Jail Movies

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

Two young high school boys spike the punch at a Halloween party, mischievously let the air out of car tires, and finally steal a car to go for a...

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined...

From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many victims stranded in the prison system. PRISONERS OF...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

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

A father killed his son. In a state of alcoholic delirium, a young man murdered his friend. A 21 year-old boy shot a policeman. Faced with their...

A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer.

A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

In the heart of their hood, Lola and Moha are staggering home. On their way, they come across a car, the lights are on… as if someone had...

A former thief driving through a small town is coerced into stealing a valuable statue but finds himself in hot water after he's accused of murder.

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged....

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

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

Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more than 30 years — never out longer than six...