Prison Movies

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.

A boy is locked in his room after an argument with his father, but things go wrong and he may never get out of this silent punishment again.

Capturing the early recording process of the compilation album “Prison Songs: Nyanyian yang Dibungkam”, this film is a collaborative work of Komunitas...

He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way throu...

Forty years after the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War, the dead remain buried along with the truth. Until now. Based...

Documentary about the love stories of 3 prison wives seeking grace for the violent offenders they love.

Fu Chu is one of the most important and strict prisons in Japan, where they have more than 2,000 people living together. In addition, it is the one th...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually...

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

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 years behin...

Insein Rhythm portrays the sights, sounds and rhythms of Yangon’s Insein train station which is also a stone’s throw away from the country’s infamous...

A middle-aged man's inability to control his temper while playing sports causes his life to spiral out of control.

A love triangle with a cowboy who steals the heart of a girl and turns out to have a mysterious past related to that of the other love interest

A priest visits an unrepentant death row prisoner, as the two spend time together the priest comes to understand the prisoner, and the prisoner begins...

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative priso...

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

A man struggles with grief after coming out of prison.

In 2018, the Nicaraguan police brutally repressed anti-government protests organised by high school students. K., a 17-year-old girl who was arrested,...

An experimental intake of Ojore Nuru Lutalo as he recounts the 22 years he spent in political isolation, and the flourishing comradery he built with p...