Prisoner Movies

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

A prison chain gang digs two fresh graves for men destined to be executed that night. As time slips away for the murderers' salvation, the grave...

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento...

In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian...

THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.

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...

Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?

Cartagena, Colombia – 1666. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil incarnate and a Faustian bargain for her...

Kun and Busaba are going to be married. But their sweet moment collapses when Kun is alleged to be the assassin who killed a politician and is...

Michel wants to go home.

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.

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

A young political prisoner in World War II is slowly going insane in his lonely cell. Only a fly, a metaphor for a woman, keeps him alive - but also...

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...

Fugitives Juan and Ted have tried to mend their ways after they bolted jail to escape execution from the hands of Hepe and Langku.They found work as...

At underground film of the 1st Popular Festival of Catalan Poetry filmed in the Proce Theater in Barcelona on May 25, 1970, in solidarity with...

After mysteriously awakening in a barren alien landscape, a self-serving prisoner must conquer a series of grueling trials in order to reunite with...