Best Prison movies of 2020

Actors : Linda Cardellini, Al Sapienza, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Josh Trank,

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Actors : Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page,
Directors : Francis Annan,

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Actors : Steve Tientcheu, Bakary Koné, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Rasmané Ouédraogo,
Directors : Philippe Lacôte,

A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Actors : Stéfi Celma, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alban Lenoir, Ramzy Bedia,
Directors : Guillaume Pierret,

A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.

Actors : Antoine Olivier Pilon, Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Roth, Benjamín Amadeo, Sofía Gala Castiglione,
Directors : Sebastián Schindel,

Desperate and confused, Alicia will do the impossible to keep her son from prison after he's convicted of trying to murder his ex-wife.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Isao Hashizume, Masami Nagasawa, Yukiya Kitamura,
Directors : Miwa Nishikawa,

A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate ...

Actors : Anirban Bhattacharya, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Srijit Mukherji, Raima Sen, Parambrata Chattopadhyay,
Directors : Srijit Mukherji,

A crime repeats its pattern after 25 years .Is it the same killer or a new psycho on the streets?

Actors : Jolene Andersen, Robert LaSardo, Richard Grieco, Douglas Tait,
Directors : Brandon Slagle,

A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Amparo Noguera, Alberto Ellena, Carolina Paulsen,
Directors : David Albala,

This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Clark Harris, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Daniel Steven Gonzalez,
Directors : Scott Windhauser,

Just out of prison, Billy Walker returns to El Paso to find his mom dying of liver failure but low on the transplant list. However, the border offers other, darker options.

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Marcin Dorocinski, Cezary Pazura, Jan Frycz,
Directors : Wladyslaw Pasikowski,

Franz Maurer is released after 25 years in prison and finds a completely changed Poland.

Actors : Nathaniel Martello-White, Cary Crankson, Bradley Taylor, Frank Harper,
Directors : Will Thorne,

Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.

Actors : Kate Bell, Meg Alexandra, Raymond Bethley, Gabz Barker,
Directors : Russell Owen,

There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.

Actors : Annabelle Wallis, Lucy Punch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode,
Directors : Camille Griffin,

An extended family come together for a Christmas dinner in the country.

Actors : Dariusz Chojnacki, Agata Kulesza, Piotr Trojan, Jan Frycz,
Directors : Jan Holoubek,

The ordinary life of Tomasz Komenda is turned upside down when he is wrongly accused of brutal murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Actors : François Arnaud, Erika Rosenbaum, Christian Convery, Emily Hampshire,
Directors : Adam O'Brien,

Meredith, her husband Jared and son Alex face unspeakable terror in the wake of a family tragedy.

Actors : Jamie Morgan, Steve Diasparra, Danielle Donahue, James Carolus, Jeff Kirkendall,
Directors : Mark Polonia,

A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals in a secret women's prison.

Actors : Christos Lawton, Kelvin Fletcher, Tom Taplin, Audrey L'Ebrellec, Samantha Coughlan, Ryan Winsley,
Directors : Ben Mole,

When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.