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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Julio Chávez, Luis Machín, Soledad Villamil, Agostina Lage,
Directors : Israel Adrián Caetano,

Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of ...

Actors : Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Mark Leonard Winter,
Directors : Craig Monahan,

Inspired by true events, HEALING is a story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit - in the most unlikely place for the most unlikely men.

Actors : Emile Hirsch, Jake Manley, Graham Patrick Martin, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow,
Directors : Brian Skiba,

Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker who's trying to save his kidnapped wife from a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes from police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense cop to reclaim his prisoner.

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 : Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Peter Ustinov, Bob Newhart,
Directors : Eric Till,

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.

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 : Capucine, Ugo Bologna, Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

During the 1920s France, con-men Philip and Felice escape prison and join forces to swindle Philip's rich ex-wife Belle.

Actors : Gippy Grewal, Diana Penty, Farhan Akhtar, Ronit Roy,
Directors : Ranjit Tiwari,

When an innocent man aspiring to be a musician is framed for committing a murder, he decides to form a music band with his co-prisoners for a competition, but his real intention seems to be different.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.