Prison Movies

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento...

Ervin, an ex con man, is released from prison to find his old pal Micky waiting for him. The 75 year olds seem to hit it off as they drive around...

In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind...

Investigating the infamous Abu Ghraib scandal, Errol Morris interviews American guards and Iraqi prisoners who were at the military jail before...

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...

Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to...

In a nightmarish world of secret graveyards and machine gun executions, inmates must die... or kill to survive. Escape is no option, and is punished...

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do...

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and...

Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?

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

Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary...

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

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a...

Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer...

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

Ten years after being molested in art school by habitual rapist Theodore Gray, who is serving 25 years but eligible for parole, Sarah Reynolds leads...

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story.