Best Prison movies

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Rea, Ray Liotta,
Directors : Tim Hunter,

A sociopath on death row is given a chance to live if he agrees to take part in a chemical behavioral modification program.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Tom Sizemore, Héctor Jiménez, Kevin P. Farley,
Directors : Jesse Baget,

Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden ...

Actors : Michael Welch, Shelby Young, Alexandria DeBerry, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Phil Wurtzel,

While serving her prison sentence, a woman discovers a horrifying VHS tape with footage from a crime committed years prior.

Actors : Ramana, George Maryan, Karthi, Narain,
Directors : Lokesh Kanagaraj,

A recently released prisoner becomes involved in a chase with criminals as he races against time to drive poisoned cops to hospital in exchange for meeting his daughter.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Warren Oates,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats,
Directors : Peter Yates,

After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.

Actors : Steven Williams, Chuck Norris, Bennett Ohta, Soon-Tek Oh,
Directors : Lance Hool,

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Actors : Greg Sevigny, Edward Furlong, John Boylan, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Martin Bell,

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Naseeruddin Shah, Raveena Tandon,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

Journalist Roma Singh is the daughter of a jailer. While taking a tour of the jail, she is molested by some of the inmates, and an inmate, Vishal Agnihotri comes to her assistance. She ...

Actors : Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, David O'Hara,
Directors : Terry George,

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ...

Actors : Nana Patekar, Revathy, Yashpal Sharma, Mohan Agashe,
Directors : Shimit Amin,

An honest cop named Sadhu Agashe makes a name for himself by killing criminals in sting operations instead of locking them up in prison. The film follows his method of working, gives an ...

Actors : Simona Maicanescu, Lambert Wilson, Dominique Pinon, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Marc Caro,

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien ...

Actors : Clark Bartram, Damion Poitier, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Sandy Collora,
Directors : Sandy Collora,

The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner...

Actors : Parker Posey, Bruce Dern, Paul Levesque, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Artie Mandelberg,

A man is released from prison after serving a long time for killing a man who tried to kill his best friend. Once out, he just wants to live a normal life, but his best friend immediately gets him into a new heap of serious troubles.

Actors : Steve Austin, Michael Paré, Steven Seagal, Ian Robison,
Directors : Keoni Waxman,

When former black ops operative Cross (Seagal) and his partner Manning (Austin) are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners....

Actors : Robert Williams, Regina Williams, Ry'nesia Chambers, Andrew Bleechington,
Directors : Antonio Méndez Esparza,

Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Actors : Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham, Vincent Craig Dupree,
Directors : Stephen Milburn Anderson,

A man is sent to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop crime but his son has now followed the criminal path of his father.

Actors : Fredrik Grøndahl, Trine Dyrholm, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Marchal, Olivia Bonamy, Francis Renaud,
Directors : Olivier Marchal,

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.