Best Prison movies

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Danny Trejo, Edward Furlong, Mark Boone Junior,
Directors : Steve Buscemi,

A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.

Actors : Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince,
Directors : Neil Burger,

A woman seeks revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Ed Solomon,

The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to ...

Actors : Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.

Actors : Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Brittany Snow, Dana Davis,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Actors : Ja Rule, Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Matt Battaglia,
Directors : Don Michael Paul,

This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.

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 : Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Marton Csokas, Sean Harris,
Directors : David Mackenzie,

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

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 : Evan Bittencourt, Paul Rudd, Jesse Luken, 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 : 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, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Matthew Cook,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

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

Actors : Robert Earl Council, Raoul Poole, Melvin Ray,
Directors : Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman,

Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of the United States' deadliest prison systems.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Anne Archer, Stephen Dorff, 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.