The Great Escape, The Shawshank Redemption, and Cool Hand Luke are all among the best essential movies about life in prison and jail.

The three of them show Billy the ropes and inform him of how things go down in prison. Quickly, they begin talking about the possibility of catching the Midnight Express, prison slang for a breakout.

Alan Parker, a British director whose wildly eclectic films included a gangster musical with child actors (“Bugsy Malone”), a grim account of prison life (“Midnight Express”), a civil ...

In pop culture terms, "Midnight Express" certainly remains one of the leading references for Turkey. Now, in an online interview and in an upcoming episode of the National Geographic Channel's "Locked ...

With direct flights from LAX, the Turkish capital is suddenly hopping as "Taken 2," "Argo" and "Skyfall" make the scene and the "Midnight Express" prison becomes a Four Seasons.

Then, in 1978, came “Midnight Express,” a movie so harrowing that the words “Turkish prison” still have the power to terrify. No one knows those horrors, though, better than Billy Hayes.

A much-talked-about film when it was released in 1978, Midnight Express remains a rip-roaring prison-break drama that presses all the right buttons. The film is also notable for being the first ...

Midnight Express: The cult film that had disastrous consequences for the Turkish tourism industry Premiering in Cannes this week, Midnight Return, a new film by Sally Sussman, explores one of the ...

Texas legislators are likely to agree to closing the century-old Central Unit prison in Sugar Land, mostly because it sits on land near the airport that can be developed.

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Not that Midnight Express is scream-out horrid or shocking. Among the celeb-followers who hightailed to the Coliseum box office demanding refunds after Polunin’s exit there were some who turned back ...

One of the most infamous scenes in Midnight Express occurs when Billy has a mental breakdown. After being used as in a political game between the US and Turkey, Hayes’ original sentence of four ...