Connection
Brubaker is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bob Rafelson released in USA on 20 june 1980 with Robert Redford
Brubaker (1980)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listBrubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as newly arrived prison warden Henry Brubaker, who attempt to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W.D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal.
The film features a large supporting cast including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill, and an early appearance by Morgan Freeman. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1981 Academy Awards.
Synopsis
In 1969 a mysterious man (Robert Redford) arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas. As an inmate, he immediately witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden diseased food, insurance fraud and a doctor charging inmates for care. Brubaker eventually reveals himself—during a dramatic standoff involving a deranged prisoner who was being held in solitary confinement—to be the new prison warden to the amazement of both prisoners and officials alike.Actors
Robert Redford
(Henry Brubaker)
Yaphet Kotto
(Richard 'Dickie' Coombes)
Jane Alexander
(Lillian Gray)
Morgan Freeman
(Walter)
David Keith
(Larry Lee Bullen)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Brubaker
There are 245 films with the same actors, 28 films with the same director, 65768 with the same cinematographic genres (including 8422 with exactly the same 2 genres than Brubaker), 748 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Brubaker, you will probably like those similar films :
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
, 2h6Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon, Strother Martin, Robert Drivas, Lou Antonio
Rating80%
Decorated Korean War veteran Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman), is arrested for cutting the "heads" off parking meters one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida chain gang prison run by a sadistic warden, the Captain (Strother Martin), and a stoic rifleman, Walking Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), whose eyes are always obstructed by a pair of mirrored sunglasses.
The Star Chamber (1983)
, 1h49Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, Larry Hankin, James Sikking
Rating62%
Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy. They were driving slowly late at night and attracted the suspicion of two police officers, who wondered if the van's occupants might be burglars. After checking the license plate for violations, the policemen pulled them over for expired paperwork, claimed to have smelled marijuana, then saw a bloody shoe inside the van. However, the paperwork was actually submitted on time (it was merely processed late), meaning the police had no reason to pull over the van and Hardin has no choice (see fruit of the poisonous tree) but to throw out any subsequently discovered evidence, i.e. the bloody shoe. Hardin is even more distraught when the father of the boy attempts to shoot the criminals in court but misses and shoots a cop instead. Subsequently, the father commits suicide while in jail only after he informs Hardin that another boy has been discovered raped and murdered and tells him "This one is on you, your Honor. That boy would be alive if you hadn't let those men go." After hearing all this, Judge Hardin approaches his friend, Judge Caulfield (Hal Holbrook), who tells him of a modern-day Star Chamber: a group of judges who identify criminals who fell through the judicial system's cracks and then take actions against them outside the legal structure.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
, 2h22Directed by Frank Darabont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Évasion, Films about capital punishment, Buddy films
Actors Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, James Whitmore, Clancy Brown
Rating87%
In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary in rural Maine. Andy befriends prison contraband smuggler, Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and later a large poster of Rita Hayworth for Andy. Working in the prison laundry, Andy is regularly assaulted by the "bull queer" gang "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs.
The Last Castle (2001)
, 2h12Directed by Rod Lurie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films
Actors Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo, Paul Calderon, Steve Burton
Rating69%
Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford) is brought to a maximum security military prison to begin a ten-year sentence for his decision (in violation of a presidential order) to send U.S. troops on a mission in Burundi, resulting in the deaths of eight soldiers. Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), the prison's commandant, is a great admirer of the general but is offended by a comment he overhears: Irwin criticizes Winter's much-prized military artifacts collection, calling it something no actual battlefield veteran would ever have.
Gulag (1985)
Directed by Roger Young
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, John Benfield, Bruce Boa, Warren Clarke, Eugene Lipinski
Rating65%
TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering a World athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a scientist wanting him to smuggle secret information out of the Soviet Union. Almon is imprisoned and interrogated over several days by prison official Bukovsky who ultimately forces him to confess to being a spy for the United States. Though promised with release for doing so, Almon is instead transported to a railway station and placed aboard a train on a Stolypin prison car with other political prisoners bound for a labour camp near the Arctic Circle.
Poodle Springs (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Tom Bower, Joe Don Baker, Michael Laskin
Rating59%
In 1963, an aging Philip Marlowe (James Caan) is newly married to young socialite Laura Parker (Dina Meyer). The private investigator leaves his Los Angeles apartment behind and sets up a new base of operations in Poodle Springs, an upscale community in the desert a couple hours from L.A. (a parody of Palm Springs), where he and his wife intend to live.
Attica (1980)
, 1h37Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Prison films
Actors Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani, Morgan Freeman, Maurice Woods, George Grizzard
Rating64%
Les coulisses des 1971 prisonniers révolte à la prison de l'Attique.
La Machine (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Gérard Frot-Coutaz, Paul Vecchiali
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about capital punishment
Actors Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Mélinand, Frédéric Norbert, Jean-Claude Guiguet, Michel Delahaye
Rating70%
Un pédophile, Pierre Lentier, est jugé pour avoir tué une fillette dont il tentait d'abuser. Son procès se mue en débat autour du thème de la peine de mort.
Prison on Fire II (1991)
, 1h49Directed by Ringo Lam
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films
Actors Chow Yun-fat, Roy Cheung, Elvis Tsui, Wan Yeung-ming
Rating66%
Like the first film, this follows the fraternal bond of two inmates, once again Ching, but this time with "Brother Dragon", a boss of the "Black Rats" gang. Ching escapes the prison in order to see his son, Leung was placed in an orphanage after his grandmother died, and gets into trouble with "Assassin"'s replacement, Officer Zau. Ching escapes a second time to follow Boss Dragon after he lied about jumping off a cliff to escape. Ching looked for his son and intended to bring him along, but was refused by the social worker.
, 1h28Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yayoi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Akemi Negishi
Rating62%
Toujours recherchée par la police, Sasori se lie avec un ancien activiste de gauche, traumatisé d'avoir été torturé dans sa jeunesse.