Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Richard Arlen, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Francis D. Lyon,

A boy accompanies three soldiers in their escape from the enemy in Korea.

Actors : Henry Howard, Tom Lillard, Warren Finnerty, Jim Anderson,
Directors : Jonas Mekas,

A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, ...

Actors : Robert Redford, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Anita Höfer,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Herr Frick, being equal parts patriotic and lonely, keeps them as prisoners of war in his ...

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.

Actors : Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Shima Iwashita, Jôji Hosoda,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Gabriella Giorgelli, Conrado San Martín,
Directors : Florestano Vancini,

After three years of hard labor, Ted Barnett escapes from prison to seek revenge on the three men who framed him.

Actors : John Ireland, Piero Vida, Nadia Marconi, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Domenico Paolella,

After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track ...

Actors : Gastone Moschin, Raimondo Vianello, Gordon Mitchell, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A gang of prison inmates escapes and robs the Royal Mint.

Actors : Betsy Bell, Klaus Kinski, George Hilton, Ray Saunders,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

An inexperienced American lieutenant and two American prisoners are the only force standing between advancing German troops and an Italian town that was "freed" by the trio.

Actors : James Booth, Lee J. Cobb, David Janssen, Jean Seberg,
Directors : Bernard L. Kowalski,

Macho Callahan breaks out of a Confederate military prison, intent on revenge against the man responsible for his imprisonment. Unfortunately, along the way, he kills another man and that man's vengeful widow tracks down Callahan.

Actors : Woody Strode, George Eastman, Leonard Mann, Pietro Martellanza,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives,...

Actors : Bud Spencer, Franco Nero, Larry Aubrey, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

At the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Nazis.

Actors : Fabian, Adam Roarke, Jocelyn Lane, Astrid Warner,

The movie tells the biography of the gangster Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd who started his career young aged when he saw his father die and seeked out revenge by killing his murderer during a...

Actors : Jack Spencer, Jaqueline Webb, Judith Israel, Neil Flanagan,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.

Actors : John Wilder, James Brown, Robert Karnes, Walter Coy,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Matt Wade escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill, a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Billy refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with...

Actors : Merry Anders, Willard Parker, Robert Dix, Ray Stricklyn,
Directors : William F. Claxton,

In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops and their mother's arm is amputated after their home is bombed by Union people, so they go riding with ...

Actors : Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley, James Booth, Bernie Winters,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The leader of the gang plans to use this to his advantage and take control of the place through manipulation.

Actors : Jennifer Statler, Pati Magee, Pamela Perry, Jo Ann Kelly,
Directors : Barry Mahon,

Five female prisoners murder an informer, then escape through a drainpipe into the streets of New York.

Actors : Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Harp McGuire, Joan Evans,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Nick gets out of prison after serving his time for robbery, but no one ever found the stolen money, a quarter million dollars. Everyone's watching him: the police, a mobster, his girlfriend...

Actors : Jill Williams, Francis Matthews, Jack Gwillim, Basil Dignam,
Directors : Max Varnel,

An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.