Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Jenny McShane, Danny Trejo, Ja Rule, Michael Paré,
Directors : William Butler,

Detective Michael Turner investigates mysterious deaths that occur in and around a maximum-security prison. What begins as just another suicide and murder case unfolds into a furious ...

Actors : Golab Adineh, Roya Nonahali, Roya Taymourian, Pegah Ahangarani,
Directors : Manijeh Hekmat,

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young ...

Actors : Thomas Høite Meersohn, Igor Radosavljevic, Jens Albinus, Marijana Jankovic,
Directors : Christoffer Boe,

A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political ...

Actors : Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Michael James Rowland,

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Eduardo Mignogna,

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ...

Actors : Mirai Moriyama, Yû Aoi, Pierre Taki, Terunosuke Takezai,
Directors : Yuki Tanada,

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

Actors : Ye-won Kang, Mun-hee Na, Yunjin Kim, Joon-myeon Park,
Directors : Dae-gyu Kang,

Female prison inmates form a choir.

Actors : Judd Nelson, Larry Drake, Paulina Porizkova, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Gregory Gieras,

A madman terrorizes a female psychologist when they are accidently locked up in an abandoned asylum.

Actors : Hassan Hosny, Abla Kamel, Muhammad Sad, Samy El-Adl,
Directors : Wael Ihsan,

Ellambi how stole from his uncle and go to prison and then he escaped from prison and during the hunting he makes an accident

Actors : Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean Marciano, Chris Facey, Vaz Andreas,
Directors : Gregory Lemkin,

Inmates and guards alike become trapped in a maximum security prison when they fall prey to a demonic beast that feeds on human flesh. As the creature's power multiplies with every kill, ...

Actors : Lisa Ray, Gil Bellows, Shaun Parkes, Esai Morales,
Directors : Gareth Maxwell Roberts,

Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in prison. As he sets about adapting his ...

Actors : Jonathan Banks, Kelly Rowan, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Scott Ziehl,

An inmate serving time for vehicular homicide, overhears prison guards discussing plans for a murder and becomes a target himself.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Alexa PenaVega, Luke Arnold, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Dagen Merrill,

A sheep-rancher's son aspires to win a music conservatory scholarship, but to apply he needs musicians who can play his music. Circumstances lead him to form a band out of prison inmates.

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Ajay Jadeja, Celina Jaitly, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Yusuf Khan,

Two friends falling in love with the same girl leads to murder and intrigue.

Actors : Diogo Infante, Andreas Wilson, Emma Griffiths Malin, Ed Stoppard,
Directors : Rose Bosch,

Thomas, a brilliant young geneticist, has focused too much on his research and is in danger of being fired. In order to prove the validity of this work, he needs a human subject.

Actors : Dylan Duffus, Orhan Whyte, Yohance Watson, Duncan Tobias,
Directors : Penny Woolcock,

1 Day follows 24 hours in the life of Flash, an inner-city hustler who's day steadily gets worse when he finds out local gang leader Angel is being released from prison and wants his £500k he left with him for safekeeping.

Actors : Patrice Robitaille, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Viviane Audet, Gilles Renaud,
Directors : Philippe Gagnon,

Takes place in 1665 in New France at a time when a part of Canada was colonialized by France. Joseph Côté escapes from a prison in order to avoid death by hanging. Moreover, while some ...

Actors : Sofia Helin, Reine Brynolfsson, Liam Norberg, Mats Helin,
Directors : Daniel Fridell,

30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.

Actors : Minissha Lamba, Anusha Dhandekar, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Raj Kaushal,

Two men, an assassin and his victim is a small time crook and a question lies between the men is WHO IS ANTHONY?

Actors : Clara Voda, Gheorghe Visu, Gheorghe Dinica, Marius Stanescu,
Directors : Titus Muntean,

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister ...