Best Prison movies

Actors : José Dumont, Nildo Parente, Glória Pires, Carlos Vereza,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Actors : Thomas Braxton Jr., Tony Todd, Jason Yee, Cung Le,
Directors : Jason Yee,

After four years Derek Wu is released from prison. Hunting for a regular job he tries to redeem his life by living clean. Then, Derek's old gang buddies turn up murdered and the police make...

Actors : Fabrizio Ferracane, Silvio Orlando, Salvatore Striano, Toni Servillo,
Directors : Leonardo di Costanzo,

The last remains of a prison, guards and a few inmates, are waiting to be transferred and gradually the rules seem to make less and less sense and the waiting men become a new fragile community.

Actors : Yunus Parvez, Shakti Kapoor, Shiva Rindani, Asrani,

Brahmdutt, a rich Steel Baron is falsely convicted in the murder of his best friend and business partner Premchand. When in prison, Brahmdutt finds out from sources that his son in law ...

Actors : Elias Koteas, Ellen Page, Kate Mara, Brian Geraghty,
Directors : Tali Shalom-Ezer,

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

Actors : Michael Cervantes, Paul Cottman, Peter Cote, Katelyn Branch,
Directors : B. Harrison Smith,

A group of teenagers inspired by a high school "Create Your Own Urban Legend" project quickly get out of hand in their desire for more "likes" and going viral with deadly consequences.

Actors : Elzbieta Kepinska, Serge Merlin, Jan Ciecierski, Alina Janowska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

Actors : Giorgos Kimoulis, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Evelina Papoulia, Mimis Chrisomalis,
Directors : Nikos Zapatinas,

A convict out of prison to visit his mother, followed by two policemen. A lunatic out of the asylum, followed by two doctors. Their meeting is the beginning of the most hilarious situations...

Actors : Ken Aguilar, Darren Dalton, Brody Docar, Siri Baruc,
Directors : Billy Lewis,

Small town, the American dream. A blue-collar family living the idyllic rural lifestyle. Nothing is out of place save for the lacking white picket fence - and the old JAIL that occupies the...

Actors : Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sophie Verbeeck, Jean-Quentin Châtelain, François Cluzet,
Directors : Jean Becker,

In a small town, crushed by the heat of summer, in 1919, a war hero was held prisoner in a deserted barracks. In front of the door, his whipped dog barks day and night. Not far away, in the...

Actors : Ivano Staccioli, Nello Riviè, Gabriele Carrara, Ria De Simone,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by ...

Actors : LisaRaye McCoy, Michael A. Goorjian, Pras Michel, Bobby Brown,
Directors : Jean-Claude La Marre,

Two friends purchase a winning lottery ticket, only to have it stolen by a Woman while she is robbing the cafe in which they are having lunch. The Woman is caught and sent to prison, having...

Actors : Berkay Ates, Saadet Aksoy, Füsun Demirel, Ipek Türktan,
Directors : Serhat Karaaslan,

In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Anna Thalbach, Thomas Heinze, Mathias Gnädinger,
Directors : Hans W. Geissendörfer,

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...

Actors : Ginette Gaskin, Vicki Rivard, Aiden Simko, Allen Bergeron,
Directors : Chris Abell,

In an underground prison an inmate escapes during a riot. One year later, a group of friends set out to locate an old hermit shack. Their worst nightmares are revealed when they spawn an evil darkness within the escaped prisoner.

Actors : Alexandre Etzlinger, Sabine Timoteo, Christophe Sermet, Roy Dupuis,
Directors : Séverine Cornamusaz,

A young hopeful teenager is waiting for his unknown and fantasized father to come out of prison. His family dream life is seriously undermined by an exhausted mother and a man who, after so...

Actors : Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Krisada Supapprom,
Directors : Kongkiat Khomsiri,

Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this ...

Actors : Gianni Rizzo, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Nicoletta Machiavelli,
Directors : Sergio Citti,

Rome, 1850. In prison, two young men, Bernardino and Mammone, condemned for murder wait their own death penalty to be executed, and pass their last hours telling each other lust and ...

Actors : Saïd Taghmaoui, Camille De Pazzis, Alexis Loret, Bruno Salomone,
Directors : Patrick Levy,

Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.

Actors : Stephanie Ann Smith, Barbara Niven, Wendi Westbrook, Taylor Leigh,
Directors : Henri Charr,

An FBI agent goes undercover in a women's prison to find evidence hidden by a drug dealer's ex-girlfriend. After she is taken off the case, she finds that the drug dealer has kidnapped her ...