Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Neil Delama, Paul Michael Robinson, John Lazar, Landon Hall,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A policeman, unjustly sentenced and sent to a maximum security prison, discovers terrorists have planted a nuclear bomb in the prison. The terrorists hope to trick the U.S. into a ...

Actors : Rainer Egger, Elfriede Irrall, Merab Ninidze, Oliver Broumis,
Directors : Andreas Gruber,

It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the ...

Actors : Ketevan Kiknadze, Gia Burjanadze, Giorgi Khobua, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi,
Directors : Giga Lortkipanidze,

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

Actors : Lee de Broux, Brad Davis, Ken Foree, Kim Delaney,
Directors : Peter Maris,

A town has been taken hostage. Who will win the battle? Only the mighty will survive.

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Bai Ling, Jon Bon Jovi, William Forsythe,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

Jamey Meadows is a convict just released from prison, hoping to live a straight life on the outside. His brother tries to reenlist him into the crime world, but Jamey resists, getting a job...

Actors : Gunnar Hansen, Debbie Rochon, Brian Kelly, Jon Miller,
Directors : Paul Talbot,

In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.

Actors : Wei Zhao, Tsui-Wan Lee, Tung Yin Liu, La-La Chiu,
Directors : Jin Xie,

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears ...

Actors : David Keith, Kristen Cloke, Stanley DeSantis, Karen Hensel,
Directors : Robert Houston,

After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't ...

Actors : Nartay Begalin, Valeriy Barinov, Aleksandr Feklistov, Sergey Gabrielyan,
Directors : Oleg Kavun,

A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev ...

Actors : Dean Tarrolly, Traci Lords, Billy Drago, James Brolin,
Directors : John Shepphird,

Hardened criminal Lester is in prison for armed robbery and murder. When his request for parole is refused, he escapes and hatches a plan for revenge and make him rich. He leads two gang ...

Actors : Javier Albalá, Óscar Ladoire, Jorge Sanz, María Barranco,
Directors : Pedro Olea,

A corporal of the guard is teamed with a young prisoner to solve the strange killings that have occurred in the walled city of Zafarinas. The young team finds themselves plunged into a ...

Actors : Danny Trejo, C. Thomas Howell, Courtney Gains, Sofia Shinas,

A little girl is in a hospital dying of cancer. Death Row inmate Rudy Salazar has the bone marrow to save her life. His sentence is changed to life without parole in exchange for donating ...

Actors : R. Nelson Brown, Norman Browning, Leslie Carlson, Scott Andersen,
Directors : Allan A. Goldstein,

As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime, another inmate wants to take care of J.T. Blake forever.

Actors : Stewart Finlay-McLennan, Xavier Declie, Lisa Robin Kelly, Richard Moll,
Directors : Nick Davis,

After mankind moved into space, the old planet Earth is forgotten, a polluted wasteland where only expelled prisoners still survive. One of them is Tarkin (Xavier Declie). When a capsule ...

Actors : Carrie Genzel, Tane McClure, Nick Wilder, Dink O'Neal,
Directors : Henri Charr,

Kate and Sharon kill a man in self defense and are framed by the justice system. They are put in prison and forced into prostitution. With the help of their defense attorney, they devise a ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Robert Davi, Steven Bauer, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Talun Hsu,

A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he ...

Actors : Jens Okking, Thomas Bo Larsen, Bjarne Henriksen, Anders Nyborg,
Directors : Carsten Fromberg,

Policeman Lasse rehabilitates young prisoners by taking them on survival course in the Swedish wasteland. And before he has to retire due to illness, he arranges one last trip.

Actors : Lyman Ward, Rod Steiger, Heather Graham, Lauren Hutton,
Directors : Sam Irvin,

A female parole officer discovers a secret death row prison under a meat plant, that's being run by the plant's unhinged vigilante owner and his reverend friend. A politician with a shady past becomes its latest "guest". But is he guilty?

Actors : Kasper Emanuel Stæger, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Clara Johanne Simonsen, Pernille Kaae Høier,
Directors : Lone Scherfig,

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their single mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting by inventing a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.