Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Elith Nulle Nykjær, Ditte Gråbøl, Jesper Asholt, Erik Clausen,
Directors : Erik Clausen,

John gets accompanied parole from prison, to attend his son's wedding. He's planned his escape, but nothing goes according to plan.

Actors : Manolo Ozuna, Phillip Rodríguez, Giovanny Cruz, Raymond Pozo,
Directors : Ángel Muñiz,

Three convicted criminals escape from prison carrying only a Güira, a Tambora and an Accordion. During their journey they meet with a bunch of interesting characters and are forced to use their musical skills to help them get home.

Actors : Denise Weinberg, Lee Taylor, Eucir de Souza, Andrea Beltrão,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

The widow piano teacher Lúcia and her unemployed teenage son Rafa move to a poor neighborhood in the periphery of São Paulo after the bankrupting of her pension plan. Rafa a.k.a. Pilot ...

Actors : Fridtjov Såheim, Thorbjørn Harr, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Kristian Larsen,
Directors : Eva Isaksen,

At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane. Here you find life in all it's different faces. Through 24 year old Aina we get to know the insane gang, bringing back her lust for life.

Actors : Ekin Cheng, Karen Mok, Kin-Lung Au, Bond Chan,
Directors : Jingle Ma,

Dragon is determined to leave his life of crime after leaving prison but denying the temptations of the free world won't be easy.

Actors : Alex A. Quinn, Candise Lakota, Jessie Camacho, José Solano,
Directors : Daniel Zirilli,

A terrifying horror within the walls of the infamous Alcatraz Prison. The last film ever shot on The Rock!

Actors : James Russo, Mark Parra, Brad Dourif, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Richard Pepin,

When Frank comes out of prison, and meets Marie, it's a start of a new life, until she accidentally kills her abusive night club owner-ex. Frank helps burying him, when they discover a box, which turns their life upside down.

Actors : Phil LaMarr, Kirstie Alley, Rodney Dangerfield, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Harry Basil,

The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Tony Danza, Dayanara Torres, William Forsythe,
Directors : James Quattrochi,

After spending 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident, heavy-weight boxer Joey Nardone returns to a solitary life in Philadelphia. His time in prison and the opportunity to reflect ...

Actors : João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau, Manuela de Freitas,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

Actors : Andrzej Chyra, Marian Dziedziel, Jerzy Trela, Piotr Adamczyk,
Directors : Jan Hryniak,

Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.

Actors : Jun Kunimura, Ken Matsudaira, Hiroshi Abe, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Masanobu Deme,

German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.

Actors : Mystikal, Mark Parra, Lorenzo Lamas, Ashley Tucker,
Directors : Art Camacho,

Set in a prison, a death row inmate has a secret and the warden will go to any lengths to get it. Things dont go as planned as you would expect. A good action film with alot of good fight ...

Actors : Asad Farr, David A.R. White, John Gilbert, Kevin Downes,
Directors : Wes Llewellyn,

After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David White) reunites with his friend and mentor Jacob Krause (Brad Heller) leader of The Way, and his small remnant of ...

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Sylvie Testud,
Directors : Pierre Jolivet,

After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a ...

Actors : Julie-Anne Roth, Moussa Maaskri, Jo Prestia, Patrick Dell'Isola,
Directors : Hervé Renoh,

Four prisoners escape and seek refuge in a Cistercian monastery, where nothing is what it seems. Isolated from the rest of the world, begins a nightmare among the fugitives, willing to kill...

Actors : David Banner, Richard Roundtree, Boris Kodjoe, Kenya Moore,
Directors : Alton Glass,

The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures,...

Actors : Gene Bicknell, Petri Hawkins-Byrd, Monty Cox, Michele Dalcin,
Directors : Richard Friedman,

An escaped convict redeems himself through the love of two young children.

Actors : Robert LaSardo, Alejandra Gutierrez, Mary Kelsey, Laurel Astri,
Directors : Robert Oppel,

Rico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspiring to bring him down and tear him between what he holds dear and what he most fears.

Actors : Jan Van Sickle, Ryan J. Parker, Earla Stewart, Wesley Walker,
Directors : Troy McGatlin,

Joe, a rancher in the mountains of Colorado, has his life of solitude interrupted when his luckless son gets paroled from prison and moves back in with him, bringing his ill-fated ways along.