Best Prison movies

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.

Actors : Eyad Nassar, Karim Abdel Aziz, Hind Sabri, Nelly Karim,
Directors : Marwan Hamed,

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down, he prophesies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Anna Castillo, Hong Xa-bin, Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Je-hoon, José Garcia, Mario Casas,
Directors : Rodrigo Cortés, Lee Jong-pil,

Follows the struggles of a North Korean sergeant who is chased by a ruthless major after he defects.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charlie MacGechan, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Christopher Abbott, Matilda Firth, 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 : John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Michael Imperioli, Nick Sandow,
Directors : Bruno de Almeida,

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is ...

Actors : Alyson Gorske, Kio Cyr, Angel Prater,
Directors : Brandon Christensen,

The Puppeteer, a convicted murderer on death row, has always maintained his innocence, claiming that it was an evil force that controlled his body as he slaughtered his victims.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Roger Young,

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Emabassy to steal millions in gems.

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 : Ozan Bilen, Füsun Demirel, Güzin Özipek, Nur Sürer,
Directors : Tunç Basaran,

Baris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.

Actors : Yilmaz Erdogan, Monica Bellucci, Behrouz Vossoughi, Caner Cindoruk,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

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 : Patrick Bergin, Christina Andrew, Hannah Blamires, Bhrina Bache,
Directors : Ray Burdis,

The true-life story of Paul Ferris.

Actors : James Barrington, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Sorbo,
Directors : Timothy A. Chey,

Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning conclusion.

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.

Actors : Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, Linjie Hao, Haizhe Jin,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Actors : Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Allari Naresh, Harish Uthaman, Priyadarshi,
Directors : Vijay Kanakamedala,

Revolving around undertrial prisoners who languish in jails while awaiting a judgement, the movie follows Surya Prakash who gets caught in a similar situation while being on trial for the murder of a powerful man.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Djimon Hounsou, Gérard Lanvin, José Garcia,

It is the story of two types: Moltes a criminal in prison and Reggio one of the guards. Crazy adventures happen when following a winner ticket to Africa, they competes in a rally and are chased by the Turk, a sworn enemy of Moltes.

Actors : Aubin Bradley, Eddie Beveridge, Kaye Tuckerman, Timothy J. Alex,
Directors : Michael Morrissey,

A female serial killer escapes from prison to go after the one victim that got away.