Prison Movies

A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting...

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Ralph gets sent to his room for breaking a window. There, he passes the time in Walter Mitty-type fashion, daydreaming that he's a parent-saving...

Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.

Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).

This intimate drama follows a prisoner serving his sentence who gets the chance to attend his mother's funeral. Instead of a warm welcome, however,...

Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning...

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders...

"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano...

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a...

A beautiful desperate widow goes on a dangerous quest to meet a mythical wish-granting unicorn who lies deep in the cannibal-infested "Wishing...

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Sweden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can...

A woman ends up in prison because of her lying, manipulative and exploitative lover. There she discovers that she is not alone.

A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.

Tae-jeo, a correctional officer with 15 years of experience, learns about the death of an inmate's mother during a night shift. On that winter night,...

An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European...

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

Lena, a fifty years old prisoner at the end of her sentence, is confronted with her life after prison. With the help of Aurélien, the social...