Prison Movies

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

The infinite monkey theorem proposes that if given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, a monkey hitting keys at random will almost surely...

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

When offered a deal to snitch on fellow prisoners, an inmate faces a tough dilemma: act in his own interest, or help those who may need him.

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex....

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

The adventures of an escaped convict.

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...

A former gang leader has a passion for rebuilding relationships.

An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a...

William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution...

When a policewoman is unfairly accused of selling drugs, her three deadbeat brothers come to the rescue.

An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3...

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined...

"Bob" finds himself in “the zone“ by chance. At first - as a guard. But life in the zone on both sides of the bars is extremely dreary....

An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break...

Ralph gets sent to his room for breaking a window. There, he passes the time in Walter Mitty-type fashion, daydreaming that he's a parent-saving...