Best Prison movies

Actors : Hee-ra Kim, Il-bong Yun, Shi-chan Na, Hye-kyeong Jang,
Directors : Doo-yong Lee,

So-dol, serving a prison sentence after being accused of murdering his friend, gets a 7 day leave from the prison when his mother dies. As soon as he and the guard assigned to him arrive in...

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Amjad Khan, Pran, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Shankar Handover his child Ratan to Bhola while he is sentenced to prison. He tells him to raise Ratan in such a way that one day his child should rule the country.

Actors : Rafal Zawierucha, Marian Dziedziel, Piotr Glowacki, Marcin Czarnik,
Directors : Maciej Barczewski,

A historical drama depicting the story of Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski, a pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz.

Actors : Jennifer Statler, Pati Magee, Pamela Perry, Jo Ann Kelly,
Directors : Barry Mahon,

Five female prisoners murder an informer, then escape through a drainpipe into the streets of New York.

Actors : Nami Matsukawa, Shigeru Muroi, Mina Asami, Ryoko Watanabe,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

An inmate attempts to escape from prison and is confronted by the guard.

Actors : Sharat Saxena, Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Tanuja,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Shanker is jailed for theft and there meets with Tony, who introduces him to professional boxing, after witnessing him fight an inmate. When he gets out of jail, Shanker takes up professional boxing.

Actors : John Ireland, Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles, Robert Walker Jr.,
Directors : Laurence Harvey,

A bank robber is sentenced to prison for committing a murder during the robbery. His brother comes up with a plan to break him out of prison--but on the condition that his brother's girlfriend "date" him first.

Actors : Paul Klinger, Judith Dornys, Heinz Drache, Ingmar Zeisberg,
Directors : Rudolf Zehetgruber,

A private detective tries to find out how and why some convicts have mysteriously disappeared from the prison of Dartmoor.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Shafi Inamdar, Smita Patil, Sabia,
Directors : I.V. Sasi,

Mary, an inmate of an orphanage run by nuns, is good at studies and is artistically talented, her education so far has been sponsored by a philanthropist. Her sponsor, a rich old man who ...

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 : Stefan Stefanov, Ivan Nestorov, Kolio Donchev, Kristiyan Fokov,
Directors : Kiril Ilinchev,

Three thematically related novels. The first one is "Peter". In a room of provincial railway station, two men guard the prisoner Peter. Peter observes the life from behind the bars. Soon ...

Actors : Beano, Angelyne, Ted Prior, Vincent Barbi,
Directors : Tony Zarindast,

When Bud McCall is framed for a drugs charge he ends up in prison and he must prove his innocence by testifying against his former police partner to put him and his gang behind bars for good.

Actors : Jayant, Shashi Kapoor, Sujit Kumar, Jagdeep,
Directors : Prayag Raj,

Raghuvir is a career criminal, and one day he is arrested by the Police, tried in Court, and sentenced to a long prison term. Shortly thereafter, he breaks out of prison, goes to the Judge ...

Actors : Siboney Lo, Noel Gugliemi, Rafael Pony Boy Ochoa, Manuel Skribe Garcia,
Directors : Juan Frausto,

After Spending years in prison, Pony Boy is finally returning to the world he has missed so much, his old neighborhood. A former gang member, pony is now a changed man and vows never to go ...

Actors : Yayoi Watanabe, Kiwako Taichi, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After eight years in prison, Takeshi's mission is a big heist from his own clan's gambling parlor.

Actors : Duane Hahn, Tim Ormond, Nancy Harper, Craig Cortney,
Directors : Ron Ormond,

The true story of Ed Martin, former chain gang convict who converted to Christianity in prison in 1944 and formed the HopeAglow Prison Ministries. Ron Ormond's dramatized version of Ed's ...

Actors : Eve Brent, Bill Hale, Bernie Thomas, Bing Russell,
Directors : James Landis,

Father Joe Dasco, played by actor Bing Russell, is released from prison after serving a three year term for bank robber. He reunites with his ten year old son, played by actor Billy E. ...

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 : Andrew Stevens, Julian Glover, Lucy Gutteridge, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Tara Moore,

Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidden ivory trade only to lock horns with ...

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Takis Spiridakis, Katerina Daskalaki, Stefanos Riskas,
Directors : Thodoros Maragos,

In a prison cell two lifers meet, a former truck driver and the other one a "volunteer" who entered the prison because he believes that life as an inmate prisoner is better than outside.