Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Robert Lohr, Andreas Schmidt, Jule Böwe, Eva Löbau,
Directors : Iain Dilthey,

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a ...

Actors : Caia Coley, Sonia Jackson, Alyssa Lakota, Traci Swain,
Directors : Chris Armbrister,

The stories of seven inmates of The Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility (SNWCF) as they were told to writer Chuck Rounds by the inmates themselves.

Actors : James McDaniel, Saeed Jaffrey, Kevin Geer, Laura Kirk,
Directors : Kevin Willmott,

When former Wall Street executive Peter Salem is released from prison, he heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas, where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon...

Actors : Karen Jezek, Kenneth Jezek, Ann Ault, Helen Gibson,
Directors : Helen Gibson,

Based on a true story that rocked the world. An emotional journey that takes a former drug-crazed prostitute and convicted pickax killer from the depths of despair to personal triumph on Texas death row.

Actors : Abdolreza Akbari, Ali Bokaeian, Ehsan Ghasemi, Assyeh Kalani,
Directors : Mohammad-Ali Talebi,

A number of inmates from a reformatory school are scheduled for release. As a condition for their discharge, it is specified that the younger boys should live either with their families or ...

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Takis Spiridakis, Katerina Daskalaki, Stefanos Riskas,
Directors : Thodoros Maragos,

In a prison cell two lifers meet, a former truck driver and the other one a "volunteer" who entered the prison because he believes that life as an inmate prisoner is better than outside.

Actors : Paige Olson, Robert Viharo, Edwin Johnson, David Hess,
Directors : Rob Nilsson,

Certain he's been betrayed, Malafide leaves his lover and hops freights to Reno to find a Cherokee healer he met in prison named People T. Joined by a black homeless man named Johnny, they ...

Actors : Donald Cabana, Jude Cambise, Daniel Dupont, Mimi Loftus,
Directors : Steven Scaffidi,

At the beginning of our story it's 1995 and two fledgling filmmakers, Richard and Daniel, are on their way to make a documentary about life in prison. As a favor to Richard's uncle, the ...

Actors : Krishan Kumar, Satya Prakash, Master Bobby, Nagma,
Directors : Bhagyaraj,

Bobby is a young lad, who lives with his Engineer dad, Jai Prakash, and mom, Pooja. Bobby always brags to everyone as to how brave and macho his dad is. But only Jai knows that he is quite ...

Actors : Andrew Howard, Camille Coduri, Alex Reid, Geoff Bell,
Directors : Danny Hiller,

As the result of an armed robbery Mickey Ronson has served eight years in prison, leaving his wife Gemma and their child Lucy to cope on their own. As the time of Mickey's release draws ...

Actors : Stefania Rivi, Adriano Giannini, János Derzsi, Piroska Molnár,
Directors : Zoltán Kamondi,

Gabriel Ventuza lives the peaceful life of a herbalist, growing and cultivating medical herbs in Italy. One day he receives an order from his older brother who is just out of prison for one...

Actors : Bo Derek, Stewart Bick, Bruce Boxleitner, Jonathan Higgins,
Directors : Adam Weissman,

A lawyer battling addiction gets a chance to redeem her life when she is assigned to save a death-row inmate from execution.

Actors : Jonathan Uziel, Arik Mishali, Sharon Alexander, Liron Levo,
Directors : David Ben Ari,

Two weeks before Elio is released from prison, he finds out that his brother Meir was killed in a gang fight on the streets of South Tel Aviv. He now has two things that he wants to do. The...

Actors : John Vargas, Efrain Figueroa, Blanca Marsillach, Eric Steinberg,
Directors : Susanna Lo,

A group of gangsters hold a beautiful woman and her handicapped mother-in-law prisoners in their own hotel. From out of nowhere, a hurricane traps everyone and the only way to survive is to outsmart or out kill the other.

Actors : Siboney Lo, Noel Gugliemi, Rafael Pony Boy Ochoa, Manuel Skribe Garcia,
Directors : Juan Frausto,

After Spending years in prison, Pony Boy is finally returning to the world he has missed so much, his old neighborhood. A former gang member, pony is now a changed man and vows never to go ...

Actors : Walter Olkewicz, Kenneth White, Kenn Whitaker, Gabriel Jarret,
Directors : Mark J. Harris,

A walled off, "by the book" State Executioner befriends a man on death row and is humanized by the experience.

Actors : Siu-Wong Fan, Pei-Pei Cheng, Ritsuko Nagai, Phillip Ko,
Directors : Jimmy Lin,

Fu Tien-Ming is the subject of an experiment that turns him into the hero known as Shadow Mask. When his arch nemesis, Red Goddess, escapes from prison, she is determined not only to stop ...

Actors : Amancay Amend, Dolores Fonzi, Joaquín Aguila, Nazareno Altamirano,
Directors : Pablo Agüero,

Argentina during military dictatorship in the early 80s: Hoping for a new life after being released from prison, Alba takes her six-year-old son Inti with her to a remote hippie village in ...

Actors : Benjamin Laird, Michaila Skye, Bruce Novakowski, Dustin MacDougall,
Directors : Peter Kominek,

Derek Leduc (Benjamin Laird), a star goaltender for the Calgary Pronghorns, has just spent the last three years in prison for killing a rival player (Dustin MacDougall) in a hockey fight. ...

Actors : Kristian Alfonso, David Lee Rawlings, Jeff Fahey, David Alexander Johnston,
Directors : Anthony J. Christopher,

Small-town retired sheriff Frank Everly finds his life on the skids after his wife Mary is murdered by the ruthless maniac Vincent Pope. When Pope escapes from prison, Everly comes out of ...