Inmate Movies

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

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

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.

The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen...

Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly...

A young prison inmate gets released together with an old gangster. They go to town together in order to visit their families and friends, but nobody...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and...

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...

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances....

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...

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

An investigation into how inmates, from their cells on Death Row, help pen pals outside in their daily struggles.