Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana, in South America: The Devil's Islands. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle, lay the lost remains of what had been for a hundred years the most storied convict prison in history. There, while most of the prisoners faded into oblivion, a few became legends. Some because they were innocent, as in the scandalous Dreyfus Affair, some because they somehow escaped the islands of nightmare, as did the "butterfly", Henry Charrière, immortalized by Steve McQueen in Papillon. Now 50 years after the prison doors slammed shut for the last time, we explore what's left of the Devil's Islands' unbelievably dark and oppressive realm.
The Escapist
2008
6.2/10
Twelve Monkeys
1995
7.6/10
Escape Plan
2013
6.7/10
Fortress
1992
6.1/10
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014
6.5/10
Dark Passage
1947
7.3/10
Attica
2021
6.9/10
Sucker Punch
2011
6.2/10
The Last Days
1998
7.4/10
Mysterious Island
1961
6.6/10
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
2022
6.4/10
Dark City
1998
7.3/10
Unknown
2006
6.2/10
V for Vendetta
2006
7.9/10
We Go In at Dawn
2020
5.9/10
Infinity Chamber
2016
6.3/10
The Package
1989
6.1/10
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
6.8/10
Decision Before Dawn
1951
6.8/10
13th
2016
7.8/10
The University of Sing Sing
2011
5.5/10
