Best Prison movies of 2016

Actors : Gary Oldman, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds,
Directors : Ariel Vromen,

In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Omar J. Dorsey, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Matthew Cook,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

Actors : Larry Flash Jenkins, Andre Royo, Jeannetta Arnette, Kellee Stewart,
Directors : Joshua Locy,

After a 3-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find that she and his family have done what they always wanted to do - forget he exists.

Actors : Kanji Furutachi, Tadanobu Asano, Kana Mahiro, Mariko Tsutsui,
Directors : Kôji Fukada,

Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.

Actors : Julia Stiles, Josh Charles, John C. McGinley, Avan Jogia,
Directors : Bette Gordon,

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.

Actors : Masuma Rahman Nabila, Partho Barua, Bijori Barkatullah, Chanchal Chowdhury,
Directors : Amitabh Reza Chowdhury,

Ayna is an actor and the prison is his stage. He slips into the characters of the powerful convicted in exchange of money and take their place in prison. This strange profession is borne ...

Actors : Kenny Johnson, Nico Christou, Constance Zimmer, Taylor Lautner,
Directors : Soham Mehta,

When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.

Actors : Karl Johnson, Sinead Matthews, Deborah Findlay, Anne Reid,
Directors : Rupert Jones,

A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Robert Hobbs, Steve Coogan, Garion Dowds,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Actors : Tara Lee, Seána Kerslake, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack,
Directors : Darren Thornton,

A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.

Actors : Martha Higareda, Omar Chaparro, Mónica Dionne, Rocio Garcia,
Directors : Nacho G. Velilla,

NO MANCHES FRIDA is the story of Zequi, a recently released bank robber who goes to recover stolen money buried by his ditzy accomplice before going to jail. They return to the site only to...

Actors : Lou Diamond Phillips, Bellamy Young, Louis Herthum, Jennifer Lafleur,
Directors : Megan Griffiths,

An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.

Actors : Gabino Rodríguez, Andoni Gracia, Adrian Ladron, Hernán Mendoza,

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the ...

Actors : Adèle Exarchopoulos, Aliénor Poisson, Guillaume Gallienne, Stéphanie Cléau,
Directors : Pierre Godeau,

Based on a true story, the impossible love between a prison director and one of its female inmates.

Actors : Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Henrik Mestad, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Vegar Hoel,
Directors : Hallvard Bræin,

After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk in the North of Russia. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.

Actors : Daphne Scoccia, Josciua Algeri, Laura Vasiliu, Valerio Mastandrea,
Directors : Claudio Giovannesi,

Youth detention centre. Daphne, arrested for theft, falls in love with Josh, who is also a young robber. Men and women can not meet in jail and love is forbidden. Daphne and Josh's ...

Actors : Hong-pa Kim, Jae-hong Ahn, Seong-oh Kim, Won-hae Kim,
Directors : Hong-jin Mo,

Missing You is a 2016 South Korean revenge thriller film written and directed by Mo Hong-jin. It was released in South Korea on March 10, 2016. A little girl named Hee-ju who lost her father to a serial killer named Ki-bum 15 years ago awaits for his release. Ki-bum is released from prison after serving his sentence. Dae-young, a detective follows Ki-bum closely as he remains suspicious of the ...

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Kiowa Gordon, Christina Bennett Lind, Vincent Pastore,
Directors : Valerio Esposito,

Self condemned to the immense and boundless prison of the Mojave desert, Phoenix leads a life of forced isolation, living by himself in a house as far away as possible from the rest of the ...

Actors : Matt Horan, Denis Rafter, Jimmy Shaw, Kimberley Tell,
Directors : Miguel Ángel Jiménez,

Two estranged brothers attempt to reconnect after one has served time in prison and the other remained in their home town and became a Reverend.

Actors : Constantine Attia, Slimane Dazi, Reda Kateb, Mélanie Laurent,

Just out of prison, Nas returns to his neighborhood, Pigalle, where he finds his friends and his older brother Arezki, boss of the bar Le Prestige. Nas is determined to recreate a name and Le Prestige could well serve as a springboard .