Prisoner Movies

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

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

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

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...

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...

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress'...

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

At Sing Sing prison, a group of incarcerated men share their passions, thoughts, and aspirations in a unique speaking event

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.

Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the...

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

Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his...

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...

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

About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.

An allegory of the hopeless relationship between a prisoner and his jailer, representing the dependence of mankind upon authoritarianism.

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...

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.