Prison Movies

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a...

Babz Dubreuil, a lonely ex-convict, works as a cook in a brunch restaurant. At the encouragement of a colleague, she finds the courage to ask an...

Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the...

Chronicles the true story of Jean-Louis Raphel’s attempted escape from Les Baumettes prison in Marseille, France in June 1999.

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug...

About Murat's struggle for his family, who got into trouble because of his brother Kemal. As Murat tries to get revenge on the gang, a tragedy will...

Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.

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

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

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

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

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

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

A man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in...

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...

After 14 years in prison, the time has come for Gogita to return to his normal life. His wishes seem modest enough: a home of his own and then...

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...

Billie visits her ageing father in jail, revealing that her childhood in his care was not as safe and happy as he might have believed. Will she get...