Jail Movies

Former Miss Spanish Basque Country, Pilar Orive, stars as American Janet Cooper who is drugged and shipped to a remote women's prison managed by a...

Multiple recidivist Tadeusz Wilk out of jail thanks to an amnesty. He has no idea where to go and what to do with themselves. Post lays down back...

Monogram's Outlaws of Texas is surprisingly bereft of the action highlights one might expect from star Whip Wilson. This time, the Whip and his...

For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up more and more people. But at what cost, and has it...

Dani is a petty criminal who falls in love with the female police officer who arrests him after a robbery. It is love at first sight, a moment of...

Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison...

In the heart of their hood, Lola and Moha are staggering home. On their way, they come across a car, the lights are on… as if someone had...

Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning...

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many victims stranded in the prison system. PRISONERS OF...

Peter Berdon (Mario Selič) joins a group of Stalinists after his father is killed by the Nazis in this grim political drama. The film begins...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had...

Psychiatrists interview criminals and victims together to see how they got where they are in space and time. Their stories are told in flashbacks.

After a prison leader grants an interview before his release, a reporter investigates the course of events that led to this inmate's untimely death.

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number...

A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides to save guard's life who have been fallen into...

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at...