The cinematic medium consists of a group of elements that overlap with each other in balance, giving it its high influential capabilities, and the character is one of the most important of these elements, as it performs a set of important functions, foremost of which is the transmission of the main ideas to the recipient, and since cinema is an art closely related to the intellectual data of the worlds outside it, it is influenced by them and then reproduces them intellectually more deeply and with a higher vitality through its intermediate elements, including the character, to re-broadcast them to society with a retrograde movement, and the character of the prisoner is one of the cinematic characters that achieved this goal, as we can infer from the transformations it went through on the most important intellectual changes that expressed by Cinema, and the researcher monitored this relationship, by defining a research topic bearing the following title (Semantic Transformations of the Prisoner’s Character in the Contemporary Film), From here, the importance of the research emerges in that it addresses an important issue. The aim of the research will be to know the most important semantic transformations that the prisoner's character has undergone in the contemporary film, and then the most important terms contained in the research have been identified. Then the researcher moved to the theoretical framework and concluded it with a set of indicators.  After that, the researcher identified an intentional research sample represented by the film (The Shawshank Redemption 1994) and analyzed it, and came out of the analysis process with a number of results, then followed it with a set of conclusions, and finally the research concluded with a list of sources and references.