Prison Movies

Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of...

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate,...

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

There is an old wives tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery because an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell can...

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, after...

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as...

The film portrays Saint Peter reflecting on his time with Jesus and his fellow Apostles during his final imprisonment in Rome. In particular, Peter...

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

When a fiery young couple attempts to rekindle their relationship after three years apart, the highs and lows of their passion leave the pair...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret,...

Timid and wimpy triad gangster, Kit, is the right-hand man to gangster Brother Fire, who, in a bid to protect his younger sister Mandy from unwelcome...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take...

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch...

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the...

A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.

In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel....

A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to...