Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Joe Stevens, Bill Wise, Ashley Coe, Jim Metzler,
Directors : Lisa Gottlieb,

Three sisters, abandoned by their father when they were very young, learn that he has died in prison and has left them clues to money hidden from a robbery. Only problem is that a former ...

Actors : Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Roy, Avtar Gill, Pooja Bedi,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Alcoholic movie director, Rahul (Rahul Roy) ends up in a Rehabilitation Centre. Once there, he finds out that there is an inmate who is suicidal and has deep ranging mental problems, namely...

Actors : Sunnyi Melles, Marc Hosemann, Nicolette Krebitz, Axel Milberg,
Directors : Rainer Kaufmann,

When Ben is released from prison, undercover police agent Melody picks him up at the gate. Kahnitz, her sinister and ambitious boss, wants to see Ben convicted of another crime as soon as ...

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Sonali Bendre, Shafi Inamdar, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Bharat Rangachary,

A convict studies law in prison and becomes a lawyer to seek revenge against the corrupt police officer who framed him on the very day of his marriage.

Actors : Brad Davis, Lee de Broux, Ken Foree, Kim Delaney,
Directors : Peter Maris,

A town has been taken hostage. Who will win the battle? Only the mighty will survive.

Actors : Gunnar Hansen, Debbie Rochon, Brian Kelly, Jon Miller,
Directors : Paul Talbot,

In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.

Actors : Ted Markland, Laura Albert, Jerry Trimble, George Takei,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.

Actors : Tsui-Wan Lee, Wei Zhao, Tung Yin Liu, La-La Chiu,
Directors : Jin Xie,

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears ...

Actors : Christina Applegate, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Mundra, Tony Fields,
Directors : Lisa Gottlieb,

Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.

Actors : Nicholle Tom, Alex Carter, Jason Cadieux, Mel Harris,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

Kelly keeps getting into trouble with the police. Her mother agrees to her going into a juvenile detention centre overnight. She is kept there for much longer. During her incarceration she is assaulted by inmates and abused by the system.

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Bai Ling, William Forsythe, Jon Bon Jovi,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

Jamey Meadows is a convict just released from prison, hoping to live a straight life on the outside. His brother tries to reenlist him into the crime world, but Jamey resists, getting a job...

Actors : Javier Albalá, Óscar Ladoire, Jorge Sanz, María Barranco,
Directors : Pedro Olea,

A corporal of the guard is teamed with a young prisoner to solve the strange killings that have occurred in the walled city of Zafarinas. The young team finds themselves plunged into a ...

Actors : Nartay Begalin, Valeriy Barinov, Aleksandr Feklistov, Sergey Gabrielyan,
Directors : Oleg Kavun,

A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev ...

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Nicola Stapleton,
Directors : Metin Hüseyin,

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Chris Bolton, Jane Wheeler, Roddy Piper,
Directors : Marc F. Voizard,

Frank, an auto mechanic, witnesses the love of his life's demise at the hands of a drunk driver. Frank lets loose his rage, and kills the man. He then goes to prison, where he is framed for...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Robert Davi, Steven Bauer, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Talun Hsu,

A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he ...

Actors : Ketevan Kiknadze, Gia Burjanadze, Giorgi Khobua, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi,
Directors : Giga Lortkipanidze,

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

Actors : Scott Plank, Robert O'Reilly, Kurt Fuller, Jocelyn Seagrave,
Directors : Paolo Mazzucato,

The most dangerous criminals in the universe escape from the Off-World Penitentiary and stow away to the quiet Moonbase Waste Disposal Plant. Hidden beneath the lunar surface lies an ...

Actors : Dean Tarrolly, Traci Lords, Billy Drago, James Brolin,
Directors : John Shepphird,

Hardened criminal Lester is in prison for armed robbery and murder. When his request for parole is refused, he escapes and hatches a plan for revenge and make him rich. He leads two gang ...