Best Prison movies of 1980s

Actors : Harold Sakata, Bruce Le, Jang Lee Hwang, André Koob,

Reformed criminal and ace martial artist Bruce decides to go straight and settle down with his girlfriend after being released from prison. The gang he used to be part of kidnap the ...

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Karen Kirishima, Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Yamato, Toshiya Fujita,
Directors : Junji Sakamoto,

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer.

Actors : Victoria Abril, Richard Bohringer, Richard Berry, Farid Chopel,
Directors : Denis Amar,

Conflict between a hardened prison inmate and a ruthless prison guard.

Actors : Pierre Curzi, Marie Tifo, Robert Gravel, Jacques Godin,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for ...

Actors : Diogo Dória, Teresa Menezes, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Actors : Pandiyan, Rajinikanth, Gautami, Prabhu,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

On their release from prison, two criminals join forces to prove the innocence of a wrongfully convicted fellow prisoner and in the process, also learn the truth about their own missing parents.

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Christoph Eichhorn, Lydia Billiet, Badema, Sevimbike Elibay,
Directors : Ulrike Ottinger,

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Mario Pardo, Ramón Balenziaga,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, ...

Actors : Burt Young, Lance Kinsey, Allen Garfield, Judy Landers,
Directors : Nat Christian,

A gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.

Actors : Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band ...

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Soli Labbart, Hannu Lauri, Tiina Björkman,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

Actors : Andrei Gribenyuk, Vladimir Shevelyov, Yuriy Nazarov, Pavel Gromov,
Directors : Nikolai Gusarov,

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers...

Actors : Reena Roy, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

The region under Maharaj Singh's control is under-going drought and famine-like conditions, and the Maharaj orders that the treasury be made open so that his public does not suffer. His ...

Actors : Jan Peszek, Wojciech Wysocki, Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded into a common cell until the investigation into their supposed ...

Actors : Manuel Fernandes Sr., Tom Billett, LeeAnne Baker, Kate Collins,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

Tough ex-con Glenn Barnes gets paroled from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter. Glenn plans to reopen his old nightclub the Garage on 42nd Street. Vicious rival nightclub ...

Actors : Chuck Jeffreys, Richard Lynch, Elizabeth Kaitan, Chris DeRose,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Cop is framed for murder and sent to prison.

Actors : Zaibao Yang, Yihan Bu, Xiaoqing Liu, Min Bu,
Directors : Zi Ling,

Hu escapes from prison after 8 years to find that his father was killed by the landlord. His fiancee Jin Zi is married to the landlord's son, a Mama's Boy. The blind, widowed mother-in-law is a termagant. Revenge and elopement are planned.

Actors : Jürgen Goslar, Ingrid Ettlmayer, Jeanette Mühlmann, Hartmut Nolte,
Directors : Willi Hengstler,

The story of Austrian, Johann "Jack" Unterweger, who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in prison for assault.