Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life behind bars to escape thrillers to World War II team-ups to earnest ...

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 ...

The prison movie genre brings life’s most fundamental struggles to the fore, as characters are forced to confront isolation, subjugation, and the inhumanity of having their agency stripped away. From ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Though the case is nearly a decade old, the Clinton Correctional Facility escape is garnering interest once again thanks to a new audience giving it attention. The fictionalized true-crime series ...

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.