Movies: Jail

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

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themselves, in Boal's words, this group of men reflects on their masculinity as a representation to hide t...

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for the future....

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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 age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the mos...

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Ars...

One of the Three Kings and Santa Claus spend Christmas in jail, talking about what their future will be like in a world like this....

Lalu is a reckless youth who is willing to do anything for money, even if it means getting involved in the drugs business....

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended fam...

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined with animated sequences of an inmate's incarceration story....

In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at work in America's prison system....

A woman visits her boyfriend, locked up in a prison a few hours’ drive away from Buenos Aires. Each week, she manages as best as she can to accomplish her mission: provide her boyfriend food, drugs and love. In an exercise of visceral realism, Edgard...

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

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

Murat, an accountant at a company, lives a happy life with his wife Zeynep and daughter Selam. Gönül, a member of a gang, drugs Murat and steals the keys to the company safe from his pocket. That night, Kenan and his gang rob the company safe....

A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog....

A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer....

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 with his arrest and uses flashbacks to tell the events that led to his incarceration. His abuse is chronicled...

Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison (Chile), to build a guitar....