Best Prison movies of 2010s

Actors : Alison Brie, T.I., Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart,
Directors : Etan Cohen,

When millionaire James King is jailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to Darnell Lewis to prep him to go behind bars.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Zac Efron,
Directors : Lee Daniels,

A reporter returns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jude Law, Demián Bichir, Emilia Clarke,
Directors : Richard Shepard,

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Actors : Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates, Ali Larter,
Directors : Paul W.S. Anderson,

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Fisher Stevens,

A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.

Actors : Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Ariel Vromen,

In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.

Actors : Jessy Schram, Jon Bernthal, Max Greenfield, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Actors : Al Sapienza, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Josh Trank,

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Actors : Tara Holt, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Peter Sattler,

A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

Actors : Bartosz Bielenia, Tomasz Zietek, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel,
Directors : Jan Komasa,

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Actors : Marsai Martin, Issa Rae, Regina Hall, Justin Hartley,
Directors : Tina Gordon,

A woman is transformed into her younger self at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Andrea Berloff,

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

Actors : Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter,
Directors : Francis Annan,

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Actors : Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Common, Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : Andrea Di Stefano,

An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Randall Archer,
Directors : Marcus Dunstan,

A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as "The Collector" is then forced to help rescue an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped lair.

Actors : Todd Charmont, Urs Rechn, Levente Molnár, Géza Röhrig,
Directors : László Nemes,

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley,
Directors : Yann Demange,

The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff,
Directors : Chinonye Chukwu,

As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Actors : Steve Tientcheu, Bakary Koné, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Jean Cyrille Digbeu,
Directors : Philippe Lacôte,

A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Omar J. Dorsey, Christopher Matthew Cook, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.