Jail Movies

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000...

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...

A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his...

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...

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he...

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...

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for...

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

In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at...

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

Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He...

Low budget softcore farce where two men cross-dress to go into a women's prison.

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

Jimmy and Cannonball stumble across a murder scheme, hatched by beautiful but deadly Janice Thompson.

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

Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison...

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...

Set in the dry zone of Sri Lanka, Suddi is married to a notorious criminal in the village, Romiel. Convicted for a murder Romiel is jailed. Miserable...