Prison Movies

In Lepoglava, one of the most notorious penitentiaries in Europe, many regimes have trained their strictness by imposing the brutal methods of the so-...

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...

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

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...

A man struggles with grief after coming out of prison.

This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trials and appeals...

The Reception takes place in an isolated mansion on an island, but the host is mysteriously absent. A storm traps everyone inside, and the atmosphere...

Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him. Filmed over eight years, The Guy With the Knife traces...

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

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,...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived...

He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way throu...

Inmates, all serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison, openly discuss their crimes, describe the harsh realities of prison life, and...

Fu Chu is one of the most important and strict prisons in Japan, where they have more than 2,000 people living together. In addition, it is the one th...

When a young man is accused of a crime, his prideful confession resonates in the face of injustice.

In the Youth Prison of Catalonia live around around 300 youngsters between the ages of 18 and 23. Five of them picked up a camera for a year to tell h...

During the most celebrated cultural event on the island of Guam, USA (the annual Liberation Day Parade),a group of brave and determined youth come to...

Prisoners in a futuristic prison controlled by ai decide to trick the system and escape. But how can you outsmart a computer that sees and hears every...

Insein Rhythm portrays the sights, sounds and rhythms of Yangon’s Insein train station which is also a stone’s throw away from the country’s infamous...