Best Prison movies

Actors : Fernanda Espíndola, Matt Wiggins, Amy Wehrell, Michael Weiss,
Directors : Hari Mahesh,

Jack is waiting for his sweatheart (Rusty), his entire life. Rusty is in prison for life. Will their Love make it?

Actors : Anita Ekberg, Margaret Lee, Fernando Rey, John Richardson,
Directors : José María Elorrieta,

Nick Warfield is a speed boat racer hitching along the Mediterranean after his speed boat has been smashed up. He is picked up by Jacqueline Monnard who quickly gets him into a barroom brawl followed by prison.

Actors : Manuel Fernandes Sr., LeeAnne Baker, Tom Billett, Kate Collins,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

Tough ex-con Glenn Barnes gets paroled from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter. Glenn plans to reopen his old nightclub the Garage on 42nd Street. Vicious rival nightclub ...

Actors : Judita Hahn, Franjo Kumer, Rade Markovic, Toma Jovanovic,
Directors : Fadil Hadzic,

An exemplary female communist finds himself sentenced for years in prison because of a fraud. The inspector who was in charge of investigation becomes suspicious about her guilt, trying to find out real motives behind the case.

Actors : Chuck Jeffreys, Richard Lynch, Elizabeth Kaitan, Chris DeRose,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Cop is framed for murder and sent to prison.

Actors : Luís Alberto, Costa Ferreira, Maria do Céu Guerra, José Viana,
Directors : Luís Filipe Rocha,

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.

Actors : Jan Peszek, Wojciech Wysocki, Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded into a common cell until the investigation into their supposed ...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Slavko Simic, Ljuba Tadic, Dusan Djuric,
Directors : Rados Novakovic,

Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.

Actors : Aldo Berti, Ignazio Spalla, Lucretia Love, Glenn Saxson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

Cris brothers kill Gringo's brother and frame him and his friend for murder. While in prison the bandits, that are the real killers, escape and take Carmen, as a hostage. Many adventures ...

Actors : Zaibao Yang, Yihan Bu, Xiaoqing Liu, Min Bu,
Directors : Zi Ling,

Hu escapes from prison after 8 years to find that his father was killed by the landlord. His fiancee Jin Zi is married to the landlord's son, a Mama's Boy. The blind, widowed mother-in-law is a termagant. Revenge and elopement are planned.

Actors : Jürgen Goslar, Ingrid Ettlmayer, Jeanette Mühlmann, Hartmut Nolte,
Directors : Willi Hengstler,

The story of Austrian, Johann "Jack" Unterweger, who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in prison for assault.

Actors : János Derzsi, Tamás Ravasz, Andrea Nagy, Lukács Bicskey,
Directors : Viktor Oszkar Nagy,

How a father returns to his son after a long period in prison. Anxious to be reconciled with his child - who reproaches him for his absence (the mother having died in the interim) - the ...

Actors : Rudolf Pankov, Sergey Nikonenko, Yuriy Sarantsev, Lev Prygunov,
Directors : Atanas Traykov,

The German train stops at a small station. The partisan Velichko receives an order to rescue four Russian prisoners of war, who are in one of the boxcar. The partisans blow up a rail bridge...

Actors : Miroslav Zounar, Alexandra Myskova, Jirí Adamíra, Jana Stepánková,
Directors : Jirí Hanibal,

Escaped inmate of a mental home Franz Moose has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander Havel (Jirí Adamíra) and Lieutenant Mares (...

Actors : Reena Roy, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

The region under Maharaj Singh's control is under-going drought and famine-like conditions, and the Maharaj orders that the treasury be made open so that his public does not suffer. His ...

Actors : Mitwa, Satish Patel, Gugu Gill, Deep Dhillon,

Misunderstandings between two friends, Jageer Singh and Shingara Singh, results in the murder of the later, while Jageer is arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Years later Jageer's ...

Actors : Andrei Gribenyuk, Vladimir Shevelyov, Yuriy Nazarov, Pavel Gromov,
Directors : Nikolai Gusarov,

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers...

Actors : Johan Kaart, Maxim Hamel, Rijk de Gooyer, Jan Blaaser,
Directors : Giovanni Korporaal,

Criminal Bert Oliemans, just released from prison, has a problem. Both the victim, the police and a rival gang want to know where he hid the jewels prior to his arrest.

Actors : Pravas Sarkar, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Simi Garewal,
Directors : Mrinal Sen,

A political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman.

Actors : John Carter, Mary Stout, Bop Tweedie, Emma Jean Jones,
Directors : Shawn Sweeney,

Senior citizen and felon Thomas Hatch is awarded a ninety-nine-year sentence. Hatch avoids the prison term by faking senility and is sent to an elderly facility. There he meets and falls in...