Jail Movies

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

A young woman tries to make a documentary about women who have relatives in prison, but she finds difficulties trying to get the testimonials.

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

Psychiatrists interview criminals and victims together to see how they got where they are in space and time. Their stories are told in flashbacks.

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the...

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...

An aspiring singer leaves his pregnant bride a radio for company when he is drafted into the army; unfit for military life, the man goes AWOL and...

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

Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

The story revolves around Siddharthan , who is a humble vegetable trader from a small village. He shoulders all the responsibilities of his family...

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller...

Seven men, after getting acquainted in prison and finding out that all of their lives have been affected by the same con man, decide to raid the...

Anwar becomes entangled with a terrorist group after personal tragedy leads him down a dark path. As he infiltrates their network, his true motives...

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the...

Krishnaswamy, an honest man, is conned into a chit fund business and imprisoned. While he faces unspeakable hardships in prison, his family...

In 1890, the year of the U.S. census, chaos erupts when a stranger named Strindler arrives in a small town in Arizona and requests money for...

Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.

Unni, an affluent stockbroker, lives a happy life with his family until he is greeted by a surprise visitor, who is his childhood friend.

New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched...