Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Stephanie Davis, Jon Daugherty, Ryan Daugherty, Lynn Boyd,
Directors : Julian Goldberger,

Ryan Kazinski, 16, is in juvenile detention in Fort Myers, Florida. He gets away one day, and the world is all before him: where should he go, what should he do? Should he try to find his ...

Actors : André Eisermann, Jeremy Clyde, Udo Samel, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Peter Sehr,

Kaspar Hauser is the son of the duke of Baden. At the age of one he was swapped by another baby that has been killed right after the change. The real Kaspar Hauser grew up in prison without...

Actors : Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Keerikkadan Jose, Mohanlal,
Directors : Sibi Malayil,

The sequel to Kireedam (1989), Chenkol continues the story of Sethumadavan who hopes to regain his lost life after 8 years in prison.

Actors : Billy Zane, James Russo, James Coburn, Mia Sara,
Directors : Strathford Hamilton,

Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool proof system during the refurbishing of a...

Actors : Chandrachur Singh, Mahima Chaudhry, Shakti Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Raj Kanwar,

Karan is a former soldier. One day when Karan finds out that his father committed suicide in prison after he is falsely charged with a crime, he suspects Ravi Verma, a city attorney who has...

Actors : Gregory Scott Cummins, Elizabeth Hicks, Sydney Coale, Kascha,
Directors : Bill Milling,

Discontent leads to a daring escape plan in a women's prison where the inmates are all lingerie clad models and the lesbian warden demands unusual favours for early parole.

Actors : Larry John Meyers, Alexandra Powers, Sam Hennings, Gloria McCord,
Directors : Ryan Haidarian,

'Race' is a story of incorruptible intent, exposing the color of the human heart. Sitting on a time bomb of anxiety, Mance Hopkins is a small town prison inmate. Other than his color, we ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild, James Black, Burgess Jenkins,
Directors : Bart Patton,

Dramatisation of Harold Morris's book based on his own life as a racist who is falsely imprisoned, but turns his life around, becoming friends with a black man and winning an humanitarian award.

Actors : Zaneta Polard, Lisa Boyle, Kena Land, Don Yanan,
Directors : Aaron Osborne,

It's the year 3000 AD. The world's most dangerous women are banished to a remote asteroid 45 million light years from earth. Kira Murphy doesn't belong; wrongfully accused of a crime she ...

Actors : Asja Jovanovic, Filip Sovagovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Slobodan Custic,
Directors : Branko Schmidt,

After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Djuka Begovic returns to his home-village in Slavonia. He promises to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new ...

Actors : Billy Zane, Mimi Rogers, Kurt Fuller, John Terry,
Directors : Jon Purdy,

In a series of flashbacks and confessional conversations with her prison guard, Regina seeks to understand her life in her final hours on death row before she is sent to the electric chair ...

Actors : João Maria Pinto, Valentí Agustí, Francisco Franco, Joaquim Jordà,

While the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical ...

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 : Stephanie Ann Smith, Barbara Niven, Wendi Westbrook, Taylor Leigh,
Directors : Henri Charr,

An FBI agent goes undercover in a women's prison to find evidence hidden by a drug dealer's ex-girlfriend. After she is taken off the case, she finds that the drug dealer has kidnapped her ...

Actors : Ben Cross, Vincent Spano, Rachel Ward, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Donald Shebib,

A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp to climb the challenging 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and plant the Italian flag on the ...

Actors : Ivan Brkic, Milan Plestina, Milivoj Beader, Ljubo Zecevic,
Directors : Dejan Acimovic,

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.

Actors : James Russo, Cynda Williams, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.

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 : Maximilian Schell, Anna Thalbach, Thomas Heinze, Mathias Gnädinger,
Directors : Hans W. Geissendörfer,

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...

Actors : Burt Young, Lance Kinsey, Allen Garfield, Judy Landers,
Directors : Nat Christian,

A gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.