Prison Movies

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these...

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

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

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious...

Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th...

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the...

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

Sensationalized in the media as a high profile catfishing case involving an NBA superstar and an aspiring model, Shelly Chartier was portrayed as a...

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...

The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.

Metamorphosis is a documentary-style film giving the true account Bill Troester and the transformation he experienced by Jesus out of a life of...

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight...

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their...

Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to...

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975...

Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.