Best Prison movies

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Sarah Roemer, Jake Muxworthy, Travis Van Winkle, Mark Rolston,
Directors : David R. Ellis,

Six college students discover their dorm was once an insane asylum that conducted gruesome lobotomies on its teenage inmates during the 1930's.

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 ...

Actors : Dean Cain, Andy Dick, Mitchell Whitfield, Sean Patrick Flanery,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

The film opens with 4 tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his ...

Actors : Kate Walsh, Eva Longoria, Tom Arnold, Sean Bean,
Directors : Rustam Branaman,

An ex-fighter finds redemption from his troubled past.

Actors : Parinaz Izadyar, Mani Haghighi, Setareh Pesyani, Navid Mohammadzadeh,
Directors : Nima Javidi,

A prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Colonel Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Tasos Antoniou,
Directors : Panos H. Koutras,

George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There...

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Actors : Aubert Pallascio, Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Jason Cadieux,
Directors : John Greyson,

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what ...

Actors : Robert Wieckiewicz, Józef Paleczka, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Gralek,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous...

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Rashad Evans, Tony Schiena, Dwier Brown, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Daniel Zirilli,

Danny, a respected cop, is setup after an investigation goes wrong. While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit. ...

Actors : Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and ...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Gastone Moschin, Frank Wolff, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : David Alan Grier, María Celedonio, Vincent Gallo, Natasha Lyonne,
Directors : Matthew Bright,

A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale.