Prison Movies

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

A 17 year old boy is sent to an adult prison for robbing a Fotomat with a toy gun. He thinks he's going to a minimum security camp where they send non...

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967),who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled on the...

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

A short, low-budget documentary that follows a small jobbing band from the north of England called 'Hardwicke Circus' as they perform a gig and music...

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...

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

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.

In Lepoglava, one of the most notorious penitentiaries in Europe, many regimes have trained their strictness by imposing the brutal methods of the so-...

Out after 46 years in prison, Anthony Blanks must now re-learn how to live a normal life. But with no surviving family, money or technical skills need...

Frequent perpetrator Tony ends up in the Pieter Baan Center after yet another violent robbery. For seven weeks, a procession of behavioral researchers...

19-year-old Mikko works as a summer guard in a remote Finnish prison. Spending three months in a closed facility with convicts challenges his views on...

The play revolves around a person who went to prison because of the accumulated debts on him, and when a very absurd video comes out to the world in a...

The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organised with a flourish in which the convicts from al...

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him. Filmed over eight years, The Guy With the Knife traces...

In the Youth Prison of Catalonia live around around 300 youngsters between the ages of 18 and 23. Five of them picked up a camera for a year to tell h...