Best Prison movies of 1980s

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 : Haldun Ergüvenç, Müjde Ar, Tarik Tarcan, Ayse Demirel,
Directors : Yavuz Turgul,

A victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.

Actors : Gregory Scott Cummins, Elizabeth Hicks, Sydney Coale, Kascha,
Directors : Bill Milling,

Discontent leads to a daring escape plan in a women's prison where the inmates are all lingerie clad models and the lesbian warden demands unusual favours for early parole.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Beano, Darwyn Carson, John McCafferty, Robyn Blythe,
Directors : Mark Pirro,

Chuck Toedan's the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes ...

Actors : Dino Paskas, Dana Lis Mason, Dennis Cole, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : John Saxon,

A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.

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 : 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 : 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 : Anthony Quinn, Paloma Gómez, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : José Dumont, Nildo Parente, Glória Pires, Carlos Vereza,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Actors : Yunus Parvez, Shakti Kapoor, Shiva Rindani, Asrani,

Brahmdutt, a rich Steel Baron is falsely convicted in the murder of his best friend and business partner Premchand. When in prison, Brahmdutt finds out from sources that his son in law ...