Prison Movies

Skin flick about bank robbery.

Through the job inside a prison in Mexico, men reveal the perception, the illusion and the decadence of a isolated reality, as well as organized.

Forty years after the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War, the dead remain buried along with the truth. Until now. Based...

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the t...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived...

200 young people under 25 have died in custody since 1992 in England and Wales. This is the story of three of them; young men who died behind bars - t...

Documentary about a guard at a dome prison in the Netherlands.

The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to t...

A middle-aged man's inability to control his temper while playing sports causes his life to spiral out of control.

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare doc...

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.

In the military dictatorship, many political prisoners were tortured and killed by the Brazilian army. In Bahia, those who survived were transferred t...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually...

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various prisons in Bel...

A love triangle with a cowboy who steals the heart of a girl and turns out to have a mysterious past related to that of the other love interest

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

An experimental intake of Ojore Nuru Lutalo as he recounts the 22 years he spent in political isolation, and the flourishing comradery he built with p...

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 on...