Best Prison movies

Actors : Susan Floyd, Paul Fitzgerald, Russell Hornsby, Kate Jennings Grant,
Directors : Paul Fitzgerald,

On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, Peter Miles, a small town District Attorney, receives word that the governor has exonerated Ronald Bradler, a death row inmate...

Actors : Joe Dorsey, Fred Covington, Tim Conway, Chuck McCann,

Small-town deputy is ordered by the governer to go undercover, posing as a criminal, in a maximum security prison. Shortly after his mission begins, the governor dies, leaving him and his ...

Actors : Scott William Winters, Caitlin Nicol-Thomas, Benjamin A. Onyango, Emily Hahn,
Directors : Eric Welch,

A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives ...

Actors : Derek Nelson, Patrick O'Donnell, Lee Bane, Harriet Rees,
Directors : Andrew Jones,

A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber and a gangster, attempt to escape from the infamous Alcatraz Island.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Robert Davi, Steven Bauer, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Talun Hsu,

A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he ...

Actors : Todi Llupi, Karafil Shena, Mirela Naska, Luli Bitri,
Directors : Bujar Alimani,

Conjugal visits unite two strangers visiting a prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. During these visits, Elsa and Spetim find the companionship missing from their lives. But a ...

Actors : Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi, Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival ...

Actors : Józef Kondrat, Manfred Krug, Valentina Thielová, Stefan Kvietik,
Directors : Peter Solan,

In a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Bai Ling, Jon Bon Jovi, William Forsythe,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

Jamey Meadows is a convict just released from prison, hoping to live a straight life on the outside. His brother tries to reenlist him into the crime world, but Jamey resists, getting a job...

Actors : Woody Strode, George Eastman, Leonard Mann, Pietro Martellanza,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives,...

Actors : Jude Moran, Alaina Warren Zachary, Mike Starr, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Devin Hume,

Three morticians get caught in a web of greed and deceit, involving buried treasure and a tangled love affair, in this modern day crime mystery that is based on a true story.

Actors : Henry Howard, Tom Lillard, Warren Finnerty, Jim Anderson,
Directors : Jonas Mekas,

A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, ...

Actors : Siu-Lung Leung, Wai-Man Chan, Shan Kwan, Angela Mao,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

Angry and aggressive orphan Lotus Lin gets raised as a Buddhist in a Shaolin temple after her mother dies in the wake of giving birth to her in prison. Consumed with rage, Lin gets expelled...

Actors : Robert Redford, Alec Guinness, Anita Höfer, Mike Connors,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Herr Frick, being equal parts patriotic and lonely, keeps them as prisoners of war in his ...

Actors : Andrea Nittoli, Paul Sorvino, Renee Props, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Dave Rodriguez,

Recently released from prison, an ex-mafia boss tries not to fall into his old habits, but surviving outside of the mafia is harder than it seems.

Actors : Gary McCleery, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, James Coco,
Directors : Waldemar Korzeniowsky,

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Actors : Katharine Isabelle, Vera Cherny, Georgina Haig, Jolene Andersen,
Directors : Simon Fink,

A story of survival about a woman's first night in a Soviet prison camp.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Franco Nero, Larry Aubrey, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

At the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Nazis.

Actors : Nartay Begalin, Valeriy Barinov, Sergey Gabrielyan, Aleksandr Feklistov,
Directors : Oleg Kavun,

A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev ...

Actors : Patrick Kilpatrick, Matthew Winters, Sonny Denham, Tony Fadil,
Directors : Steven M. Smith,

Set in 1971, Kris is sentenced to two years in a rural Borstal.