Movies: Prison

In 2016 the largest and most modern prison in the Netherlands, Judicial Complex Zaanstad, opens its doors. New architecture and a new professional modus operandi enhance the efficiency of the complex and increase the responsibility for prisoners and ...

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond....

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and ...

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After two years in jail, Issa is about to get out when he meets Gaëtan, a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet....

One day, a prison guard, Tae-jeo finds out one of the prisoners, Mi-young, has a teenage daughter, Jun-young. Tae-jeo meets Jun-young for the first time at the funeral of Mi-young’s mother. Watching Jun-young sitting alone at the funeral in her schoo...

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective story. A middle-aged detective shadows the suspect through the highs and lows of South African socie...

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety....

Sexploitatation drama very loosely based on the former penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land....

Confined to a cold cell for 41 nights, a doctor's dreams of failures collide with his memories of success....

A documentary about Goran Ivandic 'Ipe', the drummer of most popular Yugoslav rock band of all time, Sarajevo-based "Bijelo dugme" (White Button). Ivandic's fatal jump from the balcony of hotel Metropol in Belgrade in 1994 sparked much controversy ar...

A reworking of a familiar theme, the story finds scheming steel tycoon James J. MacGlennon (Tully Marshall) and his high-minded lawyer son Jonathan (Alan Baxter) simultaneously ending up behind bars. While incarcerated, Jonathan tries to mend his lar...

A love triangle with a cowboy who steals the heart of a girl and turns out to have a mysterious past related to that of the other love interest...

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debilitating constraints of trauma, and shattering preconceptions of "us and them."...

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because...

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Skin flick about bank robbery....

When an unworldly country man is released from prison setting out a new revenge, a night club singer crosses his path. He eagerly leads her to his lonesome country life out in woods, where there is no way back to society....

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers...

Ashley Smith was a troubled 19-year-old when she choked herself to death at Ontario's Grand Valley Institution for Women. Her death made national headlines and led to a scathing report by Canada’s federal prison ombudsman. Incarceration for Ashley be...