Prisoner Movies

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the...

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexuality and social convention have been broken...

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is...

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a...

A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the...

When Arturo was jailed because of drug trafficking, Eva shouldered all the responsibilities in raising their daughter, Belinda. Trying all the...

Johnny and his friends embark on a journey to rid their land of an evil giant. While inside the giant's castle, the children are trapped by the giant...

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revolution.

Just before his wedding a man is framed for murder. In order to clear his name he needs all the help he can get from his crazy friends, family and...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass...

Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the...