Prisoner Movies

The story of a cowboy who fights a bandit gang that is after him.

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

Michel wants to go home.

A prisoner sentenced to 622 years in prison is imprisoned in a Greek prison in which the laws of the Junta are still in force. Isovitis (Lifer) and...

A prison chain gang digs two fresh graves for men destined to be executed that night. As time slips away for the murderers' salvation, the grave...

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Though the drug does not belong to him, importing heroin gets Acai Nakrim locked up in jail which then leads to his death penalty. Before the...

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...

In order to gain his freedom, a prisoner must best the ultimate tactician in the truest test of skill: a gauntlet of children's board games

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to...

A man drowned in confusion, exhaustion, and mental peril awakens to a phone call from... himself?

A young political prisoner in World War II is slowly going insane in his lonely cell. Only a fly, a metaphor for a woman, keeps him alive - but also...

A prisoner narrates this fantastical tale of two young sisters whose lives are changed at the strike of a match when they mistake an imprisoned...

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...

Every year, hundreds of women develop relationships with prisoners. They fall under the charms of killers, petty criminals, rapists and crooks. Most...

Frequent perpetrator Tony ends up in the Pieter Baan Center after yet another violent robbery. For seven weeks, a procession of behavioral...

In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian...

When a young man is accused of a crime, his prideful confession resonates in the face of injustice.