Best Prison movies of 1980s

Actors : Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band ...

Actors : Gary McCleery, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, James Coco,
Directors : Waldemar Korzeniowsky,

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Actors : John Laughlin, Michael Paré, Richard Farnsworth, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Conrad E. Palmisano,

In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets ...

Actors : Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Alan Shapiro,

A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.

Actors : Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger, Rita Silva, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

Julia, a famous physician, infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister's killing, but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden's sexual brutality.

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Howard Knight, William J. Kulzer, Melanie Coll, Judi Trevor,
Directors : Eric Louzil,

A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.

Actors : Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi, Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a twelve-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too, a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, ...

Actors : Diogo Dória, Teresa Menezes, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Burt Young, Lance Kinsey, Allen Garfield, Judy Landers,
Directors : Nat Christian,

A gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.

Actors : Pierre Curzi, Marie Tifo, Robert Gravel, Jacques Godin,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for ...

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 : Nikolai Sotirov, Vania Tzvetkova, Ivan Ivanov, Valcho Kamarashev,
Directors : Nikola Rudarov,

This is a psychological whodunit. The action is tense and there are many ups and downs. Vas, a young militiaman, has to pose as a ex-prisoner and infiltrate an international gang of ...

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 : Jorge Emilio Salazar, Sebastián Ospina, María Eugenia Dávila, Gustavo Angarita,
Directors : Jorge Alí Triana,

A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his "pueblo" (village). But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the ...

Actors : Victoria Abril, Richard Bohringer, Richard Berry, Farid Chopel,
Directors : Denis Amar,

Conflict between a hardened prison inmate and a ruthless prison guard.

Actors : Ketevan Kiknadze, Gia Burjanadze, Giorgi Khobua, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi,
Directors : Giga Lortkipanidze,

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.