Best Prison movies

Actors : Marshall Bell, C. Thomas Howell, Joan Severance, Richard Burgi,
Directors : Anthony Hickox,

Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from ...

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 : 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 : Stanislawa Celinska, Daniel Olbrychski, 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 : John Schneider, Kirk Douglas, Lisa Dunsheath, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Maria Stella Splendore, Neide Ribeiro,
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 : Rhys Wakefield, Alexa PenaVega, Luke Arnold, Timothy Hutton,
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 : 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 : 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 : Matheus Nachtergaele, Fernanda Torres, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nelson Sargento,

On December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Eddie Webber, Ricky Grover, 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 : Valerie Wildman, Vanity, Lyle Alzado, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Monte Markham,

"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.

Actors : Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Asao Koike,
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 : 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 : Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life ...

Actors : Erwin Geschonneck, Fred Delmare, Armin Mueller-Stahl, 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 : 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 : Thomas Høite Meersohn, Igor Radosavljevic, Jens Albinus, Marijana Jankovic,
Directors : Christoffer Boe,

A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political ...

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.