Best Prison movies of 2000s

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 : 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 : Mark Parra, Mystikal, Lorenzo Lamas, Ashley Tucker,
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 ...

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 : Sofia Helin, Reine Brynolfsson, Liam Norberg, Mats Helin,
Directors : Daniel Fridell,

30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.

Actors : Andreas Wilson, Diogo Infante, Emma Griffiths Malin, Ed Stoppard,
Directors : Rose Bosch,

Thomas, a brilliant young geneticist, has focused too much on his research and is in danger of being fired. In order to prove the validity of this work, he needs a human subject.

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 : Asad Farr, David A.R. White, John Gilbert, Kevin Downes,
Directors : Wes Llewellyn,

After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David White) reunites with his friend and mentor Jacob Krause (Brad Heller) leader of The Way, and his small remnant of ...

Actors : Minissha Lamba, Anusha Dhandekar, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Raj Kaushal,

Two men, an assassin and his victim is a small time crook and a question lies between the men is WHO IS ANTHONY?

Actors : Rongcai Fu, Chao Ji, Dan Liu, Shudi Liu,
Directors : Yi'nan Diao,

Wu Hongyan is a young woman working as a prison guard during executions of female convicts. She feels lonely after her husband died, and she takes a night train to another city to visit a ...

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 : Alex A. Quinn, Candise Lakota, Jessie Camacho, José Solano,
Directors : Daniel Zirilli,

A terrifying horror within the walls of the infamous Alcatraz Prison. The last film ever shot on The Rock!

Actors : Dylan Duffus, Orhan Whyte, Yohance Watson, Duncan Tobias,
Directors : Penny Woolcock,

1 Day follows 24 hours in the life of Flash, an inner-city hustler who's day steadily gets worse when he finds out local gang leader Angel is being released from prison and wants his £500k he left with him for safekeeping.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Tony Danza, Dayanara Torres, William Forsythe,
Directors : James Quattrochi,

After spending 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident, heavy-weight boxer Joey Nardone returns to a solitary life in Philadelphia. His time in prison and the opportunity to reflect ...

Actors : Denise Weinberg, Lee Taylor, Eucir de Souza, Andrea Beltrão,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

The widow piano teacher Lúcia and her unemployed teenage son Rafa move to a poor neighborhood in the periphery of São Paulo after the bankrupting of her pension plan. Rafa a.k.a. Pilot ...

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 : Andrzej Chyra, Marian Dziedziel, Jerzy Trela, Piotr Adamczyk,
Directors : Jan Hryniak,

Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Nicola Stapleton,
Directors : Metin Hüseyin,

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild, James Black, Burgess Jenkins,
Directors : Bart Patton,

Dramatisation of Harold Morris's book based on his own life as a racist who is falsely imprisoned, but turns his life around, becoming friends with a black man and winning an humanitarian award.

Actors : Ivan Brkic, Milan Plestina, Milivoj Beader, Ljubo Zecevic,
Directors : Dejan Acimovic,

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.