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1) Los muertos
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
A convicted killer is freed after serving a lengthy prison sentence. Released into Argentina, the ex-convict sets off on a journey of redemption and self-discovery.
2) Stir crazy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
The two main characters are unjustly imprisoned after being mistaken for bank robbers. In prison, it's all they can do to stay alive.
3) The Woodsman
Publisher
Newmarket
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After serving 12 years in prison for child abuse, Walter (Kevin Bacon) moves into a small apartment, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. He finds unexpected solace from Vicki (Kyra Sedgwick), a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past.
4) Leo
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
For a class assignment, a troubled young boy named Leo, begins to write to Stephen, a convicted felon in prison. Through their letters, Stephen has a lifeline to the outside world and Leo finds fatherly strength and guidance as he struggles with his mother's tragic past. When he is released from prison, Stephen sets out on a journey to help the boy and perhaps in the process, he can redeem himself. On his way, some co-workers help him, while others...
5) Hope Springs
Publisher
[Distributed by] Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Four women ex-convicts plan to steal a fortune and escape to Barbados, but plans go awry and they end up hiding in the Scottish town Hope Springs, running a hotel as a cover.
Ex-cons Ellie, Hannah, Shoo, and Josie have done their time. Now they just want to disappear to Barbados with the money they had stolen from Ellie's gangster husband, Roy. When a twist of fate leaves them without passports, they flee to a remote village in Scotland where they...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ray Donovan, Boston bouncer turned Hollywood crisis fixer, can protect just about anything except the unity of his family. As his estranged ex-con father dodges the law, Ray's lonely wife Abby finds herself drawn to a cop. Son Conor may be too close to home while daughter Bridget is slipping away. Can he hold the pieces of his family together while going to bat for celebrities in crisis? In this sharp, edgy second season, Ray finds that what he wants...
Publisher
Summit Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his trouble-making childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men2s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
Publisher
Summit Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his trouble-making childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men2s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The inglorious bastards), Cold eyes of fear is a stylish giallo in the form of a home invasion thriller, laced with hallucinatory imagery and backed with an edgy score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An ex-con abducts the nephew of the judge who put him behind bars, and holds the nephew and his beautiful companion (Giovanna Ralli) hostage in their home. But the criminal's carefully-planned revenge runs off the...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ray Donovan is the go-to guy who makes the problems of Los Angeles celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful family drama unfolds when his Irish gangster father is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Even Ray Donovan's actions have consequences and he soon learns that clean slates are a dirty business. Ray has taken some hits that would leave lesser men down for the count, but what doesn't kill a Donovan only makes him stronger. One thing's for sure, whether you're with him or against him, it may be a new day, but it's the same Ray.
13) Cold Creek Manor
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
The Tilson's are a wealthy couple who have grown tired of the high stress of life in New York City and are looking to move. Upstate, they find a mansion in the village of Cold Creek which has fallen into disrepair after it was repossessed. Convinced the house has great possibilities, the Tilsons buy it, and with a little hard work they are soon living in their dream home. Before long the family begins to learn the disturbing truth about the history...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Disenchanted and bitterly resentful, the historian Dr. Dallow has been released after 21 months in prison for playing piano in a subversive student cabaret. He refuses the Stasi's offer to help him get his university position back in exchange for becoming an informant. He lives in increasing isolation and despair as he tries to deal with the hypocritical social system and the injustice done to him. Things change after Soviet tanks roll into Prague...
15) Joe
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
16) The intouchables
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Description
Ex-convict Driss and disabled, French millionaire Philippe overcome adversity and find their perceptions of life changing as they form a friendship while Driss cares for Philippe.
17) Aces
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Aces is the story of a young man who fights against the battering of his mother by his drunken father. The situation escalates until Ace desperately stabs his father to death, and is sent to jail for a period of 15 years. Nine years later he is out on parole. He kills again within a day's time of his release.
18) The upside
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this ₁funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy.₂ From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
19) The boss
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelle Darnell a titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.--
20) Les misérables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The 2012 motion picture adaptation of the stage musical in which, after escaping from unjust imprisonment, Jean Valjean tries to become a respectable citizen but is pursued by an ambitious policeman who threatens to take back his freedom.
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