Best Prison movies

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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, Magdalena Dandourian, Cezary Pazura, 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 : Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jacqueline Obradors, Tyrin Turner, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Louis Morneau,

A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.

Actors : Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford,
Directors : John Sturges,

In this retelling of Gunga Din (1939) transplanted to the 1870's American West, three cavalry officers and a bugler work together to thwart a Native American chief intent on uniting local tribes against the white man.

Actors : Preeti Barameeanat, Khanutra Chuchuaysuwan, Kumpanat Oungsoongnern, Phutharit Prombandal,
Directors : Thanakorn Pongsuwan,

Tai, a young man arrested on a crime charge, is discharged thanks to his twin brother Tan's dogged help. After being set free, he finds Tan in a coma with severe injuries. Tan's girlfriend,...

Actors : Maristella Greco, Fulvio Ricciardi, Adriano Micantoni, Daniela Poggi,
Directors : Cesare Canevari,

Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron ...

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Richard T. Jones, Kim Fields, T.C. Stallings,
Directors : Kevan Otto,

When tragedy strikes three families, their destiny forces them on a converging path to discover God's love, grace and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs.

Actors : Atul Kulkarni, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manoj Bajpayee, Mugdha Godse,
Directors : Madhur Bhandarkar,

Remanded to policy custody, a man reviews his options in an overcrowded jail while awaiting trial.

Actors : Keith David, Roy Scheider, Michael Madsen, Angie Everhart,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

A stunt driver heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.

Actors : Ferenc Hujber, Csaba Pindroch, Gyözö Szabó, Eszter Ónodi,
Directors : Gábor Herendi,

The Várnai brothers are stuck in prison where they have to make a new version of East West.

Actors : Ariadna Gil, Ricardo Darín, Miranda Bodenhofer, Abel Ayala,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

With the advent of democracy in Chile, a general amnesty for prisoners of non violent crime is enacted. Angel Santiago, a young man determined to avenge the abuse he suffered in prison, ...

Actors : Jack Kao, Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. ...

Actors : Kate Bell, Meg Alexandra, Raymond Bethley, Gabz Barker,
Directors : Russell Owen,

There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.

Actors : Edward Fox, Nick Tate, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan.

Actors : Giovanna Mainardi, Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni,
Directors : Sergio Garrone,

Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.