Best Prison movies of 2008

Actors : Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw,
Directors : Steve McQueen,

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

Actors : Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Nicolas Winding Refn,

A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.

Actors : Ian McShane, Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : Paul W.S. Anderson,

Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

Actors : Jessica Stroup, Scott Porter, Brittany Snow, Dana Davis,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill,
Directors : Philippe Claudel,

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Actors : Anne Archer, Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

Actors : Will Patton, Nicole Beharie, Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson,
Directors : Tim Disney,

A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.

Actors : Sean Astin, Gary Cole, Sean Faris, Penn Badgley,
Directors : Ryan Little,

A rugby player is put up in a juvenile detention center. There he plays for the Highland Rugby team and ultimately plays against his father in the National Championships.

Actors : Lancelot Roch, Olivier Marchal, Diane Kruger, Vincent Lindon,
Directors : Fred Cavayé,

With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.

Actors : Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Bob Gunton, Brooklynn Proulx,
Directors : John Glenn,

A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.

Actors : Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré,
Directors : Eric Red,

After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Josh Lucas, Morena Baccarin,
Directors : Boaz Yakin,

The devastating legacy of a liaison between a concentration camp inmate and a Nazi doctor reflects on the lives of her sons.

Actors : Simona Maicanescu, Lambert Wilson, Dominique Pinon, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Marc Caro,

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien ...

Actors : Fredrik Grøndahl, Trine Dyrholm, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

Actors : Catherine Marchal, Olivia Bonamy, Daniel Auteuil, Francis Renaud,
Directors : Olivier Marchal,

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

Actors : Vladimir Penev, Mihail Mutafov, Zachary Baharov, Tanya Ilieva,
Directors : Javor Gardev,

Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien ...

Actors : Sarah Roemer, Jake Muxworthy, Travis Van Winkle, Mark Rolston,
Directors : David R. Ellis,

Six college students discover their dorm was once an insane asylum that conducted gruesome lobotomies on its teenage inmates during the 1930's.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, John Malkovich, Vera Farmiga,
Directors : Tom Roberts,

In 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov.

Actors : Zoë Tapper, Amanda Plummer, Anna Madeley, Domini Blythe,
Directors : Tim Fywell,

A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships ...

Actors : Vicellous Shannon, Richard Waugh, Ving Rhames, Yannick Bisson,
Directors : Ryan Combs,

Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James "Animal" Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out ...