The best prison thriller movies pack tension, suspense and very complex characters. Here are my five top picks to stream now.

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 ...

Prison yards contain a multitude of characters, but prison movies tend to focus on the same handful of archetypes: The badass that nobody dares to mess with, the tougher-than-he-looks newcomer who ...

Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy are reportedly eying starring roles in a new prison film from a major director. Craig is best known for playing James Bond across five films, starting his tenure with ...

A new movie about the Stanford Prison Experiment opens tonight, based on the famous experiment run by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, Zimbardo set up a mock prison in a basement of the Stanford ...

Constructed in the late nineteenth century to house political prisoners, Japan's infamous Abashiri Prison served as the inspiration for a popular and prolific run of yakuza movies released between ...

Our online readers responded to Richard Connelly’s Hair Balls item [“Book Learning, April 3] on the books the Texas prison system is banning for its inmates. Brilliance: Ah, the brilliance of ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Prison Walls of Abashiri 3' tonight? Searching for where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch this Teruo Ishii directed movie can be more complicated than expected so ...