Prison

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows prison

poster Detained

Detained

When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent o…

poster Boys' Reformatory

Boys' Reformatory

61mn - Crime, Drama

A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doc…

poster Canon City

Canon City

82mn - Action, Crime, Drama

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

93mn - Drama, Crime, Short

An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condition, they must become roommates. Their severed bonds are strained as the father battles to keep his son…

poster Convict 13

Convict 13

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

poster Behind Locked Doors

Behind Locked Doors

62mn - Drama, Crime, Thriller

Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart ha…

Escape

96mn - Drama, Short

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barba…

poster Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster

62mn - Crime, Drama

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a b…

poster The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress

The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress

61mn - Adventure

Count de Faber is working on a new type of explosive, but finds out that Professor Plussman has beat him to it. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the formula from Plussman, he breaks into the profe…

poster Alice the Jail Bird

Alice the Jail Bird

8mn - Animation

Alice and Julius are riding along on a turtle until they notice someone has left a pie to cool on their third-storey window sill. They swipe it with the aid of the turtle and his elongated neck, but are p…

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 The Hoose-Gow

The Hoose-Gow

Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.

poster Albert R.N.

Albert R.N.

88mn - War, History

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in or…

poster Jail Bait

Jail Bait

74mn - Action, Crime, Thriller

Don Gregor, the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor, begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady and carry a gun. The pair attempt an armed holdup, and when things start to go wrong Gre…

poster City Without Men

City Without Men

75mn - Crime, Drama

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose resid…

Police

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

poster History of a Crime

History of a Crime

5mn - Drama, Crime

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

poster False Arrest

False Arrest

192mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of…

poster The Grim Game

The Grim Game

71mn - Adventure, Drama

Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.

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