Best Prison movies

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Shawn Smith,
Directors : Thomas Rickman,

After serving time for a theft he didn't commit, all Billy wants to do is to reconnect with his daughter. However, some loose ends, like the whereabouts of the stolen loot, just won't let him go.

Actors : István Velenczei, Imre Sinkovits, József Szendrõ, Dezsö Garas,
Directors : Zoltán Fábri,

On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans. They assign the task of organizing the team to a well known Olympics football ...

Actors : Caco Ciocler, Flavio Bauraqui, Antônio Pompêo, Werner Schünemann,
Directors : Lúcia Murat,

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was ...

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Actors : Emmanuelle Seigner, Olivier Perrier, Hélène Vincent, Vincent Lindon,
Directors : Stéphane Brizé,

Alain Evrard, a trucker who has just finished serving a prison sentence, is forced to temporarily move back to his mother's house. This forced co-habitation causes all the violence of their...

Actors : Kimberley Kates, Kari Whitman, Paul Koslo, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Lloyd A. Simandl,

An innocent woman is sent to a Czech prison, where the sadistic warden and guards rape and perform bizarre sex acts on the prisoners.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, William Ostrander, Sue Kiel, Linda Blair,

An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with ...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Michal Dlouhý, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Konstantin Lavronenko,
Directors : Petr Jákl,

Deals with the most famous criminal in Czech Republic, the lawyer who continuously tries to free him; the circle of people on both sides of the law who want to keep him in jail and his infamous escape from prison.

Actors : Gabino Rodríguez, Andoni Gracia, Adrian Ladron, Hernán Mendoza,

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the ...

Actors : Abud Mustafa, Dar Salim, Stine Fischer Christensen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen,
Directors : Fenar Ahmad,

Zaid is doing time in prison, but gets a chance to get out and see his son if he assists the police.

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Raja Paranjpe, Nutan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Bimal Roy,

During the British Raj of the 1930s, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convict who eventually reveals the story of her past and her connection to a freedom fighter.

Actors : Ye-won Kang, Mun-hee Na, Yunjin Kim, Joon-myeon Park,
Directors : Dae-gyu Kang,

Female prison inmates form a choir.

Actors : Roy Cheung, Pak Fei, Sung Young Chen, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Ching is a prisoner in a Honk Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. Ching escapes to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. He surrenders ...

Actors : Annabelle Wallis, Keira Knightley, Lucy Punch, Matthew Goode,
Directors : Camille Griffin,

An extended family come together for a Christmas dinner in the country.

Actors : Maria Romano, Laura Gemser, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and ...

Actors : Peter Carsten, Antonio Cantafora, Marcella Michelangeli, Klaus Kinski,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Gary Hamilton, innocently sentenced to ten years in prison is released. When he comes out he promises himself to seek revenge on the guilty.

Actors : Nicholas Lamont, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Moss, Neil Fitzmaurice,
Directors : Jim Doyle,

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Actors : François Périer, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,

Jacques Darnay (A. Delon) is caught and convicted for stealing diamonds and murder of jeweler. Although he was not guilty, the prison has served eight years. At that time, the jewels are ...

Actors : Thomas Ian Griffith, Mark Carlton, Chris Mulkey, Mushond Lee,
Directors : Mark Griffiths,

An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general. Contains extreme violence, including torture, and...

Actors : Mikhail Mikhajlov, Vasil Vachev, Rade Markovic, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Vulo Radev,

A wife of a Bulgarian Army officer falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World war I.