Movies: San quentin

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system....

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up ...

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-American...

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter....

An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned....

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evi...

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country....

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse....

The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed Soledad Brother author, activist and San Quentin inmate George Jackson. A shootout ensued, killing Jackson, two other inmates and three guard...

Drama set in San Quentin prison....

A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison....