Best Prison movies

Actors : Otis Young, Clifton James, Randy Quaid, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

Actors : Matthias Schoenaerts, KiKi Layne, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Victoria Mahoney,

Andy leads immortal warriors against a powerful enemy threatening their group. They grapple with the resurfacing of a long-lost immortal, complicating their mission to safeguard humanity.

Actors : David Hewlett, Maurice Dean Wint, Andrew Miller, Nicole de Boer,
Directors : Vincenzo Natali,

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.

Actors : James Caan, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, 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 : 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 : Gary Oldman, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds,
Directors : Ariel Vromen,

In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.

Actors : Benjamin Bratt, Robert Mammone, James Franco, Joseph Fiennes,
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 : J.E. Freeman, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern,
Directors : David Lynch,

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

Actors : Jon Bernthal, Max Greenfield, Jessy Schram, 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 : Linda Cardellini, Al Sapienza, 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 : Jon Bernthal, Viola Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sandra Bullock,
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 : Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, John P. Ryan, Joe Pantoliano,

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 : 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 : Tomasz Zietek, Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel,
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 : Tara Holt, Lane Garrison, Payman Maadi, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Peter Sattler,

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

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 : Clint Eastwood, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods, Isaiah Washington,
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 : Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, 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 : Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

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

Actors : Ben Affleck, James Frain, Gary Sinise, 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.