The Trap

A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.

La Gabbia

Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the experiment to an Italian environment. Italian students made a film based on it, La Gabbia (The Cage).

Ezra In Gabbia

In the summer of 1945, Pound spent 25 days in a cage made of wire mesh, with a tin roof and a concrete floor, exposed to the elements and kept constantly lit at night, in the US Army’s prisoner-of-war camp in Pisa.

The Cage - Nella gabbia

Acqua in Gabbia

Nizar

Nizar is a Tunisian boy whose application for political asylum is rejected. However, he meets Agostino, owner of a local gym and MMA coach, and Nizar discovers his talent for the sport and also finds a family.

Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.

The Cage-Shaped Mirror

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on whispered excerpts from Goffman’s seminal Asylums on total institutions, pair

The Big Doll House

Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women, along with the help of two men, plot an escape.

The Golden Dream

A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.

Caged Heat

A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the

Il Gabbiano (Leonardo Lidi 2022)

For Il Gabbiano, the first stage of the Chekhov Project, director Leonardo Lidi creates a simple stage setting in which he weaves together a sound box for the emotions that drive the characters, isolated on the shores of

A Cage of Nightingales

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.

Hitting a New High

A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

Cage of Gold

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

Animal 2

Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However, with his newfound fame as a fighter, Animal uncovers a jailhouse conspi

Hellhole

An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for

The Naked Cage

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Captive

After a botched suicide attempt Sam Hoffman finds herself trapped in an evil insane asylum

Broadway Limited

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.