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 ...

Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 film Down By Law, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni, is a strange, delightful crime ...

Featured in 'No Escape' (1994) One of those movies with a once-futuristic setting that now, technically, takes place in the past, No Escape is about a prison known as Absolom that’s situated on ...