Critically acclaimed Prison movies

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 : Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Actors : Wood Harris, Jonathan Majors, Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson,
Directors : Michael B. Jordan,

Adonis has been thriving in both his career and family life, but when a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy resurfaces, the face-off is more than just a fight.

Actors : Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff,
Directors : Peter Mullan,

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Actors : Christopher Wolfe, Michael Harding, Charlie Pye Jr., Jamie Foxx,
Directors : Destin Daniel Cretton,

World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

Actors : Steve Zahn, Zach Grenier, Jeremy Davies, Christian Bale,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Actors : Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw,
Directors : Steve McQueen,

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff,
Directors : Chinonye Chukwu,

As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Actors : Yayan Ruhian, Oka Antara, Arifin Putra, Iko Uwais,
Directors : Gareth Evans,

Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

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 : Steve Tientcheu, Bakary Koné, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Jean Cyrille Digbeu,
Directors : Philippe Lacôte,

A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Actors : Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton, William Ruane,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Actors : Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Edi Gathegi, RJ Cyler,
Directors : Jeymes Samuel,

When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being released from prison, he reunites his gang to seek revenge in this Western.

Actors : Nate Parker, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck,
Directors : David Lowery,

The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Victor Almanzar,
Directors : S. Craig Zahler,

A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.

Actors : Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, David Alan Grier, Kyra Sedgwick, Yasiin Bey,
Directors : Nicole Kassell,

A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.