Best Prison movies

Actors : David Hewlett, Maurice Dean Wint, Andrew Miller, Nicole de Boer,
Directors : Vincenzo Natali,

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Fisher Stevens,

A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Eugene Levy, Queen Latifah, Steve Martin,
Directors : Adam Shankman,

When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds,
Directors : Ariel Vromen,

In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Jason Patric,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.

Actors : James Caan, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron,
Directors : James Gray,

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he ...

Actors : Benjamin Bratt, Robert Mammone, James Franco, Joseph Fiennes,
Directors : John Dahl,

Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Actors : Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, John P. Ryan, Joe Pantoliano,

Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.

Actors : J.E. Freeman, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern,
Directors : David Lynch,

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Actors : Jon Bernthal, Viola Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Nora Fingscheidt,

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Actors : Jon Bernthal, Max Greenfield, Jessy Schram, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Actors : Linda Cardellini, Al Sapienza, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Josh Trank,

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Actors : Tara Holt, Lane Garrison, Payman Maadi, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Peter Sattler,

A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

Actors : Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Darlan Cunha, Rodrigo dos Santos,
Directors : Paulo Morelli,

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Actors : Tomasz Zietek, Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel,
Directors : Jan Komasa,

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Bill Pullman,
Directors : David Lynch,

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods, Isaiah Washington,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?

Actors : Justin Hartley, Marsai Martin, Issa Rae, Regina Hall,
Directors : Tina Gordon,

A woman is transformed into her younger self at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.

Actors : William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Isaiah Washington,

When petty thief Cosimo is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison - the kind of job you dream about - he has to get out of jail, fast. But with Cosimo stuck in the ...

Actors : Ludacris, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Gerard Butler,

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he?