Prison Movies

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Jorge feels suffocated by his menial job but can't break free of the obligations that keep him stuck — until he meets a woman who shakes his...

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they...

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They...

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take...

After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior....

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the...

A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard...

An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife...

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.

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

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective...

As a group of cellmates continues to protect the daughter of their peer, they tackle a new challenge when authorities thwart her adoption by...

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

Having spent ten years of his life in prisons, Güney escaped from Isparta Semi-Open Prison in 1981 and went to Paris, where he would spend the...

Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way...