Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Frank Senger, Mickey Rourke, Adrien Brody, John Enos III,
Directors : Julien Temple,

Butch "Bullet" Stein is a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn, is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank, and is soon right ...

Actors : Greg Sevigny, Edward Furlong, John Boylan, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Martin Bell,

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Naseeruddin Shah, Raveena Tandon,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

Journalist Roma Singh is the daughter of a jailer. While taking a tour of the jail, she is molested by some of the inmates, and an inmate, Vishal Agnihotri comes to her assistance. She ...

Actors : Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, David O'Hara,
Directors : Terry George,

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ...

Actors : Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham, Vincent Craig Dupree,
Directors : Stephen Milburn Anderson,

A man is sent to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop crime but his son has now followed the criminal path of his father.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Kôji Yakusho, Akira Emoto, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Actors : John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Michael Imperioli, Nick Sandow,
Directors : Bruno de Almeida,

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is ...

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Kristian Alfonso, George Segal, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Vic Armstrong,

A framed prison escapee unknowingly kidnaps a female cop en-route to a rendezvous with the corrupt cop who put him behind bars.

Actors : Charlie Sheen, Marlon Brando, Thomas Haden Church, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

Walrus-like warden, Sven "Swede" Sorenson, a cross between Bluto and Wimpy, runs the prison, murders convicts who escape, and has the FBI on his trail in the form of agent Karen Polarski, ...

Actors : Robert Greenberg, James Le Gros, Rodney Harvey, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

A trashy teen murders her sexually abusive step-father, then helps get her reformed prison pen-pal released on good behavior so that she can re-corrupt him.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A lawyer assigned to the clemency case of a woman on death row finds himself forming a deep friendship with her while he tries to prevent her impending execution.

Actors : Aubert Pallascio, Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Jason Cadieux,
Directors : John Greyson,

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what ...

Actors : Dean Cain, Andy Dick, Mitchell Whitfield, Sean Patrick Flanery,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

The film opens with 4 tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his ...

Actors : David Alan Grier, Vincent Gallo, María Celedonio, Natasha Lyonne,
Directors : Matthew Bright,

A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale.

Actors : Richard T. Jones, De'aundre Bonds, Gabriel Casseus, Master P,
Directors : John Luessenhop,

Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Kurtwood Smith, Gene Hackman, Terry O'Quinn, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

A retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians.

Actors : Thorsten Flinck, Ray Jones IV, Malou Bergman, Liam Norberg,

Convicts return to life of crime after release from prison.

Actors : Siobhan Redmond, Julia Ormond, Keith Allen, Tim Roth,
Directors : Angela Pope,

A beautiful young dentist (Ormond) working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate (Roth) after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit ...

Actors : James Woods, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Tim Metcalfe,

Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him ...