Best Prison movies of 1990

Actors : J.E. Freeman, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : David Lynch,

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Actors : Fred Ward, Cecilia Pérez-Cervera, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : George Armitage,

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...

Actors : Barbara Tyson, Gailard Sartain, Jim Varney, Bill Byrge,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank ...

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Actors : Jay Brazeau, Matt Clark, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Martin Sheen,

Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Youssef Dawood, Adel Imam, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.

Actors : Gregory Scott Cummins, Elizabeth Hicks, Sydney Coale, Kascha,
Directors : Bill Milling,

Discontent leads to a daring escape plan in a women's prison where the inmates are all lingerie clad models and the lesbian warden demands unusual favours for early parole.

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Burt Young, Lance Kinsey, Allen Garfield, Judy Landers,
Directors : Nat Christian,

A gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.

Actors : Karen Kirishima, Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Yamato, Toshiya Fujita,
Directors : Junji Sakamoto,

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer.

Actors : Ketevan Kiknadze, Gia Burjanadze, Giorgi Khobua, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi,
Directors : Giga Lortkipanidze,

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

Actors : Yunus Parvez, Shakti Kapoor, Shiva Rindani, Asrani,

Brahmdutt, a rich Steel Baron is falsely convicted in the murder of his best friend and business partner Premchand. When in prison, Brahmdutt finds out from sources that his son in law ...

Actors : Simon Yam, Andy Lau, Alan Tang, Elizabeth Lee,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.

Actors : Luke Mullaney, Olga Antal, Karl Tessler, Laura Favali,
Directors : Sándor Söth,

1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to escape to Sweden fails and they find themselves in a Polish prison.

Actors : Il Tae, Jang-Geun Mun, Kwang Jung, Hyeong-gi Jo,
Directors : Doo-yong Lee,

An habitual, but good-natured, criminal is in and out of prison 38 times. Finally he is sentenced to 10 years though without a trial after facing the accusation of stealing a goat. Feeling ...

Actors : Rick Cluchey, Billy Hayes, Douglas Van Leuven, Stefan Kalinka,
Directors : Rick Cluchey,

Prison inmates stage a mock trial for a convicted murderer.

Actors : Anatoliy Romashin, Irina Rozanova, Leonid Kanevskiy, Ivan Bortnik,
Directors : Konstantin Khudyakov,

Ex-Gulag prison guard investigates murder on the movie set.

Actors : Dulcie van den Bergh, Illse Roos, Steve Hofmeyr, Annelize van der Ryst,
Directors : Franz Marx,

A convict is released on parole after serving two years in prison. He is deadset on getting revenge on the man responsible for his conviction.

Actors : Chuck Jeffreys, Richard Lynch, Elizabeth Kaitan, Chris DeRose,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Cop is framed for murder and sent to prison.