Jail Movies

A knife in the pocket, adrenaline in the blood and only one dream in mind: to be a gangster - and the biggest one at that. Yehya was 15 years old and...

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

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...

One of the Three Kings and Santa Claus spend Christmas in jail, talking about what their future will be like in a world like this.

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

A young woman tries to make a documentary about women who have relatives in prison, but she finds difficulties trying to get the testimonials.

Scottish man Jimmy Anderson, released from jail in the middle east over unpaid debt disputes, reunites with his wife Lillian after over a year's...

Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the...

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...

A documentary chronicling 17 years of Mark David Allen's alcohol abuse.

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

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia