Best Prison movies of 1970s

Actors : Chiu Ming Chen, Kuo-Hua Chen, Fu Hung Cheng, Barry Chan,
Directors : Fei-Chien Wu,

During the Second World War, the Japanese send in two ex-prisoners to rule over a lumberyard in occupied China with brutal methods.

Actors : Bohumil Smída, Josef Somr, Ilja Prachar, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : Dusan Klein,

Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from jail. Years ago, he sacrificed himself and confessed ...

Actors : Gilles Ségal, Peter Bonke, Jean Bollery, Jean Dautremay,
Directors : Jean-Louis Leconte,

The everyday life of an anonymous prisoner on death row. His torments, memories and suicide attempts slowly lead him towards a silent madness that the ruthless prison system will not prevent before the final act.

Actors : Bolo Yeung, Jason Pai Piao, Lung Chan, Tung-Kua Ai,
Directors : Bolo Yeung,

Two convicts get freed from prison and become lawmen in a corrupt village.

Actors : Jamshid Mashayekhi, Morteza Ahmadi, Nilufar, Ezzatollah Moghbeli,
Directors : Esmail Nooriala,

A famous singer named Eskandar who killed his cousin out of love and served 15 years in prison is released. He finds out that his nephew Sasan has impregnated his late cousin's daughter ...

Actors : Duane Hahn, Tim Ormond, Nancy Harper, Craig Cortney,
Directors : Ron Ormond,

The true story of Ed Martin, former chain gang convict who converted to Christianity in prison in 1944 and formed the HopeAglow Prison Ministries. Ron Ormond's dramatized version of Ed's ...

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 : Eleni Erimou, Manos Katrakis, Yorgos Moutsios, Nikos Kourkoulos,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

A young investigator finds out that have led rather unjustly his old sweetheart in prison on charges of the murder of her husband. Decides to again investigate the case, with the help of an...

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Helen Poon, Tony Liu, Fanny Fen-Ni,
Directors : Kang Cheng,

A probation officer tries to help a prisoner who faces harassment from corrupt guards and inmates.

Actors : Lia Flessa, Petros Zarkadis, Giorgos Stratigakis, Yannis Petrakis,
Directors : Kostas Doukas,

Two criminals escaped from prison abuse a family which takes bloody revenge later.

Actors : Stefan Stefanov, Ivan Nestorov, Kolio Donchev, Kristiyan Fokov,
Directors : Kiril Ilinchev,

Three thematically related novels. The first one is "Peter". In a room of provincial railway station, two men guard the prisoner Peter. Peter observes the life from behind the bars. Soon ...

Actors : Janne Carlsson, Viveca Dahlén, Olof Bergström, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Mats Arehn,

Maria and Leif has a relationship. Leif is a former bank robber. He makes another hit and is sentenced to prison. He urges Maria to forget him.

Actors : Jayant, Shashi Kapoor, Sujit Kumar, Jagdeep,
Directors : Prayag Raj,

Raghuvir is a career criminal, and one day he is arrested by the Police, tried in Court, and sentenced to a long prison term. Shortly thereafter, he breaks out of prison, goes to the Judge ...

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Michel Tureau, Georges Géret, Pierre Vaneck,
Directors : Daniel Moosmann,

Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which ...

Actors : Hee-ra Kim, Il-bong Yun, Shi-chan Na, Hye-kyeong Jang,
Directors : Doo-yong Lee,

So-dol, serving a prison sentence after being accused of murdering his friend, gets a 7 day leave from the prison when his mother dies. As soon as he and the guard assigned to him arrive in...

Actors : Yayoi Watanabe, Kiwako Taichi, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After eight years in prison, Takeshi's mission is a big heist from his own clan's gambling parlor.

Actors : Bárbara Rey, José Antonio Ceinos, Miguel Ángel Godó, Patricia Adriani,
Directors : Hubert Frank,

A beautiful young girl parachutes onto a remote, isolated island, and finds herself taken prisoner by a gang of criminals hiding out there.

Actors : Adem Cejvan, Ljuba Tadic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Boro Begovic,
Directors : Branimir Tori Jankovic,

The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of ...

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Franco Franchi, Gina Rovere,
Directors : Riccardo Pazzaglia,

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take...

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Anya Ormsby, Carol Locatell, Ted Cassidy,
Directors : Chris Robinson,

Four women escape from a prison and wind up stranded in a swamp with a lecherous redneck after them. Meanwhile, an federal agent tracks a ring of heroin smugglers through the same swamp.