Best Prison movies of 1980s

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 : Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Maria Martika, Eirini Inglesi,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of ...

Actors : Clayton Rohner, Anthony Perkins, Lyle Alzado, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Robert Kirk,

A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of ...

Actors : Maria Romano, Laura Gemser, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to...

Actors : Vikas Anand, Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Amitabh Bachchan, Bharat Bhushan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

After learning a few magical tricks from his fellow inmate former businessman and ex-jail convict assume the identity of an ascetic named Mahaprabhu Jagatsagar Chintamani so that he can ...

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Actors : Toni Basil, Donna Denton, Nicholas Celozzi, Tom Reilly,
Directors : Dimitri Logothetis,

A man visits Alcatraz prison after having dreams about all the people who died there. When he gets there, his brother is possessed by an envil cannibal demon. The ghost of a female heavy ...

Actors : Suzane Carvalho, Gloria Cristal, Rossana Ghessa, Henri Pagnoncelli,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in a Brazilian prison. Whilst there she is brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison ...

Actors : Mr. T, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.

Actors : Sandy Brooke, Marya Gant, Ross Hagen, Suzy Stokey,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.

Actors : West Buchanan, Robert Carradine, Harold Bradley, Tony Carroll,
Directors : Robert Boris,

Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the ...

Actors : James Woods, Tim McIntire, Robert Hooks, Kay Lenz,
Directors : James B. Harris,

A corrupt prison guard becomes involved in a plot to murder a black revolutionary serving time in his prison.

Actors : Paloma Gómez, Anthony Quinn, Jorge Sanz, Saturno Cerra,
Directors : Antonio José Betancor,

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, ...

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Steve Antin, Anthony Geary, Ric Mancini,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.

Actors : Andrey Tashkov, Anton Androsov, Lev Durov, Aleksandr Mokhov,
Directors : Igor Gostev,

A drama from the life of the prisoners in a regular jail in Soviet Union.

Actors : Snezana Bogdanovic, Bozidar Bunjevac, Slobodan Custic, Branko Djuric,
Directors : Ademir Kenovic,

After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by...

Actors : June Barrett, Jill St. John, BarBara Luna, Tracey E. Bregman,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

When her slimy boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth (Tracy Bregman) to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a ...

Actors : Youssef Dawood, Adel Imam, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a twelve-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too, a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, ...