Best Prison movies of 1970s

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 : 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.

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 : Harry Baird, Neil Hallett, Sandor Elès, Alexandra Hay,
Directors : Ray Austin,

The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school, and chases after the inmates her her Dad's prison.

Actors : Dimitris Bislanis, Tasso Kavadia, Dora Sitzani, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Apostolos Tegopoulos,

A rebellious Gypsy woman, Georgia, is released from prison after a conviction for fraud, and the first thing she does is kidnap the little daughter of the district attorney Pavlos Keltis, ...

Actors : Atilla Ergün, Cüneyt Arkin, Gülsen Bubikoglu, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Halil kills two men and attempts to kill the third, yet Semih escapes and provide Halil to be arrested. Halil is put into prison. Semih goes on with his corrupt business and the only thing ...

Actors : Diama, Mariama, Oumarou Ganda, Lam Dia,
Directors : Jean Rouch,

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, a great warrior named Babatou. Nigerian jumper from the region Dounga Gurunsi invaded the country and settled there. The brave prisoners...

Actors : Mi-ja Sa, Yeon-jeong Woo, Chu-ryeon Kim, 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 : 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 : 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 : Cedomir Petrovic, Zlata Numanagic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.

Actors : Enayat Bakhshi, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Behrouz Vossoughi, Aram,
Directors : Mohammad Motevaselani,

Zabih, a tough guy who committed a murder in support of his girl, Aghdas is released from prison after 15 years. When arrested, Aghdas was pregnant with his child. Now Zabih sets off for his hometown to find Aghdas and their son.

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 ...