Jail

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows jail

poster Maniac Chase
Maniac Chase
8mn - Comedy, Thriller
A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.
poster A Natural Born Gambler
A Natural Born Gambler
22mn - Comedy
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
poster Do Detectives Think?
Do Detectives Think?
19mn - Comedy
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
poster What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(2.9/5)
93mn - Drama, Thriller, Short
An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.
poster Criminal Act
Criminal Act
93mn - Thriller, Horror, Crime
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.
poster Sin's Kitchen
Sin's Kitchen
(2.6/5)
91mn - Drama
Mobsters, ex-cons, grad students and other desperate persons see their various fates converge in the Mojave Desert.
poster Bootleggers
Bootleggers
(2.6/5)
110mn - Comedy, Crime
A bunch of bootleggers run booze in the South.
poster 10 Days in a Madhouse
10 Days in a Madhouse
(2.9/5)
111mn - Drama
Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.
poster Sagebrush Trail
Sagebrush Trail
(2.7/5)
54mn - Drama, Romance, Western
A wrongly convicted man escapes prison and infiltrates the outlaw gang that harbors the real killer, only to discover that his closest new ally is the very man who destroyed his life.
poster Tit-for-Tat
Tit-for-Tat
(3.1/5)
5mn - Fantasy
An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.
poster Bacon Grabbers
Bacon Grabbers
20mn - Comedy
Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.
poster Pardon Us
Pardon Us
(3.4/5)
56mn - Comedy
During Prohibition, bumbling beer entrepreneurs Stan and Ollie accidentally sell their homemade brew to a policeman and find themselves behind bars. Stan's embarrassing loose tooth that makes involuntary …
poster Through the Breakers
Through the Breakers
17mn - Drama
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do…
poster Sentence of God
Sentence of God
(2.7/5)
88mn - Western
Two ruthless gunmen with opposing motivations—a cold-blooded bounty hunter pursuing the reward and a vengeful outlaw seeking justice for his father's murder—reluctantly join forces to track down the notor…
poster Crainquebille
Crainquebille
(3.6/5)
90mn - Drama
Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…
poster A Jitney Elopement
A Jitney Elopement
(3.0/5)
33mn - Comedy
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chas…
poster The Hole in the Wall
The Hole in the Wall
(2.9/5)
63mn - Mystery, Drama
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known a…
poster Painkiller
Painkiller
80mn - Thriller, Action, Mystery
When an experimental lethal injection makes an inmate immortal, the most dangerous convicts seize control of the prison in a desperate bid to escape and conquer the world.
poster Police
Police
(3.3/5)
26mn - Comedy
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
poster The Hansom Cabman
The Hansom Cabman
(3.4/5)
20mn - Comedy
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and …
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