Prison Movies

A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's...

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their...

Marcus is a New York City street kid torn between his friends' criminal activities and a girl trying to keep him out of trouble.

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance...

7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find...

Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However,...

In the 21st Century, Tony Ricks was a criminal who was executed for his crimes. In the distant year 2020, he is revived in a freak accident, and must...

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 film portrays Saint Peter reflecting on his time with Jesus and his fellow Apostles during his final imprisonment in Rome. In particular, Peter...

Henry Johnson navigates his search for a moral center, after an act of compassion upends his life. Looking to authority figures he encounters along...

Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne marries Clay, and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that...

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly...

Idiots Taylor Dupp and Murphy Wegg flee their humdrum existence in Dayton, Ohio for the glamour of Hollywood. Murphy turns his complete lack of...

Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000...

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Joselito is a mentally-challenged man who is wrongfully charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a little girl. In prison, he becomes friends...