Best Prison movies

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 : Stacy Keach, Héctor Jiménez, Kevin P. Farley, Tom Sizemore,
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, Cary Elwes, Alexandria DeBerry,
Directors : Phil Wurtzel,

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

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 : Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta, Chuck Norris, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Anupam Kher, Ravi Teja, Gayatri Bhardwaj,
Directors : Vamsee,

A legendary real-life robber of Stuartpuram, Andhra Pradesh called Tiger Nageswara Rao in the 1970s, who was noted for his ingenious ways of evading the police and prison.

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 : 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 : Abbie Cornish, Moon Bloodgood, Laz Alonso,
Directors : Felipe Mucci,

A woman wakes up in a police interrogation room with no memory of the night prior. However, something does not seem quite right in this police station.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Charlie MacGechan, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Christopher Abbott, Matilda Firth, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Julia Garner,
Directors : Lior Geller, Leigh Whannell,

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Kôji Yakusho, Akira Emoto, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.