Best Prison movies

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

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

Actors : Leonor Baldaque, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Silveira,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin ...

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 Bright, John Heard, Thomas G. Waites, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Raphael D. Silver,

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

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.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild, James Black, Burgess Jenkins,
Directors : Bart Patton,

Dramatisation of Harold Morris's book based on his own life as a racist who is falsely imprisoned, but turns his life around, becoming friends with a black man and winning an humanitarian award.

Actors : Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a twelve-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too, a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, ...

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 : Gary Dourdan, Robert Knepper, Soraya Azzabi, Irma Lake,
Directors : Zhor Fassi-Fihri,

After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.

Actors : Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos Bousdoukos, Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, ...

Actors : Jordi Mollà, Ana Torrent, Roger Rees, Stephen Billington,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

The story of Tulse Luper, whose life is reconstructed through the evidence from 92 suitcases. He is the author and project manager, and constantly end up in prisons around the world.

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

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

Actors : Iman Shumpert, Sydney Mitchell, Michael Michele, Cynthia Bailey,
Directors : DeShon Hardy,

A Social Media Influencer falls for an inmate and starts a crusade to prove his innocence, but after they win his appeal, she uncovers a dark secret that changes her life.

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 : Fabian, Adam Roarke, Jocelyn Lane, 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 : 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 : 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 : Ron Perlman, Jesse Littlejohn, Raquel Beaudene, James Lafferty,
Directors : Pol Cruchten,

When Jessy burns down his adoptive parents garage he is put into a youth prison. There he meets Roark another troublemake with whom he escapes and ends up in deserted woodlands. On their ...