Best Prison movies

Actors : Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin, Lilou Siauvaud, Matt Damon,
Directors : Tom McCarthy,

A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.

Actors : Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Luke Forbes, Natalie Paul,
Directors : Matt Ruskin,

When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway,
Directors : James Foley,

A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

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 : Iain Robertson, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott,
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 : Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

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 : Sonny Landham, Sylvester Stallone, John Amos, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Flynn,

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

Actors : Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Larry Charles,

A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.

Actors : Joanne Whalley, Olivier Martinez, Jim Caviezel, James Faulkner,
Directors : Andrew Hyatt,

The story covers Paul going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle.

Actors : Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D, Chris Elliott,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

A "rapumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't ...

Actors : Joel Kinnaman, Dragomir Mrsic, Matias Varela, Fares Fares,
Directors : Babak Najafi,

JW (Joel Kinnaman, Robocop, The Killing), the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler in Easy Money, is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an...

Actors : Joe Cole, Panya Yimmumphai, Nicolas Shake, Vithaya Pansringarm,
Directors : Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

After her humiliated husband kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against a woman and her family.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, A.C. Peterson, Ruth Negga,
Directors : David Weaver,

After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.

Actors : William Forsythe, Vira Montes, Sal Lopez, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Edward James Olmos,

A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Richard Crenna, Valeria Golino, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Jim Abrahams,

"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.

Actors : Victor Jory, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Don Gordon,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

Actors : Ian Hart, Ned Beatty, Campbell Scott, 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...