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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

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A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

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1962

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

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1947

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

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2010

Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

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2008

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

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2001

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

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2008

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

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A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

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A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

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Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

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The Woodsman

2004

After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.

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Chopper

2000

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.

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The Equalizer 2

2018

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.

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2016

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

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Colors

1988

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.

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Copycat

1995

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

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Tales from the Hood

1995

A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.

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Crisis

2021

Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.

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