Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Nicholas Lamont, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Moss, Neil Fitzmaurice,
Directors : Jim Doyle,

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Alexa PenaVega, Timothy Hutton, Luke Arnold,
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 : Boguslaw Linda, Michal Dlouhý, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Konstantin Lavronenko,
Directors : Petr Jákl,

Deals with the most famous criminal in Czech Republic, the lawyer who continuously tries to free him; the circle of people on both sides of the law who want to keep him in jail and his infamous escape from prison.

Actors : Caco Ciocler, Flavio Bauraqui, Antônio Pompêo, Werner Schünemann,
Directors : Lúcia Murat,

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Thomas Høite Meersohn, Jens Albinus, Igor Radosavljevic, 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 : 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 : Ye-won Kang, Mun-hee Na, Yunjin Kim, Joon-myeon Park,
Directors : Dae-gyu Kang,

Female prison inmates form a choir.

Actors : Hassan Hosny, Muhammad Sad, Abla Kamel, 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 : Joel Basman, Martin Kiefer, Frederick Lau, Constantin von Jascheroff,
Directors : Philip Koch,

Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is ...

Actors : Jenny McShane, Danny Trejo, Michael Paré, Ja Rule,
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 : Phil LaMarr, Kirstie Alley, Rodney Dangerfield, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Harry Basil,

The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.

Actors : Elith Nulle Nykjær, Ditte Gråbøl, Jesper Asholt, Erik Clausen,
Directors : Erik Clausen,

John gets accompanied parole from prison, to attend his son's wedding. He's planned his escape, but nothing goes according to plan.

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 : João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau, Manuela de Freitas,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

Actors : Jun Kunimura, Ken Matsudaira, Hiroshi Abe, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Masanobu Deme,

German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Sylvie Testud,
Directors : Pierre Jolivet,

After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a ...

Actors : Mystikal, Mark Parra, Ashley Tucker, Lorenzo Lamas,
Directors : Art Camacho,

Set in a prison, a death row inmate has a secret and the warden will go to any lengths to get it. Things dont go as planned as you would expect. A good action film with alot of good fight ...