Brubaker
Natural Born Killers
Escape from Alkatraz
Stir Crazy
Shawshank Redemption
the Great Escape
Papillon
The Green Mile

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS

AMERICAN ME

STIR CRAZY

ALCATRAZ: THE WHOLE SHOCKING STORY

COOL HAND LUKE

I really liked Papillon. It's not the type of movie I usually watch, but it held my attention for the entire 2 1/2 hours! It doesn't hurt that my man Gregory Sierra (:eyes:) has a small but highly visible role in the film as well. :lol: I just bawled at The Green Mile. Michael Clarke Duncan was phenomenal.

Stir Crazy
Against the Wall
Shawshank Redemption

Stir Crazy
Against the Wall
Shawshank Redemption
Oh yeah AGAINST THE WALL is a great movie abt the Attica Riot. Thanx for reminding me of that.

Bad Boys
Stir Crazy
The Longest Yard (remake)
American Me

Ernest Goes to Jail :D

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS




Wow I thought I might be the only one with this one one the list. What an incredibly powerful movie.

My list would be

Midnight Express
American History X
Green Mile
Stir Crazy

Bad Boys
Cool Hand Luke
Brubaker
In Cold Blood
Last Rites
Escape From Alcatraz
The Birdman of Alcatraz
The Shawshank Redemption
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
The Great Escape

The green mile
Stir crazy
Shawshank Redemption
The great escape
The jailhouse rock
American history x

Wow I thought I might be the only one with this one one the list. What an incredibly powerful movie.

My list would be

Midnight Express
American History X
Green Mile
Stir Crazy
Thank you for reminding me of American History X. I too love that movie.

I agree Midnight Express is indeed a powerful movie. Although they didn't stick with too many facts (I read the book) it still remains one of my all-time favorite movies EVER. I can see it over and over. I never get tired of that movie. Brad Davis gave an extraordinary performance and should have received the Academy Award for that performance.

The Shawshank Redemption
Life
Stir Crazy
Bad Boys

The Shawshank Redemption
Life
Stir Crazy
Bad Boys

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Midnight Express
The Green Mile
Reform School Girls :D

Mean Dog Blues is another one of my choices. Any movie that displays Gregory Sierra in nothing but a pair of black briefs (in the, ahem, "examination" scene) is OK in my book. :eyes: :drool: :faint:

The Shawshank Redemption

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

:thumbsup:

Escape From Alactraz
Bad Boys
The Defiant Ones (the original with Sidney Potier and Tony Curtis)
The Shawshanke Redemption

This is VERY disturbing for me to admit, but I love anything that has to do with prison. I can't understand it for the life of me, because no way would I ever want to be a resident of one, nor would I ever want to visit a modern day prison. I've just always found them fascinating. When my husband and I went to San Francisco a few years ago, my favorite attraction was Alcatraz. My husband hated it, and a lot of people were saying that it should be torn down and turned into a wildlife sanctuary. As an animal lover, I am all for that, but I can't imagine Alcatraz being gone like that. I thought it was a really cool place! I visited one in Fremantle, Australia (near Perth), that was awesome as well.
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/default.aspx

Anyway, my FAVORITE prison movie is The Shawshank Redemption. Absolutely brilliant film. LOVE both Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
Others are:
Birdman of Alcatraz and Dead Man Walking.

I thought I would hate Dead Man Walking but I watched it with my husband. He's the one who wanted to see it. Here's the REALLY scary part: At the beginning it shows what Sean Penn did to the girl and the whole movie is about his being on Death Row. I would never, ever condone what he did. Killing someone is absolutely horrible-especially the way it was done in this movie. But Sean must have a very powerful effect on me, because toward the end (I won't give away the ending, but I'm sure it's not real hard to guess what happens), I was actually feeling SORRY for him! :eek: Isn't that horrible? Now THAT'S good acting!

I'd love to see Jailhouse Rock, though. It used to be available on Netflix for instant viewing but now you have to rent it. Jailhouse Rock is my very favorite Elvis song!

Incidentally, one of my favorite episodes of Monk is when he pretends to be a prisoner to catch someone who killed a guy on death row, hours before he was scheduled to die anyway. That episode was hilarious!

BTW, if you want to read a light-hearted book (actually two) about prison life, there are some wonderful kids books out.

Al Capone Does my Shirts and Al Capone Shines my Shoes-both by Gennifer Choldenko. The Shoes book just came out, so I haven't read it, but I LOVED the Shirts book. It's about this boy who lives with his family in the housing for families who work on Alcatraz. I think his dad is the warden and he has a sister who has a mental disability and he's trying to get her into a special schoo. GREAT book! Hey, I'm 42 years old and I loved it!

Thanks for all the great movie suggestions! I'll check those out!

Stir Crazy and Escape From Alcatraz.

An Innocent Man
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption

Midnight express
Escape from Alkatraz - Have it on VHS
Shawshank Redemption - Have it on VHS
The Great Escape - Have it on VHS
Papillon - Have it on VHS

I dont like NATURAL BORN KILLERS as its just cold blooded murder going on in it...

The Shawshank Redemption