Prison Movies

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...

Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking...

Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join...

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative...

The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security...

Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time for aggravated assault....

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

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety.

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...

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

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

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds...

Franz Sommer, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years, forms a close relationship with his cellmate, Steineau. Upon release, his wife...

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who...

This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a...

The story of a cowboy who fights a bandit gang that is after him.

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a...

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

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,...