Prison Movies

Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed...

Phillip Schuman's women-in-prison film is an account of a group of female prisoners who decide to organize a variety show.

A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.

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...

Former conservative Justice Secretary Ann Widdecombe visits a Norwegian prison that has been described as the most luxurious of its kind.

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

After getting out of prison, Ma returns home to find his wife Ji Ha remarried and his son apparently dead. He kidnaps Siu Ching, Ji Ha's new son, and...

Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a...

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

Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and...

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...

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...

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally,...

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He...

Confined to a cold cell for 41 nights, a doctor's dreams of failures collide with his memories of success.

Thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous Soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. Within the...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick,...

While attempting to evade a group of hunters, Bugs Bunny jumps into a rabbit hole and inadvertently tunnels into Sing Song prison, where the...

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...