Best Prison movies of 1980

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Edward Woodward, John Waters,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Don Gordon,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Actors : Adam Faith, Billy Murray, Cheryl Campbell, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest ...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Patrick Dewaere, Yves Robert, Jacques Dufilho,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Maria Stella Splendore, Neide Ribeiro,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cintia Lodetti, Cristina Lay, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is ...

Actors : Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band ...

Actors : Gary Waddell, Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Actors : Dinesh Hingoo, Master Bhagwan, Bindiya Goswami, Birbal,
Directors : Deepak Bahry,

Ex-Convict Raju is released from prison and leaves to Mumbai in search of a better life along with his sister Zubeda. He befriends an old man, Mr. Nawab who is the principal of a school and...

Actors : Doval'e Glickman, Yitzhak Bareket, Boris Botwinick, Ruth Geller,
Directors : Eitan Green,

The story of a woman trying to free her husband from a Russian prison camp. She lives in Israel, organizes strikes, and gains public and press support. But her public life begins to clash ...

Actors : Jutta Wachowiak, Slávka Budínová, Regimantas Adomaitis, Christine Gloger,

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time ...