Best Prison movies of 1970s

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Patrick Dewaere, Yves Robert, Jacques Dufilho,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Daniel Olbrychski, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Robert Foxworth, Mark Slade, Sue Lyon,

A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who ...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Shun Domon, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Namino,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and rapes the young wife in front of her bound husband....

Actors : Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow, Jürgen Prochnow, Hans-Michael Rehberg,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life ...

Actors : Güven Sengil, Yildirim Önal, Yilmaz Güney, Ramazan Akboga,

The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are...

Actors : Rumi Aiki, Mitsuko Aoi, Noboru Andô, Hideyo Amamoto,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, a gangster gets released early - only to find that his ex-gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, bloodshed is bound to begin anew.

Actors : Jess Hahn, Ambroise Bia, Philippe Nicaud, Omar Sharif,

A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. They encounter a castaway, pirates, and captain Nemo with his ...

Actors : Philip Kenneally, John Dullaghan, John Dennis, Duncan McLeod,
Directors : John Hayes,

Convicts on a chain gang sniff experimental formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break, are shot down by the guards and buried in the prison garden. Soon, they rise from ...

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Masami Sôda, Chiyoko Kazama, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Atsushi Mihori,

After her father is exploited and killed by a yakuza gang, a tough woman, fresh out of prison, exacts her revenge over said gang with the help of three girls she met in prison.

Actors : John Savage, Luana Anders, Ann Sothern, Ruth Roman,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem...

Actors : Erna Schurer, John Steiner, Lina Polito, Sara Sperati,
Directors : Rino Di Silvestro,

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perverted and deviate troops.

Actors : Reatha Grey, Stan Kamber, Marlo Monte, Tiffany Peters,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A proud black man does time in jail where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he goes about extracting vengeance on those who put him in prison. This includes both ...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Cliff Robertson,

After losing 9 years 9 months and thirteen days to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost '...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cintia Lodetti, Cristina Lay, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is ...

Actors : David Hayman, Sean Scanlan, Alex Norton, Jake D'Arcy,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Wolfgang Preiss, Florinda Bolkan, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A just released from prison professional thief decides to do one last high-risk heist, which could settle him for life or land him behind bars again.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Peter Boyle, Rip Torn, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Actors : Vadim Glowna, Michel Galabru, Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Linda Haynes, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.