Prison Movies

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He...

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

The play revolves around a person who went to prison because of the accumulated debts on him, and when a very absurd video comes out to the world in...

Back in prison, Didrik, 33, discovers a new way of expression and happiness through theatre and acting, and starts looking back at his past and...

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...

Egypt, nicknamed "the mother of the world" by its people, is unrecognizable. Gigantic construction sites have sprung up in the desert at an...

Shangrao Concentration Camp is set in the hellish confines of a Guomindang prison, where the brutal officials try to force two female Communist...

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...

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

An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break...

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A deaf woman, Jinjiimaa, is raped by the local...

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' families.

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan...

They sorted, washed, hung out, ironed, perfumed, folded, put away, and when they were done, they started all over again. All of them had been doing...

A short, low-budget documentary that follows a small jobbing band from the north of England called 'Hardwicke Circus' as they perform a gig and music...

Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release....

Produced by Bob Cording and Jerry Humphries in 1977, "Set Free" takes a look at the role that Christianity can play in the rehabilitation of the...

Weasel Hammond, fresh out of prison for punching a cop five years ago, embarks on a mysterious quest left to him by his recently deceased cellmate.