Prison Movies

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

A short directed by Diederik Van Rooijen.

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...

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax...

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan...

Since November 2022, the Brussels prisons of Saint-Gilles, Forest and Berkendael have been moving to the brand-new "prison village" of Haren, on the...

A young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in friendship. His wrongful arrest tests his...

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears...

An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial...

After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in...

An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has...

A young girl discovers the truth regarding the secrets of her past. Just as she discovers the truth, events take place that change her life forever.

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

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

This is a story of tragic loss and blessed gain. This is the story of John Turnipseed, who spent his youth fighting disadvantages and hardship,...