Best Prison movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Ally Sheedy, Charles Napier, David Carradine, Todd Kimsey,
Directors : Victoria Muspratt,

Our heroine isn't having a good time. Having lost her L.A. job and walked out on her unfaithful boyfriend, she finds herself stuck in nowhere Macon County when her car and possessions are ...

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Philip Casnoff, Patricia Durham, Alison Doody,
Directors : Strathford Hamilton,

After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance ...

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 : Barbara Niven, Stephanie Ann Smith, 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 : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Nicola Stapleton,
Directors : Metin Hüseyin,

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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 : 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 : Tom Karr, Patricia Paul, Kathy Willets, Joel D. Wynkoop,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

Angus Lynch, a psycho, escapes from prison and hooks up with his stripper sister named Kascha. Some death ensues eventually leading Angus to cross paths with a police captain named David ...

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 : Fabijan Sovagovic, Asja Jovanovic, Filip 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 : Serge Blumental, Jean-Michel Fête, Julie Gayet, Marc Andréoni,
Directors : Laurent Bouhnik,

It's a hotel with walls in the corridor covered with striped paper, crossed like bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do ...

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.