Best Prison movies

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Christopher Plummer, Gerard Butler,
Directors : Patrick Lussier,

A group of thieves break into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing.

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.

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 : 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 : Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Ed Solomon,

The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to ...

Actors : Jessica Stroup, Scott Porter, Brittany Snow, Dana Davis,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Actors : Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.

Actors : Ja Rule, Steven Seagal, Matt Battaglia, Morris Chestnut,
Directors : Don Michael Paul,

This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

Actors : Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Marton Csokas, Sean Harris,
Directors : David Mackenzie,

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.