsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when β¦ let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965 and dies a Muslim martyr. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisondeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | interracial relationshipafrican american |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | racial injusticeracistcriminaljailviolenceflashback |
Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brecourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who β¦ with their guard connections rule what happens in the prison), he has no known friends or enemies inside. He is just hoping to serve his time in peace and without incident, despite having no prospects once he's out of jail since he's illiterate and has no support outside of the prison. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named Cesar Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The innocent Malik has no idea what to do but cooperate. This move does not sit well with the other Corsicans, who only see Malik as a dirty Arab, and the Muslims who now mistrust him. But as time goes on, Malik works to save himself while in prison, while setting up his life post prison on his own terms. Both his demon and his salvation in prison is the specter of one of the first people he really got to know during his incarceration. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisonfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | prison fight |
Story: | prison cellprison guardfriendship between mencriminaljailheld at gunpointviolenceflashback |
This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets β¦ Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisonfriendshipdeath |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | prison guardrepeating riflegreat depressioncriminaljailheld at gunpointsurprise endingviolence |
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues β¦ his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money before they do. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Story: | prison lifeescape attemptjail |
After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is kille β¦d. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince young K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something old K had never told him. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Locations: | baseballnew york city |
Story: | prison guardpiewatchcriminalheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
Oscar night. Who will win? Who will lose? And will someone please kick that numbskull off stage? Wait! That's no ordinary numbskull. That's Lt. Frank Drebin, crashing the ceremonies to stop a terrorist plot that could mean curtains for him -- or will a simple window shade be enough?
Themes: | prison escapeprison |
Locations: | prison fightbaseball |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | prison guardheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingflashback |
Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works t β¦o crush Luke until he finally breaks. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisonfriendshipdeath |
Story: | prison guardsouthern u.s.escape attemptpokerfistfight |
In 1880, four men travel together to the city of Silverado. They come across many dangers before they finally engage the "bad guys" and bring peace and equality back to the city.
Themes: | racismfriendship |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Story: | repeating riflewinchester riflepokerjailfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously darin β¦g prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (CA(C)cile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Story: | prison cellprison guardescape attemptcriminalviolence |
On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American 'Billy Hayes (I)' (qv) is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in ident β¦ifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich, and one of the senior prisoners having already served seven years, an Englishman named Max, the latter two also in for hash related charges. One prisoner not befriended is Rifki, who wields power in the prison as the unofficial eyes and ears for the guards. As Billy, his family and his girlfriend Susan attempt through legal and diplomatic channels for Billy's release, Max tells him that the only way out is to "catch the midnight express" aka escape, which is what Jimmy is continually trying to do. When Billy's situation changes, he becoβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | prison escaperacismprisondeathfriendship |
Locations: | prison fight |
Story: | prison lifeprison guardlife imprisonmentescape attemptjailviolence |
Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (an infamous bounty β¦ hunter) and Chris Mannix (a man who claims to be Red Rock's new sheriff). Lost in a blizzard, the bunch seeks refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery. When they arrive they are greeted by unfamiliar faces: Bob, who claims to be taking care of the place while Minnie is gone; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; Joe Gage, a cow puncher; and confederate general Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travelers come to learn that they might not make it to Red Rock after all... (Read More)
Themes: | racismdeath |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Story: | racistescape attemptfalse accusationf wordcriminalheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northea β¦st - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondeath |
Locations: | prison fight |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | prison cellprison guardbare knuckle fightingf wordheld at gunpointfistfightviolenceflashback |
Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order.
Themes: | death |
Story: | pokerprofanityfalse accusationf wordcriminalheld at gunpointsurprise endingflashbackviolence |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me β¦dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | prison guardpieblack humorf wordcriminaljailheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston β¦police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a speβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisonfriendshipdeath |
Characters: | sheriffinterracial relationship |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | great depressionracistescape attemptpokerf wordcriminalheld at gunpointsurprise endingviolence |
Air travel is the safest, the FAA says. But the FAA never figured the risk with Charles Rane on board. "The Rane of Terror" has masterminded four terrorist attacks. Soon there will be a fifth -- and that's bad news for the passengers on Flight 163. But there's good news too: the man in seat 57! Wesl β¦ey Snipes plays John Cutter, an undercover security operative who enters the lavatory and exits to find Rane (Bruce Payne) and his gang have taken over. Cutter's next move is clear. Do. Or be done to. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisondeath |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | racistescape attemptfalse accusationheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingflashbackviolence |
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
Themes: | racism |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Story: | racial injusticemississippisegregationsouthern u.s. |
After stealing a mysterious orb in the far reaches of outer space, Peter Quill from Earth, is now the main target of a manhunt led by the villain known as Ronan the Accuser. To help fight Ronan and his team and save the galaxy from his power, Quill creates a team of space heroes known as the "Guardi β¦ans of the Galaxy" to save the world. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisonfriendshipdeath |
Locations: | prison fight |
Characters: | interracial relationship |
Story: | prison guardracistprofanitycriminaljailheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns β¦ that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found. (Read More)
Themes: | racismdeath |
Characters: | sheriffinterracial relationshipafrican american |
Story: | mississippisouthern u.s.racistfalse accusationjailsurprise ending |
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. 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 co β¦mmitted acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisonfriendshipdeath |
Characters: | bullyafrican american |
