Prison Movies

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick,...

As a young filmmaker who suffers from OCD, Lucas struggles with finishing his synopsis for a film that he had always dreamt of making. Despite his...

An investigation into how inmates, from their cells on Death Row, help pen pals outside in their daily struggles.

An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television...

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex....

The documentary was shot in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Hungary. It does not aim at judging whether the perpetrators were convicted...

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the...

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.

A Bosnian woman is released from prison after 13 years. She comes back home, where she finds her young son and his pregnant girlfriend. With luggage...

Typical low budget action thriller about an undercover cop forced to infiltrate a tough American jail

Over the course of more than a decade, 4-time WNBA champion and Olympic Gold medalist Maya Moore and her family have been fighting for the release of...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and...

Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.

After visiting his father and brother in prison, Gabriel (06) and his mother, Vera (45), return home weighed down by questions, fears, and an...

Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer...

When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved...

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to...