Prison Movies

A middle-aged man's inability to control his temper while playing sports causes his life to spiral out of control.

The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967),who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled on the...

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 me...

Filmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in 1969 for treason.

A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

The controversial documentary about prison, Injustice. Injustice looks at the role the prison system plays in England and Wales. Injustice is a film...

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 on...

A prisoner is locked away in a lonely prison cell as part of a state-of-the-art program for prisoners all over the nation, operated by the notorious D...

Through the job inside a prison in Mexico, men reveal the perception, the illusion and the decadence of a isolated reality, as well as organized.

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and 15...

Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him. Filmed over eight years, The Guy With the Knife traces...

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to discover what...

Should a punishment fit the crime?

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she prov...

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various prisons in Bel...