Clint Eastwood is icily determined in an equally cool film based on the true story of Frank Morris, the only prisoner believed to have successfully escaped from Alcatraz prison.

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Packed with classic scenes and lines; Morgan Freeman is Red, ‘the only guilty man in Shawshank’, and Tim Robbins is Andy Dufrane, ‘who had to go to jail to learn how to be a crook’.

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Paul Newman perfects his rebel image as the prisoner who escapes - not to mention his egg-eating skills - make him a jailbird hero.

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Bleak, claustrophobic and violent… well, it is about life in prison.  The true story of Billy Hayes, sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail for drug smuggling.

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The Who’s Roger Daltrey is eerily good at playing a villain - in this case armed robber John McVicar, at the time Public Enemy No 1.

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The late great Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder are two wrongfully incarcerated actors who find life behind bars has too many cons and few pros.

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New warden Robert Redford hits on a novel approach to prison reform - enter the jail as a prisoner to find out how inmates are treated.

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Halle Berry won an Oscar as the woman who falls in love with her husband’s jail executioner.

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Susan Sarandon is the nun trying to get Death Row prisoner Sean Penn to confess his crime in this beautifully paced, moving drama.

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The film version of the hit TV series, which proves surprisingly good.  Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is an unwilling escapee from Slade after arranging an inmate/celebrity football match.

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