solitary confinement movies

Papillon (1973)
7.848 / 10

Crime, Drama

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his...

The Great Escape (1963)
7.9 / 10

Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a...

Papillon (2017)
7.347 / 10

Drama

Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal...

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
7.469 / 10

Drama, Crime

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair,...

Bronson (2008)
6.986 / 10

Drama, Action, Crime

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his...

Unspeakable (2003)
3.9 / 10

Horror

Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a...

The Mayor of Hell (1933)
7.1 / 10

Crime, Drama

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Hum (2015)
7 / 10

Comedy, Drama

A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls,...

The Rack (1956)
6.6 / 10

Drama, War

Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese...

Solitary (2016)
7 / 10

Documentary, Crime

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the...

Locked Up in America - Solitary Nation and Prison State (2014)
0 / 10

For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up more and more people. But at what cost, and has it...

Last Days of Solitary (2017)
0 / 10

Documentary

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan...