Prisoner Movies

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing...

Luchino's routine morning elevator ride up from her subterranean home on level 138 to her school many stories above turns horrific when the elevator...

Ana, a young Basque woman whose husband, Tomás, is serving a sentence for terrorism in Puerto de Santa María, finds love again with...

In future, the ozone layer is gone and Earth is a wasteland. Most survivors are on a space station, waiting for a chance to replenish the ozone,...

French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an...

Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge....

Sebastian, a young boy living in a basement with his two brothers has to learn how to work together with his fellow prisoners to escape the man who's...

During the country's occupation Choi was only allowed to make Japan-friendly films, but the plot of Hurrah! For Freedom is distinctly different,...

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and...

Man-hee, imprisoned for being caught up in an accidental violent case, will be admitted to a violent room where the king of prison can be found. On...

An estimated 400,000 people were tattooed with serial numbers at Auschwitz, of whom only a few thousand survive today. This intimate and visually...

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could...

A group of women prisoners have signed up to foster retired racing greyhounds and get them ready for adoption. The prisoners have just eight weeks to...

A woman stands trial for her life with a lawyer who is determined to save her despite her refusal to be saved.

A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan musician and a French journalist.

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks...

Johnny and his friends embark on a journey to rid their land of an evil giant. While inside the giant's castle, the children are trapped by the giant...

A prisoner volunteers for a brutal, corporate-run program called 2ND-C, which offers inmates a chance at freedom through a series of deadly...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.