Best Prison movies of 2001

Actors : Taylor Simpson, Halle Berry, Gabrielle Witcher, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Troy Garity,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.

Actors : Steve Burton, Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo,
Directors : Rod Lurie,

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against the corrupt system that put him away.

Actors : David Kelly, David Hemmings, Ralph Brown, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Barry Skolnick,

A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.

Actors : Velizar Binev, David Chandler, David Arquette, Michael Stuhlbarg,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.

Actors : Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Moritz Bleibtreu,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

Actors : Portia de Rossi, Tim Allen, Richard Dreyfuss, Christian Slater,
Directors : Chris Ver Wiel,

Cletis Tout is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hit man who sees everything in terms of the movies and a twenty year old diamond heist.

Actors : Ron Cook, Frank Harper, Olivia Williams, James Nesbitt,
Directors : Peter Cattaneo,

Under the leadership of a small-time bank robber, British inmates hatch a plan to escape by staging a musical.

Actors : Niki Karimi, Mohammad Nikbin, Atila Pesiani, Soghra Obeisi,
Directors : Tahmineh Milani,

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes ...

Actors : Gary Oldman, Radha Mitchell, Mary Steenburgen, Skeet Ulrich,
Directors : David Seltzer,

An outlaw, a waitress and her misfit neighbor come upon a baby in the midst of car wreckage. With his former partner in crime out to get him, the outlaw and his new friends put their lives on the line to protect the infant from danger.

Actors : Jonathan Banks, Kelly Rowan, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Scott Ziehl,

An inmate serving time for vehicular homicide, overhears prison guards discussing plans for a murder and becomes a target himself.

Actors : Judd Nelson, Larry Drake, Paulina Porizkova, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Gregory Gieras,

A madman terrorizes a female psychologist when they are accidently locked up in an abandoned asylum.

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Patricio Contreras,
Directors : Eduardo Mignogna,

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ...

Actors : Ekin Cheng, Karen Mok, Kin-Lung Au, Bond Chan,
Directors : Jingle Ma,

Dragon is determined to leave his life of crime after leaving prison but denying the temptations of the free world won't be easy.

Actors : Moussa Maaskri, Julie-Anne Roth, Jo Prestia, Patrick Dell'Isola,
Directors : Hervé Renoh,

Four prisoners escape and seek refuge in a Cistercian monastery, where nothing is what it seems. Isolated from the rest of the world, begins a nightmare among the fugitives, willing to kill...

Actors : Saïd Taghmaoui, Camille De Pazzis, Alexis Loret, Bruno Salomone,
Directors : Patrick Levy,

Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.

Actors : Dean Lennox Kelly, Brendan Mackey, Aidan Campbell, Tony Devlin,
Directors : Les Blair,

A moving insight into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Belfast.

Actors : Bo Derek, Stewart Bick, Bruce Boxleitner, Jonathan Higgins,
Directors : Adam Weissman,

A lawyer battling addiction gets a chance to redeem her life when she is assigned to save a death-row inmate from execution.

Actors : Joyce Jimenez, Richard Grieco, Will Stewart, Athena Massey,
Directors : Craig Corman,

Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from...

Actors : Cochin Hanifa, Meera Jasmine, Salim Kumar, Dileep,
Directors : Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas,

Shivani's only hope of escape from her home prison is Ramesan.