Few genres tap into society’s worst fears and most illicit curiosities more than the prison film. Jails, felons, and the experience of incarceration have fascinated filmmakers s ...

These prison movies are captivating. Get it? Some of the best movies are actually movies about life on the outside, where the prison represents the mental traps imposed on us by society, or our own ...

The prison escape subgenre, producing classics such as The Great Escape and The Shawshank Redemption, is one of the most consistently enjoyable subjects in film. On the flip side, the films of Robert ...

In 1947, a struggling Hollywood film — an Oscar nominee for best picture despite its box office failure — was shown to 300 incarcerated men at the San Quentin prison in California. For years afterward ...

The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring samurai clans fought for control of the land.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, master of slow dread, makes his first period film and shrinks an entire war down to one cell. The Samurai ...

The story of the making of cult television favorite 'The Prisoner' is told by the people who were there. Patrick McGoohan's perplexing masterpiece caused a sensation when it burst onto British ...