Best Prison movies

Actors : Ted Markland, Laura Albert, Jerry Trimble, George Takei,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.

Actors : Rami Malek, Charlie Hunnam, Eve Hewson, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Michael Noer,

A prisoner detained on a remote island plots his escape. A remake of the 1973 film 'Papillon'.

Actors : Ja-Hyeon Chu, Peter Ho, Coulee Nazha, Zitao Huang,
Directors : Xixi Gao,

The movie is set during the gang wars of 1930's Shanghai. An adaptation of Shanghai Bund, the TV series.

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Chris Bolton, Jane Wheeler, Roddy Piper,
Directors : Marc F. Voizard,

Frank, an auto mechanic, witnesses the love of his life's demise at the hands of a drunk driver. Frank lets loose his rage, and kills the man. He then goes to prison, where he is framed for...

Actors : Michèle Mercier, Guy Madison, Marisa Belli, Federica Ranchi,
Directors : Domenico Paolella,

Female prisoners are shipped to Devil's Island penal colony. They are indoctrinated into the prison life from abusive guards and then a new prison governor arrives with planned reforms.

Actors : Richard Arlen, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Francis D. Lyon,

A boy accompanies three soldiers in their escape from the enemy in Korea.

Actors : José Ángel Egido, Emma Suárez, Alberto San Juan, Vicente Romero,
Directors : Manolo Matji,

A prisoner is accused of several murders.

Actors : Gastone Moschin, Raimondo Vianello, Gordon Mitchell, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A gang of prison inmates escapes and robs the Royal Mint.

Actors : Guillermo Díaz, Lin Shaye, Vincent Grashaw, Zack Bennett,
Directors : Sean Michael Beyer,

While serving a two-year prison sentence for supposed drug dealing, twenty-six year old Garrett O'Hara found his politician father and media-conscious mother had all but disowned him. Upon ...

Actors : Luciano Cazaux, Daniel Valenzuela, Raúl Taibo, Jorge Sesán,
Directors : Nacho Garassino,

The spectacular escape of seven prisoners from the prison of Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires in 1991. The inmates dug a tunnel from the prison hospital and when was about to flee, made a gruesome discovery.

Actors : Fabian, Jocelyn Lane, Adam Roarke, Astrid Warner,

The movie tells the biography of the gangster Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd who started his career young aged when he saw his father die and seeked out revenge by killing his murderer during a...

Actors : Salvador Sánchez, José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Delia Casanova,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

In Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.

Actors : Victor Campos, Neville Brand, Robert Donner, Sherry Boucher,
Directors : George Peppard,

A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.

Actors : Nadira Omran, Raida Adon, Rakeen Saad, Maisa Abd Elhadi,
Directors : Mai Masri,

A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.

Actors : Constantine Attia, Slimane Dazi, Reda Kateb, Mélanie Laurent,

Just out of prison, Nas returns to his neighborhood, Pigalle, where he finds his friends and his older brother Arezki, boss of the bar Le Prestige. Nas is determined to recreate a name and Le Prestige could well serve as a springboard .

Actors : Manuela Velasco, Joaquín Núñez, Maggie Civantos, Salva Reina,
Directors : Fernando Colomo,

Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother ...

Actors : Sunnyi Melles, Marc Hosemann, Nicolette Krebitz, Axel Milberg,
Directors : Rainer Kaufmann,

When Ben is released from prison, undercover police agent Melody picks him up at the gate. Kahnitz, her sinister and ambitious boss, wants to see Ben convicted of another crime as soon as ...

Actors : Aaron D. Spears, Danny Adams, Thom Barry, Mark Prince Edwards,
Directors : Craig Ross Jr.,

Andrew Perryman is a young man who has been sent to Mannsfield State Penitentiary on an eighteen month sentence. His high-powered father secretly pays the prison warden to put young ...

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Christopher George, Richard Ely, James Luisi, Jim Brown,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.