186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)

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1980. Peru. Wayne Montgomery is a young, naive, Californian surfer teaching English...life is good...until one day, for no apparent reason, he is arrested and thrown into Lima's infamous El Sexto Prison. Corrupt police officials charge him with drug trafficking in the hope of extorting a "ransom" from his family. But Wayne refuses to co-operate...beaten starved and left to rot in a living hell, even the American consulate aren't interested in his case. Wayne is forced to integrate with his fellow prisoners in the hope of securing means to escape. Most are either lifers or political activists, others just innocent victims of the corrupt Peruvian system. Seen as easy pickings for both the sadistic police inspector and a psychotic lifer. His only hope of staying alive is to stand his ground and fight back. But when a young Hare Krishner boy is found murdered, the entire prison explodes into savage chaos. Wayne's hope of escape soon becomes a desperate race for survival in what will soon become a living nightmare!