Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Igor Petrenko, Olga Filippova, Yaroslav Boyko, Aleksandr Sheyn,
Directors : Aleksandr Khvan,

A young and handsome prison guard falls in love with a beautiful lady-prisoner. She makes him hooked on sex and manipulates him into becoming a gang member. He kills and steals under her control.

Actors : Fanny Valette, Dominique Pinon, Pio Marmaï, Omar Sy,
Directors : Christophe Campos,

Starring Intouchables OMAR SY. Murphy's Law is an adage that broadly states: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." After four years in prison, Elias is carrying out his social ...

Actors : Flynn Beck, Stacy Cunningham, Doug Cole, Beverly Sotelo,
Directors : Keith Walley,

Gruesome true story of murderer Richard Speck who killed eight nursing students in one night in Chicago during the late sixties. The story also follows him to his prison fate and uncovers more of his strange behavoir before his death.

Actors : Dean Lennox Kelly, Brendan Mackey, Aidan Campbell, Tony Devlin,
Directors : Les Blair,

A moving insight into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Belfast.

Actors : Shane Ryan, Molly Wryn, Kai Lanette, Sean Cain,
Directors : Shane Ryan,

A pedophile is released out of prison from a 6-year sentence after allegedly molesting a 12-year old girl. The victim, now 18, reunites with her assailant whom she calls her "soul mate" ...

Actors : Magali Noël, Luciano Curreli, Rossella Or, Victor Cavallo,
Directors : Nico D'Alessandria,

"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in his private life. The jail director ...

Actors : Jimmy Burke, Frannie Byrne, Michael Foot, Wade Gallagher,
Directors : Mike O'Dea,

After being released from prison, Mickey goes back to his hometown, only to find that murder and revenge is taking brother for brother and friend for friend until the vicious circle of bloody violence finally comes around to him.

Actors : Toshiyuki Nishida, Tarô Yamamoto, Ittoku Kishibe, Takako Tokiwa,
Directors : Kazuyuki Izutsu,

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown...

Actors : Timothy Altmeyer, Todd Swenson, Michael Buscemi, Kris Carr,
Directors : Brett Wagner,

Renee Unger is living the life she always hoped for: a little red-brick house in the small town of New Russia, Ohio, a good husband, a prospering construction business, and a baby on the ...

Actors : Carlon Jeffery, Matthew Alexander, Walid Amini, Pierre Antonio,
Directors : Carlton Enoch,

Kc, a bounty hunter for the Federal Government, is chasing a high-profile criminal. Kc, Almost murdered at age 3, molested at 12, in prison at 16, takes a trip through his past, trying to catch the future.

Actors : Jung-ki Kim, Seok-Hwan An, Il-hwa Choi, Dong-yeob Ko,
Directors : Ki-Seon Hong,

The movie is based upon the true story of Kim Seon-myung, a communist who steadfastly refuses to recant his beliefs and becomes the world's longest-serving political prisoner of conscience ...

Actors : Marisa Solinas, Margherita Buy, Nicolò Rapisarda, Arnaud Arbessier,
Directors : Roberto Petrocchi,

Roberto Petrocchi directs this period drama set in the late 1800s. Capt. Eugenio (Arnaud Arbessier) arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one ...

Actors : Stephanie Acosta, Nova Aragon, Evie A. Armstrong, Vivian Brown,
Directors : Pablo Veliz,

Danny Ortega is imprisoned for a crime of justice at a very young age. After 17 years in prison, he returns to his town of Houston to find that crime and drugs have overturned what he once ...

Actors : Scott Brown, Steve Reaser, Jackamoe Buzzell, Gerrence George,

Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental ...

Actors : Joyce Jimenez, Richard Grieco, Will Stewart, Athena Massey,
Directors : Craig Corman,

Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from...

Actors : Cochin Hanifa, Meera Jasmine, Salim Kumar, Dileep,
Directors : Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas,

Shivani's only hope of escape from her home prison is Ramesan.

Actors : Venniradai Moorthy, 'Ganja' Karuppu, Arjun, Haripriya,
Directors : A. Venkatesh,

Arjun comes out of jail and reaches 'Vallakottai' with an agenda.

Actors : Fernanda Espíndola, Matt Wiggins, Amy Wehrell, Michael Weiss,
Directors : Hari Mahesh,

Jack is waiting for his sweatheart (Rusty), his entire life. Rusty is in prison for life. Will their Love make it?

Actors : John Reidy, Pat Lautato, Stephanie-Marie Baker, Gary M. Planken,
Directors : John Reidy,

A NYC police office returns home after 6 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Actors : János Derzsi, Tamás Ravasz, Andrea Nagy, Lukács Bicskey,
Directors : Viktor Oszkar Nagy,

How a father returns to his son after a long period in prison. Anxious to be reconciled with his child - who reproaches him for his absence (the mother having died in the interim) - the ...