Best Prison movies of 1960

Actors : Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, André Bervil,
Directors : Jacques Becker,

In prison four long-sentence inmates planning an elaborate escape cautiously induct a new inmate to join in their scheme which leads to distrust and uncertainty.

Actors : Sam Wanamaker, Stanley Baker, Margit Saad, Grégoire Aslan,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Actors : Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Robert Day,

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices...

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Val Guest,

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Misako Watanabe, Mari Shiraki, Michitarô Mizushima,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Giovanna Ralli, Peter Baldwin, Leo Genn,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.

Actors : Derek Bond, Bryan Coleman, Reed De Rouen, Walter Randall,
Directors : Henry Cass,

A Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.

Actors : John Wilder, James Brown, Robert Karnes, Walter Coy,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Matt Wade escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill, a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Billy refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with...

Actors : Merry Anders, Willard Parker, Ray Stricklyn, Robert Dix,
Directors : William F. Claxton,

In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops and their mother's arm is amputated after their home is bombed by Union people, so they go riding with ...

Actors : Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley, James Booth, Bernie Winters,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The leader of the gang plans to use this to his advantage and take control of the place through manipulation.

Actors : Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Harp McGuire, Joan Evans,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Nick gets out of prison after serving his time for robbery, but no one ever found the stolen money, a quarter million dollars. Everyone's watching him: the police, a mobster, his girlfriend...

Actors : Jill Williams, Francis Matthews, Jack Gwillim, Basil Dignam,
Directors : Max Varnel,

An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.

Actors : Dae-yeob Lee, Su-il Bang, Hye-jeong Kim,
Directors : Keung-ha Jo,

A man held prisoner in North Korea following the Korean War, organizes a resistance movement against the cruelty of the communist prisoners.

Actors : Enrique Almirante, José Díaz Lastra, Amador Domínguez, Ángel Espasande,
Directors : Antonio Vázquez Gallo,

Melodrama of illicit love between a young girl and a man escaped from prison, amidst the fight against Batista dictatorship.

Actors : Jennifer Statler, Pati Magee, Pamela Perry, Jo Ann Kelly,
Directors : Barry Mahon,

Five female prisoners murder an informer, then escape through a drainpipe into the streets of New York.

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Jacqueline Vandal, Aleka Stratigou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-island, which the young man inherited, to a wealthy american. But the young man falls in love with the american's daughter and...