Best Prison movies

Actors : Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Paprika Steen,
Directors : Trine Piil Christensen,

Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband of the Rent-a-Family director plans to rob Max' father.

Actors : Alexandre Etzlinger, Sabine Timoteo, Christophe Sermet, Roy Dupuis,
Directors : Séverine Cornamusaz,

A young hopeful teenager is waiting for his unknown and fantasized father to come out of prison. His family dream life is seriously undermined by an exhausted mother and a man who, after so...

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 : Gary Dourdan, Darren Bridgett, 'Big' LeRoy Mobley, Ezra Stanley,
Directors : Samm Styles,

Inmate activist George Lester Jackson's short life became a flashpoint for revolution, igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin's history.

Actors : Stephanie Ann Smith, Barbara Niven, Wendi Westbrook, Taylor Leigh,
Directors : Henri Charr,

An FBI agent goes undercover in a women's prison to find evidence hidden by a drug dealer's ex-girlfriend. After she is taken off the case, she finds that the drug dealer has kidnapped her ...

Actors : Berkay Ates, Saadet Aksoy, Füsun Demirel, Ipek Türktan,
Directors : Serhat Karaaslan,

In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a ...

Actors : Ivano Staccioli, Nello Riviè, Gabriele Carrara, Ria De Simone,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by ...

Actors : Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Krisada Supapprom,
Directors : Kongkiat Khomsiri,

Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this ...

Actors : Ken Aguilar, Darren Dalton, Brody Docar, Siri Baruc,
Directors : Billy Lewis,

Small town, the American dream. A blue-collar family living the idyllic rural lifestyle. Nothing is out of place save for the lacking white picket fence - and the old JAIL that occupies the...

Actors : Elzbieta Kepinska, Serge Merlin, Jan Ciecierski, Alina Janowska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

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 ...

Actors : Hyeon Ju, Soo Ae, Ji-bin Park, Hie-sun Park,
Directors : Jeong-cheol Lee,

A troubled young woman returns home after three years in prison. Still involved with the local gangster, things get complicated when he demands money while she struggles to straighten her ...

Actors : Elias Koteas, Ellen Page, Brian Geraghty, Kate Mara,
Directors : Tali Shalom-Ezer,

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

Actors : Ginette Gaskin, Vicki Rivard, Aiden Simko, Allen Bergeron,
Directors : Chris Abell,

In an underground prison an inmate escapes during a riot. One year later, a group of friends set out to locate an old hermit shack. Their worst nightmares are revealed when they spawn an evil darkness within the escaped prisoner.

Actors : Gianni Rizzo, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Nicoletta Machiavelli,
Directors : Sergio Citti,

Rome, 1850. In prison, two young men, Bernardino and Mammone, condemned for murder wait their own death penalty to be executed, and pass their last hours telling each other lust and ...

Actors : Fabrizio Ferracane, Salvatore Striano, Silvio Orlando, Toni Servillo,
Directors : Leonardo di Costanzo,

The last remains of a prison, guards and a few inmates, are waiting to be transferred and gradually the rules seem to make less and less sense and the waiting men become a new fragile community.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Anna Thalbach, Thomas Heinze, Mathias Gnädinger,
Directors : Hans W. Geissendörfer,

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...

Actors : Candy Cheung, Ekin Cheng, Hin-Wai Au, Julian Cheung,
Directors : James Yuen,

The Story: Ekin Cheng plays Autumn Yip, a triad mobster who gets caught in Thailand and does 8 years in prison before being released. He visits "The Doctor" and asks for a loan before ...

Actors : Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sophie Verbeeck, Jean-Quentin Châtelain, François Cluzet,
Directors : Jean Becker,

In a small town, crushed by the heat of summer, in 1919, a war hero was held prisoner in a deserted barracks. In front of the door, his whipped dog barks day and night. Not far away, in the...

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.