Prisoner Movies

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing...

French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an...

A prison chain gang digs two fresh graves for men destined to be executed that night. As time slips away for the murderers' salvation, the grave...

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to...

Three convicted criminals escape from prison carrying only a güiro, a tambor and an accordion. During their journey, they meet with a bunch of...

During the country's occupation Choi was only allowed to make Japan-friendly films, but the plot of Hurrah! For Freedom is distinctly different,...

Two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers.

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could...

Räkä is the best driver of the MC-Helper moped gang and it lies on his shoulders to protect Harjutie from the rival gang of MC-Hammas,...

A criminal from the 1940s is captured by the Nazis, they experiment on him turning him into a vampire. Now the deep state wants to experiment on him...

A prisoner volunteers for a brutal, corporate-run program called 2ND-C, which offers inmates a chance at freedom through a series of deadly...

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese,...

Ana, a young Basque woman whose husband, Tomás, is serving a sentence for terrorism in Puerto de Santa María, finds love again with...

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

Every year, hundreds of women develop relationships with prisoners. They fall under the charms of killers, petty criminals, rapists and crooks. Most...

When Arturo was jailed because of drug trafficking, Eva shouldered all the responsibilities in raising their daughter, Belinda. Trying all the...

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances...

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress'...