Best Prison movies

Actors : Gary Oldman, Radha Mitchell, Mary Steenburgen, Skeet Ulrich,
Directors : David Seltzer,

An outlaw, a waitress and her misfit neighbor come upon a baby in the midst of car wreckage. With his former partner in crime out to get him, the outlaw and his new friends put their lives on the line to protect the infant from danger.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, James Coburn, Georges Géret,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union colonel attempts to redeem himself by leading a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Leïla Bekhti, Kheiron, Zabou Breitman,
Directors : Kheiron,

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

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 : Adam Faith, Billy Murray, 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 : Moe Dunford, Lorcan Cranitch, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee,

After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help...

Actors : G. Manjunath Reddy, Rajasekhar Aningi, Supriya Marla,
Directors : Shafi Vullah, Anil Derangula,

A father's blind love spoils Srinivas,who assumes forgiveness and repeats mistakes until he lands in jail. His parents die in grief.Returning home,he learns truth,reforms,serves village with sarpanch, marries, and lives on in repentance.

Actors : Mikko Leppilampi, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Jessica Grabowsky, Eero Aho,
Directors : Aku Louhimies,

Single mother name Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her news life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli come back from abroad, it open a window into her ...

Actors : Moe Dunford, Lalor Roddy, Dafhyd Flynn, Robbie Walsh,
Directors : Frank Berry,

An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison.

Actors : Simran Choudhary, Rakul Preet Singh, Nithiin, Priya Prakash Varrier,
Directors : Chandra Sekhar Yeleti,

The story of a prisoner on Death row fighting his wrongful conviction in the backdrop of Chess.

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 : Sami Bouajila, Hugo Becker, Tewfik Jallab, Mélanie Doutey,
Directors : Xavier Durringer,

A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.

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 : 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 : Dyanne Thorne, Jean-Guy Latour, Michel-René Labelle, Gilbert Beaumont,
Directors : Jean LaFleur,

Erotic adventure in Siberia.

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 : 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 : Nick Nolte, Rita Taggart, Ernie Hudson, Mark Rolston,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Actors : Robert Patrick, Nipsey Hussle, Ving Rhames, Gillie Da Kid,
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 : 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.