Prison Movies

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father,...

A man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in...

As every Sunday, in the Detention Center where she finds herself prisoner, Nathalie awaits her turn in the visiting room.

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

In a nightmarish world of secret graveyards and machine gun executions, inmates must die... or kill to survive. Escape is no option, and is punished...

Lena and Karin have known each other for six years and have gotten really close to each other. When freedom is coming up for one of them, it's not as...

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

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

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...

Venezuelan movie

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.

Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.

A former gang leader has a passion for rebuilding relationships.

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 haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

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

Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight...

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his...