Jail Movies

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

Petr and Richard are among those for whom fixed working hours are a nightmare. They want to be masters of their own time and not be subordinate to...

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...

One of the social guidance / scare films made by prolific filmmaker Sid Davis, “Book Him!” was produced in the 1960s. It shows various...

A father killed his son. In a state of alcoholic delirium, a young man murdered his friend. A 21 year-old boy shot a policeman. Faced with their...

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...

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

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.

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000...

Upcoming animated adaption of the popular Roblox game Jailbreak.

An adaptation of the short story of the same name by Roberto Drummond, Pela Porta Verde (“Through the Green Door”) presents a Kafkaesque...

After a drug arrest, a college-bound young man spends a night in jail with a cellmate whose life initially seems far removed from his own.