Best Prison movies of 2000s

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 : 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 : Fernanda Espíndola, Matt Wiggins, Amy Wehrell, Michael Weiss,
Directors : Hari Mahesh,

Jack is waiting for his sweatheart (Rusty), his entire life. Rusty is in prison for life. Will their Love make it?

Actors : Scott Brown, Steve Reaser, Jackamoe Buzzell, Gerrence George,

Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental ...

Actors : János Derzsi, Tamás Ravasz, Andrea Nagy, Lukács Bicskey,
Directors : Viktor Oszkar Nagy,

How a father returns to his son after a long period in prison. Anxious to be reconciled with his child - who reproaches him for his absence (the mother having died in the interim) - the ...

Actors : Marisa Solinas, Margherita Buy, Nicolò Rapisarda, Arnaud Arbessier,
Directors : Roberto Petrocchi,

Roberto Petrocchi directs this period drama set in the late 1800s. Capt. Eugenio (Arnaud Arbessier) arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one ...

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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : János Derzsi, Stefania Rivi, Adriano Giannini, 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 : Cochin Hanifa, Meera Jasmine, Salim Kumar, Dileep,
Directors : Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas,

Shivani's only hope of escape from her home prison is Ramesan.

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 : 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 : 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 : Jung-ki Kim, Seok-Hwan An, Il-hwa Choi, Dong-yeob Ko,
Directors : Ki-Seon Hong,

The movie is based upon the true story of Kim Seon-myung, a communist who steadfastly refuses to recant his beliefs and becomes the world's longest-serving political prisoner of conscience ...

Actors : Stephanie Acosta, Nova Aragon, Evie A. Armstrong, Vivian Brown,
Directors : Pablo Veliz,

Danny Ortega is imprisoned for a crime of justice at a very young age. After 17 years in prison, he returns to his town of Houston to find that crime and drugs have overturned what he once ...

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 : Jonathan Uziel, Arik Mishali, Liron Levo, Sharon Alexander,
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 : 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 ...