Highest grossing Prison movies

Actors : Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Harris, Tom Hardy,
Directors : Andy Serkis,

Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.

Actors : Taye Diggs, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere,
Directors : Rob Marshall,

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Actors : Nelly, Burt Reynolds, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Peter Segal,

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

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 : David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

Actors : Ed Harris, John Spencer, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Michael Bay,

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Queen Latifah, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy,
Directors : Adam Shankman,

When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi, Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund,
Directors : Angelina Jolie,

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Justin Bartha, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms,
Directors : Todd Phillips,

When one of their own is kidnapped by an angry gangster, the Wolf Pack must track down Mr. Chow, who has escaped from prison and is on the run.

Actors : Peter Brocco, Michael Berryman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Milos Forman,

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara,
Directors : Robert Rodriguez,

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.

Actors : John Malkovich, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Colm Meaney,
Directors : Simon West,

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Actors : T.I., Alison Brie, Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart,
Directors : Etan Cohen,

When millionaire James King is jailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to Darnell Lewis to prep him to go behind bars.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

After her humiliated husband kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against a woman and her family.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Leslie Bibb, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney, Gerard Butler,
Directors : F. Gary Gray,

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Actors : Adelaide Kane, Max Burkholder, Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey,
Directors : James DeMonaco,

A wealthy family are held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.

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

Two cops are framed and must clear their names.