Prison Movies

The film takes on Ali, a member of a wealthy family, and his shared infatuation with a night club worker by the name of Tülay. Ali and...

Two people meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but...

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

When new prisoner Casey is brought to prison corrections officer Vicky White's facility, the two develop a secret infatuation.

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother,...

An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.

The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.

An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets...

The youngsters housed in the "Almafuerte" Maximum Security Juvenile Institute have their first approach to audiovisual recording. A film and...

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...

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by)...

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious...

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the...

A man struggles with grief after coming out of prison.

Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind...

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

Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch...