Prison Movies

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

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight....

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they...

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets...

Socialist Croatia, sometime during the 1980s. After he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, Martin is sent to a high-security state prison where he...

Eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes is literally holding a smoking gun in his hand. His lawyer thinks he did it, but his psychiatrist disagrees -- and...

East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).

Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our...

The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the...

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

After being a passenger in a hit-and-run, Donna Patterson is sent to reform school, taking the rap for the driver, bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes...

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

Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight...

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical...

Three inmates awaken confused and shackled inside the dystopian super-prison Cybolica.

Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with...