One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.



Le cercle rouge(1970)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.



The Last Detail(1973)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.



The Sugarland Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.



Stir Crazy(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.



Brubaker(1980)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.



Papillon(1973)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.



Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.



Midnight Express(1978)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.



Goin' South(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse-thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the sheriff, the bank - and each other.



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



'Breaker' Morant(1980)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.



Stroszek(1977)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.



Slaughterhouse-Five(1972)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.



Short Eyes(1977)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A child molester sent to prison finds that criminals exact harsher justice than society.



The Anderson Tapes(1971)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.



The Longest Yard(1974)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.



The Great Santini(1979)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.



Breakheart Pass(1975)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 12

John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.



Thieves Like Us(1974)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest of the three falls in ...




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