Best Prison movies of 1970s

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Eduardo Fajardo, Malisa Longo, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Tulio Demicheli,

After 2 years in prison Ricco is released and on a path of vengeance. His father, the head of a mafia family, is gunned down by the ambitious Don Vito and now Ricco is looking to settle the score.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Franco Nero, Larry Aubrey, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

At the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Nazis.

Actors : Cochi Ponzoni, Renato Pozzetto, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Enrico Montesano,

An Italian priest met an American priest and discover how are different their lives, a guy escaped from prison is seduced by a gorgeous woman but there is a trick, and a layer is engaged by a mad client.

Actors : Victor Campos, Robert Donner, Neville Brand, Sherry Boucher,
Directors : George Peppard,

A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.

Actors : Dora Doll, Louis Julien, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jason Bernard, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Herbert B. Leonard,

Nineteen year old Jimmy Graham has grown up to be an angry young man based on his experiences, including not having either his mother or father in his life as he was growing up. When he was...

Actors : Fabian, Jocelyn Lane, Adam Roarke, Astrid Warner,

The movie tells the biography of the gangster Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd who started his career young aged when he saw his father die and seeked out revenge by killing his murderer during a...

Actors : Siu-Lung Leung, Wai-Man Chan, Shan Kwan, Angela Mao,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

Angry and aggressive orphan Lotus Lin gets raised as a Buddhist in a Shaolin temple after her mother dies in the wake of giving birth to her in prison. Consumed with rage, Lin gets expelled...

Actors : Annik Borel, Maria Arnold, Tracy Handfuss, Jacqueline Giroux,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to ...

Actors : Joe Dorsey, Fred Covington, Tim Conway, Chuck McCann,

Small-town deputy is ordered by the governer to go undercover, posing as a criminal, in a maximum security prison. Shortly after his mission begins, the governor dies, leaving him and his ...

Actors : Christopher George, Richard Ely, James Luisi, Jim Brown,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Actors : Jack Spencer, Jaqueline Webb, Judith Israel, Neil Flanagan,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Salvador Sánchez, José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Delia Casanova,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

In Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.

Actors : Bo Svenson, John Colicos, Robert Culp, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Bob Clark,

The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.

Actors : Woody Strode, George Eastman, Leonard Mann, Pietro Martellanza,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives,...

Actors : Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos Bousdoukos, Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, ...

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Richard Bright, John Heard, Thomas G. Waites, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Raphael D. Silver,

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

Actors : Geneviève Robert, Rosa Palomar, Dennis Price, Andrés Resino,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.