Prison Movies

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court...

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

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these...

A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police...

A psychologist for inmates has knowledge of a secret, experimental brain implant, designed to change convicts' behavior so that they will not...

As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as...

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967), who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled...

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento...

Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

A former gang leader has a passion for rebuilding relationships.

About a man hunt when a man escapes from the prison.

A wife visits her husband in prison to inform him she wants a divorce.

A drug-addict mother, locked in a mental institution, confesses she killed of her own son.

Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him. Filmed over eight years, The Guy With the Knife...

The story of South Boy. Caught up in a life of crime, he finds himself doing time in Federal Prison.

The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Kadir is new to prison. He earns prison leader...

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...