Best Prison movies

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Sangeeta Bijlani,
Directors : Ashok Gaekwad,

Follows Police Officer Siddarth whose aim is to live with honesty and respect as taught by his constable father.

Actors : Steven Marlow, Dawn Hamil, Philip Edward McFarlin, Joseph Bishop,
Directors : Javan Garza,

After the tragic death of one of her patients, Dr. Sullivan takes an assignment working for the enigmatic Dr. Freeman at his secret military facility known only as 'The Garden,' housing ...

Actors : Naoto Kine, Masanobu Katsumura, Akiko Kazami, Shôichirô Akaboshi,
Directors : Tomoyuki Akashi,

During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. ...

Actors : Sheryl Cruz, Lito Lapid, Danny Amora, Dan Alvaro,
Directors : Joey Del Rosario,

When a corrupt police captain and his henchmen framed up Macario Durano for a crime he did not commit, he then escaped from prison with revenge foremost in his mind.

Actors : Paul Rogers, Tom Bell, Kay Walsh, Judi Dench,
Directors : Charles Crichton,

Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, he goes back to his old ...

Actors : Aparajita, Tinnu Anand, Birbal, Asrani,
Directors : Vicky Ranawat,

Deputy Commissioner of Police single-handedly arrests a notorious gangster by the name of Jabbar, only to find out that Jabbar has used his political connections and got off prison without ...

Actors : Harry Capri, Piet Burnama, Lydia Kandou, Enny Beatrice,
Directors : Danu Umbara,

Women escape from brutal prison.

Actors : Walter Olkewicz, Kenneth White, Kenn Whitaker, Gabriel Jarret,
Directors : Mark J. Harris,

A walled off, "by the book" State Executioner befriends a man on death row and is humanized by the experience.

Actors : Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Harp McGuire, Joan Evans,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Nick gets out of prison after serving his time for robbery, but no one ever found the stolen money, a quarter million dollars. Everyone's watching him: the police, a mobster, his girlfriend...

Actors : Kaneko Iwasaki, Minoru Ôki, Ken Takakura, Takashi Shimura,
Directors : Yasuo Furuhata,

After causing problems, Ken Takahara is transferred from Abashiri to the honor factory at Tanigawa Prison. When the local yakuza gang is hired to destroy the factory, Takahara has to take violent action to save it.

Actors : Luke Mullaney, Olga Antal, Karl Tessler, Laura Favali,
Directors : Sándor Söth,

1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to escape to Sweden fails and they find themselves in a Polish prison.

Actors : Chloé Malaisé, Brian Gross, Christy Carlson Romano, Carson Rowland,
Directors : Barbie Castro,

When a rising teen singer is falsely accused of murdering her producer, her estranged mother must find the real killer before her daughter is sent to prison for life.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Michel Tureau, Georges Géret, Pierre Vaneck,
Directors : Daniel Moosmann,

Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which ...

Actors : Simon Yam, Cecilia Yip, Kwok Keung Cheung, Farini Cheung,
Directors : Kai Keung Lai,

Simon Yam and Cecilia Yip reteam again in this film. Yam plays a benevolent gangster that is set up by his right hand man and is sent to prison for over ten years. Once released, his wife ...

Actors : Jean Willes, John Pickard, James Brown, John Clarke,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

In this movie filmed and released in 1961 (and not a 1962 production), an escaped convict returns to town and begins a reign of terror. Marked for death are Dr. Dean Knudtson, his wife ...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Fubuki Koshiji, Hideo Sunazuka, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Filmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. With the help of his former cell mate he decides to assassinate the politician with an explosive pen.

Actors : Carlos Cotrim, Tônia Carrero, Sadi Cabral, Arturo de Córdova,

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a ...

Actors : John Van Dreelen, Brent Huff, Mary Stavin, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Super tough Vietnam Veteran Sam Woods (Huff) is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape... See full synopsis »

Actors : Christina Trevino, C.H. Morris, Sebastian Trevino, Daniela Somers,
Directors : Justin Price,

When an elementary school teacher named Angelica gets involved with a newly relocated family, she discovers that they are hiding from more than just a broken marriage. What do you do when Daddy comes home?

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini, Mirca Viola, Marco Leonardi,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another prisoner who also has a score to settle with the drug dealer who set the Italian up.