Convict Movies

1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial...

In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor....

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the...

A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike and his pet goons are...

Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but...

A college football team recruits a tough convict.

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that...

In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thought it is his sworn duty to return the men dead or...

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine...

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to...

In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...

A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while...

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father,...

A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and...

Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s,...

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing...

A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.