Best Prison movies

Actors : Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, James Caan, Charlize Theron,
Directors : James Gray,

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he ...

Actors : James Franco, Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, Robert Mammone,
Directors : John Dahl,

Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Jason Patric,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.

Actors : Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, John P. Ryan,

Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.

Actors : Jon Bernthal, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis,
Directors : Nora Fingscheidt,

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Actors : Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Darlan Cunha, Rodrigo dos Santos,
Directors : Paulo Morelli,

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Actors : Jessy Schram, Jon Bernthal, Max Greenfield, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Actors : J.E. Freeman, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : David Lynch,

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Bill Pullman,
Directors : David Lynch,

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

Actors : Al Sapienza, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Josh Trank,

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Actors : Tara Holt, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Peter Sattler,

A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

Actors : Bartosz Bielenia, Tomasz Zietek, Eliza Rycembel, Aleksandra Konieczna,
Directors : Jan Komasa,

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Actors : Sheri Moon Zombie, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Karen Black,
Directors : Rob Zombie,

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?

Actors : James Frain, Gary Sinise, Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

Actors : Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy,

When petty thief Cosimo is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison - the kind of job you dream about - he has to get out of jail, fast. But with Cosimo stuck in the ...

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Ryan Simpkins, Michelle Hurst, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.

Actors : Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Gerard Butler, Ludacris,

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he?

Actors : Marsai Martin, Issa Rae, Regina Hall, Justin Hartley,
Directors : Tina Gordon,

A woman is transformed into her younger self at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.