Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life ...

Juan (Diego Calva) is a human rights lawyer, working hard for his clients and with a heavily pregnant wife at home. Visiting an overcrowded prison to meet with a prisoner he’s set to defend in an ...

With The Shawshank Redemption turning 30 this year, the hosts of BBC Radio 4's Screenshot Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode are putting the best prison movies and TV shows on trial. Incarceration has ...

Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials ... humiliation the prisoners are subjected to, but when her true identity is discovered, she finds herself at the ...

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from ...