Prison Movies

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

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

After being a passenger in a hit-and-run, Donna Patterson is sent to reform school, taking the rap for the driver, bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes...

In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of...

Amelia's blog empowering women not to tolerate violent relationships has brought her fame, fortune and now someone is out to kill her. Is it the new...

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and...

Joselito is a mentally-challenged man who is wrongfully charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a little girl. In prison, he becomes friends...

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and...

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers...

An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.

After two years in jail, Issa is about to get out when he meets Gaëtan, a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet.

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of...

When a young man is accused of a crime, his prideful confession resonates in the face of injustice.

Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.

An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer...

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison...

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