Prison Movies

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to discover what...

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975 t...

A film narrated by a prison interview with long-jailed black radical Ojore Lutalo. Ojore touches on many issues, from what prisons are, to why he is i...

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

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

A Bosnian woman is released from prison after 13 years. She comes back home, where she finds her young son and his pregnant girlfriend. With luggage a...

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious E...

A documentary about Goran Ivandic 'Ipe', the drummer of most popular Yugoslav rock band of all time, Sarajevo-based "Bijelo dugme" (White Button). Iva...

Two best friends play practical jokes on each other until things get out of hand.

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

Augusto Cardenas, former guerrilla of bourgeois origin, goes free after four years in prison, he meets with his parents and his wife. He returns to hi...

Two inmates make written contact through a personal ad that is hidden and found in a pair of work trousers. The pen-pal relationship turns into love,...

A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terr...

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.