Prison Movies

Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment. The gold...

A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his...

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax...

Mickey Mouse and several other characters are on a prison chain gang, guarded by Pegleg Pete. They break rocks for a while, then Mickey breaks out a...

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?

Two vagabond friends become lovers of the same beautiful girl, but when their third friend and leader comes out of prison, he has other plans for all...

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as...

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.

A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, after...

A sleazy comedy directed by Ákos Ráthonyi.

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the...

Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking...

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his...