Best Prison movies

Actors : Michael Maloney, Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer, Joanne Vannicola,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens.

Actors : Ediz Hun, Bülent Kayabas, Filiz Akin, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Zeynep lives with his old father. She has lost her ability to speak because of an accident. She needs an operation in order to be able to talk again. One day, five prison fugitives come to ...

Actors : Diogo Dória, Teresa Menezes, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Actors : Rohini, Vasanth Ravi, Bharathiraja, Raveena Ravi,
Directors : Arun Matheswaran,

Rocky, A gangster released after 17years from prison, goes back to his childhood house, searching for his missing sister Amudha, all the while reminiscing his violent past as it comes back to haunt him.

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Mario Pardo, Ramón Balenziaga,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, ...

Actors : Harold Sakata, Jang Lee Hwang, Bruce Le, André Koob,

Reformed criminal and ace martial artist Bruce decides to go straight and settle down with his girlfriend after being released from prison. The gang he used to be part of kidnap the ...

Actors : Roy Scheider, Luca Zingaretti, Robert Farrior, Vincent Riotta,
Directors : Giorgio Serafini,

Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. ...

Actors : James Wilder, Henry Thomas, Errol Slue, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.

Actors : Stanley Doe Hunt, Les Aderibigbe, Koran Streets, Devon Libran,
Directors : Jonathan Singer-Vine,

'LICKS' follows the story of a young man, D, as he returns to his Oakland neighborhood after two years served in prison for a botched robbery. In the days after his release, we are taken ...

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Luana Anders, Keenan Wynn,
Directors : Yabo Yablonsky,

An insane Hollywood makeup man kidnaps a woman, keeps her prisoner in his warehouse full of props.

Actors : Christoph Eichhorn, Lydia Billiet, Badema, Sevimbike Elibay,
Directors : Ulrike Ottinger,

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

Actors : Soli Labbart, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Hannu Lauri, Tiina Björkman,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

Actors : Kazuhiko Kanayama, Ryo Ishibashi, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada,
Directors : Rokuro Mochizuki,

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ...

Actors : Georges Wilson, Riccardo Cucciolla, Franco Nero, John Steiner,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Paola Pitagora, Terence Hill, Adalberto Maria Merli,
Directors : Eriprando Visconti,

Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison, she kills her.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Conny Van Dyke,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison.

Actors : Balthazar Getty, Michael Madsen, Phillip Glasser, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Andrzej Sekula,

In the eerie backdrop of the lousiana bayou, former inmate Frank(Michael Madsen, "Reservoir Dogs,"Donnie Brasco") sees the opportunity of a lifetime in the form of cursed cash... See full synopsis »

Actors : Rajinikanth, Pandiyan, Gautami, Prabhu,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

On their release from prison, two criminals join forces to prove the innocence of a wrongfully convicted fellow prisoner and in the process, also learn the truth about their own missing parents.

Actors : Maher Khammash, Ahmad Thaher, Mahmoud al Massad, Odai Hijazi,
Directors : Mahmoud al Massad,

Ahmad a construction worker gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal leading him to prison. He meets fraudster Ibrahim who ruins his last hope to prove his innocence. Ahmad is ...

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Stacy Keach, Rick Dean, Sherrie Rose,
Directors : Jonathan Winfrey,

Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the ...