Best Prison movies of 1970s

Actors : Seung-hyeon Lee, Hye-kyeong Han, Hee-ra Kim, Sun-jae Lee,
Directors : Young Nam Ko,

A prison officer in the juvenile hall creates a boy scouts program for the inmates.

Actors : Hae Hwang, Mu-ryong Choi, Ye-chun Lee, Ji-mee Kim,
Directors : Woo-yeol Jeon,

Dong-cheol, a nightclub opwner, is threatened by a gangster who lusts after his wife. Dong-cheol accidently kills one of the gangster's henchmen in a fight and is sent to prison. This leaves his family vulnerable to the gangster's threats.

Actors : Bengt Rosén, Jeanette Swensson, Åke Engfeldt, Gudrun Brost,
Directors : Bertil Malmqvist,

Jeanette is an inmate at a juvenile prison. She contemplates her life which has been miserable ever since birth.

Actors : Mi-kyeong Seo, Pik-yu Ho, Jin Heo, Pei-Shan Chang,
Directors : Sang-ok Shin,

Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Indpendence fighters. She manages to escape from prison during a break and ...

Actors : Miyoko Aoyama, Hiroko Isayama, Jôji Sawada, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yukihiro Sawada,

A prison inmate is notified that his sister, whom he idolized, has been raped and murdered by a group of drunken soldiers. Furious, he breaks out of jail to take his revenge upon her ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Rekha, Bindu, Randhir Kapoor,
Directors : Kundan Kumar,

Randhir and Ranvir Verma are twins. Randhir is straightforward, while Ranvir is a petty criminal. These petty thefts add up, and soon the police arrest Ranvir, and he is sentenced to prison...

Actors : Giannis Goulis, Sandy Daskalaki, Viky Konstadinidou, Fotis Armenis,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

Two girls escape from a prison and they find asylum at a nearby village where they come across a demented student.

Actors : Rekha, Rajendra Nath, Dharmendra, Ajit,
Directors : Arjun Hingorani,

A thief vows to go straight after one short prison term but severe monetary need forces him to commit a robbery on behalf of his employer, which leads to him being framed for a murder.

Actors : Harijs Liepins, Valdemars Zandbergs, Astrida Kairisha, Vytautas Tomkus,
Directors : Aloizs Brencs,

After seven years in prison, Voldemars Viters returns to the outside world. He is 46 and has nothing - no family, no work. However, he agrees to take part in one last heist - the robbing of...

Actors : Hermien Dommisse, Cobus Rossouw, Don Leonard, Jill Kirkland,
Directors : Jans Rautenbach,

A catatonic mathematics professor with an Oedipus complex is committed to an asylum which is a microcosm of South African society, circa 1970. The inmates band together to attempt to ...

Actors : Il-bong Yun, Jeong-hwa Yang, Seong-su Bark,
Directors : Beom-gu Kang,

Taxi driver Lee Hyo-seon is imprisoned for six months due to her negligance that caused a serious accident. While in prison, she makes an American penpal who proposes to her. They marry ...

Actors : Mi-ja Sa, Chu-ryeon Kim, Yeon-jeong Woo, Ja-yeong Lee,
Directors : Won-se Lee,

Prisoner Yeong-shik is rewarded for good behavior by being allowed to act as counsellor for the other inmates. He meets a beautiful pickpocket named Cheon-ae who is in and out of prison despite Yeong-shik's advice

Actors : Steve Railsback, John Vernon, John Huston, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. 20 years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.