Jail Movies

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted...

Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.

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...

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller...

Franziska Dreyer and Sebastian Pauli are a happy couple. When one day the police arrest her boyfriend on suspicion of murder, Franziska assumes it's...

In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording...

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

Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and...

This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity....

Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him innocent but jails him anyway. When the rustling...

The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a...

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.

Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.

The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill...

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

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

A look at the prison breakout of Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional facility, as well as a look back at some of the most daring...

A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she...

Former Miss Spanish Basque Country, Pilar Orive, stars as American Janet Cooper who is drugged and shipped to a remote women's prison managed by a...

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.