Best Prison movies

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Soli Labbart, Hannu Lauri, Tiina Björkman,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

Actors : Michael Maloney, Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer, Joanne Vannicola,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens.

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Mario Pardo, Ramón Balenziaga,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, ...

Actors : Christoph Eichhorn, Lydia Billiet, Badema, Sevimbike Elibay,
Directors : Ulrike Ottinger,

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

Actors : Harold Sakata, Bruce Le, Jang Lee Hwang, André Koob,

Reformed criminal and ace martial artist Bruce decides to go straight and settle down with his girlfriend after being released from prison. The gang he used to be part of kidnap the ...

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Stacy Keach, Rick Dean, Sherrie Rose,
Directors : Jonathan Winfrey,

Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the ...

Actors : Rajinikanth, Pandiyan, Gautami, Prabhu,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

On their release from prison, two criminals join forces to prove the innocence of a wrongfully convicted fellow prisoner and in the process, also learn the truth about their own missing parents.

Actors : Balthazar Getty, Michael Madsen, Phillip Glasser, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Andrzej Sekula,

In the eerie backdrop of the lousiana bayou, former inmate Frank(Michael Madsen, "Reservoir Dogs,"Donnie Brasco") sees the opportunity of a lifetime in the form of cursed cash... See full synopsis »

Actors : Kazuhiko Kanayama, Ryo Ishibashi, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada,
Directors : Rokuro Mochizuki,

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ...

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Conny Van Dyke,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison.

Actors : Rohini, Vasanth Ravi, Bharathiraja, Raveena Ravi,
Directors : Arun Matheswaran,

Rocky, A gangster released after 17years from prison, goes back to his childhood house, searching for his missing sister Amudha, all the while reminiscing his violent past as it comes back to haunt him.

Actors : Timothy Altmeyer, Todd Swenson, Michael Buscemi, Kris Carr,
Directors : Brett Wagner,

Renee Unger is living the life she always hoped for: a little red-brick house in the small town of New Russia, Ohio, a good husband, a prospering construction business, and a baby on the ...

Actors : Lucien Cambric, Chaley Rose, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Tobias Truvillion,
Directors : Roger M. Bobb,

A man released from prison is torn between a life of crime and a fresh start with a woman he meets while scoping out a potential heist

Actors : Mace Freeman, Lara Daans, Ellen Dubin, Sarah-Maude Campbell,
Directors : Damian Lee,

Femme fatale, bombshell, Geraldine Goodwich gets out of jail after serving fourteen years. Only she knows where the thirteen million dollars from a bank job gone bad is stashed. The problem...

Actors : Dylan Baker, Bailey Chase, Susan Pourfar, Kathryn Erbe,
Directors : Tim McCann,

Released after 20 years in prison, ex-con Charlie Sundstrom (Bailey Chase) returns to his home town to find that his estranged son, who has disappeared into the criminal underworld, is ...

Actors : Justine Renee, Natasha Landes, John C. Epperson, Jenna Rains,
Directors : Christopher Krueger,

An all-girl gang tangles with rival gangs and an evil prison guard but their biggest challenge is sticking together.

Actors : Stephanie Acosta, Nova Aragon, Evie A. Armstrong, Vivian Brown,
Directors : Pablo Veliz,

Danny Ortega is imprisoned for a crime of justice at a very young age. After 17 years in prison, he returns to his town of Houston to find that crime and drugs have overturned what he once ...

Actors : Catherine Oxenberg, Casper Van Dien, Jaci Velasquez, Tom Schanley,
Directors : Daniel Lusko,

Attorney Benjamin Stills is nearly sentenced to prison and finds faith in God after killing a teenage girl in an accidental car crash from texting while driving.

Actors : Christine Elise, Miles Doleac, James Kyson, Billy Slaughter,
Directors : Ryan Roy,

In order to close the case files on over a dozen disappearances, a persistent detective, a bereaved senator, and a skeptical prison warden agree to the request of convicted serial killer ...

Actors : John Kani, Warren Adler, Derek Jacobi, Alice Krige,
Directors : Paul Schoolman,

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of to tell the story of one of history's foremost personalities.