Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Balthazar Getty, Michael Madsen, Phillip Glasser, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Andrzej Sekula,

In the eerie backdrop of the lousiana bayou, former inmate Frank(Michael Madsen, "Reservoir Dogs,"Donnie Brasco") sees the opportunity of a lifetime in the form of cursed cash... See full synopsis »

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Stacy Keach, Rick Dean, Sherrie Rose,
Directors : Jonathan Winfrey,

Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the ...

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 : 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 : Vítor Norte, Sinde Filipe, Paulo Pires, Mário Moutinho,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

In the 1940s André escapes from prison and is forced to leave the country illegally. In Oporto some friends arrange him a man, Lambaça, who knows the border of Tras-os-Montes (village in ...

Actors : Kazuhiko Kanayama, Ryo Ishibashi, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada,
Directors : Rokuro Mochizuki,

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ...

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 : Brendan Gleeson, Alfred Molina, Stephen Rea, Rosana Pastor,
Directors : Robert Dornhelm,

Dowd, who's IRA, escapes an Irish prison in a bloody jailbreak, making his way to New York City where he lives alone, avoids Irish hangouts, and works as a dishwasher. When a good deed gets...

Actors : Karen Kirishima, Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Yamato, Toshiya Fujita,
Directors : Junji Sakamoto,

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer.

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 : Richy Müller, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

Edgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his ...

Actors : Giorgos Kimoulis, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Evelina Papoulia, Mimis Chrisomalis,
Directors : Nikos Zapatinas,

A convict out of prison to visit his mother, followed by two policemen. A lunatic out of the asylum, followed by two doctors. Their meeting is the beginning of the most hilarious situations...

Actors : Meg Foster, Gary Daniels, Jeffrey Combs, Bryan Genesse,
Directors : Jeff Burr,

Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is ...

Actors : John Wesley Shipp, Gwynyth Walsh, Kate Vernon, Patrick Bergin,
Directors : Jorge Montesi,

An attractive cop is assigned the task of tracing millions of dollars of stolen church funds. The thief, is locked up in prison, and the plan is to break him out, and follow him to the ...

Actors : Jürgen Tarrach, Tamara Simunovic, Dieter Landuris, Hannes Jaenicke,
Directors : Thorsten Schmidt,

Episodes from the 1999 Sylvester night in Berlin, accompanied by the blind radio-DJ Zippo: one of the listeners is ex-inmate Toto, who starts his job as a bus driver on this day. In the bus...

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 : 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 : Yves Lambrecht, Valérie Jeannet, Albert Filozov, Leonid Yarmolnik,
Directors : Andrei Prachenko,

The English doctor, by mistake the convict on a hard labor, managed to run. The former prisoners who took the Spanish frigate are forced to hoist the black piracy colors. They still beyond the law, and this hunt is started for them.

Actors : Michael Maloney, Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer, Joanne Vannicola,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens.

Actors : Nicolaj Kopernikus, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Paprika Steen,
Directors : Trine Piil Christensen,

Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband of the Rent-a-Family director plans to rob Max' father.