Films about those released from prison

Films about those released from prison
List of the best films about those released from prison, selected by visitors to our site: The Punisher: Dirty Laundry, Frenzy, All Summers End, After the Wedding, Dark Places, BPM (Beats per Minute), Godard Mon Amour, Landline, The Last Tycoon, The Third Murder.

In the top there are new films of 2019, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, short, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration00:10

Frank Castle is staying in a bad neighborhood, where he encounters a gang that terrorizes its residents.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA

A group of friends run a popular travel vlog that helps fund their adventures. The leader of the group brings along her younger sister for the next scuba diving trip to an isolated cove. But when their plane crashes, the two sisters must use their strength, resourcefulness and immense courage to survive a pack of great white sharks.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

A teenager tries to deal with his guilty conscience after his role in a prank that causes the death of his girlfriend's older brother.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:07

Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:31

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:54

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryFrance
Duration02:02

During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later gets married.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:32

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama, adventure, crime
CountryHong Kong, China

Set in Shanghais Gangster era of the early 1900s, THE LAST TYCOON tells the tale of CHENG (Chow Yun-Fat), a young man who is set up by the chief of police (Sammo Hung) and must leave the life he knows and QIU (Monica Mok), the woman he loves, to start again. After escaping prison CHENG quickly and violently moves his way up the ladder of Shanghais criminal underworld to become on the most powerful mob bosses in Shanghais history. But fame and notoriety take their toll when CHENG finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. Matters are only made worse when he bumps into the love of his life QIU, along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryJapan
Duration01:43

Shigemori is a lawyer tasked with defending Misumi in a murder trial. Misumi has previous convictions for murder and has confessed to the crime, but evidence in the case leads to Shigemori having doubts about what really happened.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:03

In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountrySpain, Mexico

Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA

After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside world may be as unforgiving as prison. Daniel is haunted by the past, dogged by the present, and uncertain of the future. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his homecoming reignites the fears of a small town and threatens to shatter his family’s fragile peace. Daniel’s alleged crime divided a community. Will his freedom tear it in half?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryGermany, France, Austria
Duration02:00

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:05

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada
Duration02:26

    An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:46

    An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:50

    Along the Côte d'Opale, near a hamlet, with its dunes and marshes, lives a mysterious wanderer from nowhere who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires...

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:46

    This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    Based on a stranger than fiction true story, King Cobra is a deliciously dark, twisted plunge into the behind-the-scenes world of the pornography industry. A young Sean Paul Lockhart (using the stage name 'Brent Corrigan') is a fresh-faced wannabe adult video performer. He is moulded into a star by Stephen (aka Bryan Kocis), a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home. But as Brent’s rise and demands for money put him at odds with his boss, he also attracts the attention of a rival producer, Joseph Kerekes, and his unstable lover, Harlow Cuadra, who will stop at nothing to squash Cobra Video and steal its number one star.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:31

    Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
    Duration02:19

    In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryDenmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany
    Duration02:17

    A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryFrance, Italy

    In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and emotional distance, Henry must learn to embrace his son's choices and try to connect with him through music.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:58

    Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his seven-year sentence, he gets in touch with his brother's former associate "Tricks," hermit and blind master player "The Lord," and skillful junkyard owner Mok-su; together, they begin formulating a plan to get back at Sal-soo and his men. Tae-seok slowly penetrates Sal-soo's inner circle and his gambling joint, and eliminates Sal-soo's men one by one. But Sal-soo discovers Tae-seok's true identity and engages him in one final game that will seal the fates of the two men involved.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, history
    CountryCanada, USA

    Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose members are being systematically murdered one by one. To solve the brutal killings, Kingston joins forces with a cocky, young homicide detective. But neither of them is prepared for the shocking corruption their investigation will uncover — stunning secrets that will set both men on a violent collision course with betrayal and vengeance.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryHong Kong
    Duration01:34

    Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking through Japan, when her raw street fighting skills draw the attention of Oshima, Japanese karate champion, who recruits and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as "The Kumite". After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready to face off against the deadliest female fighters in the world, including Ling, the Chinese apprentice of Oshima's nemesis. But other nefarious forces lie in the shadows, and Jane and Ling will have to unite on a journey that will take them from the gritty underworld of Hong Kong to the glitz of Macao, before deciding who really is the best female fighter on the planet.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
    Duration01:49

    Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:10

    From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
    Duration02:32

    A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:29

    A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:43

    The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.

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