Prison Movies

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a...

Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly...

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...

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a...

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

For years, UFO sightings have been documented around the world. What were once mere sightings have now become brutal attacks of epic proportions. As...

A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and...

An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in...

A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.

Gary is falsely accused of beating his insane ex-girlfriend Charlotte, and he is sentenced to 30 days in Merkin Penal, a privately run prison. Once...

Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.

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...

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A deaf woman, Jinjiimaa, is raped by the local...

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison...

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that...

3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.

Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accident and so the murder remains undiscovered for...

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

Confined to a cold cell for 41 nights, a doctor's dreams of failures collide with his memories of success.

Thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous Soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. Within the...