Best Prison movies of 1990s

Actors : Youssef Dawood, Adel Imam, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.

Actors : Gildor Roy, Brigitte Paquette, Sabrina Boudot, Jean-Guy Bouchard,
Directors : Robert Morin,

The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.

Actors : John Hurt, David Keith, Maggie Weatherly, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Matthew Modine,

Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery, in which his father and brother also participated. When he's released from jail, he's determined to live a normal life, and gets work at a ...

Actors : Marina Confalone, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Francesca Antonelli, Simona Caramelli,
Directors : Mimmo Calopresti,

Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the...

Actors : Janardanan, Kaveri, Mahesh, Mohanlal,
Directors : Sibi Malayil,

Sadayam follows the final days of a condemned prisoner, for murdering two little girls.

Actors : Sumiko Mikami, Toshiyuki Sugihara, Shigeru Bokuda, Shunsuke Sawada,
Directors : Kazuyoshi Kumakiri,

While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and ...

Actors : Rick Dean, Richard Roundtree, Gregory McKinney, Don Wilson,
Directors : Oley Sassone,

Jimmy Boland is a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Robert Davi, Steven Bauer, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Talun Hsu,

A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he ...

Actors : Scott Plank, Robert O'Reilly, Kurt Fuller, Jocelyn Seagrave,
Directors : Paolo Mazzucato,

The most dangerous criminals in the universe escape from the Off-World Penitentiary and stow away to the quiet Moonbase Waste Disposal Plant. Hidden beneath the lunar surface lies an ...

Actors : Nicholle Tom, Alex Carter, Jason Cadieux, Mel Harris,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

Kelly keeps getting into trouble with the police. Her mother agrees to her going into a juvenile detention centre overnight. She is kept there for much longer. During her incarceration she is assaulted by inmates and abused by the system.

Actors : Ted Markland, Laura Albert, Jerry Trimble, George Takei,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.

Actors : Javier Albalá, Óscar Ladoire, Jorge Sanz, María Barranco,
Directors : Pedro Olea,

A corporal of the guard is teamed with a young prisoner to solve the strange killings that have occurred in the walled city of Zafarinas. The young team finds themselves plunged into a ...

Actors : Nartay Begalin, Valeriy Barinov, Aleksandr Feklistov, Sergey Gabrielyan,
Directors : Oleg Kavun,

A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev ...

Actors : Christina Applegate, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Mundra, Tony Fields,
Directors : Lisa Gottlieb,

Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.

Actors : Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Roy, Avtar Gill, Pooja Bedi,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Alcoholic movie director, Rahul (Rahul Roy) ends up in a Rehabilitation Centre. Once there, he finds out that there is an inmate who is suicidal and has deep ranging mental problems, namely...

Actors : Joe Stevens, Bill Wise, Ashley Coe, Jim Metzler,
Directors : Lisa Gottlieb,

Three sisters, abandoned by their father when they were very young, learn that he has died in prison and has left them clues to money hidden from a robbery. Only problem is that a former ...

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Bai Ling, Jon Bon Jovi, William Forsythe,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

Jamey Meadows is a convict just released from prison, hoping to live a straight life on the outside. His brother tries to reenlist him into the crime world, but Jamey resists, getting a job...

Actors : Gunnar Hansen, Debbie Rochon, Brian Kelly, Jon Miller,
Directors : Paul Talbot,

In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Sonali Bendre, Shafi Inamdar, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Bharat Rangachary,

A convict studies law in prison and becomes a lawyer to seek revenge against the corrupt police officer who framed him on the very day of his marriage.