Prison Movies

When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's...

An ex mobster reflects on love and loss after spending 32 years in prison.

A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer.

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances...

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A deaf woman, Jinjiimaa, is raped by the local...

David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however,...

A young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in friendship. His wrongful arrest tests his...

Three inmates awaken confused and shackled inside the dystopian super-prison Cybolica.

A young man, convicted murderer, has a chance of redemption when he enters the best Italian university of economics, going back and forth from prison...

One day, a prison guard, Tae-jeo finds out one of the prisoners, Mi-young, has a teenage daughter, Jun-young. Tae-jeo meets Jun-young for the first...

A deep buried secret threatens the inhabitants of Stone Gate Penitentiary. When a petty car thief is sentenced to the prison, he encounters more than...

Parolee Taylor's hopes for a fresh start are jeopardized by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their...

This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trials and...

A sleazy comedy directed by Ákos Ráthonyi.

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax...

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other...

The film takes on Ali, a member of a wealthy family, and his shared infatuation with a night club worker by the name of Tülay. Ali and...