Best Prison movies of 1960s

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 : Elzbieta Kepinska, Serge Merlin, Jan Ciecierski, Alina Janowska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.

Actors : Dermot Kelly, Sylvia Syms, Patrick McGoohan, Walter Macken,
Directors : Arthur Dreifuss,

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His ...

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

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

Actors : Vincent Price, Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston,
Directors : Millard Kaufman,

A semi-fictionalized version of John Resko's incarceration is presented. John is on death row at Sing Sing for murder. In December 1930, he killed a toy store shopkeeper over a teddy bear ...

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 : 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 : Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Gabriella Giorgelli, Conrado San Martín,
Directors : Florestano Vancini,

After three years of hard labor, Ted Barnett escapes from prison to seek revenge on the three men who framed him.

Actors : Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volontè, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.

Actors : John Ireland, Piero Vida, Nadia Marconi, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Domenico Paolella,

After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track ...

Actors : Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Stevens,

A physician Christine Allison)is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Actors : Jack Spencer, Jaqueline Webb, Judith Israel, Neil Flanagan,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Vojislav Miric, Ivo Serdar, Ivan Subic,
Directors : Eduard Galic,

WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.

Actors : Maude Adelson, Tor Isedal, Gunnar Hellström, Nils Hallberg,
Directors : Hasse Ekman,

Two criminals escape from prison. Together with two old accomplices they plan a big heist against a racetrack.

Actors : Seok-hun Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Jeong-suk Moon, Aeng-ran Eom,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

At the end of WWII, confusion reigned in the newly freed Manchuria. Japanese prisoners of war were being abused by the Palo Army. Korean and Cheinese agents team up to drive the Palo Army from Manchuria and restore order.

Actors : Piero Lulli, Johnny Desmond, Yvonne Monlaur, Armando Francioli,
Directors : Piero Regnoli,

In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at...

Actors : Aldo Berti, Florencia Silvero, Giulio Marchetti, Mickey Hargitay,
Directors : Sergio Bergonzelli,

Mike Jordan escapes from prison to vindicate his father and brother's death.

Actors : Hyang Lee, Seong-ho Choi, Dong-hwi Jang, Hye-jeong Kim,
Directors : Yeong-cheol Choi,

A group of jewel thieves, having served their prison sentence, fight over possession of their stolen goods which the police never recovered. One attempts to give up his share and leave the ...