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From thriller to horror and comedy to drama, there's no genre the prison movie hasn't conquered, delivering films as diverse as Stalag 17, The Rock, Chicago, Escape from New York and even Chicken Run. Collecting the greatest tales of incarceration ever committed to film, BLOCKBUSTER Online(TM) presents such timeless classics as Bridge on the River Kwai, The Shawshank Redemption and Papillon, along with more recent hits like Animal and The Longest Yard. Lock yourself in with this little lot.
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 | Last Castle, The
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General Eugene Irwin is set to prison after he made a serious error. Whilst there he makes a shocking discovery, his fellow prisoners are being murder...
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 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2001)
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Set in the Deep South during the Depression of the 1920's, this story is loosely based on Homer's The Odyssey. Whilst working on a chain gang, three c...
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Based on the novel by John Katzenbach, this is the story of Lt. Tommy Hart who is taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II. Whilst a POW, Har...
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 | Great Escape, The
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Action and tension are equally balanced in this story of one of the most remarkable incidents of World War Two, in which a group of Allied POW's in a ...
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 | Count Of Monte Cristo, The
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The story of Edmond Dantes, a young sailor who plans to marry Mercedes, his beautiful girlfriend. Edmond is betrayed by his best friend Fernand and fi...
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 | Con Air(1997)
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Recently parolled Cameron Poe finds himself on an aircraft with some of the most notorious criminals of all time. When one of them hijacks the plane, ...
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 | Hurricane, The(1999)
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The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer with a promising career ahead of him, until he is falsely convicted of a triple murder. Carter's only ...
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 | Papillon(1973)
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The story of one man's struggle to escape from Devil's Island prison and his refusal to be broken by his captors. Based on the novel by Henri Charrier...
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 | Dead Man Walking(1995)
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The true story of Sister Helen Prejean and her relationship with a convicted murderer on death row. Susan Sarandon received an Academy Award for Best ...
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