Jail Movies

Two young high school boys spike the punch at a Halloween party, mischievously let the air out of car tires, and finally steal a car to go for a...

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number...

Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.

The movie revolves around the family of Aby. His wife Sara, and their daughter Riya . Aby is a bank employee. Sara was brought up in an orphanage...

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Peter Berdon (Mario Selič) joins a group of Stalinists after his father is killed by the Nazis in this grim political drama. The film begins...

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and...

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

Version of the play "Todo bicho de uña". It tells the story of revenge. The tour of the Andean, for ten years, a young man in search of the...

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the...

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

A documentary chronicling 17 years of Mark David Allen's alcohol abuse.

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

A former thief driving through a small town is coerced into stealing a valuable statue but finds himself in hot water after he's accused of murder.

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing...

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...

Dani is a petty criminal who falls in love with the female police officer who arrests him after a robbery. It is love at first sight, a moment of...

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 haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears...