Best Prison movies of 1960s

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 : Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Shima Iwashita, Jôji Hosoda,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters...

Actors : Fabian, Jocelyn Lane, Adam Roarke, 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 : Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volontè, Mario Adorf, Nino Manfredi,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Gastone Moschin, Raimondo Vianello, Gordon Mitchell, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Betsy Bell, Klaus Kinski, George Hilton, Ray Saunders,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

An inexperienced American lieutenant and two American prisoners are the only force standing between advancing German troops and an Italian town that was "freed" by the trio.

Actors : Anita Ekberg, Margaret Lee, Fernando Rey, John Richardson,
Directors : José María Elorrieta,

Nick Warfield is a speed boat racer hitching along the Mediterranean after his speed boat has been smashed up. He is picked up by Jacqueline Monnard who quickly gets him into a barroom brawl followed by prison.

Actors : Judita Hahn, Franjo Kumer, Rade Markovic, Toma Jovanovic,
Directors : Fadil Hadzic,

An exemplary female communist finds himself sentenced for years in prison because of a fraud. The inspector who was in charge of investigation becomes suspicious about her guilt, trying to find out real motives behind the case.

Actors : Aldo Berti, Ignazio Spalla, Lucretia Love, Glenn Saxson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

Cris brothers kill Gringo's brother and frame him and his friend for murder. While in prison the bandits, that are the real killers, escape and take Carmen, as a hostage. Many adventures ...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Slavko Simic, Ljuba Tadic, Dusan Djuric,
Directors : Rados Novakovic,

Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.

Actors : Johan Kaart, Maxim Hamel, Rijk de Gooyer, Jan Blaaser,
Directors : Giovanni Korporaal,

Criminal Bert Oliemans, just released from prison, has a problem. Both the victim, the police and a rival gang want to know where he hid the jewels prior to his arrest.

Actors : Miroslav Zounar, Alexandra Myskova, Jirí Adamíra, Jana Stepánková,
Directors : Jirí Hanibal,

Escaped inmate of a mental home Franz Moose has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander Havel (Jirí Adamíra) and Lieutenant Mares (...