Best Prison movies of 1980s

Actors : Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a twelve-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too, a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, ...

Actors : Jorge Emilio Salazar, Sebastián Ospina, María Eugenia Dávila, Gustavo Angarita,
Directors : Jorge Alí Triana,

A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his "pueblo" (village). But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the ...

Actors : Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Alan Shapiro,

A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.

Actors : Yunus Parvez, Shakti Kapoor, Shiva Rindani, Asrani,

Brahmdutt, a rich Steel Baron is falsely convicted in the murder of his best friend and business partner Premchand. When in prison, Brahmdutt finds out from sources that his son in law ...

Actors : Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi, Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival ...

Actors : Pierre Curzi, Marie Tifo, Robert Gravel, Jacques Godin,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for ...

Actors : José Dumont, Nildo Parente, Glória Pires, Carlos Vereza,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Actors : Gary McCleery, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, James Coco,
Directors : Waldemar Korzeniowsky,

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Actors : John Laughlin, Michael Paré, Richard Farnsworth, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Conrad E. Palmisano,

In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets ...

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger, Rita Silva, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

Julia, a famous physician, infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister's killing, but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden's sexual brutality.

Actors : Howard Knight, William J. Kulzer, Melanie Coll, Judi Trevor,
Directors : Eric Louzil,

A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.

Actors : Mammootty, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Baiju, Mahesh,
Directors : Sibi Malayil,

The movie revolves around a bunch of inmates in a Juvenile home and the movie depicts several corruptions happening in such a facility.

Actors : Ken Gampu, Sol Rachilo, Bingo Mbonjeni, Vivian Solomons,
Directors : Tonie van der Merwe,

Bullet is back, and this time he will have to stake his entire reputation on the line as he goes deep undercover in prison to unfold the mystery of a police corruption ring, being run by ...

Actors : Vladislava Milosavljevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Radmila Zivkovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Dragan Kresoja,

A young prison inmate gets released together with an old gangster. They go to town together in order to visit their families and friends, but nobody knows that the old man is mortally ill.

Actors : Sibel Turnagöl, Kadir Inanir, Muadelet Tibet, Merih Firat,
Directors : Serif Gören,

A man is released after military intervention serving 7 years of prison. He sees all his friends lost their ideas, feels disturbed and depressed and can not adopt to new conditions.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Shannon Tweed, Robert Ginty, Don Gordon,
Directors : David Winters,

The wife and daughter of the president of an African state were kidnapped by terrorists. The American embassador tries to liberate them and reactivates therefore an agent who is in prison ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Mithun Chakraborty, Divya Rana, Amjad Khan,
Directors : Shibu Mitra,

Balwant is a ex-convict and former jailbird. He returns home after completing his sentence, and finds out that the wealthy Thakur has a treasure stashed away nearby with a map enclosed in a...

Actors : Robin Cleaver, Robin Antin, Rhonda Aldrich, Valerie Richards,
Directors : Phillip Schuman,

A young dancer protecting her mother from her abusive stepfather is forced to shoot him. She is convicted and sent to prison. The inmates hatch an escape plan, part of which is to put on a musical show to cover the attempted breakout.