Best Prison movies

Actors : Anthony Quinn, Paloma Gómez, Jorge Sanz, Saturno Cerra,
Directors : Antonio José Betancor,

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, ...

Actors : Gildor Roy, Brigitte Paquette, Sabrina Boudot, Jean-Guy Bouchard,
Directors : Robert Morin,

The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.

Actors : Andrew W. Walker, Courtney Gains, Ernie Hudson, Abraham Benrubi,
Directors : Dustin Rikert,

U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.

Actors : Julia Brendler, Pit Bukowski, Edin Hasanovic, Marc Benjamin Puch,
Directors : Lars-Gunnar Lotz,

In a project with the concept of open-prison, Benjamin is given the unique chance of a new beginning. As one of seven juvenile offenders he should adopt social skills and experience ...

Actors : Sumiko Mikami, Toshiyuki Sugihara, Shigeru Bokuda, Shunsuke Sawada,
Directors : Kazuyoshi Kumakiri,

While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and ...

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 : Sergey Bondarchuk, Giovanna Ralli, Peter Baldwin, Leo Genn,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.

Actors : Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Frank McDonald,

In 1875 a murderous outlaw gang breaks criminals from jail, uses them to help in crimes, and then kills them for the reward, when it goes high enough.

Actors : Luca Argentero, Cristiana Dell'Anna, Francesco Acquaroli,
Directors : Domenico de Feudis,

Sante Moras is a former police officer who works as a prison guard in Sardinia. His life takes a dramatic turn when he is wrongfully accused of the murder of Virdis, an inmate convicted of torturing and killing a 15-year-old girl, whose body bore a symbol known as the "devil's tail." After finding Virdis dead during his shift, Sante realizes he has been framed and decides to flee to prove his innocence. During his escape, he is pursued by Commissioner Tommaso Lago and finds support in investigative journalist Fabiana Lai, who is investigating a mysterious ring of missing girls. Together, they uncover that behind the murder lies a much larger and more dangerous criminal organization involved in human trafficking. As Sante seeks to uncover the truth and clear his name, he must also confront the imminent danger that other girls could become victims of the same criminal network.

Actors : Philip Kenneally, John Dullaghan, John Dennis, Duncan McLeod,
Directors : John Hayes,

Convicts on a chain gang sniff experimental formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break, are shot down by the guards and buried in the prison garden. Soon, they rise from ...

Actors : John Savage, Luana Anders, Ann Sothern, Ruth Roman,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem...

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Ajay Jadeja, Celina Jaitly, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Yusuf Khan,

Two friends falling in love with the same girl leads to murder and intrigue.

Actors : Jess Hahn, Ambroise Bia, Philippe Nicaud, Omar Sharif,

A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. They encounter a castaway, pirates, and captain Nemo with his ...

Actors : Minissha Lamba, Anusha Dhandekar, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Raj Kaushal,

Two men, an assassin and his victim is a small time crook and a question lies between the men is WHO IS ANTHONY?

Actors : David Hayman, Sean Scanlan, Alex Norton, Jake D'Arcy,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.

Actors : Youssef Dawood, Adel Imam, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.

Actors : Zachary Laoutides, Madrid St. Angelo, Emmanuel Isaac, Ric Morgan,

Inspired by real events a day of reckoning approaches for Rory, a rising Irish-Mexican street gang member, when his trusted life-long friend Eloy, is released from prison.

Actors : Diego París, Fabia Castro, Mario Mayo,
Directors : Kike Narcea,

Gabriel is a former boxer who lives in a village removed from the city with his father and his dog, Pepe. Everyone knows him by the nickname of Tarado, which he earned in his days as a boxer and, although he could still box, he prefers to lead a quiet life away from everything that led him to spend a few years in prison. For this, he has made several decisions such as leaving his longtime girlfriend, La Mónica, who was a bad influence to start from scratch. But old ghosts always come back, and Tarado will have to deal with the situation the way he knows best: fight.

Actors : Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka, Chieko Matsubara, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Takumi Furukawa,

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

Actors : Rannvijay Singh, Tanvi Azmi, Raghuvir Yadav, Ayesha Takia,
Directors : Nagesh Kukunoor,

A woman falls for a male she believes is her class-mate until she finds out that he is an unknown and unstable inmate from a mental institute.