Best Prison movies

Actors : Jon Gries, Vernon Wells, Jaime Camil, Mark Rolston,
Directors : Jeff Celentano,

Glass Jaw is the redemption story of Travis Austin, a one time champion boxer who goes to prison and loses everything. After his release, he experiences the trials and tribulations of redeeming his reputation, his belt, and his true love.

Actors : John Vernon, Tamara Dobson, Linda Blair, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where...

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

A World War II adventure, involving a group of Allied POWs, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.

Actors : Richard Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, John Sham,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Mickey Rourke, Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Christian Sesma,

After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.

Actors : Dave Legeno, Richard Brake, Darren Kent, Rupert Evans,
Directors : Alexandre Courtès,

A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A lawyer assigned to the clemency case of a woman on death row finds himself forming a deep friendship with her while he tries to prevent her impending execution.

Actors : Ni Ni, Lei Wu, Yilong Zhu,
Directors : Zhenxiang Fei, Guan Hu,

In 1942, Japanese ship Lisbon Maru with British POWs was torpedoed. Dongji fishermen saved 300+ British soldiers and protected 3 during Japanese searches.

Actors : Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, Melora Hardin, Edi Gathegi,
Directors : Aaron Fjellman,

An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.

Actors : LeVar Burton, Ethan Suplee, Danny Trejo, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Nick Lyon,

During a zombie apocalypse ,a group of survivors hide on Alcatraz Island to escape from rising zombie hordes. When their refuge is overrun, and upon hearing that a scientist may have ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Isao Hashizume, Masami Nagasawa, Yukiya Kitamura,
Directors : Miwa Nishikawa,

A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate ...

Actors : Tara Lee, Seána Kerslake, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack,
Directors : Darren Thornton,

A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Pamela Reed, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Mick Jackson,

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Actors : Sara Downing, Vincent Laresca, Val Kilmer, Christian Slater,
Directors : Predrag Antonijevic,

Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they discover the money is marked.

Actors : Reed Birney, Kelsey Lynn Stokes, Ashley Blankenship, Dave Bobb,
Directors : Jeff Lipsky,

A mother of three daughters (one died at the age of three) commits a crime of conscience and becomes radicalized in prison; she turns into an idealist run amok, determined to change her ...

Actors : Belén Rueda, Javier Rey, Aura Garrido, Manolo Solo,
Directors : Daniel Calparsoro,

A cop returns to the job. A serial killer too returns to the job.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Robert Hobbs, Steve Coogan, Garion Dowds,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Actors : Malik Berrichi, Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Nicolas Hossein,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award at ...

Actors : Joy Mathew, Aparna Gopinath, Mammootty, Saiju Kurup,
Directors : Venu Goopaalan,

Anjali, a freelance journalist meets C.K. Raghavan, an interesting inmate who's outstaying his sentence in jail for a crime he says he didn't commit. His vastly different views peak her interest and she documents his life and happenings.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again ...