Best Prison movies

Actors : John Spencer, Ed Harris, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Michael Bay,

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Actors : Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Moritz Bleibtreu,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill,
Directors : Philippe Claudel,

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Omar J. Dorsey, Christopher Matthew Cook, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

Actors : Evan Bittencourt, Jesse Luken, Paul Rudd, Steve Coogan,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

A bickering gay couple must now deal with the unexpected task of raising a ten-year-old boy.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.

Actors : Krysten Ritter, Winslow Fegley, Jess Brown, Lidya Jewett,
Directors : David Yarovesky,

Follows Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories who is imprisoned by an evil young witch in her contemporary New York City apartment.

Actors : Stephen Dorff, Anne Archer, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

Actors : Slim Twig, Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Matthew Morales,
Directors : Kim Chapiron,

Three juvenile delinquents are sentenced to a correctional facility where they encounter gang violence, death, and harassment from staff and other inmates.

Actors : Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Jeff Daniel Phillips,
Directors : Rob Zombie,

After barely surviving prison, the demented Firefly clan go on the run, unleashing a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Actors : Nicholas Tse, Lan Qin, Angus Yeung, Donnie Yen,
Directors : Benny Chan,

Cheung Sung-bong is an officer of the Regional Crime Unit who worked in the front line for many years. His protege, Yau Kong-ngo, respects him and manage to reach up to him. However, fate brings pits them against each other.

Actors : Clive Owen, David Kelly, Helen Mirren, Warren Clarke,
Directors : Joel Hershman,

A prison inmate with a green thumb goes on to compete in a national gardening competition. Based on a true story.

Actors : Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson, Rachel Griffiths,
Directors : Scott Roberts,

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and ...

Actors : Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen, Øyvind Hagen-Traberg, Mads Mikkelsen,
Directors : Nicolas Winding Refn,

Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Actors : Will Arnett, Dax Shepard, David Koechner, Chi McBride,
Directors : Bob Odenkirk,

When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.

Actors : Jesús Ochoa, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mel Gibson, Kevin Balmore,
Directors : Adrian Grunberg,

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.

Actors : Vanessa Grasse, Sam Strike, Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor,

A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner,
Directors : John Sturges,

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.