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The Hawk

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Posted: Aug. 12, 2011 - 9:23 PM ET #26

Cuckoos Nest was a mental institution...........technically

1-Shawshank

2-Dirty Dozen

3-Cool Hand Luke

jmello1

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Posted: Aug. 13, 2011 - 12:34 PM ET #27

Dead Man Walking is a great call!!! Can't believe I forgot about that one!!! AHHH Sean Penn is awesome in that...

Vivers33

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Posted: Aug. 13, 2011 - 2:47 PM ET #28

Shawshank Redemption

The Great Escape

Escape from Alcatraz

misfit_aka

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Posted: Aug. 14, 2011 - 2:56 AM ET #29

american me, green mile, shawshank

i love paul newman movies but he just misses top 3...

also MIDNIGHT EXPRESS is pretty good too...BRONSON is a must watch, so is THE EXPERIMENT

hmm, no one listed schindler's list....

666LES

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Posted: Aug. 15, 2011 - 4:36 PM ET #30

Some of the best prison movies seem to be set outside U.S.

MidnightExpress , Papillion, BrokedownPalace(also good GratefulDead tune)

Caged Heat- set in womans prison starring LindaBlair, most of the fight scenes take place in showers or the first thing they do when theres a knife fight is take off their prison shirts.

mojo822

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Posted: Aug. 17, 2011 - 2:18 PM ET #31

A couple of films you guys haven't mentioned that I also liked are

1. Blood In Blood Out..... also called Bound By Honor

2. Last Castle

3. Brubaker

Bluefin

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Posted: Aug. 17, 2011 - 2:29 PM ET #32

The Guns of Navarone

Pearl Harbor

Deer Hunter

Bluefin

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Posted: Aug. 17, 2011 - 2:30 PM ET #33

oh shit wrong thread

Moose6836

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Posted: Aug. 18, 2011 - 6:05 PM ET #34

Great choices for prison movies!!!!

NewDarkDay

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Posted: Aug. 20, 2011 - 4:49 PM ET #35

Quote Originally Posted by mojo822:

A couple of films you guys haven't mentioned that I also liked are

1. Blood In Blood Out..... also called Bound By Honor

2. Last Castle

3. Brubaker

About time someone listed Brubaker i remember seeing that at the movie theatre when it first came out

elsewhere

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Posted: Aug. 20, 2011 - 6:38 PM ET #36

Quote Originally Posted by hugh613:

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978)
DEAD MAN WALKING (1995)
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)

this list does it for me

except that shawshank is far ahead number 1

jmello1

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Posted: Aug. 22, 2011 - 2:12 AM ET #37

Quote Originally Posted by misfit_aka:

american me, green mile, shawshank

i love paul newman movies but he just misses top 3...

also MIDNIGHT EXPRESS is pretty good too...BRONSON is a must watch, so is THE EXPERIMENT

hmm, no one listed schindler's list....

Yea man Schindlers List was a great movie.... I love Liam Neeson and this was probably the best roll he has even played... Very real but sad movie..... Also enjoyed Liam Neeson in Taken.... Classic

jmello1

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Posted: Aug. 22, 2011 - 2:13 AM ET #38

ever played, excuse me

jmello1

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Posted: Aug. 23, 2011 - 12:47 AM ET #39

In fact, Schindlers List would be in my top 3..

So it would now go,

Shawshank

Schindlers List

Papillon

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