Best Prison movies

Actors : Mariette Hartley, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : George McCowan,

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Moses Gunn, Anthony Perkins, Berry Berenson,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

Actors : Akihiro Kitamura, Yumi Adachi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kaho,
Directors : Sion Sono,

Manami is captured by blood thirsty trigger happy vampires, and taken to their hotel, where they keep prisoners as future meals. They are all instructed to find a partner to survive, when a vampire clan from Transylvania interferes.

Actors : Sam Wanamaker, Stanley Baker, Margit Saad, Grégoire Aslan,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Actors : Jim E. Chandler, Kim DeLonghi, Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Dolph Lundgren,

Rival gangs seek out millions of dollars hidden inside a luxury condominium that's scheduled to be demolished, but first they have to deal with the janitor who found the loot first.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Ray Milland, Roger Perry,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, John Malkovich, Vera Farmiga,
Directors : Tom Roberts,

In 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov.

Actors : Sidse Babett Knudsen, Dar Salim, Sebastian Bull,
Directors : Gustav Möller,

The idealistic prison officer Eva is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Rita Taggart, Ernie Hudson, Mark Rolston,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Actors : Yoshio Harada, Genta Dairaku, Ryûhei Matsuda, Eita,
Directors : Toshiaki Toyoda,

Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them...

Actors : Ilker Ayrik, Murat Akkoyunlu, Timur Acar, Didem Balçin,
Directors : Murat Seker,

Brother Gokhan, Accountant Servet, Meatball Necmi and Del Piero Hikmet are released from prison on probation and they join group therapy in order to be reintegrated to society.

Actors : Garry Summers, Bernie Hodges, Daniel Brocklebank, Wayne Virgo,

Father Jack is imprisoned for a crime that he has committed. The inmates suspect him of paedophilia and begin to persuade his teenage cellmate of this. His true crime is confessed to a prison guard with whom Jack has fallen in love.

Actors : In-jae Heo, In-seong Hwang, Eun-pyo Jeong, Jeong-su Han,
Directors : Seok-beom Kang,

Released from prison, Taesik goes to live with an adopted mother. He takes a job and tries to live a quiet life with his new family. His efforts are threatened when a politician seeks to knock the family restaurant down to build a mall.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, James Coburn, Georges Géret,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union colonel attempts to redeem himself by leading a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Amparo Noguera, Alberto Ellena, Carolina Paulsen,
Directors : David Albala,

This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Nutan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

The PSO is a British oriented group who wants to take control of India. When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests there leader Dr. Michael Dang the authorities blast the jail...

Actors : Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey Griffin, Kate Micucci,
Directors : Audie Harrison,

With Coco and kitty in prison, Mystery Inc. thinks that they can finally enjoy a break.

Actors : Grace Glowicki, Noah Reid, Katie Boland, Sheila McCarthy,

When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on - until the deceased's son shows up at ...

Actors : Marta Etura, Verónica Sánchez, Gabriella Pession, Pilar López de Ayala,
Directors : Emilio Martínez Lázaro,

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940's. ...

Actors : Jorge Rivero, Barbara Hershey, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In the early 20th century, some convicts while on a road gang escape and one of the convicts is Zach Provo, a half Indian, who was sent to prison during the latter part of the 19th century....