Best Prison movies

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 : Celine Alva, Oksana Lada, James Russo, Ciro Dapagio, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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, Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotten, 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 : Richard Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, John Sham,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.

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.

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 ...