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Veta
Veta (1986)

Directed by A. Kodanda Rami Reddy
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Kongara Jaggaiah, Sumalatha, Ranganath, Nutan Prasad

Chiranjeevi is a sailor working on a ship during the British rule. He is in love with a wealthy woman Jayaprada and her bava, who works for the British army also wants to marry her.
Dirty Hands
Dirty Hands (2008)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films

Five Middle Eastern captives fight to retain their sanity and dignity in the face of their American interrogators, who in turn struggle with demons of their own.
Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story
Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story (2003)
, 33minutes
Origin USA
Genres Biography
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Alexis Cruz, Brittany Ishibashi, Emily Kuroda, Takayo Fischer

In 1941, Ralph Lazo is a 16-year-old student at Belmont High School, an ethnically mixed school in downtown Los Angeles. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, Ralph's Japanese American friend, Jimmy Matsuoka, and his family, are forced to sell their belongings and evacuate to a remote concentration camp. Ralph surprises his friends at the train station as they are about to depart for Manzanar, a relocation center in central California. He joins them for the 5-hour train ride, the three-year stay, and a lifelong friendship.
Voyna okonchena. Zabudte...
Voyna okonchena. Zabudte... (1996)
, 1h34
Themes Prison films, Political films

The main character - a simple Russian woman. Her son is in the army. The Chechen war begins. Mother concerned about the lack of reports of his son. While she only realizes that the boy in the war. Next try to learn something, get him out of hell. The move started up all possible and impossible means: prayer, attempt to bribe, senseless apartments for sale. Suddenly, the son returns, but at a deserter will soon come, and could go no farther ... The film is made on the material on the war in Chechnya, involving unique combat chronicles of the archives of the FSB and other special services. At the end of the film is a complete list of Russian soldiers killed in the Chechen war (in 2939 established names), and the text, in which the authors ask for forgiveness from the Soldiers' Mothers, whose children were in the fields of war, because dared to touch this topic. The last film role Zinovy Gerdt.
13 Dead Men
13 Dead Men (2003)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Lorenzo Lamas, Mia Riverton

The plot centers around a master diamond thief named Malichi who is framed for murder and put on death row. When the corrupt warden finds that he has hidden diamonds, he tries anything he can to get him to reveal the location of the diamonds, including extending his sentence. When Malichi realizes he is not going to find justice, he turns to Caj, a belligerent inmate that agrees to help him in order to gain his own freedom.
3 Deewarein
3 Deewarein (2003)
, 1h55
Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Nagesh Kukunoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla, Gulshan Grover, Shrivallabh Vyas

Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for murdering his wife too, but he claims that it was an accident where she falls off the sidewalk while they were in the middle of a heated argument. Ishaan (Naseeruddin Shah), a happy-go-lucky man, is also arrested for murder that he commits while in the act of robbery. The prison's custodian is Mohan (Gulshan Grover), who attempts several methods to reform the prison's inmates. A documentary filmmaker, Chandrika (Juhi Chawla) comes to the jail to set a film about these three men. In the process, she finds redemption to her troubled marriage.
36 Hours
36 Hours (1964)
, 1h55
Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Werner Peters, John Banner, Russell Thorson

Having attended General Eisenhower's final briefing on the Normandy landings (D-Day), U.S. Army Major Jeff Pike (James Garner) is sent to Lisbon to confirm with an informant that the Nazis still expect the invasion in the wrong place (Pas de Calais). However, Pike falls into a trap; he is drugged into unconsciousness and transported to Germany.