Best Prison movies

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 : 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 : 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 : Charlie MacGechan, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Christopher Abbott, Matilda Firth, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Julia Garner,
Directors : Lior Geller, Leigh Whannell,

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

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 : Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Roth, Benjamín Amadeo, 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, Lauren Hutton, Jane Seymour, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Mitsuko Baishô, Kôji Yakusho, Akira Emoto, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

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 : 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 : 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 : Itsaso Arana, Biel Montoro, Lola Cordón, Nacho Sánchez,
Directors : Daniel Sánchez Arévalo,

To find a shelter dog he befriended, a 17-year-old boy escapes a juvenile detention center and is joined on his quest by his older brother.

Actors : Vladimir Penev, Mihail Mutafov, Zachary Baharov, Tanya Ilieva,
Directors : Javor Gardev,

Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien ...