Best Prison movies

Actors : Billy Murray, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest ...

Actors : Lotte Verbeek, Alison Doody, Linus Roache, Clarke Peters,
Directors : S.A. Halewood,

2039. Jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled...

Actors : Grace Glowicki, Noah Reid, Katie Boland, Sheila McCarthy,

When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on - until the deceased's son shows up at ...

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Nutan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

The PSO is a British oriented group who wants to take control of India. When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests there leader Dr. Michael Dang the authorities blast the jail...

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Viktor Stepanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Proshkin,

After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai arrive in a remote Siberian village where 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Eriq La Salle, Laurence Kinlan, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Mark Hammond,

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few ...

Actors : Shilpa Shirodkar, Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna Akkineni,
Directors : Mukul Anand,

Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's ...

Actors : Ryan Guzman, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Meadow Williams,
Directors : Brian A. Miller,

The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Clark Harris, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Daniel Steven Gonzalez,
Directors : Scott Windhauser,

Just out of prison, Billy Walker returns to El Paso to find his mom dying of liver failure but low on the transplant list. However, the border offers other, darker options.

Actors : Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Robert Day,

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices...

Actors : Robert Patrick, Nipsey Hussle, Gillie Da Kid, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Ryan Combs,

Cain, a crime king-pin sentenced to life in prison, sees his son Ricky come to jail on charges of accessory to murder, followed shortly by one of the gangsters he was charged with ...

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Amparo Noguera, Alberto Ellena, Carolina Paulsen,
Directors : David Albala,

This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.

Actors : Vincent Price, Chris Warfield, Elaine Devry, Nancy Kovack,
Directors : Reginald Le Borg,

An evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective ...

Actors : Garry Summers, Bernie Hodges, Daniel Brocklebank, Wayne Virgo,

Father Jack is imprisoned for a crime that he has committed. The inmates suspect him of paedophilia and begin to persuade his teenage cellmate of this. His true crime is confessed to a prison guard with whom Jack has fallen in love.

Actors : Jorge Rivero, Barbara Hershey, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In the early 20th century, some convicts while on a road gang escape and one of the convicts is Zach Provo, a half Indian, who was sent to prison during the latter part of the 19th century....

Actors : Martin Sacks, Erin Connor, Marty Rhone, Nathan Wilson,
Directors : Mack Lindon,

Rise is a true story about a young nurse falsely accused of rape. Stripped of his career and his freedom, Will is forced to survive maximum security jail. The film centers on an unlikely ...

Actors : Mike Bishop, David Field, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey,
Directors : John Hillcoat,

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

Actors : Roger Watkins, Kathy Curtin, Ken Fisher, Bill Schlageter,
Directors : Roger Watkins,

After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and ...