Best Prison movies

Actors : Thorsten Flinck, Ray Jones IV, Malou Bergman, Liam Norberg,

Convicts return to life of crime after release from prison.

Actors : Siobhan Redmond, Julia Ormond, Keith Allen, Tim Roth,
Directors : Angela Pope,

A beautiful young dentist (Ormond) working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate (Roth) after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit ...

Actors : Jolene Andersen, Robert LaSardo, Richard Grieco, Douglas Tait,
Directors : Brandon Slagle,

A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.

Actors : Alexander Petrov, Sofya Ozerova, Ivan Yankovskiy, Kristina Asmus,
Directors : Klim Shipenko,

Ilya Goryunov is 27, and has spent the last seven years in prison on a false charge of dealing drugs. Finally outside, he's driven by his desire for revenge against Petr, the rich kid who ...

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Noel Clarke, James D'Arcy, Frank Harper, Kate Magowan,
Directors : Reg Traviss,

The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on ...

Actors : Miguel Rellán, Alessandro Borghi, Julio Peña,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

In 1575, the young Miguel de Cervantes is taken prisoner and sold to the fearsome Hassan, Bajá of Alger. While awaiting a ransom, he discovers an unexpected refuge in the art of storytelling...And he devises a daring escape plan.

Actors : Moe Dunford, Lorcan Cranitch, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee,

After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help...

Actors : Vincent Price, Chris Warfield, Elaine Devry, Nancy Kovack,
Directors : Reginald Le Borg,

An evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate.

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Eriq La Salle, Laurence Kinlan, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Mark Hammond,

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few ...

Actors : Martin Sacks, Erin Connor, Marty Rhone, Nathan Wilson,
Directors : Mack Lindon,

Rise is a true story about a young nurse falsely accused of rape. Stripped of his career and his freedom, Will is forced to survive maximum security jail. The film centers on an unlikely ...

Actors : Jean-Guy Latour, Dyanne Thorne, Michel-René Labelle, Gilbert Beaumont,
Directors : Jean LaFleur,

Erotic adventure in Siberia.

Actors : Billy Murray, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest ...

Actors : Mike Bishop, David Field, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey,
Directors : John Hillcoat,

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Leïla Bekhti, Kheiron, Zabou Breitman,
Directors : Kheiron,

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Hugo Becker, Tewfik Jallab, Mélanie Doutey,
Directors : Xavier Durringer,

A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.

Actors : Simran Choudhary, Rakul Preet Singh, Nithiin, Priya Prakash Varrier,
Directors : Chandra Sekhar Yeleti,

The story of a prisoner on Death row fighting his wrongful conviction in the backdrop of Chess.

Actors : Mikko Leppilampi, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Eero Aho, Jessica Grabowsky,
Directors : Aku Louhimies,

Single mother name Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her news life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli come back from abroad, it open a window into her ...

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Viktor Stepanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Proshkin,

After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai arrive in a remote Siberian village where 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Actors : Roger Watkins, Kathy Curtin, Ken Fisher, Bill Schlageter,
Directors : Roger Watkins,

After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.