Prison Movies

A young girl discovers the truth regarding the secrets of her past. Just as she discovers the truth, events take place that change her life forever.

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their...

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that...

Documentary about four maffia-like friends based in Amsterdam.

Augusto Cardenas, former guerrilla of bourgeois origin, goes free after four years in prison, he meets with his parents and his wife. He returns to...

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their...

A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.

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

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

A documentary on reformed ex-con Rick Maylender and his attempts to help troubled youths by taking them out of their environment and showing them how...

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...

Nehuén Puyelli and his family are of Mapuche origin, Ramón Arce purges the end of a long condemnation, both men cross their destinies...

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.

3 inmates at a women prison camp are planning a daring escape.

The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organised with a flourish in which the convicts from...

Documentary on Sakine Cansız (Sara), the Kurdish revolutionary and PKK co-founder killed in Paris in January 2013 by Turkish agents.

Over the past decade Australia’s prison population has doubled. But of all the States, it’s Western Australia that has the highest number...