Best Prison movies

Actors : Al Sapienza, Courtney B Turk, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Pasha Patriki,

A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.

Actors : Aubin Bradley, Eddie Beveridge, Kaye Tuckerman, Timothy J. Alex,
Directors : Michael Morrissey,

A female serial killer escapes from prison to go after the one victim that got away.

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 : Burt Lancaster, Joseph Cotten, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of ...

Actors : Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.

Actors : Celine Alva, Oksana Lada, Ciro Dapagio, James Russo, Robert LaSardo, Elisabetta Fantone,
Directors : Jokes Yanes,

Coming off a lengthy prison sentence, Mike White is coming home to a world changed drastically by technology and a mindset of just trying to live a normal life running his Gentlemen's club and taking care of his family.

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

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

Actors : Swarnima Singh, Marie Martinová, HarShiv Karthik,
Directors : HarShiv Karthik,

Tanveer, an aspiring actor, moves to the city after leaving a detention center. He meets Disha, his therapist, for mandatory counseling but hides dark secrets, posing a threat.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Kristian Alfonso, George Segal, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Vic Armstrong,

A framed prison escapee unknowingly kidnaps a female cop en-route to a rendezvous with the corrupt cop who put him behind bars.

Actors : Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Allari Naresh, Priyadarshi, Harish Uthaman,
Directors : Vijay Kanakamedala,

Revolving around undertrial prisoners who languish in jails while awaiting a judgement, the movie follows Surya Prakash who gets caught in a similar situation while being on trial for the murder of a powerful man.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Djimon Hounsou, Gérard Lanvin, José Garcia,

It is the story of two types: Moltes a criminal in prison and Reggio one of the guards. Crazy adventures happen when following a winner ticket to Africa, they competes in a rally and are chased by the Turk, a sworn enemy of Moltes.

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 : Marko Zaror, Juju Chan, Scott Adkins, Cung Le,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

A story set in Indochina in 1959, a land beyond rule and a time without mercy and the birth of a legend.

Actors : Rahimcan Kapkap, Mert Ramazan Demir, Ada Erma,
Directors : Çagri Vila Lostuvali,

After years behind bars, a tormented man tries to rebuild his life, but an unexpected bond unveils a shocking truth that could change his life forever.

Actors : Chen Chang, Ki-duk Kim, In-Hyeong Gang, Jung-woo Ha,
Directors : Ki-duk Kim,

A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : Maynor Alvarado, Scott Broderick, Mohammad Abdollahi, Roman Arabia,

A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.

Actors : Jun-ho Heo, Ahn Sung-ki, Kyoung-gu Sul, Jae-yeong Jeong,
Directors : Woo-Suk Kang,

Based on a true story of 1968 Korean Republic Army plan to assassinate North Korean president Kim Il-Sung. 31 criminals and death row inmates are recruited into secret training on the ...

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Robert Greenberg, James Le Gros, Rodney Harvey, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

A trashy teen murders her sexually abusive step-father, then helps get her reformed prison pen-pal released on good behavior so that she can re-corrupt him.