Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Karen Black,
Directors : Rob Zombie,

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Actors : James Frain, Gary Sinise, Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

Actors : Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy,

When petty thief Cosimo is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison - the kind of job you dream about - he has to get out of jail, fast. But with Cosimo stuck in the ...

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Ryan Simpkins, Michelle Hurst, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.

Actors : Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Gerard Butler, Ludacris,

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he?

Actors : Ice Cube, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Mike Epps,
Directors : Steve Carr,

Uncle Elroy and Day Day owe money on taxes so Craig finds a way to steal from the next door neighbors to pay off the taxes so Uncle Elroy's house doesn't get put up for auction.

Actors : David Kelly, David Hemmings, Ralph Brown, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Barry Skolnick,

A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allie Mickelson,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Actors : Velizar Binev, David Chandler, David Arquette, Michael Stuhlbarg,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Kevin Spacey, Chris Klein, Ryan Gosling,
Directors : Matthew Ryan Hoge,

A young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives.

Actors : Nathan Jones, Steve Austin, Robert Mammone, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Scott Wiper,

Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

Actors : John Cena, Steve Harris, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.

Actors : David Thewlis, Malcolm McDowell, Saffron Burrows, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

Actors : Peter Mullan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, Colin Firth,
Directors : Doug Lefler,

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Actors : Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Christopher Plummer, Gerard Butler,
Directors : Patrick Lussier,

A group of thieves break into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Danny Trejo, Mark Boone Junior, Edward Furlong,
Directors : Steve Buscemi,

A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Ed Solomon,

The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to ...

Actors : Jessica Stroup, Scott Porter, Brittany Snow, Dana Davis,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Actors : Ja Rule, Steven Seagal, Matt Battaglia, Morris Chestnut,
Directors : Don Michael Paul,

This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.