Best Prison movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Fabian, Adam Roarke, Jocelyn Lane, 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 : 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 : Jason Robards, Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Nanni Loy,

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

Actors : Leo Fong, Ann Farber, Darnell Garcia, Booker T. Anderson,

A former ranger sits in prison awaiting his execution when an international organization frees him and assigns him to crush a deadly spy ring.

Actors : Jamshid Mashayekhi, Morteza Ahmadi, Nilufar, Ezzatollah Moghbeli,
Directors : Esmail Nooriala,

A famous singer named Eskandar who killed his cousin out of love and served 15 years in prison is released. He finds out that his nephew Sasan has impregnated his late cousin's daughter ...

Actors : Gilles Ségal, Peter Bonke, Jean Bollery, Jean Dautremay,
Directors : Jean-Louis Leconte,

The everyday life of an anonymous prisoner on death row. His torments, memories and suicide attempts slowly lead him towards a silent madness that the ruthless prison system will not prevent before the final act.

Actors : Lia Flessa, Petros Zarkadis, Giorgos Stratigakis, Yannis Petrakis,
Directors : Kostas Doukas,

Two criminals escaped from prison abuse a family which takes bloody revenge later.

Actors : Andrey Chaprazov, Filip Maleev, Gueorgui Stoyanov, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Ivan Nitchev,

The young antifascist resister Nestor makes attempt to escape from prison. The bullet heavily wounds him. After a few tense hours, the surgeon professor Andronikov removes the bullet stuck ...

Actors : Am Park, Jeong-il Lee, Jeong-ja Park, Ji-mee Kim,
Directors : Ki-young Kim,

Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner...

Actors : Sha-Li Chen, Lun Yang, Feng Hsu, Chiang-Lung Wen,
Directors : Kuo-Heng Chung,

Passion and the agony of injustice boil over into an unshakeable resolve, as Pan Lung returns home after five years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. While searching for his former ...

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Franco Franchi, Gina Rovere,
Directors : Riccardo Pazzaglia,

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take...

Actors : Bohumil Smída, Josef Somr, Ilja Prachar, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : Dusan Klein,

Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from jail. Years ago, he sacrificed himself and confessed ...

Actors : Adem Cejvan, Ljuba Tadic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Boro Begovic,
Directors : Branimir Tori Jankovic,

The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of ...

Actors : Chiu Ming Chen, Kuo-Hua Chen, Fu Hung Cheng, Barry Chan,
Directors : Fei-Chien Wu,

During the Second World War, the Japanese send in two ex-prisoners to rule over a lumberyard in occupied China with brutal methods.