Best Prison movies of 1980s

Actors : Sally Yeh, Joyce H. Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Hui-Shan Yang,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.

Actors : Mammootty, Sumalatha, Urvashi, Babu Namboothiri,
Directors : Joshi,

Ravi Varma, who is sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife, tells his story to his wife's sister, a news reporter, about the true story of what happened.

Actors : Gary McCleery, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, James Coco,
Directors : Waldemar Korzeniowsky,

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Actors : Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi, Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival ...

Actors : Sergi Mateu, Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Actors : John Laughlin, Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Conrad E. Palmisano,

In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets ...

Actors : Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger, Rita Silva, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

Julia, a famous physician, infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister's killing, but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden's sexual brutality.

Actors : Nikolai Sotirov, Vania Tzvetkova, Ivan Ivanov, Valcho Kamarashev,
Directors : Nikola Rudarov,

This is a psychological whodunit. The action is tense and there are many ups and downs. Vas, a young militiaman, has to pose as a ex-prisoner and infiltrate an international gang of ...

Actors : Kin Shriner, Karen Chase, Sandy Martin, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Bruce Logan,

A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.

Actors : Howard Knight, William J. Kulzer, Melanie Coll, Judi Trevor,
Directors : Eric Louzil,

A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.

Actors : Ketevan Kiknadze, Gia Burjanadze, Giorgi Khobua, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi,
Directors : Giga Lortkipanidze,

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

Actors : Svetlana Gaytan, Vladimir Kosyrev, Kseniya Nazarova, Aleksandr Bureyev,
Directors : Sergei Bodrov,

Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha...

Actors : Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Alan Shapiro,

A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.

Actors : Nami Matsukawa, Shigeru Muroi, Mina Asami, Ryoko Watanabe,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

An inmate attempts to escape from prison and is confronted by the guard.

Actors : Beano, Angelyne, Ted Prior, Vincent Barbi,
Directors : Tony Zarindast,

When Bud McCall is framed for a drugs charge he ends up in prison and he must prove his innocence by testifying against his former police partner to put him and his gang behind bars for good.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Shafi Inamdar, Smita Patil, Sabia,
Directors : I.V. Sasi,

Mary, an inmate of an orphanage run by nuns, is good at studies and is artistically talented, her education so far has been sponsored by a philanthropist. Her sponsor, a rich old man who ...

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Julian Glover, Lucy Gutteridge, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Tara Moore,

Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidden ivory trade only to lock horns with ...

Actors : Sharat Saxena, Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Tanuja,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Shanker is jailed for theft and there meets with Tony, who introduces him to professional boxing, after witnessing him fight an inmate. When he gets out of jail, Shanker takes up professional boxing.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Amjad Khan, Pran, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Shankar Handover his child Ratan to Bhola while he is sentenced to prison. He tells him to raise Ratan in such a way that one day his child should rule the country.

Actors : Rick Cluchey, Billy Hayes, Douglas Van Leuven, Stefan Kalinka,
Directors : Rick Cluchey,

Prison inmates stage a mock trial for a convicted murderer.