Prison Movies

The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law,...

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento...

In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his...

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks...

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the...

About Murat's struggle for his family, who got into trouble because of his brother Kemal. As Murat tries to get revenge on the gang, a tragedy will...

Adriano is an honest prison guard who is averse to violence. He tries to keep the prison peaceful, even though he is struggling with major family...

When two incarcerated artists secretly document a routine prison practice, they risk their lives to expose a state policy that blurs the line between...

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...

Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.

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

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare...

An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.

24 Speed Filmmaking Competition 2025. A murderer and an arsonist cross paths in prison.

Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

Beautiful and talented Geeta, a prostitute, has three suitors. One is Lakhan Singh, a dacoit with a heart of gold, who saved her life, loves her and...

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective...