Prison Movies

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...

After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit...

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...

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

The film portrays Saint Peter reflecting on his time with Jesus and his fellow Apostles during his final imprisonment in Rome. In particular, Peter...

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted...

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of...

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to...

After being accused of murder and awaiting his death penalty, Kishen Mohan Girhotra is compelled by NGO worker Gayatri Kashyap to form a musical band...

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

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.

This intimate drama follows a prisoner serving his sentence who gets the chance to attend his mother's funeral. Instead of a warm welcome, however,...

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a...

Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father...

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets...