Best Prison movies

Actors : Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Danny Cannon,

In a dystopian future, Joseph Dredd, the most famous Judge (a police officer with instant field judiciary powers), is convicted for a crime he did not commit and must face his murderous counterpart.

Actors : Scott Adkins, Thomas Turgoose, Craig Fairbrass, Nick Moran,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

After years of assaults on him in prison, Cain escapes for avengement on those responsible.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance,

Two cops are framed and must clear their names.

Actors : David Morse, Robin Wright, Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Sean Penn,

Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.

Actors : Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alban Lenoir, Stéfi Celma, Ramzy Bedia,
Directors : Guillaume Pierret,

A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.

Actors : Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Edwina Findley Dickerson, Lorraine Toussaint,
Directors : Ava DuVernay,

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

Actors : Archie Alemania, Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Soliman Cruz,
Directors : Lav Diaz,

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.

Actors : Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Luke Forbes, Natalie Paul,
Directors : Matt Ruskin,

When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway,
Directors : James Foley,

A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Actors : Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Lilou Siauvaud, Matt Damon,
Directors : Tom McCarthy,

A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.

Actors : Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Actors : Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Iain Robertson,
Directors : Jake Scott,

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of ...

Actors : Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Larry Charles,

A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Will Patton, Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson,
Directors : Tim Disney,

A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.

Actors : Joe Cole, Panya Yimmumphai, Nicolas Shake, Vithaya Pansringarm,
Directors : Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Actors : Olivier Martinez, Joanne Whalley, Jim Caviezel, James Faulkner,
Directors : Andrew Hyatt,

The story covers Paul going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle.