An early entry in the subgenre of women behind bars, John Cromwell's Caged is about a married 19-year-old (Eleanor Parker) who is locked up after a botched bank robbery in which her husband is killed.

Five years ago, Sean Bean and Stephen Graham brought the current state of the underfunded British prison system to life in BBC miniseries Time. Housed in tiny mould-infested leaky Victorian cells, ...

Movies have the power to take us anywhere. But sometimes they’re best served when there are constraints placed on their narrative potential, where writers and directors have to work within the ...

“Wasteman,” the BAFTA-nominated pressure cooker prison thriller starring BAFTA Rising Star winner David Jonsson (“The Long ...

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Prison movies are essentially a whole genre at this point, since so many films take place either wholly or entirely within prisons, and focus on things like survival and/or escape. It’s not ...

Melisa Sözen stars as a teacher imprisoned for her beliefs who faces a big choice in Mahnaz Mohammadi's new fiction feature, debuting in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.

Indie prison flicks are breakout trend With boxoffice for indie films taking a nose dive and new Cannes market titles seen as tough to market, many North American buyers feel like they're in a kind of ...