Watch The Penal Colony (1970) Online

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news. Read More

Watch The Penal Colony online. Featuring Mónica Echeverría and Luis Alarcón, The Penal Colony is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 4.7. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Chile and was released on 1970. The Penal Colony was directed by Raúl Ruiz,Fernando Garcia. Read Less