Best Prison movies

Actors : Alexandra Bastedo, John Hurt, Peter Cushing, Gwen Watford,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Marcin Dorocinski, Cezary Pazura, Jan Frycz,
Directors : Wladyslaw Pasikowski,

Franz Maurer is released after 25 years in prison and finds a completely changed Poland.

Actors : Isabella Ferrari, Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Alina Nedelea,
Directors : Michele Soavi,

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle...

Actors : John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Michael J. Pollard, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

Actors : Columbus Short, Bruce Dern, Kaiwi Lyman, Denise Richards,
Directors : Timothy Woodward Jr.,

Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Amanda Tyler, has an opportunity to interview and analyze death row inmate Jackson Shea. As the interview...

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Tomorô Taguchi, Akira Emoto, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with ...

Actors : Billy Zane, Gianni Capaldi, Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones,

Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his...

Actors : Erik Griffin, Melissa Leo, Edgar Ramírez, Tessa Thompson,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.

Actors : Robert Knepper, Fahad Salem, Adwa Bader, Ahmed Kaabi,
Directors : Abdullah Majed,

Three friends who are behind bars after a failed robbery, in their attempt to escape from prison, end up in a film financed by a wealthy Saudi magnate about the story of his family, which is set in the same places where they tried to rob.

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, George Chakiris,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Actors : Gilles Marini, Cody Kasch, Brett Cullen, Ryan Merriman,
Directors : Eric Colley,

World War II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Actors : J.J. Cohen, Jon Polito, Virginia Madsen, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Duncan Gibbins,

A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Elsa Martinelli, Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.

Actors : Brandon Stacy, Chriss Anglin, Bay Bruner, Griff Furst,
Directors : Peter Mervis,

After killing four persons in his home with a shotgun, Dee Travis claims that he had accidentally ingested an experimental biotoxin that the company Blackthorn where he worked was ...

Actors : Ann Michelle, Patrick Barr, Barbara Markham, Ray Brooks,
Directors : Pete Walker,

An old man who lives in an old house conducts a correctional institute for girls. But he does not realize that the date is the present as he's been cooped up in the house. He is assisted by...

Actors : Emma Spurgin Hussey, Tim Cartwright, Reece Connolly, Richard Rowden,
Directors : Charlie Steeds,

When the remains of two murdered Princes are discovered at the Tower of London, a troubled Priest must put his beliefs aside to befriend a mysterious prisoner, who has supernatural powers ...

Actors : RJ Balaji, Karthi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shraddha Srinath,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Set during the Kargil War, fighter pilot Varun recalls his romance with Leela while being held prisoner in Pakistan.

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.