Prisoner Movies

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the...

Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexuality and social convention have been broken do...

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentratio...

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eatin...

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is...

French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with the legendary Agnès Varda) situates his latest soci...

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

A street hustler falls in love with a bar girl. They get married, but separate when the guy gets meted a death sentence after gunning down a rich cust...

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in And...

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smolderin...

Derek and Nancy Haysom were brutally murdered in their house in Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 30, 1985. Suspicion fell on their daughter Elizabeth and...

Melanie is married to Tom, a controlling, cold and self-centered man who happens to be a prison warden. He finds her to be a liability to his career a...

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Hallid...