Prison Movies

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A deaf woman, Jinjiimaa, is raped by the local...

A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.

Two inmates make written contact through a personal ad that is hidden and found in a pair of work trousers. The pen-pal relationship turns into love,...

The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks...

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes...

Ruth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions...

As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime,...

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex....

Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.

Halil is a teenage boy, son of a poor porter, and sees him dying when serving a man without compassion. Halil keeps on with father's work, to pay for...

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally,...

This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trials and...

A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

In a mix of 2D animation and live action, through their voices and acting, two actresses recount the lives of imprisoned women that opposed the...

"Bob" finds himself in “the zone“ by chance. At first - as a guard. But life in the zone on both sides of the bars is extremely dreary....