Prison Movies

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow...

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

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

Locked away in a maximum security prison, the infamous killer clown Mary Beth Layton, a.k.a. Lil Miss Cleaver, is about to make a prison break that...

A waitress who won't put out for her boss has the misfortune of quitting her job just as the bar is being robbed by a notorious thief...

Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor...

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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...

Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.

When Freddie Nole drives to meet a man walking out of prison, he’s not just offering a ride, he’s offering hope, dignity, and a path to...

Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.

Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He kills two of them leaving an ace as his calling...

Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high...

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime

This gritty documentary takes you inside the legendary Oso Blanco, the most feared prison of Puerto Rico and one of the most notorious in the...