Wasteman

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to ...

Runtime

2h 27m

Director

John Frankenheimer

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cel...

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

Stuart Rosenberg

Cast

Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Kim Ki-duk

Cast

Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee, Kwon Hyuk-ho

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Ted Kotcheff

Cast

Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Jim Jarmusch

Cast

Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni