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Penitentiary

Penitentiary

There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!

Released R 99 min 5.7/10 Votes: 1253
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.
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  • The Green Mile
  • Law Abiding Citizen
  • Room
  • Inside Man
  • The Experiment
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • The Killing
  • Penitentiary
  • Shutter Island
  • Dead Man Walking
  • The Rock
  • Escape from Alcatraz
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • The Great Escape
  • Papillon
  • Midnight Express
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Animal Factory
  • Con Air
  • Natural Born Killers
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