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The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen inmates learn about paper production, clay modeling, sculpting and painting. Through this artistic interaction, they share their personal experiences of how they became involved with the world of drug trafficking.
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78 min
2019-03-10
Released
Spanish
4
6.1
0.0
Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.
2013-09-25 | en
6.0
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island Jail. They tell their compelling stories direct to the camera, revealing the violent arc of the Rikers experience – from the trauma of entry to extortion and control by inmates, to oppressive corrections officers, violence and solitary confinement.
2016-11-12 | en
6.0
A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's infamous Limestone penitentiary to uncover the long-term causes and consequences of prison rape. With a startling lack of inhibition, five inmates reveal the workings of an elaborate inner society.
2004-06-04 | en
0.0
The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.
2018-02-27 | en
9.5
Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.
2001-09-09 | en
0.0
Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.
1989-06-07 | en
5.3
SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years.
2011-07-28 | en
10.0
A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.
2018-04-18 | en
0.0
The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themselves, in Boal's words, this group of men reflects on their masculinity as a representation to hide their true strength: their vulnerability.
2021-10-27 | es
0.0
Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for the future.
2011-09-15 | it
5.8
Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and across the ocean, from their island home.
2017-11-04 | en
0.0
1993-01-01 | fr
5.0
An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.
2009-01-01 | fr
7.1
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
1979-09-12 | en
6.7
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
2005-05-27 | en
7.2
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
2008-07-17 | en
7.7
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
1949-09-02 | en
6.5
After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway lands a case that's too personal to handle: that of a young prostitute and former drug addict named Candace, also a childhood friend. When Candace winds up in jail, Madea takes the young woman under her protective wing.
2009-02-20 | en
6.6
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
2003-11-24 | en
7.0
Seville, Spain. Juan Santos, a convicted petty criminal, gets out of jail for a day to celebrate with Triana, his wife, the first communion of their daughter Estrella.
2019-11-22 | es