Best Prison movies

Actors : Alan Sherlock, Jenny Lee Masterson, Declan Mills, Les Martin,
Directors : Cathal Nally,

Two petty criminal cousins receive a temporary release from prison.The film follows their misfortunes over four days.

Actors : Shakib Khan, Sadek Bacchu, Kabila, Shabnam Bubly,
Directors : Kazi Hayat,

The story of a self motivated gangstar under a political God Father and a young lady who is the prisoner of the same politician as his paramour, both fall in love and want to escape from their intolerable situation.

Actors : Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volontè, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Lee Hanee, Yoo Jae-Myung, Kim Eui-sung, Shin Jeong-geun,
Directors : Dong-hoon Choi,

The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.

Actors : José Ángel Egido, Emma Suárez, Alberto San Juan, Vicente Romero,
Directors : Manolo Matji,

A prisoner is accused of several murders.

Actors : Heo Dong-won, Dong-hwi Kim, Kim Young-min, Park Jin-young,
Directors : Seong-soo Kim,

'A Christmas Carol' is a story about a twin brother who goes to a juvenile detention center on his own to avenge the death of his twin brother.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Geneviève Robert, Rosa Palomar, Dennis Price, Andrés Resino,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.

Actors : Luciano Cazaux, Raúl Taibo, Daniel Valenzuela, Jorge Sesán,
Directors : Nacho Garassino,

The spectacular escape of seven prisoners from the prison of Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires in 1991. The inmates dug a tunnel from the prison hospital and when was about to flee, made a gruesome discovery.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Philip Casnoff, Patricia Durham, Alison Doody,
Directors : Strathford Hamilton,

After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance ...

Actors : Serge Blumental, Jean-Michel Fête, Julie Gayet, Marc Andréoni,
Directors : Laurent Bouhnik,

It's a hotel with walls in the corridor covered with striped paper, crossed like bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do ...

Actors : Rami Malek, Charlie Hunnam, Eve Hewson, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Michael Noer,

A prisoner detained on a remote island plots his escape. A remake of the 1973 film 'Papillon'.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Charles Napier, David Carradine, Todd Kimsey,
Directors : Victoria Muspratt,

Our heroine isn't having a good time. Having lost her L.A. job and walked out on her unfaithful boyfriend, she finds herself stuck in nowhere Macon County when her car and possessions are ...

Actors : Ja-Hyeon Chu, Peter Ho, Coulee Nazha, Zitao Huang,
Directors : Xixi Gao,

The movie is set during the gang wars of 1930's Shanghai. An adaptation of Shanghai Bund, the TV series.

Actors : Manuela Velasco, Joaquín Núñez, Maggie Civantos, Salva Reina,
Directors : Fernando Colomo,

Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother ...

Actors : Adiyon Dashalon, Jabari Crowder, Benny the Butcher, Marcellous Brown, Nekaya Griffith,
Directors : Amire K Reed,

A Buffalo gangster struggles to do right after being released from prison.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Stevens,

A physician Christine Allison)is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Actors : Nadira Omran, Raida Adon, Rakeen Saad, Maisa Abd Elhadi,
Directors : Mai Masri,

A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.

Actors : Tom Karr, Patricia Paul, Kathy Willets, Joel D. Wynkoop,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

Angus Lynch, a psycho, escapes from prison and hooks up with his stripper sister named Kascha. Some death ensues eventually leading Angus to cross paths with a police captain named David ...