Best Prison movies

Actors : Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Renée Brack, Vince Colosimo,
Directors : Andrew Dominik,

Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.

Actors : Steve Burton, Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo,
Directors : Rod Lurie,

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against the corrupt system that put him away.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Walter Hill,

When heavyweight champion George "Iceman" Chambers lands in prison, the resident gangster arranges a boxing match with the reigning prison champ.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jude Law, Demián Bichir, Emilia Clarke,
Directors : Richard Shepard,

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Actors : Bill McKinney, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : John Malkovich, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Colm Meaney,
Directors : Simon West,

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Christina Ricci, Vincent Gallo, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Vincent Gallo,

After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Cleo King, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Actors : Caio Blat, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Enrique Diaz, Wagner Moura,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru, in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience ...

Actors : Leonor Watling, Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman,
Directors : Isabel Coixet,

A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.

Actors : Leon Rippy, Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell,
Directors : Phil Joanou,

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Actors : Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller, Ali Larter, Kim Coates,
Directors : Paul W.S. Anderson,

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Zac Efron,
Directors : Lee Daniels,

A reporter returns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Actors : Frank Coughlan, Sean Kearns, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daragh Donnelly,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

Actors : Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson, Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich,
Directors : Spike Lee,

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Queen Latifah, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy,
Directors : Adam Shankman,

When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Fisher Stevens,

A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.

Actors : Clifton James, Otis Young, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

Actors : David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint,
Directors : Vincenzo Natali,

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.