Prison Movies

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endur...

Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to esca...

An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real...

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the...

A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate. Upon his release hi...

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic corr...

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various prisons in Bel...

Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.

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 exile,...

A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.

Eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes is literally holding a smoking gun in his hand. His lawyer thinks he did it, but his psychiatrist disagrees -- and sets...

Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?

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

A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.

A reworking of a familiar theme, the story finds scheming steel tycoon James J. MacGlennon (Tully Marshall) and his high-minded lawyer son Jonathan (A...

Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer heat...

A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' families.

The men in prison are frustrated and in agony. It's difficult because the desires of these men are concentrated on just one man. A man raped in the pl...

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.