Best Prison movies of 1970s

Actors : Richard Bright, John Heard, Thomas G. Waites, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Raphael D. Silver,

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Christopher George, Richard Ely, James Luisi, Jim Brown,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Actors : Geneviève Robert, Rosa Palomar, Dennis Price, Andrés Resino,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.

Actors : Fonda Lynn, Jacky Lim, Alan Tam, Lona Chang,
Directors : Karen Yang,

A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.

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 : Gianni Rizzo, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Nicoletta Machiavelli,
Directors : Sergio Citti,

Rome, 1850. In prison, two young men, Bernardino and Mammone, condemned for murder wait their own death penalty to be executed, and pass their last hours telling each other lust and ...

Actors : Louis Julien, Dora Doll, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.

Actors : Salvador Sánchez, José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Delia Casanova,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

In Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.

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 : Ivano Staccioli, Nello Riviè, Gabriele Carrara, Ria De Simone,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jason Bernard, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Herbert B. Leonard,

Nineteen year old Jimmy Graham has grown up to be an angry young man based on his experiences, including not having either his mother or father in his life as he was growing up. When he was...

Actors : Joe Dorsey, Fred Covington, Tim Conway, Chuck McCann,

Small-town deputy is ordered by the governer to go undercover, posing as a criminal, in a maximum security prison. Shortly after his mission begins, the governor dies, leaving him and his ...

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, George Eastman, Vittorio Congia, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

When, after serving a three-year sentence, Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is waiting for him. Not to hug him. Not to welcome him. Just to let him know, a bit bluntly for ...

Actors : Victor Campos, Robert Donner, Neville Brand, Sherry Boucher,
Directors : George Peppard,

A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.

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 : Edwige Fenech, Lee Van Cleef, Jean Rochefort, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

This is a buddy film with a small-time thug (Victor Lobianco) meeting a high-profile gangster (Lee Van Cleef) while in prison. The pair team up to attempt a prison breakout.

Actors : Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos Bousdoukos, Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, ...

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.