Prison Movies

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.

A prisoner sentenced to 622 years in prison is imprisoned in a Greek prison in which the laws of the Junta are still in force. Isovitis (Lifer) and al...

A boy is locked in his room after an argument with his father, but things go wrong and he may never get out of this silent punishment again.

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with w...

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 esca...

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

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

In 2016 the largest and most modern prison in the Netherlands, Judicial Complex Zaanstad, opens its doors. New architecture and a new professional mod...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years...

The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to t...

Former conservative Justice Secretary Ann Widdecombe visits a Norwegian prison that has been described as the most luxurious of its kind.

A love triangle with a cowboy who steals the heart of a girl and turns out to have a mysterious past related to that of the other love interest

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare doc...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived...

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

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 part...

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative priso...