Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "maximum-security"

1. The Virgin Suicides (1999)

R | 97 min | Drama, Romance

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner

Votes: 169,568 | Gross: $4.86M

2. Sanctuary (2008–2011)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Modern society's evolution involves stem cells, gene therapy, transplants, and cloning, but also exposes the existence of monsters that hold the key to our race's future.

Stars: Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Christopher Heyerdahl, Ryan Robbins

Votes: 22,671

3. Escape from Pretoria (2020)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Mystery

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Director: Francis Annan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter

Votes: 43,702

4. The Traitor (2019)

R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.

Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 13,022

5. Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)

R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.

Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan

Votes: 31,257 | Gross: $0.28M

6. Chattahoochee (1989)

R | 98 min | Biography, Drama

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Pamela Reed

Votes: 2,428 | Gross: $0.26M

7. Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: David Field, Mike Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey

Votes: 1,961

8. The Great Impostor (1960)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 1,712

9. Caesar Must Die (2012)

Unrated | 77 min | Drama

Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."

Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca

Votes: 6,824

10. The Glass House (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A young guard and a college professor convicted of manslaughter both start their first day in prison.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Vic Morrow, Alan Alda, Clu Gulager, Billy Dee Williams

Votes: 934

11. Unspeakable (2002)

R | 108 min | Horror, Thriller

A woman battles an unspeakable terror.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Pavan Grover, Michelle Wolff, Mark Voltura, Marco Rodríguez

Votes: 1,512

12. Cry of the Hunted (1953)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, William Conrad

Votes: 531

13. Revolt in the Big House (1958)

79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Gannon is an imprisoned racketeer kingpin who tries to manipulate his young cell mate into staging a riot and prison break, but the cell mate tries to back out when he realizes other inmates may be killed in the process.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Gene Evans, Robert Blake, Timothy Carey, John Qualen

Votes: 197

14. Everynight... Everynight (1994)

R | 92 min | Drama

A new prisoner struggles to retain his humanity in a brutal maximum security division.

Director: Alkinos Tsilimidos | Stars: David Field, Bill Hunter, Robert Morgan, Phil Motherwell

Votes: 73

15. Rules Reborn

Action, Crime, Drama | Announced

Peter is shot and stabbed by his girlfriend and his best friend and left to die. Then he follows a lead that lands him a job escorting a mobster's girlfriend, but his quest for vengeance ... See full summary »

Star: Zak Lee

16. Cutting Loose (2010)

40 min | Documentary, Short, News

An American prison artist pits creativity against negativity to make it on the outside.

Director: Joanne Caputo

17. Radio Free America (2017– )
Episode: Saturday Melt Down/Saturday Boomer Tech (2019)

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Stars: Halsey English, Dustin Gold, Brian Hendrix

18. Batwoman (2019–2022)
Episode: Through the Looking-Glass (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Kate begins to question her instincts and Luke gets upsetting news. Alice seeks her sister's help with a special task.

Director: Sudz Sutherland | Stars: Ruby Rose, Rachel Skarsten, Meagan Tandy, Nicole Kang

Votes: 1,311

19. Wild Travels (2018– )
Episode: Gatorland (2020)

TV-PG | Comedy, History, Reality-TV

Journey to Gatorland for a prehistorically wild time, tour the family home depicted in the film "A Christmas Story," and visit a one-of-a-kind museum dedicated to Muhammad Ali. Also, experience the West Virginia Penitentiary and Randyland.

Director: Harvey Moshman | Stars: Will Clinger, Randy Gilson, Mark McHugh, Stephen Singer

20. The Tom Woods Show (2013– )
Julian Assange's Brother on the Family's Struggle (2023 Podcast Episode)

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Stars: Tom Woods, Gabriel Shipton

21. The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode: Things You Can't Outrun (2014)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Barry and Joe track a deadly metahuman with toxic gas powers, and Caitlin relives the night of the explosion that killed her fiancé.

Director: Jesse Warn | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Rick Cosnett

Votes: 6,644