Best Prison movies

Actors : Yutaka Matsushige, Tomorô Taguchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Yôichi Sai,

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

Actors : Ketevan Kiknadze, Gia Burjanadze, Giorgi Khobua, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi,
Directors : Giga Lortkipanidze,

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

Actors : Dann Jaques Mouton, Sandi Schultz, Christian Bennett, Tarynn Wyngaard,
Directors : Daryne Joshua,

A film based on the true life story of a young man who becomes a storyteller in jail.

Actors : Tim Dax, Leesa Rowland, Ruby Larocca, Nicola Fiore,
Directors : Travis Campbell,

A former beauty queen plots the death of her overbearing mother with the help of her pen-pal, a serial killer on death row.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Bruce Willis, Tom Cavanagh, Brennan Mejia,
Directors : Sean Patrick O'Reilly,

Set in the world's most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary, home to the most treacherous criminals, tensions among the inmates and staff heighten, leading to anarchy that engulfs the prison and order is turned upside down.

Actors : Jun-ho Jeong, Jae-yeong Jeong, Seung-ryong Ryu, Won-tae Choi,
Directors : Jin Jang,

An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes ...

Actors : Brad Davis, Lee de Broux, Ken Foree, Kim Delaney,
Directors : Peter Maris,

A town has been taken hostage. Who will win the battle? Only the mighty will survive.

Actors : Luis Alberti, Hugo Catalán, Lola Dueñas, Fausto Alzati,
Directors : Lluís Miñarro,

A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander ...

Actors : Maria Jose Pereira Herrera, Jaime Castro, Viviana Calderón, Johanna Solano,
Directors : Jose Mario Salas Boza,

After Dr. Olman's escape from prison, the path of two brave masked women come together as they take the reins of justice with their own forces to try to capture him. However, they must face their own fears and desires of revenge.

Actors : Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Kadur Dharmanna, Ninasam Bimbashri, Jayaram, Nataraj S. Bhat,

It is a simple story of a convict on death row, who escapes from prison and accidentally ends up with a veteran who is called upon by the authorities to teach the process of hanging a convict to the new staff.

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Yvonne Furneaux, Louis Jourdan, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ...

Actors : Kin Shriner, Karen Chase, Sandy Martin, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Bruce Logan,

A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.

Actors : Vadim Glowna, Michel Galabru, Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.

Actors : Gary Daniels, Tina-Desiree Berg, Jason Scott Johnson, Antonio Ardon,
Directors : Desi Singh,

A team of treasure hunters take over Alcatraz Island in search of diamonds and encounter a shape-changing alien.

Actors : Tsui-Wan Lee, Wei Zhao, Tung Yin Liu, La-La Chiu,
Directors : Jin Xie,

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears ...

Actors : Ailei Yu, Tianyu Ma, Kai Wang, Talu Wang,
Directors : Sheng Ding,

This film traces the journey of a former smuggler attempting to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.

Actors : Sally Yeh, Joyce H. Cheng, Hui-Shan Yang, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.

Actors : Dean Tarrolly, Traci Lords, Billy Drago, James Brolin,
Directors : John Shepphird,

Hardened criminal Lester is in prison for armed robbery and murder. When his request for parole is refused, he escapes and hatches a plan for revenge and make him rich. He leads two gang ...

Actors : Geneviere Anderson, Thela Brown, Linda Dona, Kitten Natividad,
Directors : Cody Jarrett,

Sugar State Women's Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, ...