Best Prison movies of 1986

Actors : Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, Mary Demas,
Directors : John McNaughton,

Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity.

Actors : Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Actors : Bert Remsen, Gary Busey, Seymour Cassel, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.

Actors : Ned Manning, Wilbur Wilde, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

In the near future, a teenage couple are trapped in a drive-in theater which has become a concentration camp for social outcasts. The inmates are treated to drugs, exploitation films, junk food, and new wave music.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Nutan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

The PSO is a British oriented group who wants to take control of India. When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests there leader Dr. Michael Dang the authorities blast the jail...

Actors : J.J. Cohen, Jon Polito, Virginia Madsen, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Duncan Gibbins,

A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.

Actors : Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta, Ben Gazzara, Marzio Honorato,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by ...

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree, Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Eric Karson,

The commander of an Air Force camp simulates prisoner-of-war conditions for realistic training goes too far, creating all too real torture situations. He preys on the only woman in the experiment.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Actors : Sandy Brooke, Marya Gant, Ross Hagen, Suzy Stokey,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.

Actors : Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Alan Shapiro,

A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.

Actors : Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi, Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival ...

Actors : Pierre Curzi, Marie Tifo, Robert Gravel, Jacques Godin,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for ...

Actors : Carey Zuris, Rick Gianasi, Natalie O'Connell, Teresa Farley,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.

Actors : Kin Shriner, Karen Chase, Sandy Martin, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Bruce Logan,

A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.

Actors : Pavel Popandov, Ivaylo Geraskov, Elzhana Popova, Veselin Nedyalkov,
Directors : Nikola Rudarov,

20-year-old Georgi was adopted as a child. The family falls apart though and he ends up in a youth detention center. When released, he comes to face people's selfishness and disregard, He ...

Actors : Sa Dec Ba Nam, Cung Bac Le, Thuy An, Dung Phuong,
Directors : Quang Minh Hô,

Binh is a South Vietnamese soldier whose wife Nga turns to a life of prostitution upon Binh's M.I.A. classification. When Binh does return, he finds it impossible to forgive the repentant ...

Actors : Sam T. Lapuz, Joe Meyer, Ronald L. Marchini, Quincy Frazer,

Steve Parrish (Ronald Marchini) is fighting in Vietnam in 1974. He is injured and after a six-month recovery in a small village, he decides to stay behind and marry a local woman. He ...

Actors : André Mélançon, Marthe Mercure, Jacques Godin, Ariane Frédérique,
Directors : Arthur Lamothe,

An unjustly condemned man released from prison after having served his sentence reunites with his granddaughter, taking her on a tense journey to the island of his youth and the friend who betrayed him.