Prison Movies

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and...

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison...

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court...

Kris is sentenced to two years in a rural Borstal.

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...

The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks...

When a policewoman is unfairly accused of selling drugs, her three deadbeat brothers come to the rescue.

William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution...

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide...

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

A Father on deathrow escapes prison to see his Daughter and Grandson one last time.

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

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...

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.