Best Prison movies of 2010s

Actors : Emily Meade, Chris Coy, Laura Dern, Jack O'Connell,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.

Actors : Kenny Johnson, Nico Christou, Constance Zimmer, Taylor Lautner,
Directors : Soham Mehta,

When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.

Actors : Dal-su Oh, Man-sik Jeong, So Won Kal, Seung-ryong Ryu,
Directors : Hwan-kyung Lee,

A story about love between a mentally-ill father and his lovingly adorable daughter. Accused of murder and rape, her father's home is prison.

Actors : Olivier Marchal, Carlo Brandt, Reda Kateb, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Edgar Marie,

Milan and Jonas once were the best friends in the world. Until the day when they had to denounce Serki, a criminal psychopath, to the Mexican police. Six years later Jonas meets up with a ...

Actors : Ron Perlman, Martin Starr, George Sample III, Jake McDorman,
Directors : Zach Golden,

Two inept, small-town Sheriff's Deputies catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted.

Actors : Manzar Sehbai, Humaima Malik, Shafqat Cheema, Iman Ali,
Directors : Shoaib Mansoor,

A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, Tusshar Kapoor, John Abraham,
Directors : Sanjay Gupta,

The first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982. Based on a true story.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Tom Sizemore, Héctor Jiménez, Kevin P. Farley,
Directors : Jesse Baget,

Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden ...

Actors : Michael Welch, Shelby Young, Alexandria DeBerry, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Phil Wurtzel,

While serving her prison sentence, a woman discovers a horrifying VHS tape with footage from a crime committed years prior.

Actors : Ramana, George Maryan, Karthi, Narain,
Directors : Lokesh Kanagaraj,

A recently released prisoner becomes involved in a chase with criminals as he races against time to drive poisoned cops to hospital in exchange for meeting his daughter.

Actors : Clark Bartram, Damion Poitier, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Sandy Collora,
Directors : Sandy Collora,

The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner...

Actors : Parker Posey, Bruce Dern, Paul Levesque, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Artie Mandelberg,

A man is released from prison after serving a long time for killing a man who tried to kill his best friend. Once out, he just wants to live a normal life, but his best friend immediately gets him into a new heap of serious troubles.

Actors : Robert Williams, Regina Williams, Ry'nesia Chambers, Andrew Bleechington,
Directors : Antonio Méndez Esparza,

Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew ...

Actors : Steve Austin, Michael Paré, Steven Seagal, Ian Robison,
Directors : Keoni Waxman,

When former black ops operative Cross (Seagal) and his partner Manning (Austin) are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners....

Actors : Yilmaz Erdogan, Monica Bellucci, Behrouz Vossoughi, Caner Cindoruk,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Actors : David Castro, Asun Ortega, Perry D'Marco, Maxie Santillan Jr.,
Directors : Joseph Guzman,

Mentally abused, enslaved and coerced into prostitution, a left-for-dead merciless Sister will take on a mission straight from God, whacking sinners in a strictly personal, no-prisoners vigilante Holy War.

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Christina Andrew, Hannah Blamires, Bhrina Bache,
Directors : Ray Burdis,

The true-life story of Paul Ferris.

Actors : Eyad Nassar, Karim Abdel Aziz, Hind Sabri, Nelly Karim,
Directors : Marwan Hamed,

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down, he prophesies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Solá, Benjamín Amadeo, Cecilia Roth, Sofía Gala Castiglione,
Directors : Sebastián Schindel,

Desperate and confused, Alicia will do the impossible to keep her son from prison after he's convicted of trying to murder his ex-wife.