Inmate Movies

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...

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing...

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

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...

The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.