Best Prison movies of 2000s

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Eriq La Salle, Laurence Kinlan, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Mark Hammond,

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few ...

Actors : In-jae Heo, Eun-pyo Jeong, In-seong Hwang, Jeong-su Han,
Directors : Seok-beom Kang,

Released from prison, Taesik goes to live with an adopted mother. He takes a job and tries to live a quiet life with his new family. His efforts are threatened when a politician seeks to knock the family restaurant down to build a mall.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Radha Mitchell, Mary Steenburgen, Skeet Ulrich,
Directors : David Seltzer,

An outlaw, a waitress and her misfit neighbor come upon a baby in the midst of car wreckage. With his former partner in crime out to get him, the outlaw and his new friends put their lives on the line to protect the infant from danger.

Actors : Marta Etura, Verónica Sánchez, Gabriella Pession, Pilar López de Ayala,
Directors : Emilio Martínez Lázaro,

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940's. ...

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Gabriel Byrne, Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Sean Stanek,

An examination of the malevolent London underworld with its despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight-year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

Actors : Alessio Boni, Isabella Ferrari, Michele Placido, Alina Nedelea,
Directors : Michele Soavi,

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle...

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Jason Flemyng, Vanessa Paradis, Jean-Pierre Marielle,

James Bataille escapes from prison to find his fiancée Concia. But on his return, octopussy like aliens come to play bloody spoilsport. After lucky battle James and Concia escape to parallel world.

Actors : Ryô, Shun Sugata, Koyuki, Hideo Sakaki,
Directors : Ryûhei Kitamura,

After survivng his own execution, Tenshu choses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials.

Actors : Brandon Stacy, Chriss Anglin, Bay Bruner, Griff Furst,
Directors : Peter Mervis,

After killing four persons in his home with a shotgun, Dee Travis claims that he had accidentally ingested an experimental biotoxin that the company Blackthorn where he worked was ...

Actors : André Wilms, Lorànt Deutsch, Jean Dujardin, Clémence Poésy,
Directors : Francis Palluau,

Two dangerous convicts escape while transferring between jail houses and find refuge in the lovely little house of the charming Roze family. The situation brings everyone's instincts to the surface.

Actors : Atul Kulkarni, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manoj Bajpayee, Mugdha Godse,
Directors : Madhur Bhandarkar,

Remanded to policy custody, a man reviews his options in an overcrowded jail while awaiting trial.

Actors : Vicellous Shannon, Richard Waugh, Yannick Bisson, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Ryan Combs,

Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James "Animal" Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out ...

Actors : Jeremy Renner, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Tucker, Ginnifer Goodwin,
Directors : Kyle Bergersen,

A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.

Actors : Ariadna Gil, Ricardo Darín, Miranda Bodenhofer, Abel Ayala,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

With the advent of democracy in Chile, a general amnesty for prisoners of non violent crime is enacted. Angel Santiago, a young man determined to avenge the abuse he suffered in prison, ...

Actors : Preeti Barameeanat, Khanutra Chuchuaysuwan, Kumpanat Oungsoongnern, Phutharit Prombandal,
Directors : Thanakorn Pongsuwan,

Tai, a young man arrested on a crime charge, is discharged thanks to his twin brother Tan's dogged help. After being set free, he finds Tan in a coma with severe injuries. Tan's girlfriend,...

Actors : Vahide Perçin, Tarik Pabuccuoglu, Çetin Tekindor, Halit Ergenç,
Directors : Nihat Durak,

A Turkish coastal town, in 1990: The unexpected visit of his long lost brother Asaf disturbs Azmi Arifoglu. 4o years ago Asaf was a prisoner of war, and Azmi managed to let him pronounce ...

Actors : Nicholas Lamont, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Moss, Neil Fitzmaurice,
Directors : Jim Doyle,

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Actors : Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Michael James Rowland,

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Alexa PenaVega, Timothy Hutton, Luke Arnold,
Directors : Dagen Merrill,

A sheep-rancher's son aspires to win a music conservatory scholarship, but to apply he needs musicians who can play his music. Circumstances lead him to form a band out of prison inmates.

Actors : Thomas Høite Meersohn, Igor Radosavljevic, Jens Albinus, Marijana Jankovic,
Directors : Christoffer Boe,

A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political ...