Best Prison movies of 1999

Actors : David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

Actors : Obba Babatundé, Martin Lawrence, Nick Cassavetes, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Ted Demme,

The story of wrongfully convicted men (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence) who discover the value of life after serving 65 years in prison.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?

Actors : Steve Zahn, Ally Walker, William H. Macy, Jeremy Northam,
Directors : Mark Illsley,

Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity...

Actors : Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.

Actors : Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Iain Robertson,
Directors : Jake Scott,

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of ...

Actors : Campbell Scott, Ian Hart, Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber,
Directors : Tom Gilroy,

As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen...

Actors : Liane Balaban, Nicholas Campbell, Mary Walsh, Tara Spencer-Nairn,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.

Actors : John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Michael Imperioli, Nick Sandow,
Directors : Bruno de Almeida,

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is ...

Actors : David Alan Grier, Vincent Gallo, María Celedonio, Natasha Lyonne,
Directors : Matthew Bright,

A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale.

Actors : Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Paul Brooke, James Purefoy,
Directors : Simon Hunter,

A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another ...

Actors : Lisa Stansfield, Paul Usher, Hugo Speer, Tom Bell,
Directors : Nick Mead,

An optimistic guy is arrested and thrown in jail, while there he learns the saxophone from a fellow inmate. Once he's released from jail, he and a few friends form a swing band while he ...

Actors : Thierry Lhermitte, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aure Atika, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Dominique Farrugia,

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of ...

Actors : John Hurt, David Keith, Maggie Weatherly, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Matthew Modine,

Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery, in which his father and brother also participated. When he's released from jail, he's determined to live a normal life, and gets work at a ...

Actors : Chandrachur Singh, Sanjay Dutt, Mahima Chaudhry, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : Raj Kanwar,

Karan is a former soldier. One day when Karan finds out that his father committed suicide in prison after he is falsely charged with a crime, he suspects Ravi Verma, a city attorney who has...

Actors : Richard Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Enrico Lo Verso, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Philippe Bérenger,

After many years spent in prison, Pitou returns back to his native town Marselle. He couldn't even imagine all the disappointments he would face there.

Actors : João Maria Pinto, Valentí Agustí, Francisco Franco, Joaquim Jordà,

While the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical ...

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Bai Ling, Jon Bon Jovi, William Forsythe,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

Jamey Meadows is a convict just released from prison, hoping to live a straight life on the outside. His brother tries to reenlist him into the crime world, but Jamey resists, getting a job...

Actors : Sunnyi Melles, Marc Hosemann, Nicolette Krebitz, Axel Milberg,
Directors : Rainer Kaufmann,

When Ben is released from prison, undercover police agent Melody picks him up at the gate. Kahnitz, her sinister and ambitious boss, wants to see Ben convicted of another crime as soon as ...

Actors : Jürgen Tarrach, Tamara Simunovic, Dieter Landuris, Hannes Jaenicke,
Directors : Thorsten Schmidt,

Episodes from the 1999 Sylvester night in Berlin, accompanied by the blind radio-DJ Zippo: one of the listeners is ex-inmate Toto, who starts his job as a bus driver on this day. In the bus...