Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Queenie Watts, Carol White, Terence Stamp, John Bindon,
Directors : Ken Loach,

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again ...

Actors : Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Peter Ustinov, Bob Newhart,
Directors : Eric Till,

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.

Actors : Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown, Fernando Lamas,
Directors : Tom Gries,

In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, native revolutionary Yaqui Joe robs a bank to buy arms for his oppressed people, but finds himself sought by an American lawman and the Mexican Army.

Actors : Takashi Fujiki, Mariko Kaga, Ryô Ikebe, Naoki Sugiura,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Actors : Sam Wanamaker, Stanley Baker, Margit Saad, Grégoire Aslan,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Actors : Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Robert Day,

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices...

Actors : Vincent Price, Chris Warfield, Elaine Devry, Nancy Kovack,
Directors : Reginald Le Borg,

An evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate.

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, George Chakiris,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Jean Sorel, Elsa Martinelli, Marisa Mell,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.

Actors : John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Michael J. Pollard, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

Actors : Frimann Falck Clausen, Tom Courtenay, Alf Malland, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon,
Directors : Mark Robson,

French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.

Actors : Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford,
Directors : John Sturges,

In this retelling of Gunga Din (1939) transplanted to the 1870's American West, three cavalry officers and a bugler work together to thwart a Native American chief intent on uniting local tribes against the white man.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Nigel Stock, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, among many other adventures he gets awarded the ...

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...

Actors : Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Fred Delmare, Krystyn Wójcik,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

As rumors reach them that the Allied armies are advancing on their concentration camp at Buchenwald, Polish prisoners renew their feeble hope for survival and freedom. When a group of ...

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Val Guest,

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.