Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Language
English
Formats
Description
City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
7) Lock up
Publisher
Live Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Drama about a convict and the vicious warden determined to break his will.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When Kevin shows up at prison sufering from brain damage that wasn't there at his sentencing, the prison psychologist tries to help him remember what happened. Someone in the prison knows what happened, and a battle of hate and revenge ensues.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours,...
10) The longest yard
Series
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location at the Georgia State Prison, semi-pro football is played with the cons as the heroes and the guards as the heavies.
11) Against the wall
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the 1971 Attica New York Prison uprising in which 10 guards were held hostage and state troopers and the National Guard killed 29 prisoners before regaining control.
12) Papillon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
A tale of the horrible conditions at the infamous Devil's Island prison colony and of the daring escape of a man who claims he was falsely convicted of murder. Based on a true-life account.
13) Cadence
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A rebellious army private finds himself in the stockade, with a bunch of room-mates that probably won't accept him into their club-- he is white and they are black. Gradually, he earns their respect and they are united in a struggle against the tough, bigoted stockade commander.
17) Felon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Wade Porter is a loving family man who loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to three years at a maximum security facility. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murder and subjected to brutal beatings, Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life if he is to survive the block.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Escape plan. Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Escape plan 2 : Hades. Years after he fought his way out of prison,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Shawshank redemption: Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940s, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.
The green mile: Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their...
20) Cool hand Luke
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c 2008
Language
English
Description
"His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang ... Cool Hand Luke [is] the loner who won't -- or can't -- bend to the arbitrary rules of his captivity."--Container.