Prison Movies

Two people meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but...

Gary is falsely accused of beating his insane ex-girlfriend Charlotte, and he is sentenced to 30 days in Merkin Penal, a privately run prison. Once...

This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the...

On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide....

This gritty documentary takes you inside the legendary Oso Blanco, the most feared prison of Puerto Rico and one of the most notorious in the...

"Bob" finds himself in “the zone“ by chance. At first - as a guard. But life in the zone on both sides of the bars is extremely dreary....

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

In this crime-driven pilot, we met a therapy group for murderers where someone is bound to snap.

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Five inmates break out of a remote minimum security prison for women. Four are hardened convicts, the fifth was wrongfully convicted. As the...

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

An unconventional love story between a man who lost his passion and a weather-beaten homosexual torn between his forbidden love and his devotion to...

Shangrao Concentration Camp is set in the hellish confines of a Guomindang prison, where the brutal officials try to force two female Communist...

Documentary on Sakine Cansız (Sara), the Kurdish revolutionary and PKK co-founder killed in Paris in January 2013 by Turkish agents.

In a nightmarish world of secret graveyards and machine gun executions, inmates must die... or kill to survive. Escape is no option, and is punished...

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they...

An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has...

Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed...

A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.