Prison Movies

Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and...

A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.

The Jail having a new comer, Uncle Pui, he got life-time lock up since was charged murder his daughter. He was an owner of BBQ Shop, his daughter Man...

A young man who is thrown into jail simply because he displeases a police inspector. But even when he's eventually released, the police continue to...

A young man recently released from prison attempts to rebuild his life after the death of his mother.

Former conservative Justice Secretary Ann Widdecombe visits a Norwegian prison that has been described as the most luxurious of its kind.

The St. Valentine's Day massacre is the stuff of American legend, and the tale is familiar to nearly everyone. But the story of that bloody day in...

A teenage inmate's boxing skills land him in the middle of a turf war within prison walls.

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father,...

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

The documentary was shot in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Hungary. It does not aim at judging whether the perpetrators were convicted...

A beautiful desperate widow goes on a dangerous quest to meet a mythical wish-granting unicorn who lies deep in the cannibal-infested "Wishing...

About Lillemor Östlin in the 60s and 70s. Her downfall from the glamorous Stockholm nightlife to drug addiction, crime and prostitution.

Told through the charismatic voice of inmate Kenneth Reams, Free Men is a film about human resilience. In solitary confinement for the last 25 years,...

The film tells the story of three young men who land in an Austrian prison for various reasons. They have been sentenced for minor misdemeanors and...

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who...

With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum...