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Inside San Quentin

October 1976 •English

San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County. San Quentin opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection, though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006.

Crimes and Passions - The Scar

July 1991 •French

Part of a trilogy about the reality of living in a French prison.

Our Daily Work

October 2020 •Romanian

A group of men share a small space in a prison metal workshop in Botosani, Romania. When they’re not working, they animatedly discuss religion and hypocrisy, lament during tea that they don’t have onions for sausage, or joke and sing.

Women Without Men

June 1956 •English

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

Double Jeopardy

September 1999 •English

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

The Letter Room

June 2020 •English

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

Big Stan

November 2007 •English

A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

Step Right... Step Left...

March 1992 •Russian

Is it possible to escape from fate if you live quietly and unnoticed, without causing harm to anyone? It turns out it's impossible. Thus, the arrival of a famous singer and a popular TV journalist entails fatal and unpredictable events.

Les Misérables

April 1935 •English

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

November 1932 •English

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Symmetry

September 2003 •Polish

Jailbirds

August 1978 •Italian

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.

Son of a Gun

October 2014 •English

Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.

Sorgavaasal

November 2024 •Tamil

A common man imprisoned in a corrupt system questions whether jails truly rehabilitate or push individuals deeper into crime's abyss.

Imprisoned: Survival Guide for Rich and Prodigal

May 2015 •

After being involved in a hit and run incident, a wealthy spoiled brat was sent to prison and must learn several tricks in order to survive the life inside.

Fiore

May 2016 •Italian

Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations.

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

January 2025 •English

Eric Clapton plays old hits and new ones in this Grammy Award winning special.

Secrecy

September 2008 •English

This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets, the government's ability to put information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy.

Objectified

May 2009 •English

A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

The White Diamond

November 2004 •English

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.