Best Prison movies

Actors : Michael Welch, Shelby Young, Cary Elwes, Alexandria DeBerry,
Directors : Phil Wurtzel,

While serving her prison sentence, a woman discovers a horrifying VHS tape with footage from a crime committed years prior.

Actors : Stephanie Panisello, Matthew Mercer, Nicole Tompkins, Kevin Dorman,
Directors : Eiichirô Hasumi,

A t-virus outbreak in San Francisco leads to Alcatraz Island, where a new evil has taken residence.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Héctor Jiménez, Kevin P. Farley, Tom Sizemore,
Directors : Jesse Baget,

Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden ...

Actors : Nancy Travis, James Le Gros, Quentin Tarantino, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Jack Baran,

Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats,
Directors : Peter Yates,

After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.

Actors : Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, David O'Hara,
Directors : Terry George,

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ...

Actors : Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta, Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh,
Directors : Lance Hool,

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Actors : George Maryan, Ramana, Karthi, Narain,
Directors : Lokesh Kanagaraj,

A recently released prisoner becomes involved in a chase with criminals as he races against time to drive poisoned cops to hospital in exchange for meeting his daughter.

Actors : Parker Posey, Bruce Dern, Paul Levesque, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Artie Mandelberg,

A man is released from prison after serving a long time for killing a man who tried to kill his best friend. Once out, he just wants to live a normal life, but his best friend immediately gets him into a new heap of serious troubles.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Kirk Douglas, Warren Oates,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

Actors : Abbie Cornish, Moon Bloodgood, Laz Alonso,
Directors : Felipe Mucci,

A woman wakes up in a police interrogation room with no memory of the night prior. However, something does not seem quite right in this police station.

Actors : Steve Austin, Michael Paré, Steven Seagal, Ian Robison,
Directors : Keoni Waxman,

When former black ops operative Cross (Seagal) and his partner Manning (Austin) are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners....

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Actors : Robert Williams, Regina Williams, Ry'nesia Chambers, Andrew Bleechington,
Directors : Antonio Méndez Esparza,

Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew ...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Gayatri Bhardwaj, Ravi Teja,
Directors : Vamsee,

A legendary real-life robber of Stuartpuram, Andhra Pradesh called Tiger Nageswara Rao in the 1970s, who was noted for his ingenious ways of evading the police and prison.

Actors : Clark Bartram, Damion Poitier, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Sandy Collora,
Directors : Sandy Collora,

The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner...

Actors : Nana Patekar, Revathy, Yashpal Sharma, Mohan Agashe,
Directors : Shimit Amin,

An honest cop named Sadhu Agashe makes a name for himself by killing criminals in sting operations instead of locking them up in prison. The film follows his method of working, gives an ...

Actors : Simona Maicanescu, Lambert Wilson, Dominique Pinon, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Marc Caro,

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien ...

Actors : David Castro, Asun Ortega, Perry D'Marco, Maxie Santillan Jr.,
Directors : Joseph Guzman,

Mentally abused, enslaved and coerced into prostitution, a left-for-dead merciless Sister will take on a mission straight from God, whacking sinners in a strictly personal, no-prisoners vigilante Holy War.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.