Prison Movies

In this speculative documentary, present-day Nation borders have collapsed into vast privatized housing complexes. Epitomizing advanced...

One decade after THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Oscar nominated 1999; two-time Emmy winner 1999), we go back inside Louisiana's maximum security...

When a depressed public defender ends his own life, he is sentenced to an eternity in Hell. However, after Satan takes notice of his skills, he is...

Billie visits her ageing father in jail, revealing that her childhood in his care was not as safe and happy as he might have believed. Will she get...

A veritable city within a city, La Santé—as it is known—is an unworthy old lady: unworthy of housing human beings. Located in the...

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a...

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967), who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled...

A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.

Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.

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

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

Räkä is the best driver of the MC-Helper moped gang and it lies on his shoulders to protect Harjutie from the rival gang of MC-Hammas,...

Tanjung Gusta Prison is the largest prison in North Sumatra. The North Sumatran region has the highest crime rate in Indonesia. In 2013, Tanjung...

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of...

Phillip Schuman's women-in-prison film is an account of a group of female prisoners who decide to organize a variety show.

A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.

Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events...

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground