Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Cecilia Pérez-Cervera, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : George Armitage,

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Clifton Collins Jr., Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of ...

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Stephen Dorff, Nomadlozi Kubheka, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

An English boy, living in Africa during World War II, through his boxing prowess, becomes a symbol of hope, in a time of war.

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeff Bridges, Suzy Amis,
Directors : Stephen Hopkins,

An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.

Actors : Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Kotecki, Rick Cramer, Jon Voight,
Directors : David Hogan,

A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and it's officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady.

Actors : Eric Mabius, Fred Ward, Kirsten Dunst, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe,
Directors : Bharat Nalluri,

Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of.

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Syd Brisbane, Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape, and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into the modern and nihilistic life begins.

Actors : Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Rebecca Eccleston, Eileen Atkins,
Directors : Peter Medak,

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship...

Actors : Barbara Tyson, Gailard Sartain, Jim Varney, Bill Byrge,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank ...

Actors : James Woods, Michael Madsen, Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up ...

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Actors : Jake Busey, Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Dorff, Joey Lauren Adams,
Directors : Jefery Levy,

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Actors : Jay Brazeau, Matt Clark, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Martin Sheen,

Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.

Actors : Derya Alabora, Yalcin Cakmak, Güven Kiraç, Haluk Bilginer,
Directors : Zeki Demirkubuz,

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.

Actors : Manoj Bajpayee, Urmila Matondkar, Paresh Rawal, J.D. Chakravarthi,
Directors : Ram Gopal Varma,

An innocent man is embroiled in underworld after being falsely charged and sets out to punish the perpetrators who subjected his life to misery.

Actors : Kurtwood Smith, Barbara Hershey, Steve Reevis, Tom Berenger,
Directors : Tab Murphy,

A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he ...

Actors : Sonja Sohn, Lawrence Wilson, Bonz Malone, Saul Williams,
Directors : Marc Levin,

Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of ...

Actors : Mimi Rogers, James Remar, Joan Chen, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.

Actors : William McNamara, Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, Crispin Glover,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A hapless Navy grunt is assigned SP duty. The catch: he must escort a beautiful female prisoner on her way to prison for going UA. She in turn will try anything to escape.

Actors : Nancy Travis, James Le Gros, Quentin Tarantino, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Jack Baran,

Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can ...