Prison Movies

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a...

Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for...

Dewey Bozella’s life changed forever when he was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for a murder he did not commit. Throughout his 26...

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...

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

Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands...

Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who...

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

After getting out of prison, Ma returns home to find his wife Ji Ha remarried and his son apparently dead. He kidnaps Siu Ching, Ji Ha's new son, and...

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.

Inmate Rex is transferred to a new prison after allegations of abuse against the prison service. Waiting down in the solitary confinement unit is the...

Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to...

Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking...

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important...

Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.