Best Prison movies of 1984

Actors : Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Roger Young,

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Emabassy to steal millions in gems.

Actors : Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and ...

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Shawn Smith,
Directors : Thomas Rickman,

After serving time for a theft he didn't commit, all Billy wants to do is to reconnect with his daughter. However, some loose ends, like the whereabouts of the stolen loot, just won't let him go.

Actors : Suzane Carvalho, Gloria Cristal, Rossana Ghessa, Henri Pagnoncelli,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in a Brazilian prison. Whilst there she is brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison ...

Actors : Haldun Ergüvenç, Müjde Ar, Tarik Tarcan, Ayse Demirel,
Directors : Yavuz Turgul,

A victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.

Actors : Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger, Rita Silva, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

Julia, a famous physician, infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister's killing, but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden's sexual brutality.

Actors : Victoria Abril, Richard Bohringer, Richard Berry, Farid Chopel,
Directors : Denis Amar,

Conflict between a hardened prison inmate and a ruthless prison guard.

Actors : José Dumont, Nildo Parente, Glória Pires, Carlos Vereza,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Actors : Adel Imam, Salah Nazmi, Ahmad Bedair, Sherihan,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

Sherif returns from London with his girlfriend Sahar, he learns from her father that his identical twin brother Hassan is in prison for embezzling money from the company. Sherif visits ...

Actors : Guenter Burger, Anke Guenzel, Heinz Tandler, Ingolf Kumbrink,
Directors : Christian Wagner,

Franz, a young prisoner tries to escape from prison. He meets a young girl, they spend some time together. Born to be free in captivity...

Actors : Sharat Saxena, Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Tanuja,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Shanker is jailed for theft and there meets with Tony, who introduces him to professional boxing, after witnessing him fight an inmate. When he gets out of jail, Shanker takes up professional boxing.

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Ai Saotome,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

During the Meiji era, a brutal prison warden terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido.

Actors : Patricia Mayers, Abel Woolrich, Jorge Santoyo, Tina Romero,
Directors : Gabriel Retes,

Six women murderers escape from prison to dug out a gold treasure buried in the woods, but six male campers are sitting on it. Birds get shot, women and men get shot, and the prize goes to the surviving few.

Actors : Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger, Rita Silva, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

A woman murders her boyfriends and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil sadistic lesbian warden. She immediately sets about ...

Actors : George Estregan, Maria Isabel Lopez, Rudy Fernandez, Johnny Delgado,
Directors : Manuel 'Fyke' Cinco,

Leonardo de los Reyes gets framed by some hoodlums for murder, he escapes from prison and gets revenge to the people who harmed him.