Movies and TvShows featuring "prison-hospital" theme.
After suffering a head injury, a man wakes up in a hospital with amnesia. He teams up with a group of criminals to discover the truth about a bank robbery and recover the hidden loot. As they navigate the dangerous world of corrupt federal agents and violent criminals, the man's memory slowly starts to return, revealing shocking secrets.
A young employee moves from a small town to the big city and finds himself living in a luxurious penthouse apartment. He navigates through the upper-middle-class society, facing jealousy, ridicule, and love. Along the way, he discovers the sacrifices and compromises that come with wealth and privilege.
A family of career criminals, spanning four generations, continue their legacy of heists and robberies in New York City. The plot follows the dynamics between the members of the family, their relationships, and their attempts to stay ahead of the law.
The Longest Yard (1974) is about a former football player who ends up in prison. To gain the respect of his fellow inmates, he agrees to form a football team to play against the prison guards. The team of inmates, led by the disgraced player, must overcome various challenges and obstacles to prove themselves on the field.
After a fatal car crash, a teenage mother struggles with substance abuse and grief. She finds solace in a grief support group and navigates her first love amidst the challenges of being a young mother.
In 'Caged' (1950), a young woman named Marie is convicted of a crime she did not commit and is sent to prison. She must navigate the harsh realities of life behind bars, including cruel punishment, sadistic guards, and hopelessness. As she struggles to survive, she forms bonds with other women in prison and discovers secrets about the corrupt prison system. 'Caged' is a gripping prison drama that explores themes of social commentary, injustice, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Chattahoochee is a biographical drama based on the true story of Chris Calhoun, a Korean War hero who is mistakenly committed to a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in Florida. The movie follows Calhoun's fight against abuse, neglect, and the oppressive bureaucracy of the hospital as he tries to maintain his sanity.
A man named Ernie Mott lives in the slums of London, taking care of his sick mother. He falls in love with a woman named Ada and is torn between his love for her and his duty towards his family. As he becomes involved in a theft, he must make a decision that will change his life forever.
After his wife and son are killed during a bank robbery, a man becomes obsessed with seeking revenge against those responsible. As he goes down a dark path of violence and self-destruction, he must confront his own moral compass and question how far he is willing to go for vengeance.
Carbine Williams follows the true story of a man named Marsh Williams, a skilled gunsmith who is falsely accused of murder. While serving time in prison, Williams transforms himself and invents a new kind of automatic rifle, which catches the attention of a government agent. With his intelligence and determination, Williams fights against an unjust system and eventually receives a pardon from the governor.
In this pre-code crime film, a man is wrongly accused of manslaughter and sent to prison. While in prison, he experiences love, betrayal, and tries to prove his innocence.
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Based on true events, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life. His reckless character and his youth passions lead him to commit a murder in Athens. Chased by everyone, even by his own self, he is imprisoned under the harshest conditions. With the help of a German doctor, he learns to feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime. His deep remorse will lead him from darkness to light.
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.