Best Prison movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Sunnyi Melles, Marc Hosemann, Nicolette Krebitz, Axel Milberg,
Directors : Rainer Kaufmann,

When Ben is released from prison, undercover police agent Melody picks him up at the gate. Kahnitz, her sinister and ambitious boss, wants to see Ben convicted of another crime as soon as ...

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Philip Casnoff, Alison Doody, Patricia Durham,
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 : 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 : 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 : Burt Young, Lance Kinsey, Allen Garfield, Judy Landers,
Directors : Nat Christian,

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Miles O'Keeffe, Chris Bolton, Jane Wheeler, Roddy Piper,
Directors : Marc F. Voizard,

Frank, an auto mechanic, witnesses the love of his life's demise at the hands of a drunk driver. Frank lets loose his rage, and kills the man. He then goes to prison, where he is framed for...