Best Prison movies

Actors : Burt Young, Joe Manganiello, Sofía Vergara, Denis O'Hare,
Directors : Raymond De Felitta,

After serving 17 years in prison for a violent mistake he made in his youth, a once-aspiring baseball player returns to his Bronx neighborhood.

Actors : Sharon Gans, Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.

Actors : Haviland Morris, Griffin Dunne, John McMartin, Madonna,
Directors : James Foley,

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

Actors : Andrés Gertrúdix, Javier Gutiérrez, Karra Elejalde, Luis Callejo,
Directors : Lluís Quílez,

On a lonely road, a prison transport is brutally assaulted. Martin, the policeman who was driving, survives and fortifies his position while the con men search for a way to finish him.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Cameron Monaghan, Frank Grillo, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Anna Gutto,

A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.

Actors : Kevin Janssens, Jan Bijvoet, Veerle Baetens, Jeroen Perceval,
Directors : Robin Pront,

A brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.

Actors : Jasmin Tabatabai, Jutta Hoffmann, Katja Riemann, Nicolette Krebitz,
Directors : Katja von Garnier,

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to...

Actors : Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, Nas, Taral Hicks, DMX,
Directors : Hype Williams,

A pair of violent Men have spiritual awakenings.

Actors : Adèle Exarchopoulos, Daphne Patakia, Noée Abita, Patrick Bouchitey,
Directors : Léa Mysius,

Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.

Actors : Jenny Seagrove, John Hannah, Julian Kostov, Amanda Abbington,
Directors : Christopher Menaul,

Based on the true story of Louisa Gould, the drama is set during World War II on the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey. Lou took in an escaped Russian POW and hid him over the war's course. ...

Actors : Kyung-gu Sol, Hye-jin Jeon, Kyoung-Young Lee, Si-wan Im,
Directors : Sung-hyun Byun,

Jae-ho has established his own rules and put all of his fellow inmates under his control in a penitentiary facility. After he meets a newly imprisoned inmate, Hyeon-soo who won't give in to...

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Marlon Brando,

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.

Actors : José Pérez, Nathan George, Don Blakely, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

A child molester sent to prison finds that criminals exact harsher justice than society.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Sarah Rowland Doroff, Martin Short, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Francis Veber,

A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Actors : Cecilia Pérez-Cervera, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : George Armitage,

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Clifton Collins Jr., Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of ...

Actors : Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman, Nomadlozi Kubheka, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

An English boy, living in Africa during World War II, through his boxing prowess, becomes a symbol of hope, in a time of war.

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeff Bridges, Suzy Amis,
Directors : Stephen Hopkins,

An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.

Actors : Keenen Ivory Wayans, Rick Cramer, Robert Kotecki, Jon Voight,
Directors : David Hogan,

A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and it's officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady.

Actors : Tom Wright, Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Nicolas Harvard,

A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.