List of Movies - Prison drama

At an Arkansas detention facility, a sheriff implements a radical social experiment to grant men who are incarcerated more agency.

When Melissa, a prison guard gets transferred to a new prison in Corsica, a young male inmate helps her get her bearings and offers her protection —but he expects help in return.

Four prison officers are forced to make some major changes in the prison they work in to help save their jobs, but those changes disrupt the fragile power balance among the inmates and turn daily life into a battle for survival.

Follows a convicted serial killer who on the day he's slated for execution, claims to be a demon and goes through a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he's mentally fit to receive his sentence.

Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has offered victims and perpetrators of offences the opportunity to dialogue through secure systems, supervised by professionals and volunteers such as Judith, Fanny or Michel. Nassim, Is...

In a prison, three inmates Alois Steindl, Hans and Abdullah take control of three employees Gaby, Rosa and Jasna from the prison canteen. The three prisoners want to negotiate their freedom with the hostages. The leader of the ...

Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour an...

Centres on a psychiatric prison where a group of armed men aim to capture an incarcerated serial killer, but are met with resistance from the prison director. Netflix release date: 8 july 2022.

Adaptation of the true crime memoir by James Keene. Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison but he cuts a deal with the FBI to befriend a suspected serial killer. Keene has to elicit a confession from Lar...

This is set in the near future, when convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects in hopes of shortening their sentences. When one prisoner finds himself the test patient for a new pharmaceutical capable of gen...

A young accountant, awaiting trial in 1977 for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.

In Samuel D. Hunter’s play The Whale, the audience follows a 600-hundred-pound recluse, hiding away from the world and slowly eating himself to death, who is given one last chance at redemption. This fits right in with Aronofsky...

Follows the real-life stories of 107 mothers in the Odessa prison in Ukraine.