Best Prison movies

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 : Joel Basman, Martin Kiefer, Frederick Lau, Constantin von Jascheroff,
Directors : Philip Koch,

Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is ...

Actors : Jess Alexander, Kyle Gallner, William Forsythe, Troy Kotsur, Shawn Ashmore, Johnny Sequoyah,
Directors : Johannes Roberts, Paul Pompa III,

Nick Bianco sets out to reunite with the love of his life after serving a year in jail for assault, only to discover that she has a new admirer named Chester who also happens to be his parole officer.

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 : Gabino Rodríguez, Andoni Gracia, Adrian Ladron, Hernán Mendoza,

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the ...

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 : 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 : Andrew Bongiorno, Lance Henriksen, Robert Miano, Kevin McCorkle,
Directors : Anna Zielinski,

In 605 B.C. Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians and many of their best young men were taken into captivity, including Daniel. Daniel was taken to Babylon to serve it. As Powerful ...

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 : Rod Steiger, Maria Schell, 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 : 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 : 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 : Stefanie Powers, Robert Foxworth, Mark Slade, Sue Lyon,

A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who ...

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 : Peter Carsten, Antonio Cantafora, Marcella Michelangeli, Klaus Kinski,
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 : Natsuko Yashiro, Shun Domon, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Namino,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and rapes the young wife in front of her bound husband....

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 : 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 : Matheus Nachtergaele, Fernanda Torres, Nelson Sargento, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos,

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 : 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...