Jail Movies

A former thief driving through a small town is coerced into stealing a valuable statue but finds himself in hot water after he's accused of murder.

For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up more and more people. But at what cost, and has it r...

One of the Three Kings and Santa Claus spend Christmas in jail, talking about what their future will be like in a world like this.

From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many victims stranded in the prison system. PRISONERS OF T...

Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the rapist and...

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for...

Low budget softcore farce where two men cross-dress to go into a women's prison.

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...

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themse...

Short wartime comedy in which mister Dingemans and madam Babbel are trying to do some clandestine business in Brussels.

Murat has to marry someone if he is to collect his inheritance. So his lawyer decides to marry him to an inmate on death row. Naciye, who is sentenced...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A pr...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually...

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries...

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more than 30 years — never out longer than six months. Thi...