Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Fred Delmare, Krystyn Wójcik,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

As rumors reach them that the Allied armies are advancing on their concentration camp at Buchenwald, Polish prisoners renew their feeble hope for survival and freedom. When a group of ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...

Actors : Liliane Brousse, Nadia Gray, Kerwin Mathews, Donald Houston,
Directors : Michael Carreras,

An American painter has an affair with a bar owner is a French village and agrees to help her murderer husband escape from a prison for the criminally insane.

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Raja Paranjpe, Nutan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Bimal Roy,

During the British Raj of the 1930s, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convict who eventually reveals the story of her past and her connection to a freedom fighter.

Actors : Mikhail Mikhajlov, Vasil Vachev, Rade Markovic, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Vulo Radev,

A wife of a Bulgarian Army officer falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World war I.

Actors : Peter Carsten, Antonio Cantafora, Klaus Kinski, Marcella Michelangeli,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Gary Hamilton, innocently sentenced to ten years in prison is released. When he comes out he promises himself to seek revenge on the guilty.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Misako Watanabe, Mari Shiraki, Michitarô Mizushima,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.

Actors : Maria Schell, Rod Steiger, Stuart Whitman, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Guy Green,

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Actors : Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins, John Marley, James Garner,

In the Old West, a gunfighting outlaw connives his way into a prison in hopes of getting his hands on a large shipment of gold stored there.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Val Guest,

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

Actors : Vincent Price, Anne Francis, Clint Walker, Paul Hampton,
Directors : Robert Sparr,

Released from prison after 18 years, notorious gunslinger 'Killer' Cain is a peaceful reformed man but the Old West has died and he cannot adapt to the modern West where some unpaid moral debts and old troubles resurface.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi, Lex Barker, Fausto Tozzi,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

Evil mastermind Dr. Mabuse is using brainwashed prison inmates to commit crimes but the German police aided by an FBI agent is on his trail.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Mike Kellin, Jim Brown,
Directors : Buzz Kulik,

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Madlyn Rhue, Jack Warden,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A hunted revolutionary leads a rag tag group of individuals through the desert in an attempt to elude the security forces and escape the fictitious Arab country of Zahrain.

Actors : Jim Backus, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Peter Ustinov), soon ...

Actors : Dan Duryea, Nando Gazzolo, Henry Silva, Thomas Hunter,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

At the end of the Civil War, 2 Confederates holding stolen Union money and chased by Union troops separate, one escaping with the loot and the other getting a 5-year prison term.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Corinne Marchand, Nello Pazzafini,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Bandit Gordo frees a group of prisoners, forcing them to join his gang or die. Arizona Colt, declining to do either, heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Harry Locke, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Cyril Frankel,

When he is pulled up in court for selling stuff on the street, Horace Pope says he was only doing it while waiting to enlist. The judge calls his bluff and forces him to sign up. Pope makes...

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Sidney James, Joan Sims,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they ...

Actors : Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Keiko Sakurai, Tetsuo Ashida, Kei Satô,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.