Movies: Prisoner

A young political prisoner in World War II is slowly going insane in his lonely cell. Only a fly, a metaphor for a woman, keeps him alive - but also because he can play fate with the fly......

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to discover what life is like for those who live in them....

As every Sunday, in the Detention Center where she finds herself prisoner, Nathalie awaits her turn in the visiting room....

THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father....

A man takes the law into his own hands when his wife's rapists are released from prison on a technicality, only to be possessed by the spirits of the criminals....

A prison chain gang digs two fresh graves for men destined to be executed that night. As time slips away for the murderers' salvation, the grave diggers' mixed reactions to the grim task split them apart and unravel the progress. The supervising boss...

Every year, hundreds of women develop relationships with prisoners. They fall under the charms of killers, petty criminals, rapists and crooks. Most only share a few letters, but some make it all the way to the altar. It is hard to understand what th...

This film is about two outlaws that come head to head. Kamil is the famed outlaw of the town. He plans to skip the town with his lover Nesrin, and get rid of his outlaw ways. Ahmet, on the other hand, is an outlaw whose reputation has spread to the e...

The story of a cowboy who fights a bandit gang that is after him....

A prisoner narrates this fantastical tale of two young sisters whose lives are changed at the strike of a match when they mistake an imprisoned Doukhobor for Rapunzel....

An estimated 400,000 people were tattooed with serial numbers at Auschwitz, of whom only a few thousand survive today. This intimate and visually rapturous documentary details the current lives of some of these survivors, their memories of the camps,...

Cartagena, Colombia – 1666. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil incarnate and a Faustian bargain for her freedom while imprisoned in the bowels of the Palace of the Inquisition....

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and 15-year old Colt Lundy, both serving 30 years in adult prison for killing Colt's stepdad....

At a parole board hearing, James Carter asks for a freedom he is not certain that he deserves....

Chronicles the true story of Jean-Louis Raphel’s attempted escape from Les Baumettes prison in Marseille, France in June 1999....

Frequent perpetrator Tony ends up in the Pieter Baan Center after yet another violent robbery. For seven weeks, a procession of behavioral researchers passes him by. They must ultimately come to a unanimous conclusion and then advise the judge: wheth...

Michel wants to go home....

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Australians, French -- who are trapped in Brazilian jails....

Though the drug does not belong to him, importing heroin gets Acai Nakrim locked up in jail which then leads to his death penalty. Before the execution day, he flees with the help of an old man....

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