Best Prison movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : John Wesley Shipp, Kate Vernon, Gwynyth Walsh, 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 : Stephanie Ann Smith, Barbara Niven, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 ...