Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Donald Cabana, Jude Cambise, Daniel Dupont, Mimi Loftus,
Directors : Steven Scaffidi,

At the beginning of our story it's 1995 and two fledgling filmmakers, Richard and Daniel, are on their way to make a documentary about life in prison. As a favor to Richard's uncle, the ...

Actors : Caia Coley, Sonia Jackson, Alyssa Lakota, Traci Swain,
Directors : Chris Armbrister,

The stories of seven inmates of The Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility (SNWCF) as they were told to writer Chuck Rounds by the inmates themselves.

Actors : Amancay Amend, Dolores Fonzi, Joaquín Aguila, Nazareno Altamirano,
Directors : Pablo Agüero,

Argentina during military dictatorship in the early 80s: Hoping for a new life after being released from prison, Alba takes her six-year-old son Inti with her to a remote hippie village in ...

Actors : Christina Trevino, C.H. Morris, Sebastian Trevino, Daniela Somers,
Directors : Justin Price,

When an elementary school teacher named Angelica gets involved with a newly relocated family, she discovers that they are hiding from more than just a broken marriage. What do you do when Daddy comes home?

Actors : Stefania Rivi, Adriano Giannini, János Derzsi, Piroska Molnár,
Directors : Zoltán Kamondi,

Gabriel Ventuza lives the peaceful life of a herbalist, growing and cultivating medical herbs in Italy. One day he receives an order from his older brother who is just out of prison for one...

Actors : Roberto Govin, Ramón Merlo, Franciska Ródenas, Azucena De La Fuente,
Directors : Fernando Merinero,

Lazarus is a Cuban appeal that makes a living in Madrid. When his girlfriend Dolores travels from Cuba to Spain to live with him, he is in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Dolores ...

Actors : Abdolreza Akbari, Ali Bokaeian, Ehsan Ghasemi, Assyeh Kalani,
Directors : Mohammad-Ali Talebi,

A number of inmates from a reformatory school are scheduled for release. As a condition for their discharge, it is specified that the younger boys should live either with their families or ...

Actors : James McDaniel, Saeed Jaffrey, Kevin Geer, Laura Kirk,
Directors : Kevin Willmott,

When former Wall Street executive Peter Salem is released from prison, he heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas, where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon...

Actors : Anne Heche, Ione Skye, Pam Grier,
Directors : Sharon Zurek,

A camp, affectionate look at women in prison films - the girls you love to hate and hate to love.

Actors : Kristian Alfonso, Jeff Fahey, David Lee Rawlings, David Alexander Johnston,
Directors : Anthony J. Christopher,

Small-town retired sheriff Frank Everly finds his life on the skids after his wife Mary is murdered by the ruthless maniac Vincent Pope. When Pope escapes from prison, Everly comes out of ...

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Takis Spiridakis, Katerina Daskalaki, Stefanos Riskas,
Directors : Thodoros Maragos,

In a prison cell two lifers meet, a former truck driver and the other one a "volunteer" who entered the prison because he believes that life as an inmate prisoner is better than outside.

Actors : Robert Lohr, Andreas Schmidt, Jule Böwe, Eva Löbau,
Directors : Iain Dilthey,

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a ...

Actors : Walter Olkewicz, Kenneth White, Kenn Whitaker, Gabriel Jarret,
Directors : Mark J. Harris,

A walled off, "by the book" State Executioner befriends a man on death row and is humanized by the experience.

Actors : Janelle Bayard, Vanessa Branch, Chris D'Elia, Ryan Larsen Davis,

Marc is released from prison after seven years. As he tries to get back to his old life, he reconnects with his best buddy, Jay. They both go through somewhat of a "quarter-life crisis".

Actors : Benjamin Laird, Michaila Skye, Bruce Novakowski, Dustin MacDougall,
Directors : Peter Kominek,

Derek Leduc (Benjamin Laird), a star goaltender for the Calgary Pronghorns, has just spent the last three years in prison for killing a rival player (Dustin MacDougall) in a hockey fight. ...

Actors : Phillip Allen-Taylor, Dale Bickerton, Rosie Bilton, Ed Capes,
Directors : Paul Phillip Johnson,

A gripping tale of revenge. A man wrongly convicted of murder seeks revenge after serving nine years in prison.

Actors : David E. Baisley, Vic Chao, Marc Coddette, Angie Corley,
Directors : Chris McIntyre,

Two prison guards have 48 hours to capture two dangerous prisoners that escaped during a jail transfer.

Actors : Gwendolyn Edwards, Louis Mandylor, Costas Mandylor, James Marshall,
Directors : Louis Mandylor,

Jack Newman lectures at the local University, is preparing for a new life with his fiancée, Gwen, and has finally adapted to the challenges of a sudden accident that left him blind several ...

Actors : Karen Jezek, Kenneth Jezek, Ann Ault, Helen Gibson,
Directors : Helen Gibson,

Based on a true story that rocked the world. An emotional journey that takes a former drug-crazed prostitute and convicted pickax killer from the depths of despair to personal triumph on Texas death row.

Actors : Siboney Lo, Noel Gugliemi, Rafael Pony Boy Ochoa, Manuel Skribe Garcia,
Directors : Juan Frausto,

After Spending years in prison, Pony Boy is finally returning to the world he has missed so much, his old neighborhood. A former gang member, pony is now a changed man and vows never to go ...