Prison Movies

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

Ralph gets sent to his room for breaking a window. There, he passes the time in Walter Mitty-type fashion, daydreaming that he's a parent-saving...

Emperors of Nothing is an unprecedented immersion within Forest, a prison in Brussels notorious for its inhumane incarceration conditions, bearing...

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his...

While attempting to evade a group of hunters, Bugs Bunny jumps into a rabbit hole and inadvertently tunnels into Sing Song prison, where the...

A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.

Ruth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions...

Weasel Hammond, fresh out of prison for punching a cop five years ago, embarks on a mysterious quest left to him by his recently deceased cellmate.

200 young people under 25 have died in custody since 1992 in England and Wales. This is the story of three of them; young men who died behind bars -...

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight...

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.

An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.

Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the experiment to an Italian environment. Italian...

Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment. The gold...

Frequent perpetrator Tony ends up in the Pieter Baan Center after yet another violent robbery. For seven weeks, a procession of behavioral...

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their...

Mickey Mouse and several other characters are on a prison chain gang, guarded by Pegleg Pete. They break rocks for a while, then Mickey breaks out a...

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their...