Prison Movies

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally,...

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He...

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with...

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their...

A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and...

In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his...

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA...

One decade after THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Oscar nominated 1999; two-time Emmy winner 1999), we go back inside Louisiana's maximum security...

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.

Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically committed law students, to do like him.

A tragic accident leads Bryan Bruton on a wild and unforgettable experience within the Florida prison system.

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was...

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the...

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

Narrated by Uncle Jack Charles and seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria’s Fulham Correctional Centre, this documentary...

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative...

A priest visits an unrepentant death row prisoner, as the two spend time together the priest comes to understand the prisoner, and the prisoner...