Best Prison movies

Actors : Adiyon Dashalon, Jabari Crowder, Benny the Butcher, Marcellous Brown, Nekaya Griffith,
Directors : Amire K Reed,

A Buffalo gangster struggles to do right after being released from prison.

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Jino Kang, Michael Bauld, Bill Duff, Gina Beretta,
Directors : Jino Kang,

Years ago, Ken Min failed to stop his friend from killing a young couple, leaving their infant son orphaned. After his friend is sent to prison for the crime, Ken spends his life running ...

Actors : Tom Karr, Patricia Paul, Kathy Willets, Joel D. Wynkoop,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

Angus Lynch, a psycho, escapes from prison and hooks up with his stripper sister named Kascha. Some death ensues eventually leading Angus to cross paths with a police captain named David ...

Actors : Hong-pa Kim, Jae-hong Ahn, Won-hae Kim, Seong-oh Kim,
Directors : Hong-jin Mo,

Missing You is a 2016 South Korean revenge thriller film written and directed by Mo Hong-jin. It was released in South Korea on March 10, 2016. A little girl named Hee-ju who lost her father to a serial killer named Ki-bum 15 years ago awaits for his release. Ki-bum is released from prison after serving his sentence. Dae-young, a detective follows Ki-bum closely as he remains suspicious of the ...

Actors : Heo Dong-won, Dong-hwi Kim, Kim Young-min, Park Jin-young,
Directors : Seong-soo Kim,

'A Christmas Carol' is a story about a twin brother who goes to a juvenile detention center on his own to avenge the death of his twin brother.

Actors : Alan Sherlock, Jenny Lee Masterson, Declan Mills, Les Martin,
Directors : Cathal Nally,

Two petty criminal cousins receive a temporary release from prison.The film follows their misfortunes over four days.

Actors : Diane Neal, Jodelle Ferland, Melissa Marie Elias, Devon Sawa,
Directors : Mike Elliott,

The new female warden of a high-security prison faces challenges when an inmate puts up a bounty to anyone who can break him out of jail.

Actors : Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volontè, Mario Adorf, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.

Actors : Benoît Magimel, Haroun Attalah, Meriem Amiar, Reda Kateb,
Directors : Elias Belkeddar,

Omar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Marie-Sohna Condé, Carole Franck, Marie Denarnaud,
Directors : Audrey Estrougo,

In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place by helping his break-out. While she exclusively relies on him to survive in this prison setting, Mathilde has not ...

Actors : Yoo Jae-Myung, Lee Hanee, Kim Eui-sung, Shin Jeong-geun,
Directors : Dong-hoon Choi,

The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Stevens,

A physician Christine Allison)is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Actors : Serge Blumental, Jean-Michel Fête, Julie Gayet, Marc Andréoni,
Directors : Laurent Bouhnik,

It's a hotel with walls in the corridor covered with striped paper, crossed like bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do ...

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Philip Casnoff, Patricia Durham, Alison Doody,
Directors : Strathford Hamilton,

After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance ...

Actors : Allen Leech, Owen McDonnell, Orlaith Rafter, Amy Huberman,
Directors : P.J. Dillon,

Karen, a recovering addict, has settled into a successful new life with her husband and young daughter. When Karl, an old boyfriend recently released from prison, turns up unexpectedly, ...

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Charles Napier, David Carradine, Todd Kimsey,
Directors : Victoria Muspratt,

Our heroine isn't having a good time. Having lost her L.A. job and walked out on her unfaithful boyfriend, she finds herself stuck in nowhere Macon County when her car and possessions are ...

Actors : Adrià Salazar, Alain Hernández, Richard van Weyden, Mario Casas,
Directors : Mar Targarona,

The story of the Catalan photographer Francisco Boix. An inmate in the Austrian concentration camp of Mauthausen.

Actors : Geneviève Robert, Rosa Palomar, Dennis Price, Andrés Resino,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.