Critically acclaimed Prison movies of 2010s

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

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

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

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

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 : Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Tomasz Zietek, Eliza Rycembel,
Directors : Jan Komasa,

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Actors : Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell, Steve Whitmire,
Directors : James Bobin,

While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

Actors : Ed Harris, Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess,
Directors : Peter Weir,

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.

Actors : Emilio Buale, Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan,
Directors : Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia,

A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bel Powley, Richie Merritt,
Directors : Yann Demange,

The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Actors : Ezra Miller, Billy Crudup, Olivia Thirlby, Tye Sheridan,
Directors : Kyle Patrick Alvarez,

Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

Actors : Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang, Viola Davis,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.

Actors : Liam Neeson, Michael Buie, Elizabeth Banks, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Paul Haggis,

A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine,
Directors : Jonathan Teplitzky,

A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jude Law, Demián Bichir, Emilia Clarke,
Directors : Richard Shepard,

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Actors : Jon Bernthal, Susan Sarandon, Rafi Gavron, Dwayne Johnson,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A father goes undercover for the DEA in order to free his son, who was imprisoned after being set up in a drug deal.

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.