Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : James Woods, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Tim Metcalfe,

Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him ...

Actors : Shilpa Shirodkar, Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna Akkineni,
Directors : Mukul Anand,

Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's ...

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Tomorô Taguchi, Akira Emoto, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo,
Directors : Matt Earl Beesley,

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a ...

Actors : Lisa Stansfield, Tom Bell, Hugo Speer, Paul Usher,
Directors : Nick Mead,

An optimistic guy is arrested and thrown in jail, while there he learns the saxophone from a fellow inmate. Once he's released from jail, he and a few friends form a swing band while he ...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Cezary Pazura, Magdalena Dandourian, Artur Zmijewski,
Directors : Wladyslaw Pasikowski,

Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is ...

Actors : Anita Barone, Bruce Campbell, William Stanford Davis, Jeremy Roberts,
Directors : Josh Becker,

Running Time was filmed in black and white, in real time, and seemingly takes place in one continuous, fluid shot. It's a little like Hitchcock's "Rope," but it's on location! Carl, an ...

Actors : Antoine McLean, Mtume Gant, Shawn Elliott, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Morgan J. Freeman,

Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four ...

Actors : Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Paul Brooke, James Purefoy,
Directors : Simon Hunter,

A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another ...

Actors : Jack Kao, Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. ...

Actors : Keith David, Roy Scheider, Michael Madsen, Angie Everhart,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

A stunt driver heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Steve Zahn, Iona Morris, Carolyn McCormick,
Directors : Gary O. Bennett,

It's the year 2042 and the threat is real...women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind the convictions.

Actors : Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tyrin Turner, Jacqueline Obradors, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Louis Morneau,

A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.

Actors : Josh Charles, Donal Logue, Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Jonas Pate,

Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.

Actors : Roy Cheung, Pak Fei, Sung Young Chen, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Ching is a prisoner in a Honk Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. Ching escapes to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. He surrenders ...

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Lori Singer, Aaron Neville, Peter Berg,
Directors : Michael Karbelnikoff,

Frank T. Wells has just been released from prison after serving a term for manslaughter. Frank's a reasonably honest man and a good rodeo rider. When he meets up with Scarlett, a bank ...

Actors : Damon Saleem, Bokeem Woodbine, Cynda Williams, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : Darin Scott,

She caught his eye. He was caught off guard. Now Daryl Allen is caught in the line of fire. After six years behind bars, a reformed street hood(Bokeem Woodbine) puts down his gun and ...

Actors : Thomas Ian Griffith, Mark Carlton, Chris Mulkey, Mushond Lee,
Directors : Mark Griffiths,

An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general. Contains extreme violence, including torture, and...

Actors : Nicholas Lamont, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Moss, Neil Fitzmaurice,
Directors : Jim Doyle,

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Actors : Kimberley Kates, Kari Whitman, Paul Koslo, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Lloyd A. Simandl,

An innocent woman is sent to a Czech prison, where the sadistic warden and guards rape and perform bizarre sex acts on the prisoners.