Prisoner Movies

About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass...

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and...

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.

A prisoner narrates this fantastical tale of two young sisters whose lives are changed at the strike of a match when they mistake an imprisoned...

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese,...

The heart of this dramatic story based on the novel by Leopold Lahola is the search for the principle of humanism. The story plays in a single day...

A countdown begins as dark sands of an hourglass fall. Two men in separate, dimly lit rooms are haunted by disturbing visions. A mysterious creature...

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

Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.

Susan and her brother Johnny go to spend the summer with their aunt and uncle where they discover a map that may lead to some sort of treasure. Susan...

Chronicles the true story of Jean-Louis Raphel’s attempted escape from Les Baumettes prison in Marseille, France in June 1999.

Every year, hundreds of women develop relationships with prisoners. They fall under the charms of killers, petty criminals, rapists and crooks. Most...

When a young man is accused of a crime, his prideful confession resonates in the face of injustice.

In order to gain his freedom, a prisoner must best the ultimate tactician in the truest test of skill: a gauntlet of children's board games

Though the drug does not belong to him, importing heroin gets Acai Nakrim locked up in jail which then leads to his death penalty. Before the...

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to...