Best Prison movies

Actors : Maria Conchita Alonso, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.

Actors : Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Lewis, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

A spoof of Robin Hood in general and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.

Actors : Ice Cube, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Mike Epps,
Directors : Steve Carr,

Uncle Elroy and Day Day owe money on taxes so Craig finds a way to steal from the next door neighbors to pay off the taxes so Uncle Elroy's house doesn't get put up for auction.

Actors : David Kelly, David Hemmings, Ralph Brown, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Barry Skolnick,

A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allie Mickelson,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Andrea Berloff,

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

Actors : Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter,
Directors : Francis Annan,

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, José Lewgoy, William Hurt,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Actors : Joe Pantoliano, Robert Downey Jr., Wesley Snipes, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Stuart Baird,

U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Jones) and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan (Snipes), who has been accused of a double-murder.

Actors : Amir Jadidi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sarina Farhadi,
Directors : Asghar Farhadi,

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned .

Actors : Velizar Binev, David Chandler, David Arquette, Michael Stuhlbarg,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Kevin Spacey, Chris Klein, Ryan Gosling,
Directors : Matthew Ryan Hoge,

A young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives.

Actors : Nathan Jones, Steve Austin, Robert Mammone, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Scott Wiper,

Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, Goldie Hawn, William Atherton,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Actors : John Cena, Steve Harris, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.

Actors : Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Common, Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : Andrea Di Stefano,

An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.

Actors : David Thewlis, Malcolm McDowell, Saffron Burrows, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

Actors : Peter Mullan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Doug Lefler,

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Actors : Josh Stewart, Christopher McDonald, Emma Fitzpatrick, Randall Archer,
Directors : Marcus Dunstan,

A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as "The Collector" is then forced to help rescue an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped lair.