Best Prison movies

Actors : Ivo Gregurevic, Mira Furlan, Sonja Savic, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Zoran Tadic,

Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more people with the help of his inmate on conditional release, and takes them to his uncle's farm...

Actors : Min-su Choi, Sang-min Park, Jeong-hyeon Kim, Su-jin Yun,
Directors : Young-bin Kim,

A man with no ambitions or scruples, upon his release from prison, meets a former classmate who has fallen on hard times and has lost his will to try to better himself and his life.

Actors : Asha Parekh, Farida Jalal, Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha,
Directors : Sultan Ahmed,

Heera lives in a small rural town in India with his father, a Magistrate, and housewife mother. He meets with the town's moneylender Dhaniram's daughter, Asha, both of them fall in love, ...

Actors : Jutta Wachowiak, Slávka Budínová, Christine Gloger, Regimantas Adomaitis,

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time ...

Actors : Donald Cabana, Jude Cambise, Daniel Dupont, Mimi Loftus,
Directors : Steven Scaffidi,

At the beginning of our story it's 1995 and two fledgling filmmakers, Richard and Daniel, are on their way to make a documentary about life in prison. As a favor to Richard's uncle, the ...

Actors : Odile Le Clezio, Tim Roth, Lee Bioloas, Jim Holt,
Directors : Simon Target,

While in prison, Jack had two momentous experiences: he got religion, and met the woman who would become his wife. He and Alison are devoted to the idea of staying in God's good graces, so ...

Actors : Helena Rojo, Jaime Garza, Jorge Luke, Olivia Collins,
Directors : Rafael Baledón,

Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working ...

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Didi Perego, John Bartha, Franco Franchi,
Directors : Giuseppe Orlandini,

A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes ...

Actors : Hitomi Shimizu, Tomomi Kuribayashi, Keiji Matsuda, Chieko Shiratori,

Two mismatched policewomen are assigned to guard and observe a released prisoner who has connections with a women-only gang who are suspected of counterfeiting.

Actors : John Vargas, Efrain Figueroa, Blanca Marsillach, Eric Steinberg,
Directors : Susanna Lo,

A group of gangsters hold a beautiful woman and her handicapped mother-in-law prisoners in their own hotel. From out of nowhere, a hurricane traps everyone and the only way to survive is to outsmart or out kill the other.

Actors : Adriano Giannini, János Derzsi, Stefania Rivi, Piroska Molnár,
Directors : Zoltán Kamondi,

Gabriel Ventuza lives the peaceful life of a herbalist, growing and cultivating medical herbs in Italy. One day he receives an order from his older brother who is just out of prison for one...

Actors : Andrzej Bogucki, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Halina Billing-Wohl, Aleksander Benczak,
Directors : Waclaw Florkowski,

Maria, ex-prisoner at Majdanek Concentration Camp, travels to New York to testify as a crown witness at the trial of former camp guard, Gertruda Steiner.

Actors : Bo Derek, Stewart Bick, Bruce Boxleitner, Jonathan Higgins,
Directors : Adam Weissman,

A lawyer battling addiction gets a chance to redeem her life when she is assigned to save a death-row inmate from execution.

Actors : Nikki Coghill, Doug Bowles, Marcus Graham, Stephen Whittaker,
Directors : Vincent Monton,

An ex-soldier whose life has been disrupted and his emotions disturbed by his experiences at war and in prison, escapes from olive custody after attending the burial of his murdered brother.

Actors : Amancay Amend, Dolores Fonzi, Joaquín Aguila, Nazareno Altamirano,
Directors : Pablo Agüero,

Argentina during military dictatorship in the early 80s: Hoping for a new life after being released from prison, Alba takes her six-year-old son Inti with her to a remote hippie village in ...

Actors : Mi-kyeong Seo, Dae-kun Lee, Sang-sun Kim, Seong-jong Hong,

Patriot Kim Du-han faces a difficult situation when he is detained on a murder charge at the American army base in Itaewon. Things become worse when the prison chief is bribed by communists...

Actors : Fu-Chien Chang, Sung Young Chen, Alex Man, Tien Niu,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

After spending 12 years in jail, Wu-shiung had found himself a homeless. Thinking of the days in prison, it really mad him so regret about those days in gangland. Anonymously, he earned his...

Actors : Dean Jones, Jay Robinson, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews,
Directors : Irving Rapper,

Charles Colson was involved in the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of former President Richard Nixon. Colson was sentenced to prison for the crimes he ...

Actors : Karen Jezek, Kenneth Jezek, Ann Ault, Helen Gibson,
Directors : Helen Gibson,

Based on a true story that rocked the world. An emotional journey that takes a former drug-crazed prostitute and convicted pickax killer from the depths of despair to personal triumph on Texas death row.

Actors : Dinçer Çekmez, Kadir Inanir, Tanju Gürsu, Hülya Avsar,
Directors : Halit Refig,

Mehmet and his friends are prisoners and escape from a prison bus, when they have an accident. They stop a van, kill its driver and take Zeynep, who is the driver's fiancée, as a hostage. ...