Best Prison movies

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, William Ostrander, Sue Kiel, Linda Blair,

An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Actors : Nicholas Lamont, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Moss, Neil Fitzmaurice,
Directors : Jim Doyle,

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Actors : Maria Romano, Laura Gemser, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and ...

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 : Roy Cheung, Pak Fei, Sung Young Chen, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Ching is a prisoner in a Honk Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. Ching escapes to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. He surrenders ...

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Robert Foxworth, Sue Lyon, Mark Slade,

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 : 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 : Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Shawn Smith,
Directors : Thomas Rickman,

After serving time for a theft he didn't commit, all Billy wants to do is to reconnect with his daughter. However, some loose ends, like the whereabouts of the stolen loot, just won't let him go.

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Raja Paranjpe, Dharmendra, Nutan,
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 : Kimberley Kates, Kari Whitman, Paul Koslo, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Lloyd A. Simandl,

An innocent woman is sent to a Czech prison, where the sadistic warden and guards rape and perform bizarre sex acts on the prisoners.

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 : 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 : François Périer, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,

Jacques Darnay (A. Delon) is caught and convicted for stealing diamonds and murder of jeweler. Although he was not guilty, the prison has served eight years. At that time, the jewels are ...

Actors : Caco Ciocler, Flavio Bauraqui, Antônio Pompêo, Werner Schünemann,
Directors : Lúcia Murat,

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was ...