Best Prison movies of 1960s

Actors : Craig Hill, Eduardo Fajardo, Piero Lulli, Giulia Rubini,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A man is arrested, tried and convicted for a robbery that was actually committed by someone else. After he gets out of prison, he goes in search of the real robbers.

Actors : Ivan Desny, Edmund Purdom, Armand Mestral, Pier Angeli,
Directors : Silvio Amadio,

The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into ...

Actors : Kwong-Chiu Cheung, Chiang Chang, Suet-Jan Shum, Yung Wong,
Directors : Fang-Hsia Chang,

When one of their brothers is murdered and their boss is held in the Prison, the Hwa Clan, led by the poisonous Lady Nine Flower. It is up to a desperate Lady Nine Flower to save the day.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Anita Sanders, John Cassavetes, Nikos Kourkoulos,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

A professional holdup man with scruples has a young ambitious partner who covets his wife and his life. When the holdup man goes to prison, the partner cuts loose, leaving a trail of deaths behind him.

Actors : Lalita Pawar, Rajendra Kumar, Madan Puri, Mala Sinha,
Directors : O.P. Ralhan,

While defending his sister's honor, Shanker kills a man. His ashamed family say he is away in Africa, while he spends the next ten years in prison. What happens when the truth comes out, can he ever find forgiveness or acceptance?

Actors : Jason Robards, Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Nanni Loy,

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

Actors : Eric Sykes, Charlotte Rampling, Anton Rodgers, Ian Bannen,
Directors : John Boulting,

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead ...

Actors : Jill Williams, Francis Matthews, Jack Gwillim, Basil Dignam,
Directors : Max Varnel,

An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.

Actors : Joan O'Brien, Ziva Rodann, Gilbert Roland, George Montgomery,
Directors : George Montgomery,

George Montgomery plays a cynical doctor that is taken to prison at Samar island because his political opinions. The commander (Gilbert Roland) is waiting for his own doctor, that is ...

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Aroldo Tieri, Hélène Chanel, Franco Franchi,
Directors : Giorgio Simonelli,

In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their ...

Actors : Natasha, Gordon, Loie Lane, Banana Peel,
Directors : Manuel Conde,

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 : Magali Noël, Sara Montiel, Giancarlo Del Duca, Fernand Gravey,
Directors : Ladislao Vajda,

Isabel is a beautiful singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck. After serving time in prison for a crime she did not commit, she lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona ...

Actors : Dae-yeob Lee, Su-il Bang, Hye-jeong Kim,
Directors : Keung-ha Jo,

A man held prisoner in North Korea following the Korean War, organizes a resistance movement against the cruelty of the communist prisoners.

Actors : Ajda Pekkan, Sadri Alisik, Tanju Gürsu, Sevda Ferdag,
Directors : Aram Gülyüz,

Criminals are all around and Metin escapes from prison. There is only address to find Ertugrul.

Actors : Giorgos Foundas, Zoras Tsapelis, Manos Katrakis, Gely Mavropoulou,
Directors : Hristos Kyriakopoulos,

Captain Vergos escapes from Albania, where he was taken prisoner and returned to Greece. But arrested as a spy, because Captain Vergos had escaped a year ago and had returned to his duties....

Actors : Petar Banicevic, Götz George, Alexander Allerson, Günther Ungeheuer,
Directors : Edwin Zbonek,

End of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plans to kill them all, before the Allies come. One of the prisoners escapes, and tries to find the Allies. A manhunt begins.

Actors : Voula Zouboulaki, Alekos Alexandrakis, Lefteris Vournas, Zoi Laskari,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Keti goes to a prison to visit her daughter Elli, a young female prisoner, but Elli refuses to meet her mother. When Keti has left, the prison guard starts reading Elli's diary, to find out...

Actors : Jan Adamski, Arkadiusz Bazak, Piotr Augustyniak, Andrzej Balcerzak,
Directors : Wanda Jakubowska,

While showing the Auschwitz Concentration Camp to American tourists, guide Henryk recalls his own memories as its inmate.

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Jacqueline Vandal, Aleka Stratigou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-island, which the young man inherited, to a wealthy american. But the young man falls in love with the american's daughter and...

Actors : Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Stefan Pejchev, Lilyana Doneva, Nikola Galabov,
Directors : Anton Marinovich,

Captain Lipovanski has been badly wounded in the World War II. The German takes him prisoner. After the end of the war, he is set free in a foreign country. He has been deceived that he has...