Jail

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows jail

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 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 Detained
Detained
18mn - Comedy
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 Lady Gangster
Lady Gangster
(2.9/5)
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 Hijacked: Flight 285
Hijacked: Flight 285
94mn - Action, Drama, Crime
A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after takeoff, two of his aides, traveling as ordinary passengers, take control and free him. He demands $2…
poster Behind Locked Doors
Behind Locked Doors
(3.3/5)
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…
poster The Seapreme Court
The Seapreme Court
(3.6/5)
7mn - Animation
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her g…
poster An Awful Moment
An Awful Moment
12mn - Drama
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the…
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 Escape
Escape
(3.7/5)
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 Boys' Reformatory
Boys' Reformatory
(2.7/5)
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 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.
poster He's In Again
He's In Again
24mn - Comedy
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he wi…
poster The Execution
The Execution
(2.9/5)
90mn - Drama, Short
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the cam…
poster Going Ga-Ga
Going Ga-Ga
(3.2/5)
20mn - Comedy
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat…
poster You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento
You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento
101mn - Western
A aging boxer named Sacramento Thompson faces his greatest fight when his daughter is kidnapped for ransom, but when the criminals refuse to release her despite payment, her boyfriend embarks on a deadly …
poster Chained for Life
Chained for Life
81mn - Drama
A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
poster Girl on a Chain Gang
Girl on a Chain Gang
96mn - Drama
Three young travelers driving through the Deep South encounter corrupt police who frame them on false charges, subjecting them to a brutal ordeal of racial hatred and systematic abuse that exposes the dar…
poster The Hoose-Gow
The Hoose-Gow
18mn - Comedy
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 False Arrest
False Arrest
(3.2/5)
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…
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