Prison Movies

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge fro...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus...

Adapted from the infamous Kaohsiung Prison riot in Taiwan, this story follows six inmates who plot a daring jailbreak to protest the injustices of the...

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

Manu has been incarcerated for a year in a prison in Marseille. Back in Nantes, his hometown, he finds his friends and family that he left overnight....

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

Egypt, nicknamed "the mother of the world" by its people, is unrecognizable. Gigantic construction sites have sprung up in the desert at an exponentia...

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

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

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Simon, a prison guard at St. Mau, loses the trust of his inmates after a tragic accident during a routine chase. Years later, haunted by his damaged r...

Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the...

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome),the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

Typical low budget action thriller about an undercover cop forced to infiltrate a tough American jail

Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, th...

East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).