Best Prison movies

Actors : Mace Freeman, Lara Daans, Ellen Dubin, Sarah-Maude Campbell,
Directors : Damian Lee,

Femme fatale, bombshell, Geraldine Goodwich gets out of jail after serving fourteen years. Only she knows where the thirteen million dollars from a bank job gone bad is stashed. The problem...

Actors : Chuck Jeffreys, Richard Lynch, Elizabeth Kaitan, Chris DeRose,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Cop is framed for murder and sent to prison.

Actors : Pravas Sarkar, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Simi Garewal,
Directors : Mrinal Sen,

A political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman.

Actors : Anita Ekberg, Margaret Lee, John Richardson, Fernando Rey,
Directors : José María Elorrieta,

Nick Warfield is a speed boat racer hitching along the Mediterranean after his speed boat has been smashed up. He is picked up by Jacqueline Monnard who quickly gets him into a barroom brawl followed by prison.

Actors : Jan Peszek, Wojciech Wysocki, Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded into a common cell until the investigation into their supposed ...

Actors : Zaibao Yang, Yihan Bu, Xiaoqing Liu, Min Bu,
Directors : Zi Ling,

Hu escapes from prison after 8 years to find that his father was killed by the landlord. His fiancee Jin Zi is married to the landlord's son, a Mama's Boy. The blind, widowed mother-in-law is a termagant. Revenge and elopement are planned.

Actors : Timothy Altmeyer, Todd Swenson, Michael Buscemi, Kris Carr,
Directors : Brett Wagner,

Renee Unger is living the life she always hoped for: a little red-brick house in the small town of New Russia, Ohio, a good husband, a prospering construction business, and a baby on the ...

Actors : Manuel Fernandes Sr., Tom Billett, LeeAnne Baker, Kate Collins,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

Tough ex-con Glenn Barnes gets paroled from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter. Glenn plans to reopen his old nightclub the Garage on 42nd Street. Vicious rival nightclub ...

Actors : Mitwa, Satish Patel, Gugu Gill, Deep Dhillon,

Misunderstandings between two friends, Jageer Singh and Shingara Singh, results in the murder of the later, while Jageer is arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Years later Jageer's ...

Actors : Reena Roy, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

The region under Maharaj Singh's control is under-going drought and famine-like conditions, and the Maharaj orders that the treasury be made open so that his public does not suffer. His ...

Actors : Justine Renee, Natasha Landes, John C. Epperson, Jenna Rains,
Directors : Christopher Krueger,

An all-girl gang tangles with rival gangs and an evil prison guard but their biggest challenge is sticking together.

Actors : John Kani, Derek Jacobi, Warren Adler, Alice Krige,
Directors : Paul Schoolman,

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of to tell the story of one of history's foremost personalities.

Actors : Andrei Gribenyuk, Vladimir Shevelyov, Yuriy Nazarov, Pavel Gromov,
Directors : Nikolai Gusarov,

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers...

Actors : Rudolf Pankov, Sergey Nikonenko, Yuriy Sarantsev, Lev Prygunov,
Directors : Atanas Traykov,

The German train stops at a small station. The partisan Velichko receives an order to rescue four Russian prisoners of war, who are in one of the boxcar. The partisans blow up a rail bridge...

Actors : John Carter, Mary Stout, Bop Tweedie, Emma Jean Jones,
Directors : Shawn Sweeney,

Senior citizen and felon Thomas Hatch is awarded a ninety-nine-year sentence. Hatch avoids the prison term by faking senility and is sent to an elderly facility. There he meets and falls in...

Actors : Christine Elise, Miles Doleac, James Kyson, Billy Slaughter,
Directors : Ryan Roy,

In order to close the case files on over a dozen disappearances, a persistent detective, a bereaved senator, and a skeptical prison warden agree to the request of convicted serial killer ...

Actors : Luís Alberto, Costa Ferreira, Maria do Céu Guerra, José Viana,
Directors : Luís Filipe Rocha,

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Slavko Simic, Ljuba Tadic, Dusan Djuric,
Directors : Rados Novakovic,

Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.

Actors : Stephanie Acosta, Nova Aragon, Evie A. Armstrong, Vivian Brown,
Directors : Pablo Veliz,

Danny Ortega is imprisoned for a crime of justice at a very young age. After 17 years in prison, he returns to his town of Houston to find that crime and drugs have overturned what he once ...

Actors : Jürgen Goslar, Ingrid Ettlmayer, Jeanette Mühlmann, Hartmut Nolte,
Directors : Willi Hengstler,

The story of Austrian, Johann "Jack" Unterweger, who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in prison for assault.