The Longest Yard

6.7

1974

121 mins

ComedyDramaCrime

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.

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Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.3

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A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

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Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.

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The United States of Leland

Year : 2003Rating : ⭐ 6.5

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Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 5.9

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Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 6.6

A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

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Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 5.8

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Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.0

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Bad Boys

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Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.

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A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.