Best Prison movies

Actors : Morten Hebsgaard, Anders Matthesen, Christopher Læssø, Jacob Lohmann,
Directors : Frederikke Aspöck,

Follows a celebrity financier who ends up in prison. After being assaulted by a gang of bikers in the prison, he ops for voluntary solitary confinement. During this time he joins the choir, aiming for the top of it's hierarchy.

Actors : Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Michael James Rowland,

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Marisa Mell, Helmut Berger, Marina Giordana,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts ...

Actors : Vimal, Anjali, Shiva, Oviya,
Directors : Sundar C.,

Kalakalappu is a story of two brothers and their quest to save their café. Cheenu manages the café while Raghu is in prison. Cheenu's café fails the health inspector Madhavi's test and is ...

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Lito Cruz,
Directors : Fernando E. Solanas,

The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few ...

Actors : Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Asao Koike, Noboru Andô,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds himself leading the remnants of the gang he once belonged to in order to secure an area of their own.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Alexa PenaVega, Timothy Hutton, Luke Arnold,
Directors : Dagen Merrill,

A sheep-rancher's son aspires to win a music conservatory scholarship, but to apply he needs musicians who can play his music. Circumstances lead him to form a band out of prison inmates.

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Neide Ribeiro, Maria Stella Splendore,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.

Actors : Caity Lotz, Leo Howard, Michael Biehn,
Directors : Ryan C Jaeger,

Siblings Charlie and Jack are trapped in Myanmar's toughest prison and accused of a crime they didn't commit. Forced into televised fights against other inmates, they must work together and fight for their freedom.

Actors : Jeanine Mason, Michael Grant Terry, Bill Sage, Bailey Noble,
Directors : Valerie Weiss,

Lauren Pierce has just become the high-school Tri-State Archery Champion. After the competition, Lauren and her teammate Emily return to their hotel room for a night of irresponsible ...

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Ricky Grover, Eddie Webber, Maxwell Laird,
Directors : Ricky Grover,

A fast moving, star studded, roller coaster ride of violence, madness and mayhem in this gritty British crime film. Bulla is the 'Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, 'labeled 'the most dangerous man in...

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree, Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Eric Karson,

The commander of an Air Force camp simulates prisoner-of-war conditions for realistic training goes too far, creating all too real torture situations. He preys on the only woman in the experiment.

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 : Don Marshall, Ena Hartman, Phyllis Davis, Marta Kristen,
Directors : Stephanie Rothman,

It's every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison.

Actors : Antony Varghese, Vinayakan, Chemban Vinod Jose, Tito Wilson,
Directors : Tinu Pappachan,

Jacob, a manager at a big financial firm, finds himself behind bars when he tries to save the woman he loves from being involved in a criminal case. The only way for him to survive and to escape was to break out of prison.

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 : Renzo Palmer, John Saxon, Tomas Milian, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Luigi Maietto (Chinaman) escapes from prison he then orders two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonal led to his being jailed. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but lives. The ...

Actors : Larry Drake, Judd Nelson, Paulina Porizkova, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Gregory Gieras,

A madman terrorizes a female psychologist when they are accidently locked up in an abandoned asylum.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jean-Marc Barr, Miranda Richardson, Anna Friel,
Directors : Harry Hook,

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar ...

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.