In 1971, Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. Participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Ezra Miller (openly bi) costars. IFC Films (ifcfilms.com). —Troy Carrington
