Jail Movies

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

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