Best Prison movies

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Christina Andrew, Hannah Blamires, Bhrina Bache,
Directors : Ray Burdis,

The true-life story of Paul Ferris.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Hong Xa-bin, Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Je-hoon, Anna Castillo, José Garcia, Mario Casas,
Directors : Rodrigo Cortés, Lee Jong-pil,

Follows the struggles of a North Korean sergeant who is chased by a ruthless major after he defects.

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 : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Solá, Benjamín Amadeo, Cecilia Roth, Sofía Gala Castiglione,
Directors : Sebastián Schindel,

Desperate and confused, Alicia will do the impossible to keep her son from prison after he's convicted of trying to murder his ex-wife.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Roger Young,

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Emabassy to steal millions in gems.

Actors : Eyad Nassar, Karim Abdel Aziz, Hind Sabri, Nelly Karim,
Directors : Marwan Hamed,

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down, he prophesies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

Actors : John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Michael Imperioli, Nick Sandow,
Directors : Bruno de Almeida,

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is ...

Actors : Alyson Gorske, Kio Cyr, Angel Prater,
Directors : Brandon Christensen,

The Puppeteer, a convicted murderer on death row, has always maintained his innocence, claiming that it was an evil force that controlled his body as he slaughtered his victims.

Actors : Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham, Vincent Craig Dupree,
Directors : Stephen Milburn Anderson,

A man is sent to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop crime but his son has now followed the criminal path of his father.

Actors : Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, Linjie Hao, Haizhe Jin,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Actors : Yilmaz Erdogan, Monica Bellucci, Behrouz Vossoughi, Caner Cindoruk,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Actors : James Barrington, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Sorbo,
Directors : Timothy A. Chey,

Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning conclusion.

Actors : Ozan Bilen, Füsun Demirel, Güzin Özipek, Nur Sürer,
Directors : Tunç Basaran,

Baris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.

Actors : Fredrik Grøndahl, Trine Dyrholm, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

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.

Actors : Catherine Marchal, Olivia Bonamy, Daniel Auteuil, Francis Renaud,
Directors : Olivier Marchal,

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

Actors : Charlie Sheen, Marlon Brando, Thomas Haden Church, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

Walrus-like warden, Sven "Swede" Sorenson, a cross between Bluto and Wimpy, runs the prison, murders convicts who escape, and has the FBI on his trail in the form of agent Karen Polarski, ...

Actors : Dean Cain, Michael Beach, Nick Searcy, Janine Turner,
Directors : Nick Searcy,

A movie about the horrific crimes and trial of Kermit Gosnell, America's biggest serial killer.