Story: | racistfriendship between menf wordjailheld at gunpointsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon at the scene of the crime, the t β¦wo have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret. (Read More)
Themes: | prison |
Locations: | prison fight |
Story: | prison cellprison guardfat manpump action shotgunfistfightviolence |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately β¦try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisondeath |
Locations: | prison farm |
Story: | prison cellprison guardsouthern u.s.racistflashback |
Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing β¦ to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escaperacism |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | prison celljailheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Mean β¦while, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprison |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | sheriffinterracial relationshipafrican american |
Story: | pump action shotgunfalse accusationheld at gunpointfistfightviolence |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to β¦ prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Characters: | sheriff |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | prison guardfalse accusationjailheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingflashback |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Themes: | prisondeath |
Story: | prison guardescape attemptf wordcriminalheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approve β¦s of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Characters: | interracial relationshipafrican american |
Story: | prison guardpump action shotgunfistfightviolenceflashback |
Themes: | racismprisonfriendshipdeath |
Story: | prison guardprofanityf wordcriminalheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
Cameron Poe, a highly decorated United States Army Ranger, came home to Alabama to his wife, Tricia, only to run into a few drunken regulars where Tricia works. Cameron unknowingly kills one of the drunks and is sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. Cameron bec β¦omes eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the country's most dangerous criminals, who took control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country. Cameron has to find a way to stop them while playing along. Meanwhile, United States Marshal Vincent Larkin is trying to help Cameron get free and stop the criminals, including Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. (Read More)
Themes: | prisonfriendship |
Locations: | prison violenceprison fight |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | pump action shotgunfalse accusationcriminalviolence |
Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn't recieve any favours because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting β¦down his country in a crucial World Cup game. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards. The prisoners are lead by Danny and the whole of the prison, guards aside, are behind them. Game on...... (Read More)
Themes: | racismprison |
Story: | prison cellprison guardjailfistfight |
Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a murder sentence in prison. His book, From the Inside, upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
Themes: | prisondeath |
Story: | prison guardcriminaljailfistfightviolence |
In Glenview, Ohio, Evan is the manager of the Costco department store and married to Abby. When the Costco night watchman, Antonio Guzman, is mysteriously murdered, Evan organizes The Neighborhood Watch, a watch team with his suburban neighbors Bob, Franklin and Jamarcus to protect the neighborhood β¦and find the killer of Antonio. Soon they discover that the murderer is an alien that is preparing to invade Earth, and they become the last hope of mankind on Earth. (Read More)
Themes: | friendshipdeath |
Story: | watchpump action shotgunprofanityfalse accusationf wordheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series β¦of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find." (Read More)
Themes: | racismfriendship |
Locations: | prison farm |
Period: | 1930s |
Story: | racial injusticemississippigreat depressionpiefistfight |
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town tryin β¦g to kill him and get his guitar case. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprisondeath |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | prison guardpump action shotguncriminaljailheld at gunpointsurprise endingviolence |
Calvin Joyner was voted in high school the guy most likely to succeed. 20 years later he's an accountant. As his high school reunion approaches, he tries to make contact with his old schoolmates. And someone named Bob Stone contacts him. He says that he was known as Robbie Weirdicht in school. Calvi β¦n remembers that he was picked on, as a matter of fact after an extremely nasty prank he left school. They agree to meet and Calvin is surprised by how much he has changed. Bob asks Calvin to help him out. He says yes and the next thing he knows some men burst into his home. They're CIA, the one in charge is looking for Stone, she says he's a rogue agent. When they can't find Bob they leave. Later he approaches Calvin telling him, he is not a rogue agent, he's trying to find a person known as the Black Badger who is planning to sell some information that in the wrong hands can be disastrous. so he needs Calvin's help to stop him. Calvin's not sure whom he should believe. (Read More)
Themes: | deathfriendship |
Characters: | bully |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | bully comeuppancebloopers during creditsescape attemptobesityfalse accusationheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolenceflashback |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i β¦mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | prisonfriendship |
Locations: | prison fight |
Story: | prison guardfalse accusationf wordheld at gunpointviolence |
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a β¦murder, they have to pretend to be each other. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Characters: | african american |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | pump action shotgunprofanityf wordheld at gunpointfistfightsurprise endingviolence |
Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azaze β¦l is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | prison guardobesityfalse accusationf wordcriminalheld at gunpointsurprise endingflashbackviolence |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M β¦idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
Themes: | racismprisondeath |
Story: | racistfriendship between menpokerprofanityf wordcriminalheld at gunpointsurprise endingviolence |
Police ambush and kill several gang members in Los Angeles. Gang members make a pact of blood to strike back at police, and conduct a siege on the police station which is almost abandoned and due to be closed. Staff of the closing precinct and the criminals being held there while in transit must wor β¦k together to fight off the attacking gang members. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondeath |
Locations: | prison fight |
Story: | prison guardescape attemptjailheld at gunpointfistfightviolence |
With his reputation in tatters after a painfully unsuccessful delivery of a distinguished Japanese client, former triple-A executive protection agent, Michael Bryce, two long years after the disgraceful incident, is now reduced to a mere second-class bodyguard for hire. Under those circumstances, Br β¦yce would do anything to prove his worth once again, and as a result, it won't be long before he accepts an offer from Interpol to escort the renowned international assassin Darius Kincaid from Manchester to the Hague. The task seems simple: Bryce only needs to transport the contract killer from point A to point B, nevertheless, Kincaid, as the only one with the guts and enough hard evidence to testify against a tyrannical Belarusian dictator, is an obvious target, while the trip to the Netherlands is long and hazardous. Without a doubt, this a race against the clock as the mismatched duo will have to put aside their grudges, in a non-stop concerto for bullets. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondeath |
Characters: | interracial relationshipafrican american |
Story: | prison cellprison guardescape attemptf wordcriminalheld at gunpointsurprise endingflashbackviolence |