Best Prison movies

Actors : Judy Pace, Roland Bob Harris, Paul Harris, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Everybody is after the money stolen by Hook (Jim Brown). Including the villainous chief guard Capt. Stambell played by Roland Bob Harris. A hokey but entertaining 70's film.

Actors : Xiaolu Li, Yiyan Jiang, Ka Tung Lam, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Chi-Leung Law,

A women's prison in the Northern China in 1932, Prisoner FU Yuan (JIANG Yiyan) digs a tunnel in her prison cell with a silver spoon and escapes. Inspector SONG Donglu (LAU Ching-wan) is ...

Actors : Mert Firat, Asuman Dabak, Timur Acar, Melisa Pamuk,
Directors : Adil Oguz Valizade,

In a highly secured prison, 10 prisoners are found dead mysteriously. Erol and Selin are tasked with investigating the murders. The cause of death is the same for all: heart attack. But the truth is utterly different from that.

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Amparo Noguera, Roberto Farías, Francisca Gavilán,
Directors : David Albala,

This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.

Actors : Flynn Beck, Stacy Cunningham, Doug Cole, Beverly Sotelo,
Directors : Keith Walley,

Gruesome true story of murderer Richard Speck who killed eight nursing students in one night in Chicago during the late sixties. The story also follows him to his prison fate and uncovers more of his strange behavoir before his death.

Actors : Burt Young, Lance Kinsey, Allen Garfield, Judy Landers,
Directors : Nat Christian,

A gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.

Actors : Jason Miller, Lea Massari, Aldo Sambrell, Marisa Paredes,
Directors : Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi,

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

Actors : Igor Petrenko, Olga Filippova, Yaroslav Boyko, Aleksandr Sheyn,
Directors : Aleksandr Khvan,

A young and handsome prison guard falls in love with a beautiful lady-prisoner. She makes him hooked on sex and manipulates him into becoming a gang member. He kills and steals under her control.

Actors : Ben Cross, Vincent Spano, Rachel Ward, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Donald Shebib,

A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp to climb the challenging 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and plant the Italian flag on the ...

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Kiowa Gordon, Christina Bennett Lind, Vincent Pastore,
Directors : Valerio Esposito,

Self condemned to the immense and boundless prison of the Mojave desert, Phoenix leads a life of forced isolation, living by himself in a house as far away as possible from the rest of the ...

Actors : Dean Lennox Kelly, Brendan Mackey, Aidan Campbell, Tony Devlin,
Directors : Les Blair,

A moving insight into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Belfast.

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Shane Ryan, Molly Wryn, Kai Lanette, Sean Cain,
Directors : Shane Ryan,

A pedophile is released out of prison from a 6-year sentence after allegedly molesting a 12-year old girl. The victim, now 18, reunites with her assailant whom she calls her "soul mate" ...

Actors : James Russo, Cynda Williams, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.

Actors : Michael Stearns, Robert Lott, Linda York, Barbara Mills,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A murderer escapes from a chain gang, forcing his co-inmate to go along. The latter's girlfriend helps, but gets raped by the aggressive prisoner. The desperate duo next invades the home of an older farmer and his teen-aged wife.

Actors : Victoria Abril, Richard Bohringer, Richard Berry, Farid Chopel,
Directors : Denis Amar,

Conflict between a hardened prison inmate and a ruthless prison guard.

Actors : Julian Richings, Damon Runyan, Nigel Bennett, Michelle Nolden,
Directors : Gaurav Seth,

As the world rages in war and civil strife, a CIA agent arrives at a secret underground prison to interrogate a time-traveling terrorist, who she believes is responsible for the unfolding catastrophe.

Actors : Matt Horan, Denis Rafter, Jimmy Shaw, Kimberley Tell,
Directors : Miguel Ángel Jiménez,

Two estranged brothers attempt to reconnect after one has served time in prison and the other remained in their home town and became a Reverend.

Actors : Manny Perez, Juan Maria Almonte, Luz García, Sergio Carlo,
Directors : Fernando Baez Mella,

The dramatic story of Julian, a Dominican drug lord who despite his confinement in prison, was still able to maintain Dominican society in a state of suspense, for over 13 years. At the ...

Actors : Richy Müller, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

Edgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his ...