Best Prison movies of 2010s

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Omar J. Dorsey, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Matthew Cook,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

Actors : Sheri Moon Zombie, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Jeff Daniel Phillips,
Directors : Rob Zombie,

After barely surviving prison, the demented Firefly clan go on the run, unleashing a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

Actors : Slim Twig, Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Matthew Morales,
Directors : Kim Chapiron,

Three juvenile delinquents are sentenced to a correctional facility where they encounter gang violence, death, and harassment from staff and other inmates.

Actors : Jesús Ochoa, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mel Gibson, Kevin Balmore,
Directors : Adrian Grunberg,

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.

Actors : Vanessa Grasse, Sam Strike, Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor,

A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.

Actors : Nicolas Duvauchelle, Stéfi Celma, Alban Lenoir, Ramzy Bedia,
Directors : Guillaume Pierret,

A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.

Actors : Scott Adkins, Thomas Turgoose, Craig Fairbrass, Nick Moran,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

After years of assaults on him in prison, Cain escapes for avengement on those responsible.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Actors : Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Edwina Findley Dickerson, Lorraine Toussaint,
Directors : Ava DuVernay,

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

Actors : Archie Alemania, Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Soliman Cruz,
Directors : Lav Diaz,

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.

Actors : Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Luke Forbes, Natalie Paul,
Directors : Matt Ruskin,

When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.

Actors : Olivier Martinez, Joanne Whalley, Jim Caviezel, James Faulkner,
Directors : Andrew Hyatt,

The story covers Paul going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle.

Actors : Joe Cole, Panya Yimmumphai, Nicolas Shake, Vithaya Pansringarm,
Directors : Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Actors : Dragomir Mrsic, Matias Varela, Fares Fares, Joel Kinnaman,
Directors : Babak Najafi,

JW (Joel Kinnaman, Robocop, The Killing), the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler in Easy Money, is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an...

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, Ruth Negga, A.C. Peterson,
Directors : David Weaver,

After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.

Actors : Alicia Vikander, Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Kerkvliet,
Directors : Julius Avery,

JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch's gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.

Actors : Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Ethan Hawke,
Directors : Michael Almereyda,

A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang. A drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures.

Actors : Robert Forster, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jacki Weaver, Molly Parker,
Directors : E.L. Katz,

A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder - returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.

Actors : Piolo Pascual, Joey Marquez, Joel Torre, Gerald Anderson,
Directors : Erik Matti,

Filipino crime thriller inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.

Actors : Rossif Sutherland, David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Luke Wilson,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.