Prison Movies

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison...

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny...

In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his...

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.

Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release....

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

In a nightmarish world of secret graveyards and machine gun executions, inmates must die... or kill to survive. Escape is no option, and is punished...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

Four interconnected stories surrounding the escape from prison of a notorious serial killer.

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge...

The play revolves around a person who went to prison because of the accumulated debts on him, and when a very absurd video comes out to the world in...

A young man, convicted murderer, has a chance of redemption when he enters the best Italian university of economics, going back and forth from prison...

Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th...

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Tae-jeo, a correctional officer with 15 years of experience, learns about the death of an inmate's mother during a night shift. On that winter night,...

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence...

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

A young man’s life is suddenly and inexplicably derailed, as he finds himself at the mercy of automated ‘justice’.