Prison Movies

Four interconnected stories surrounding the escape from prison of a notorious serial killer.

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny...

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

Elementary Genocide is a documentary executive produced by award winning journalist/filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz. The documentary appeals to a wide...

A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father,...

Räkä is the best driver of the MC-Helper moped gang and it lies on his shoulders to protect Harjutie from the rival gang of MC-Hammas,...

Łukasz, an unemployed geography graduate, is wrongfully arrested for robbery. His alibi is weak, and he is identified during a lineup. The...

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

On his sixth birthday, Engin is separated from his mother, with whom he has lived in prison since his birth. Taken in by his grandparents, the boy...

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...

A sheep-rancher's son aspires to win a music conservatory scholarship, but to apply he needs musicians who can play his music. Circumstances lead him...

A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting...

The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

New inmate Clay Treyton, doing time for fisticuffs, is sent to a Montana ranch where prisoners spend time working with horses. Encouraged by the...

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who...

A group of military prisoners must fight off a terrorist attack on their prison which, unbeknownst to them, is a cover for a secret drone control...

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...