Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "island-prison"

1. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Christopher Adamson, JB Blanc

Votes: 148,328 | Gross: $54.23M

2. Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Bishop's most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life in order to make him complete three impossible assassinations and make them look like accidents.

Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 93,180 | Gross: $21.22M

3. Papillon (1973)

R | 151 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon

Votes: 138,287 | Gross: $53.27M

4. The Island (2005)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 327,469 | Gross: $35.82M

5. The Prisoner (1967–1968)

TV-PG | 1,010 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.

Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Peter Brace

Votes: 15,025

6. Invictus (2009)

PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng

Votes: 167,793 | Gross: $37.49M

7. Tin Man (2007)

TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz."

Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson

Votes: 14,531

8. No Escape (1994)

R | 118 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon

Votes: 22,684 | Gross: $15.34M

9. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton

Votes: 1,499

10. Proteus (2003)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance

An interracial gay love story set in early 18th century South Africa about two men -- a black prisoner living in a Cape Town penal colony and a Dutch sailor -- who weather injustices as a result of their affair.

Directors: John Greyson, Jack Lewis | Stars: Rouxnet Brown, Shaun Smyth, Neil Sandilands, Kristen Thomson

Votes: 702

11. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Not Rated | 147 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand

Votes: 19,280

12. The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 5,518

13. The Count of Monte Cristo (1998)

400 min | Adventure, History, Romance

Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.

Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort, Pierre Arditi

Votes: 6,961

14. Terminal Island (1973)

R | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one lead by a psychopath, and another group determined to bring him down.

Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen

Votes: 1,498

15. Caged Women (1980)

Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Action

Delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island.

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay

Votes: 574

16. King of Devil's Island (2010)

Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Drama

Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

Director: Marius Holst | Stars: Benjamin Helstad, Trond Nilssen, Stellan Skarsgård, Kristoffer Joner

Votes: 19,945 | Gross: $0.01M

17. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,040

18. We're No Angels (1955)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Three Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett

Votes: 10,771

19. The Secret of the Sword (1985)

G | 100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Prince Adam is sent to the world of Etheria to find his long abducted sister, Adora, and awaken her to her own destiny.

Directors: Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Bill Reed, Gwen Wetzler | Stars: John Erwin, Melendy Britt, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary

Votes: 3,290 | Gross: $7.66M

20. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)

Passed | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 3,238

21. The Crimson Pirate (1952)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher

Votes: 6,984

22. Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Gerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Gerry goes to prison.

Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman

Votes: 1,153

23. The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961)

132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dhéran

Votes: 537

24. The Suffering (2004 Video Game)

M | Action, Horror, Mystery

A death row convict must fight his way to freedom when nightmarish monsters invade the prison.

Director: Alan Patmore | Stars: Mark Berry, John Patrick Lowrie, John Armstrong, Ross Douglas

Votes: 863

25. The Prisoner of Castle If (1988)

236 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the ... See full summary »

Stars: Viktor Avilov, Evgeniy Dvorzhetskiy, Aleksey Petrenko, Anna Samokhina

Votes: 568

26. Alcatraz Prison Escape: Deathbed Confession (2015)

93 min | Action, Crime

The true story, based on a Deathbed Confession, about what really happened to Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers who escaped from Alcatraz Prison in 1962. They made it- but what happened next is shocking. Investigated by the US Marshals.

Director: John Edward Lee | Stars: Danny Trejo, Ed O'Ross, Shelby Deekins, Mike Earp

Votes: 249

27. Pagbabalik ng lawin (1975)

120 min | Action, Adventure

Fernando Poe Jr. goes back to his swashbuckling role days in a FJP Productions.

Director: Fernando Poe Jr. | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Tina Revilla, Max Alvarado, Vic Diaz

Votes: 12

28. The Count of Monte Cristo (1979)

350 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in ... See full summary »

Stars: Jacques Weber, Carla Romanelli, Jean-François Poron, Christiane Krüger

Votes: 165

29. The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008)

PG-13 | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Director: Michael James Rowland | Stars: Adrian Dunbar, Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany

Votes: 689

30. Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

Approved | 62 min | Mystery

Mr. Moto has himself imprisoned on Devil's Island so he can help his cellmate escape and thereby get the goods on a gang of international killers.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Peter Lorre, Mary Maguire, Henry Wilcoxon, Erik Rhodes

Votes: 895

31. Los islas Marias (1951)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

The live and hardship of the inmates at Las Islas Marias Penal Colony, a Mexican Federal Corrections Center placed on these very wild islands.

Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Pedro Infante, Rosaura Revueltas, Rocío Sagaón, Esther Luquín

Votes: 111

32. The Count of Monte Cristo (1943)

90 min | Adventure, Drama

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Vernay | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Michèle Alfa, Aimé Clariond, Marcel Herrand

Votes: 194

33. Die Insel der blutigen Plantage (1983)

88 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guards. However, one of the guards falls in ... See full summary »

Directors: Kurt Raab, Peter Kern | Stars: Udo Kier, Barbara Valentin, Tet Antiquiera, Karl-Otto Alberty

Votes: 162

34. Devil's Island (1938)

Approved | 62 min | Drama, Thriller

Unjustly condemned to Devil's Island and condemned to death, Dr. Gaudet's life is spared when his surgical skills save the life of the commandant's daughter.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrigan, James Stephenson, Adia Kuznetzoff

Votes: 624

35. Island of Horrors (1970)

83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Female inmates on a desert island prison run by sadistic guards deal with the arrival of a new warden - a disgraced official determined to prove his toughness, while a deadly plague is starting to spread across the island.

Director: Kunihara Toshiaki | Stars: Masakazu Tamura, Maya Kitajima, Reiko Kasahara, Yuki Aresa

Votes: 68

36. Contrainte par corps (1988)

98 min | Drama

Claire, a French tourist, is arrested by a puritanical and brutal policeman, who sends her to a women's prison.

Director: Serge Leroy | Stars: Marianne Basler, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Catherine Wilkening, Tanya Lopert

Votes: 79

37. The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Family

A TV series adaptated from the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the ... See full summary »

Stars: George Dolenz, Nick Cravat, Robert Cawdron, Henry Corden

Votes: 65

38. Isle of Missing Men (1942)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance

A penal colony governor invites a ravishing blond vagabond to join him for a week on his island prison grounds, unaware that she has manipulated their meeting for ulterior motives.

Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: John Howard, Helen Gilbert, Gilbert Roland, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 178

39. Airman

Animation, Adventure, Family | Announced

A story that follows the trials of Conor Broekhart, a young man who was born in a hot-air balloon, and who has been raised in the court of the kind and honorable King Nick. Conor, however, ... See full summary »

Director: Gil Kenan

40. The Count of Monte Cristo (1966– )

480 min | Adventure, Romance

Imprisoned on a trumped-up charge by enemies he cannot identify, Edmond Dantes vows revenge - which takes him twenty-five years to achieve.

Stars: Andrea Giordana, Achille Millo, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti

Votes: 47

41. The Count of Monte Cristo (1973 TV Movie)

60 min | Animation, Adventure

Cartoon adaptation of the classic of world literature by Alexandre Dumas, which tells the dramatic odyssey of Edmond Dantes since he's unjustly accused and sentenced for life.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Elizabeth Crosby, Tim Elliott, Barbara Frawley, Ron Haddrick

Votes: 49

42. More Than Just a Game (2007)

90 min | Drama, Sport

A drama about political prisoners playing soccer at Robben Island prison, where Nelson Mandela was held.

Director: Junaid Ahmed | Stars: Presley Chweneyagae, Wright Ngubeni, Az Abrahams, Tshepo Maseko

Votes: 231

43. Bastøy (2010)

74 min | Documentary

Bastoy is a state prison island located in Oslofjord, Norway. 115 convicted men are doing their time here: frauds, bank robbers, sexual offenders, Hells Angels, gang leaders, and (hired) ... See full summary »

Director: Michel Kapteijns

Votes: 15

44. McNeil Island

Drama | Announced

After suffering burnout, a former rape crisis counselor takes a job treating violent sex offenders at Washington State's McNeil Island Prison. While determined to prevent future crimes, ... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Knight

45. Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco (1956)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Comedy

Phil Foster's Brooklyn character visits picturesque San Francisco and, in Brooklynese lingo, describes the sights and wonders and hilly terrain of the City By the Bay...the cable cars, Chinatown, the Presido, the Golden Gate Bridge, etc.

Director: Arthur Cohen | Star: Phil Foster

Votes: 12

46. Justice League (2001–2004)
Episode: A Better World: Part II (2003)

TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

With the Justice League out of the way, the Justice Lords begin to establish their own style of order.

Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Maria Canals-Barrera, Susan Eisenberg, Phil LaMarr

Votes: 878

47. SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1996)
Episode: Daggers (1994)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

The crew of the the newly rebuilt SeaQuest must deal with a hostage crisis at a UEO prison colony, where genetically engineered soldiers have risen up against their captors.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Roy Scheider, Jonathan Brandis, Don Franklin, Rosalind Allen

Votes: 140

48. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: The Way of All Flesh (1996)

Unrated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

John Corben returns as a kryptonite-powered cyborg eager to kill Superman.

Director: Kenji Hachizaki | Stars: Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Clancy Brown, Malcolm McDowell

Votes: 557

49. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode: The Night of the Pelican (1968)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western

West and his temporary partner Jeremy Pike investigate a Chinese gangster's theft of rare explosives from a San Francisco armory. Artemus Gordon (Martin) is said to be on desk duty in ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Nicol | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Charles Aidman, Khigh Dhiegh

Votes: 130

50. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Sea Devils: Episode Three (1972)

TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor is held prisoner by Trenchard while the Master attempts to contact the Sea Devils.

Director: Michael E. Briant | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning, Edwin Richfield

Votes: 563