Most popular Prison movies

Actors : Bill McKinney, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.

Actors : Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : John Spencer, Ed Harris, 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 : 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 : J.E. Freeman, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : David Lynch,

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin, John Wayne,

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : Roger Rees, Richard Lewis, Amy Yasbeck, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

A spoof of Robin Hood in general and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.

Actors : Cole Hauser, Keith David, Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel,
Directors : David Twohy,

A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.

Actors : Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson,

Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.

Actors : Raffaella Carrà, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Brad Dexter,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Actors : Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown, Fernando Lamas,
Directors : Tom Gries,

In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, native revolutionary Yaqui Joe robs a bank to buy arms for his oppressed people, but finds himself sought by an American lawman and the Mexican Army.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.

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

Two cops are framed and must clear their names.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Bill Pullman,
Directors : David Lynch,

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

Actors : Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Marlon Brando,

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.

Actors : Nisa Sofiya Aksongur, Aras Bulut Iynemli, Deniz Baysal, Celile Toyon Uysal,
Directors : Mehmet Ada Öztekin,

A story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six years old daughter. The prison would be their home. Based on 2013 Korean movie "Miracle in cell No. 7".

Actors : Clifton James, Otis Young, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, Goldie Hawn, William Atherton,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Marco Brambilla,

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.