Jail Movies

Murat has to marry someone if he is to collect his inheritance. So his lawyer decides to marry him to an inmate on death row. Naciye, who is...

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...

Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. ...

Murat, an accountant at a company, lives a happy life with his wife Zeynep and daughter Selam. Gönül, a member of a gang, drugs Murat and...

The St. Valentine's Day massacre is the stuff of American legend, and the tale is familiar to nearly everyone. But the story of that bloody day in...

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined...

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch...

A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

A team of altruistic vigilantes destroy evidence to keep as many people from prison as possible, but when one of their crime scene clean-ups is...

Kasim's daughter, Waahida, elopes with her boyfriend, Madhavan Kutty, on the day of her wedding. Years later, Madhavan Kutty, in the disguise of a...

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...

Mansoor, a young filmmaker, belongs to a progressive Muslim family and is a left-wing liberal. However, he faces many challenges when a...

Short wartime comedy in which mister Dingemans and madam Babbel are trying to do some clandestine business in Brussels.

Welcome to Florence, Arizona: a cowboy town with a prison problem. Just 8,500 residents call the tiny community home—but over 17,000 inmates...

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

This is a story, actually a fairytale for adults, that expresses how life could be beautiful, if only mankind would get out of its own way and enjoy...

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

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