20,000 Years in Sing Sing

6.4

1932

78 mins

CrimeDrama

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Kiss of Death

Year : 1947Rating : ⭐ 7.1

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Point Blank

Year : 1967Rating : ⭐ 7.1

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Year : 1932Rating : ⭐ 7.8

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Dog Pound

Year : 2010Rating : ⭐ 7.2

Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

Lonely are the Brave

Year : 1962Rating : ⭐ 7.4

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Little Caesar

Year : 1931Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

The Big House

Year : 1930Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

Yield to the Night

Year : 1956Rating : ⭐ 6.9

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Year : 1938Rating : ⭐ 7.5

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Each Dawn I Die

Year : 1939Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Ladies They Talk About

Year : 1933Rating : ⭐ 6.2

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Illegal

Year : 1955Rating : ⭐ 6.5

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

House of Bamboo

Year : 1955Rating : ⭐ 6.2

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

The Public Enemy

Year : 1931Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

5 Against the House

Year : 1955Rating : ⭐ 5.9

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

The Wrong Man

Year : 1956Rating : ⭐ 7.1

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

I Want to Live!

Year : 1958Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

The Killer Is Loose

Year : 1956Rating : ⭐ 6.7

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

The Man with the Golden Arm

Year : 1955Rating : ⭐ 7.1

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

Time Without Pity

Year : 1957Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”