Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Jan Adamski, Arkadiusz Bazak, Piotr Augustyniak, Andrzej Balcerzak,
Directors : Wanda Jakubowska,

While showing the Auschwitz Concentration Camp to American tourists, guide Henryk recalls his own memories as its inmate.

Actors : Dae-yeob Lee, Su-il Bang, Hye-jeong Kim,
Directors : Keung-ha Jo,

A man held prisoner in North Korea following the Korean War, organizes a resistance movement against the cruelty of the communist prisoners.

Actors : Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Lawrence P. Casey, Justin Tarr,
Directors : John Peyser,

Rommel's last open port is maintained by POW labor against Allied bombing, a commando operation is undertaken to liberate the prisoners.

Actors : Peter Brown, Joseph Shiloach, Yehoram Gaon, Rick Jason,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

Israeli POW's who escape from a notorious Arab prison return for a dramatic rescue of their comrades.

Actors : Stanley Baxter, Percy Herbert, Bill Fraser, Harry H. Corbett,
Directors : Frank Launder,

Busted for running an illegal gambling den during the Second World War, a gang of East End wideboys choose conscription over prison and take their talents on a tour of duty.

Actors : Voula Zouboulaki, Alekos Alexandrakis, Lefteris Vournas, Zoi Laskari,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Keti goes to a prison to visit her daughter Elli, a young female prisoner, but Elli refuses to meet her mother. When Keti has left, the prison guard starts reading Elli's diary, to find out...

Actors : Enrique Almirante, José Díaz Lastra, Amador Domínguez, Ángel Espasande,
Directors : Antonio Vázquez Gallo,

Melodrama of illicit love between a young girl and a man escaped from prison, amidst the fight against Batista dictatorship.

Actors : Kwong-Chiu Cheung, Chiang Chang, Suet-Jan Shum, Yung Wong,
Directors : Fang-Hsia Chang,

When one of their brothers is murdered and their boss is held in the Prison, the Hwa Clan, led by the poisonous Lady Nine Flower. It is up to a desperate Lady Nine Flower to save the day.

Actors : Ajda Pekkan, Sadri Alisik, Tanju Gürsu, Sevda Ferdag,
Directors : Aram Gülyüz,

Criminals are all around and Metin escapes from prison. There is only address to find Ertugrul.

Actors : Lalita Pawar, Rajendra Kumar, Madan Puri, Mala Sinha,
Directors : O.P. Ralhan,

While defending his sister's honor, Shanker kills a man. His ashamed family say he is away in Africa, while he spends the next ten years in prison. What happens when the truth comes out, can he ever find forgiveness or acceptance?

Actors : Jason Robards, Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Nanni Loy,

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama, Kyôko Kishida, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Hiromichi Horikawa,

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, ...

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Mica Orlovic, Marijan Lovric, Horst Frank,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.

Actors : Patrick Barr, Delphi Lawrence, Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson,
Directors : Robert Tronson,

Model prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burglary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.

Actors : Jürgen Jung, Helga Anders, Renate Grosser, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Roger Fritz,

Just released from a youth detention center, Andrea (Helga Anders) is wooed by her boss' son and finds herself in a love triangle that defies the moral and social norms of the time in more ways than one.

Actors : Magali Noël, Sara Montiel, Giancarlo Del Duca, Fernand Gravey,
Directors : Ladislao Vajda,

Isabel is a beautiful singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck. After serving time in prison for a crime she did not commit, she lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona ...

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Jacqueline Vandal, Aleka Stratigou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-island, which the young man inherited, to a wealthy american. But the young man falls in love with the american's daughter and...

Actors : Joan O'Brien, Ziva Rodann, Gilbert Roland, George Montgomery,
Directors : George Montgomery,

George Montgomery plays a cynical doctor that is taken to prison at Samar island because his political opinions. The commander (Gilbert Roland) is waiting for his own doctor, that is ...

Actors : Hie Mun, Yeong-gyun Shin,

A man, recently released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, finds that his wife does not welcome him and his daughter is being treated as a servant by his brother.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Anita Sanders, John Cassavetes, Nikos Kourkoulos,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

A professional holdup man with scruples has a young ambitious partner who covets his wife and his life. When the holdup man goes to prison, the partner cuts loose, leaving a trail of deaths behind him.