Best Prison movies

Actors : RJ Balaji, Karthi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shraddha Srinath,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Set during the Kargil War, fighter pilot Varun recalls his romance with Leela while being held prisoner in Pakistan.

Actors : Maryna Klimova, Lyubov Vasylyna, Iryna Kiryazeva, Vyacheslav Vygovskyl,
Directors : Peter Kerekes,

Follows the real-life stories of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine.

Actors : Frimann Falck Clausen, Tom Courtenay, Alf Malland, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on ...

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Gabriel Byrne, Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Sean Stanek,

An examination of the malevolent London underworld with its despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight-year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

Actors : Jeremy Piven, Marrese Crump, Terrence Howard, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : Dallas Jackson,

When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Tomorô Taguchi, Akira Emoto, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Alexandra Bastedo, John Hurt, Peter Cushing, Gwen Watford,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his...

Actors : Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Paul Brooke, James Purefoy,
Directors : Simon Hunter,

A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another ...

Actors : Isabella Ferrari, Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Alina Nedelea,
Directors : Michele Soavi,

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle...

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Jason Flemyng, Vanessa Paradis, Jean-Pierre Marielle,

James Bataille escapes from prison to find his fiancée Concia. But on his return, octopussy like aliens come to play bloody spoilsport. After lucky battle James and Concia escape to parallel world.

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Cezary Pazura, Magdalena Dandourian, Artur Zmijewski,
Directors : Wladyslaw Pasikowski,

Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is ...

Actors : Erik Griffin, Melissa Leo, Edgar Ramírez, Tessa Thompson,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.

Actors : Lisa Stansfield, Hugo Speer, Paul Usher, Tom Bell,
Directors : Nick Mead,

An optimistic guy is arrested and thrown in jail, while there he learns the saxophone from a fellow inmate. Once he's released from jail, he and a few friends form a swing band while he ...

Actors : Sophie Moss, Grace Millane, Sally Cavender,
Directors : Helena Coan,

Sky Original true-crime documentary on the murder of Grace Millane following a Tinder date in 2018, a case that held a mirror up to a society with a problem of violence towards women.

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Petros Zervos, Yannis Tsortekis, Vicky Papadopoulou,
Directors : Yannis Economides,

By night, Stratos works in a bread factory but by day, he's a professional hit man. He needs the cash to free Leonidas from prison because the latter once saved his life when he was behind ...

Actors : Emma Spurgin Hussey, Tim Cartwright, Reece Connolly, Richard Rowden,
Directors : Charlie Steeds,

When the remains of two murdered Princes are discovered at the Tower of London, a troubled Priest must put his beliefs aside to befriend a mysterious prisoner, who has supernatural powers ...

Actors : Michel Galabru, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with ...

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.

Actors : Columbus Short, Bruce Dern, Kaiwi Lyman, Denise Richards,
Directors : Timothy Woodward Jr.,

Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Amanda Tyler, has an opportunity to interview and analyze death row inmate Jackson Shea. As the interview...