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1) The Woodsman
Publisher
Newmarket
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After serving 12 years in prison for child abuse, Walter (Kevin Bacon) moves into a small apartment, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. He finds unexpected solace from Vicki (Kyra Sedgwick), a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A woman finds the strength to overcome a painful history and faces the challenge of learning to trust and love again in this powerful and uplifting novel. Shay has never had a happy life. After growing up in an abusive home, she finally secures a job at a bank when her father passes away. Her brother, Caden, quickly falls into the wrong crowd and finds himself indebted to a dangerous drug lord. In a desperate attempt to rescue her only living family...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The inglorious bastards), Cold eyes of fear is a stylish giallo in the form of a home invasion thriller, laced with hallucinatory imagery and backed with an edgy score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An ex-con abducts the nephew of the judge who put him behind bars, and holds the nephew and his beautiful companion (Giovanna Ralli) hostage in their home. But the criminal's carefully-planned revenge runs off the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently released from prison, Beth (Julianne Nicholson) is working with her public defender (Jimmy Smits) to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess (Emma Roberts), an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and the...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A DATE FOR MAD MARY tells the story of ‘Mad’ Mary McArdle returning to her small Irish home town after a short spell in prison – for something she’d rather forget. But everything and everyone seems different. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married and Mary is maid of honor. When Charlene refuses Mary a ‘plus one’ on the grounds that she probably couldn’t find a date, Mary becomes determined to prove her wrong. Her attempts...
7) In your eyes
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A romance with a supernatural twist, Rebecca, a lonely housewife in New Hampshire, suddenly discovers that she shares a strange connection with Dylan, a struggling ex-con in New Mexico; they can see through one another's eyes and experience sensations felt by the other. Though they've never met, the two share a unique, unparalleled intimacy by being in each other's heads and begin a long-distance relationship unlike any other.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Disenchanted and bitterly resentful, the historian Dr. Dallow has been released after 21 months in prison for playing piano in a subversive student cabaret. He refuses the Stasi's offer to help him get his university position back in exchange for becoming an informant. He lives in increasing isolation and despair as he tries to deal with the hypocritical social system and the injustice done to him. Things change after Soviet tanks roll into Prague...
10) King Hedley II
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In 1985, in the tenements of Pittsburgh's Hill District, a black ex-con attempts to rebuild his life
11) The hoodlum
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An ex-con, freed because of his mother's promises to the parole board, works for his brother at a gas station but looks for an easy way to make money
Language
English
Formats
Description
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or risking it all to seek justice for his brother....
14) The woodsman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After twelve years in prison, a convicted sex offender struggles to regain the life he lost, while grappling with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons
15) The locksmith
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An expert locksmith is released from prison and pulled back into a world of crooked cops and small-town gangsters, despite the future he hoped to build with his ex-fiance and their daughter
16) Sherrybaby
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Tommy gets released from the big house, he discovers living on the outside is even crazier than it was behind bars. Tommy's eccentric sister won't get off is back, his sexy ex-girlfriend won't leave him alone, and his former partner in crime won't take no for an answer. Through it all, Tommy just might find the girl of his dreams and get convicted of love in the first degree.
18) The chaperone
Publisher
WWE Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ray Bradstone has been released from prison after serving seven years. Now he only wants to win back the respect and love of his fifteen-year-old daughter, so he agrees to chaperone her class on a school trip
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the money he knows their father hid before his imprisonment
20) Morning glory
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An ex-con trying to get a fresh start answers a widow's ad for a husband to help her work the farm, but when a local woman is found murdered, he's seen as the most likely suspect
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