Prison Movies

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3...

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

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is...

Emperors of Nothing is an unprecedented immersion within Forest, a prison in Brussels notorious for its inhumane incarceration conditions, bearing...

Räkä is the best driver of the MC-Helper moped gang and it lies on his shoulders to protect Harjutie from the rival gang of MC-Hammas,...

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

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the...

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders...

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

A portrait of American recidivism produced over a span of two years, Revolving Doors follows Jason, who, despite attempts to retain meaningful...

Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor...

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

Last year, Marion (48) wrote a letter to God for New Year. She no longer wanted to be alone. May he send her a man who will protect and love her. A...

Johnnie Porche, a former Special Ops Army vet and police officer from a distinguished law enforcement family, suddenly finds himself a marked man...

The story of Grady, a former soldier who is in prison for his part in a major money-laundering operation. Whilst inside, he learns of the brutal, yet...

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.