Best Prison movies

Actors : Maristella Greco, Fulvio Ricciardi, Adriano Micantoni, Daniela Poggi,
Directors : Cesare Canevari,

Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron ...

Actors : Jack Kao, Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. ...

Actors : Nick Tate, Edward Fox, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan.

Actors : Johny Antony, Suresh Gopi, Saiju Kurup, Poonam Bajwa,
Directors : Jibu Jacob,

Moosa, a soldier returns home after 19 years in Jail. He finds he is presumed dead. How Moosa sets about to prove his identity while also trying to come to terms with everything that has happened around him during his time behind bars.

Actors : Kate Bell, Meg Alexandra, Raymond Bethley, Gabz Barker,
Directors : Russell Owen,

There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.

Actors : Jeremy Renner, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Tucker, Ginnifer Goodwin,
Directors : Kyle Bergersen,

A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.

Actors : Todd Farmer, Robin Sydney, Nick Principe, John Fallon,
Directors : Ravi Dhar,

John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...

Actors : Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tyrin Turner, Jacqueline Obradors, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Louis Morneau,

A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.

Actors : Atul Kulkarni, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manoj Bajpayee, Mugdha Godse,
Directors : Madhur Bhandarkar,

Remanded to policy custody, a man reviews his options in an overcrowded jail while awaiting trial.

Actors : Khaled Saleh, Mohamed Sabry, Ghada Adel, Ahmed el-Sakka,
Directors : Amr Arafa,

After spending 30 years in prison, a man comes out to find out he has a son. Together with his son and a newly-acquired friend he resumes his criminal life.

Actors : Ariadna Gil, Ricardo Darín, Miranda Bodenhofer, Abel Ayala,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

With the advent of democracy in Chile, a general amnesty for prisoners of non violent crime is enacted. Angel Santiago, a young man determined to avenge the abuse he suffered in prison, ...

Actors : Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford,
Directors : John Sturges,

In this retelling of Gunga Din (1939) transplanted to the 1870's American West, three cavalry officers and a bugler work together to thwart a Native American chief intent on uniting local tribes against the white man.

Actors : Keith David, Roy Scheider, Michael Madsen, Angie Everhart,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

A stunt driver heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.

Actors : Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean Marciano, Chris Facey, Vaz Andreas,
Directors : Gregory Lemkin,

Inmates and guards alike become trapped in a maximum security prison when they fall prey to a demonic beast that feeds on human flesh. As the creature's power multiplies with every kill, ...

Actors : Stewart Arnold, Burton Perez, Malcolm McDowell, Greg Maness,
Directors : Stefano Milla,

King Henry II tests the loyalty and honor of his son Richard sending him to a hellish prison. In prison Richard must fight against adversaries representing the virtues of a knight.

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Eduardo Mignogna,

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ...

Actors : Golab Adineh, Roya Nonahali, Roya Taymourian, Pegah Ahangarani,
Directors : Manijeh Hekmat,

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young ...

Actors : Julian Glover, Patrick Bergin, Tanya Franks, Lysette Anthony,
Directors : Sacha Bennett,

The Archer Gang are back and doing a daring heist in London. Remanded in prison, they will try to break out their old friend Briggs.

Actors : Jonathan Banks, Kelly Rowan, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Scott Ziehl,

An inmate serving time for vehicular homicide, overhears prison guards discussing plans for a murder and becomes a target himself.