Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Jang-kang Heo, No-shik Park, Jeong-im Nam, Yeong-ha Yu,
Directors : Shi-hyeon Kim,

Jang-bae escapes from prison where he was unjustly placed by his enemy, Min-chung, 20 years earlier. He locates his daughter and learns that Min-chung attacked his family. Most were killed ...

Actors : Mark Forest, José Greci, Jon Chevron, Scilla Gabel,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.

Actors : Patrick Barr, Delphi Lawrence, Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson,
Directors : Robert Tronson,

Model prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burglary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.

Actors : Peter Brown, Joseph Shiloach, Yehoram Gaon, Rick Jason,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

Israeli POW's who escape from a notorious Arab prison return for a dramatic rescue of their comrades.

Actors : Lalita Pawar, Rajendra Kumar, Madan Puri, Mala Sinha,
Directors : O.P. Ralhan,

While defending his sister's honor, Shanker kills a man. His ashamed family say he is away in Africa, while he spends the next ten years in prison. What happens when the truth comes out, can he ever find forgiveness or acceptance?

Actors : Jan Adamski, Arkadiusz Bazak, Piotr Augustyniak, Andrzej Balcerzak,
Directors : Wanda Jakubowska,

While showing the Auschwitz Concentration Camp to American tourists, guide Henryk recalls his own memories as its inmate.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama, Kyôko Kishida, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Hiromichi Horikawa,

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, ...

Actors : Maureen McNally, Sterling Hayden, Stuart Whitman, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Ruy Guerra,

A family of four people (parents and two children, one of them still a kid) live by the sea. The father studies the migratory flights of birds. One day, there appears an escaped prisoner on...

Actors : Enrique Almirante, José Díaz Lastra, Amador Domínguez, Ángel Espasande,
Directors : Antonio Vázquez Gallo,

Melodrama of illicit love between a young girl and a man escaped from prison, amidst the fight against Batista dictatorship.

Actors : Stanley Baxter, Percy Herbert, Bill Fraser, Harry H. Corbett,
Directors : Frank Launder,

Busted for running an illegal gambling den during the Second World War, a gang of East End wideboys choose conscription over prison and take their talents on a tour of duty.

Actors : Michael Forest, Leonard Nimoy, Paul Mazursky, Robert Ellenstein,
Directors : Vic Morrow,

Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

Actors : Jürgen Jung, Helga Anders, Renate Grosser, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Roger Fritz,

Just released from a youth detention center, Andrea (Helga Anders) is wooed by her boss' son and finds herself in a love triangle that defies the moral and social norms of the time in more ways than one.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Mica Orlovic, Marijan Lovric, Horst Frank,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.

Actors : Adam Clyde, Twig, Marni Castle, Monique Duval,
Directors : Harry Wuest,

A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. She hires a tough private eye to find her boyfriend and rescue him.

Actors : Jadwiga Chojnacka, Ignacy Gogolewski, Andrzej Lapicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz,
Directors : Jan Rybkowski,

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

Actors : Joan O'Brien, Ziva Rodann, Gilbert Roland, George Montgomery,
Directors : George Montgomery,

George Montgomery plays a cynical doctor that is taken to prison at Samar island because his political opinions. The commander (Gilbert Roland) is waiting for his own doctor, that is ...

Actors : Hie Mun, Yeong-gyun Shin,

A man, recently released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, finds that his wife does not welcome him and his daughter is being treated as a servant by his brother.

Actors : Dae-yeob Lee, Su-il Bang, Hye-jeong Kim,
Directors : Keung-ha Jo,

A man held prisoner in North Korea following the Korean War, organizes a resistance movement against the cruelty of the communist prisoners.

Actors : Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Patrick Wymark, Barbara Shelley, Jack Hedley,
Directors : Quentin Lawrence,

Malaya, September 1944: Many British soldiers have been captured by the Japanese, when they were cut off from their troops. On her way to Kuala Lumpur, the British secret agent Elaine's ...

Actors : Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Lawrence P. Casey, Justin Tarr,
Directors : John Peyser,

Rommel's last open port is maintained by POW labor against Allied bombing, a commando operation is undertaken to liberate the prisoners.