Best Prison movies

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Dean Cain, Andy Dick, Mitchell Whitfield, Sean Patrick Flanery,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

The film opens with 4 tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his ...

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Actors : Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Tasos Antoniou,
Directors : Panos H. Koutras,

George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There...

Actors : Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and ...

Actors : David Alan Grier, María Celedonio, Vincent Gallo, Natasha Lyonne,
Directors : Matthew Bright,

A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale.

Actors : Robert Wieckiewicz, Józef Paleczka, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Gralek,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous...

Actors : Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Mark Leonard Winter,
Directors : Craig Monahan,

Inspired by true events, HEALING is a story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit - in the most unlikely place for the most unlikely men.

Actors : Rashad Evans, Tony Schiena, Dwier Brown, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Daniel Zirilli,

Danny, a respected cop, is setup after an investigation goes wrong. While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit. ...

Actors : Aubert Pallascio, Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Jason Cadieux,
Directors : John Greyson,

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what ...

Actors : Emile Hirsch, Jake Manley, Graham Patrick Martin, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow,
Directors : Brian Skiba,

Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker who's trying to save his kidnapped wife from a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes from police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense cop to reclaim his prisoner.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Capucine, Ugo Bologna, Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

During the 1920s France, con-men Philip and Felice escape prison and join forces to swindle Philip's rich ex-wife Belle.

Actors : Katharine Isabelle, Brendan Fletcher, Brendan Fehr, Michael Shanks,
Directors : Lowell Dean,

Six forensic undergrads embark on a scientific expedition to a remote island that was once used as illegal biological testing grounds for life-term prisoners.

Actors : Seung-woo Cho, Jung-ah Yum, Jin-hee Ji, Ji-ru Sung,
Directors : Jong-hyeok Lee,

A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. He is imprisoned, awaiting ...

Actors : Adam Hampton, Ryan Merriman, Katie Burgess, Perrey Reeves,
Directors : Ryan Bellgardt,

In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.

Actors : Rossif Sutherland, Flex Alexander, Greg Bryk, Danny Glover,
Directors : Clement Virgo,

Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home ...

Actors : André Falcon, Lino Ventura, Charles Gérard, Françoise Fabian,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes ...

Actors : Arkadiusz Detmer, Andrzej Chyra, Janusz Bukowski, Marcin Jedrzejewski,
Directors : Konrad Niewolski,

A man falsely accused of assaulting an old woman tries to adapt to his new life in prison.

Actors : Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown, Fernando Lamas,
Directors : Tom Gries,

In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, native revolutionary Yaqui Joe robs a bank to buy arms for his oppressed people, but finds himself sought by an American lawman and the Mexican Army.