Prison Movies

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical...

The infinite monkey theorem proposes that if given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, a monkey hitting keys at random will almost surely...

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the...

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes...

For years, UFO sightings have been documented around the world. What were once mere sightings have now become brutal attacks of epic proportions. As...

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative...

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

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex....

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the case of a man who became an authority on capital punishment, but was discredited when he got...

Prisoners of Detention Satellite 3 plan an impossible escape.

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

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

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations,...

Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release....

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective...

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks...

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who...

Mickey Mouse and several other characters are on a prison chain gang, guarded by Pegleg Pete. They break rocks for a while, then Mickey breaks out a...