Best Prison movies of 2010s

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Leïla Bekhti, Kheiron, Zabou Breitman,
Directors : Kheiron,

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

Actors : Mikko Leppilampi, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Jessica Grabowsky, Eero Aho,
Directors : Aku Louhimies,

Single mother name Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her news life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli come back from abroad, it open a window into her ...

Actors : Grace Glowicki, Noah Reid, Katie Boland, Sheila McCarthy,

When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on - until the deceased's son shows up at ...

Actors : Ilker Ayrik, Murat Akkoyunlu, Timur Acar, Didem Balçin,
Directors : Murat Seker,

Brother Gokhan, Accountant Servet, Meatball Necmi and Del Piero Hikmet are released from prison on probation and they join group therapy in order to be reintegrated to society.

Actors : Ryan Guzman, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Meadow Williams,
Directors : Brian A. Miller,

The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.

Actors : Moe Dunford, Lorcan Cranitch, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee,

After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help...

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Hugo Becker, Tewfik Jallab, Mélanie Doutey,
Directors : Xavier Durringer,

A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.

Actors : Natalia Dyer, Tate Donovan, Ella Rae Peck, Devon Bostick,
Directors : Philip Harder,

Twenty-two and on the verge of entering high society, college graduate Billy Mitchell finds his plans changing when he falls in love with an inmate with multiple personalities at his father's mental institution.

Actors : Rae-won Kim, Kyeong-yeong Lee, Seong-gyoon Kim, Suk-kyu Han,
Directors : Hyeon Na,

A troubled ex-cop is imprisoned for a hit-and-run accident. He discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate who has been running a crime syndicate with the help of the warden and guards which provides them 100% alibi.

Actors : Garry Summers, Bernie Hodges, Daniel Brocklebank, Wayne Virgo,

Father Jack is imprisoned for a crime that he has committed. The inmates suspect him of paedophilia and begin to persuade his teenage cellmate of this. His true crime is confessed to a prison guard with whom Jack has fallen in love.

Actors : Alison Doody, Lotte Verbeek, Linus Roache, Clarke Peters,
Directors : S.A. Halewood,

2039. Jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled...

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Amparo Noguera, Alberto Ellena, Carolina Paulsen,
Directors : David Albala,

This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.

Actors : Moe Dunford, Lalor Roddy, Dafhyd Flynn, Robbie Walsh,
Directors : Frank Berry,

An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison.

Actors : Martin Sacks, Erin Connor, Marty Rhone, Nathan Wilson,
Directors : Mack Lindon,

Rise is a true story about a young nurse falsely accused of rape. Stripped of his career and his freedom, Will is forced to survive maximum security jail. The film centers on an unlikely ...

Actors : Erik Griffin, Melissa Leo, Edgar Ramírez, Tessa Thompson,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Petros Zervos, Yannis Tsortekis, Vicky Papadopoulou,
Directors : Yannis Economides,

By night, Stratos works in a bread factory but by day, he's a professional hit man. He needs the cash to free Leonidas from prison because the latter once saved his life when he was behind ...

Actors : Eileen Walsh, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Martin McCann, Barry Ward,
Directors : Stephen Burke,

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

Actors : Gilles Marini, Brett Cullen, Cody Kasch, Ryan Merriman,
Directors : Eric Colley,

World War II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Actors : RJ Balaji, Karthi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shraddha Srinath,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Set during the Kargil War, fighter pilot Varun recalls his romance with Leela while being held prisoner in Pakistan.

Actors : Columbus Short, Bruce Dern, Kaiwi Lyman, Denise Richards,
Directors : Timothy Woodward Jr.,

Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Amanda Tyler, has an opportunity to interview and analyze death row inmate Jackson Shea. As the interview...