Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Jürgen Jung, Helga Anders, Renate Grosser, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Roger Fritz,

Just released from a youth detention center, Andrea (Helga Anders) is wooed by her boss' son and finds herself in a love triangle that defies the moral and social norms of the time in more ways than one.

Actors : Adam Clyde, Twig, Marni Castle, Monique Duval,
Directors : Harry Wuest,

A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. She hires a tough private eye to find her boyfriend and rescue him.

Actors : José Greci, Mark Forest, Jon Chevron, Scilla Gabel,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.

Actors : Patrick Barr, Delphi Lawrence, Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson,
Directors : Robert Tronson,

Model prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burglary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.

Actors : Hie Mun, Yeong-gyun Shin,

A man, recently released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, finds that his wife does not welcome him and his daughter is being treated as a servant by his brother.

Actors : Peter Brown, Joseph Shiloach, Yehoram Gaon, Rick Jason,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

Israeli POW's who escape from a notorious Arab prison return for a dramatic rescue of their comrades.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama, Kyôko Kishida, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Hiromichi Horikawa,

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, ...

Actors : Yeong-gyun Shin, Hyeon-shil Tae, Do Geum Bung, Seung-ho Kim,
Directors : Dae-jin Kang,

A millionaire's son survives his stepmother's attempted poisoning. She serves time in prison, but upon her release, she sets out to finish what she started

Actors : Maureen McNally, Sterling Hayden, Stuart Whitman, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Ruy Guerra,

A family of four people (parents and two children, one of them still a kid) live by the sea. The father studies the migratory flights of birds. One day, there appears an escaped prisoner on...

Actors : Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Patrick Wymark, Barbara Shelley, Jack Hedley,
Directors : Quentin Lawrence,

Malaya, September 1944: Many British soldiers have been captured by the Japanese, when they were cut off from their troops. On her way to Kuala Lumpur, the British secret agent Elaine's ...

Actors : Harry Lauter, Jodi Mitchell, Hanna Hertelendy, Don 'Red' Barry,
Directors : Lesley Selander,

Ben has been after the Sims brothers since they gunned down his sister. His wife, threatening to leave him, sees his chance to get her back and get his revenge when the brothers are ...

Actors : Enrique Almirante, José Díaz Lastra, Amador Domínguez, Ángel Espasande,
Directors : Antonio Vázquez Gallo,

Melodrama of illicit love between a young girl and a man escaped from prison, amidst the fight against Batista dictatorship.

Actors : Michael Forest, Leonard Nimoy, Paul Mazursky, Robert Ellenstein,
Directors : Vic Morrow,

Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Mica Orlovic, Marijan Lovric, Horst Frank,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.

Actors : Ron Charles, Arlene Farber, William Watson, Julie Ange,
Directors : Jerry Gross,

Three young people are framed, arrested and thrown in prison by corrupt Southern police.

Actors : Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Lawrence P. Casey, Justin Tarr,
Directors : John Peyser,

Rommel's last open port is maintained by POW labor against Allied bombing, a commando operation is undertaken to liberate the prisoners.

Actors : Jang-kang Heo, No-shik Park, Jeong-im Nam, Yeong-ha Yu,
Directors : Shi-hyeon Kim,

Jang-bae escapes from prison where he was unjustly placed by his enemy, Min-chung, 20 years earlier. He locates his daughter and learns that Min-chung attacked his family. Most were killed ...

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Sandra Milo, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux,
Directors : André Hunebelle,

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.As soon as ...

Actors : Stanley Baxter, Percy Herbert, Bill Fraser, Harry H. Corbett,
Directors : Frank Launder,

Busted for running an illegal gambling den during the Second World War, a gang of East End wideboys choose conscription over prison and take their talents on a tour of duty.

Actors : Jadwiga Chojnacka, Ignacy Gogolewski, Andrzej Lapicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz,
Directors : Jan Rybkowski,

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.