Best Prison movies

Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Tonatiuh, Diego Luna,
Directors : Bill Condon,

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, convicted for public indecency. An unlikely bond forms as Molina recounts a Hollywood musical plot starring Ingrid Luna.

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 : Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Marco Brambilla,

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Actors : Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Common, Rosamund Pike, Joel Kinnaman,
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 : Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.

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 : Steve Zahn, Ally Walker, William H. Macy, Jeremy Northam,
Directors : Mark Illsley,

Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity...

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Josh Stewart, 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.

Actors : Todd Charmont, Urs Rechn, Levente Molnár, Géza Röhrig,
Directors : László Nemes,

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Susan Sarandon, Raymond J. Barry, Sean Penn,
Directors : Tim Robbins,

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff,
Directors : Chinonye Chukwu,

As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : John Carpenter,

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Actors : Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Robert Patrick, Aleksa Palladino,
Directors : Amber Sealey,

The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bel Powley, Richie Merritt,
Directors : Yann Demange,

The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Actors : Peter Mullan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, Colin Firth,
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 : Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Actors : Marton Csokas, Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan,
Directors : Adam Cooper,

An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.

Actors : Steve Tientcheu, Bakary Koné, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Jean Cyrille Digbeu,
Directors : Philippe Lacôte,

A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Danny Trejo, Edward Furlong, Mark Boone Junior,
Directors : Steve Buscemi,

A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.