Prison Movies

Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a...

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes...

The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for...

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the...

This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trials and...

A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard...

Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the...

It is an unwelcome homecoming for Siva, a Singaporean-Indian ex-convict, haunted by a tragedy in his past. Released after eight years behind bars and...

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out...

Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that...

Two people Matt and Kate wake up in a closed down prison. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. In the prison they encounter...

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...

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

When an unworldly country man is released from prison setting out a new revenge, a night club singer crosses his path. He eagerly leads her to his...

Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who...

Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge...