Your Favorite Prison movies

[Gorn Captain]

Chicken Run....

[Zemo]

Man, everything named I like. The only thing I can add is "The Birdman Of Alcatraz."

[megoapesnut]

Midnight Express and Brubaker. Just rewatched ME on Blu-ray a few months ago and the picture looked VERY good for an older lower budget flick.

[bizzaro megomauler]

Longest Yard, Shawshank, and Bad Boys (the Sean Penn one). oh and the grandest of them all THE GREAT ESCAPE!!!

[megoapesnut]

Oh yeah, bad boys with Penn was a good flick. They were technically in juvy, but that still works.

[Mikey]

I remember seeing an old prison movie once on TV starring Alan Alda

Not sure if I dreamed that or not

[David Lee]

I love Stir Crazy and most of the other films mentioned here.

Count of Monte Christo is one of my favourite novels but I can't usually bear many of the film adaptations.

Same here... I actually re-read Dumas in anticipation of the Caviezel film in 2002... I was a bit dissapointed but not bad, the book is just untouchable.

1. Shawshank
2.Green Mile (so close to the book it's just awesome)
3. Innocent Man (don't talk to me out' the side of yo neck when I am trying to do you a solid!...)

Oh and I love Stir Crazy, it represents my just starting to get humor stage as a kid...

-Dave

[Mikey]

Stir Crazy was great .... I laugh everytime that guy calls Richard Pryor "sweet pants"

[toys2cool]

Oh yeah, bad boys with Penn was a good flick. They were technically in juvy, but that still works.

yeah bad boys was good, the fight scenes in there were awesome

[megoapesnut]

yeah bad boys was good, the fight scenes in there were awesome

The coke cans in the pillow case to make a weapon was classic

[EmergencyIan]

Escape From Alcatraz


- Ian

[Brazoo]

Hong Kong live action adaptation of the anime "Story of Ricky" is just over the top and nutty.

Ding-ding-ding - we have a winna'!!!!!

[DocDrako]

Here's my list:

Shawshank Redemption (Best. Ending. Ever.)
Gulag
Midnight Express

Disqualified Answer: Von Ryan's Express

That's all I got.

[alex]

Of all the above mentioned, shawshank was jaw dropping to watch, but one u Guys missed and Im really suprised is "in the name of the father" , with Daniel Day Lewis and Emma Thompson, true story of the men wrongly accused of the IRA bombings, fantastic emotionaly moving film

Another one, more for the english crowd here "Scum" with a very young Ray Winstone. It was one of those banned films at the time with a certificate X

[Mikey]

What was the B&W movie with Sean Connery in a British military prison called ?