Prison Movies

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy...

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets...

Girls in a reform school are tormented violently by the headmistress . . . until they can take no more

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

A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police...

The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.

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

An urban drama about a parolee trying to be a better father to his daughter as he struggles for perspective in his life.

Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a...

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

19-year-old Mikko works as a summer guard in a remote Finnish prison. Spending three months in a closed facility with convicts challenges his views...

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.

An investigation into how inmates, from their cells on Death Row, help pen pals outside in their daily struggles.

Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).

Franz Sommer, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years, forms a close relationship with his cellmate, Steineau. Upon release, his wife...

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court...

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

An inside look at the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where one of the U.S.’s only in-prison college programs, Hudson Link, offers...