Best Prison movies

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Robert Hobbs, Steve Coogan, Garion Dowds,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Actors : Ni Ni, Lei Wu, Yilong Zhu,
Directors : Zhenxiang Fei, Guan Hu,

In 1942, Japanese ship Lisbon Maru with British POWs was torpedoed. Dongji fishermen saved 300+ British soldiers and protected 3 during Japanese searches.

Actors : LeVar Burton, Ethan Suplee, Danny Trejo, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Nick Lyon,

During a zombie apocalypse ,a group of survivors hide on Alcatraz Island to escape from rising zombie hordes. When their refuge is overrun, and upon hearing that a scientist may have ...

Actors : Reed Birney, Kelsey Lynn Stokes, Ashley Blankenship, Dave Bobb,
Directors : Jeff Lipsky,

A mother of three daughters (one died at the age of three) commits a crime of conscience and becomes radicalized in prison; she turns into an idealist run amok, determined to change her ...

Actors : Joy Mathew, Aparna Gopinath, Mammootty, Saiju Kurup,
Directors : Venu Goopaalan,

Anjali, a freelance journalist meets C.K. Raghavan, an interesting inmate who's outstaying his sentence in jail for a crime he says he didn't commit. His vastly different views peak her interest and she documents his life and happenings.

Actors : Tara Lee, Seána Kerslake, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack,
Directors : Darren Thornton,

A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.

Actors : Malik Berrichi, Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Nicolas Hossein,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award at ...

Actors : Gippy Grewal, Diana Penty, Farhan Akhtar, Ronit Roy,
Directors : Ranjit Tiwari,

When an innocent man aspiring to be a musician is framed for committing a murder, he decides to form a music band with his co-prisoners for a competition, but his real intention seems to be different.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Darren Mann, Alyssa Goss,
Directors : James Rowe,

A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.

Actors : Martha Higareda, Omar Chaparro, Mónica Dionne, Rocio Garcia,
Directors : Nacho G. Velilla,

NO MANCHES FRIDA is the story of Zequi, a recently released bank robber who goes to recover stolen money buried by his ditzy accomplice before going to jail. They return to the site only to...

Actors : Julio Chávez, Soledad Villamil, Luis Machín, Agostina Lage,
Directors : Israel Adrián Caetano,

Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of ...

Actors : Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz, Jan Machulski, Ewa Szykulska,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

Set in Warsaw in 1930's. After six years in jail, framed for bank robbery by an accomplice, the legendary Kwinto has only revenge on his mind. He is a safecracker in the old style, a thief ...

Actors : Kate Walsh, Eva Longoria, Tom Arnold, Sean Bean,
Directors : Rustam Branaman,

An ex-fighter finds redemption from his troubled past.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Michelle Monaghan, Pallavi Sharda, Jai Courtney,
Directors : Sophia Banks,

A group of officers in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far-reaching and dire consequences.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Peter Ustinov, Bob Newhart,
Directors : Eric Till,

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.

Actors : Parinaz Izadyar, Mani Haghighi, Setareh Pesyani, Navid Mohammadzadeh,
Directors : Nima Javidi,

A prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Colonel Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing.

Actors : Charles Aidman, Daniel Valdez, Tyne Daly, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Luis Valdez,

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...

Actors : Adam Ferency, Krystyna Janda, Agnieszka Holland, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Ryszard Bugajski,

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Carrie Fisher,
Directors : Michael Winner,

When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Gastone Moschin, Frank Wolff, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...