Prison Movies

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy...

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

A portrait of American recidivism produced over a span of two years, Revolving Doors follows Jason, who, despite attempts to retain meaningful...

A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer.

Narrated by Uncle Jack Charles and seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria’s Fulham Correctional Centre, this documentary...

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

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father,...

Three inmates awaken confused and shackled inside the dystopian super-prison Cybolica.

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime

Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 touched a raw nerve in the American psyche and made him a national hero at a...

With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in...

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of...

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

Three convicted criminals escape from prison carrying only a güiro, a tambor and an accordion. During their journey, they meet with a bunch of...

Marcus is a New York City street kid torn between his friends' criminal activities and a girl trying to keep him out of trouble.

A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's...

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.

The cold-hearted AI that runs a futuristic prison summons a prisoner to face his second parole hearing. Can he re-enact his crime without offending...