Best Prison movies

Actors : Binnu Dhillon, Jaswinder Bhalla, Parminder Gill, Sunil Grover,
Directors : Smeep Kang,

This film is about two prisoners who make a master plan to escape the prison. They escape the prison on Vaisakhi and in few hours of they see the Vaisakhi list made by the government in which they were to be pardoned by the Jail minister.

Actors : Danny Trejo, C. Thomas Howell, Courtney Gains, Sofia Shinas,

A little girl is in a hospital dying of cancer. Death Row inmate Rudy Salazar has the bone marrow to save her life. His sentence is changed to life without parole in exchange for donating ...

Actors : Bryan Brown, Gary Waddell, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Actors : Robert LaSardo, Alejandra Gutierrez, Mary Kelsey, Laurel Astri,
Directors : Robert Oppel,

Rico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspiring to bring him down and tear him between what he holds dear and what he most fears.

Actors : Elfriede Irrall, Rainer Egger, Merab Ninidze, Oliver Broumis,
Directors : Andreas Gruber,

It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the ...

Actors : Tallie Cochrane, Jabie Abercrombe, Donna Young, Rene Bond,
Directors : Stephen C. Apostolof,

Five inmates break out of a women's prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn't commit. As the authorities chase them down, the ...

Actors : Lucas Balmaceda, Gastón Pauls, Alfredo Castro, Juan Carlos Maldonado,
Directors : Sebastián Muñoz,

A '70s-set homoerotic prison drama based on a low-circulated pulp novel, tracking the sexual, often-violent and eventually murderous experiences of 20-something narcissist Jaime.

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 : Jan Van Sickle, Ryan J. Parker, Earla Stewart, Wesley Walker,
Directors : Troy McGatlin,

Joe, a rancher in the mountains of Colorado, has his life of solitude interrupted when his luckless son gets paroled from prison and moves back in with him, bringing his ill-fated ways along.

Actors : Barbara Werle, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, James Caan,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

After being framed, a cowboy is sent to jail. After his time is served, he leaves with vengeance in his heart. Soon he meets a young Native American woman and together they go to settle their score with a small town and its corrupt leader.

Actors : James Wilder, Henry Thomas, Errol Slue, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.

Actors : Gene Bicknell, Petri Hawkins-Byrd, Monty Cox, Michele Dalcin,
Directors : Richard Friedman,

An escaped convict redeems himself through the love of two young children.

Actors : Ching Tien, Feng Yu, Mu Chu, Lung Ti,

Wu Sung, a military swordmaster, is acused of murdering his adulterous sister-in-law and a thug, and sent to exile in Meng Chou. At the prison camp, Shih En, son of the camp commander, ...

Actors : Peter Fonda, John Crawford, Susan Saint James, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

Susan St. James helps Peter Fonda, an ex-convict who goes after the country music star who stole his song and made it a hit.

Actors : Jens Okking, Thomas Bo Larsen, Bjarne Henriksen, Anders Nyborg,
Directors : Carsten Fromberg,

Policeman Lasse rehabilitates young prisoners by taking them on survival course in the Swedish wasteland. And before he has to retire due to illness, he arranges one last trip.

Actors : Michael McCleery, Charity Staley, Robert Prichard, Gina Mastrogiacomo,
Directors : Richard W. Haines,

In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has ...

Actors : Bradford Dillman, Lee Remick, Harry Townes, Yves Montand,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

William Faulkner's steamy tale set in the South in the 1920s. Governer's daughter is seduces and raped by a Cagin who returns after she's married to cause her further trouble.

Actors : David Keith, Kristen Cloke, Stanley DeSantis, Karen Hensel,
Directors : Robert Houston,

After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't ...

Actors : Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf,
Directors : Alain Payet,

A female Russian doctor is taken prisoner into a château where German officers go for entertainment, and she struggles both against imprisonment and the sadistic female warden.

Actors : David Banner, Richard Roundtree, Kenya Moore, Boris Kodjoe,
Directors : Alton Glass,

The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures,...