Jail Movies

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.

Set in the dry zone of Sri Lanka, Suddi is married to a notorious criminal in the village, Romiel. Convicted for a murder Romiel is jailed. Miserable...

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged....

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

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...

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

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

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined...

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.