Prison Movies
- 2011
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
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Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a...
- 1996
Champagne
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The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she...
- 2016
The Prison Project
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The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various...
- 2016
Prison, My Parents & Me
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Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight...
- 2017
Revolving Doors
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A portrait of American recidivism produced over a span of two years, Revolving Doors follows Jason, who, despite attempts to retain meaningful...
- 2016
Galeria F, Quando a Chuva Passa
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In the military dictatorship, many political prisoners were tortured and killed by the Brazilian army. In Bahia, those who survived were transferred...
- 1957
Hell on Devil's Island
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An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
- 2016
Inside
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In the Youth Prison of Catalonia live around around 300 youngsters between the ages of 18 and 23. Five of them picked up a camera for a year to tell...
- 2016
A Tale of Singers and Murderers
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The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organised with a flourish in which the convicts from...
- 2017
Last Days of Solitary
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In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan...
- 2016
Insein Rhythm
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Insein Rhythm portrays the sights, sounds and rhythms of Yangon’s Insein train station which is also a stone’s throw away from the...
- 2016
Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
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In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.
- 1945
Escape in the Desert
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Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
- 1947
Two Women
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"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously...
- 1939
Behind Prison Gates
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An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
- 1990
Behind Bars
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A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.
- 1980
Life for Christine
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A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?
- 2015
Unfollow
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The play revolves around a person who went to prison because of the accumulated debts on him, and when a very absurd video comes out to the world in...
- 2014
Les Baumettes
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Chronicles the true story of Jean-Louis Raphel’s attempted escape from Les Baumettes prison in Marseille, France in June 1999.
- 2014
The Burden of Being
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In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his...