Best prison movies

Paul Edgecomb, the head death row guard at a prison in 1930s Louisiana, meets an inmate, John Coffey, a black man who is accused of murdering two girls. His life changes drastically when he discovers that John has a special gift.

A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell, who left society to live in the jungle, is imprisoned for murder, it"s up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder to get through to him.

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

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.

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team"s escape.

A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

A story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six year old daughter. Prison will be their home. Based on the 2013 Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013).

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil"s Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

An Irish man"s coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.

An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.

Locked up for killing an intruder in self-defense, a family man must cope with life in the violent penal system.

Chicago crime kid, Mick O"Brien, is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival"s kid brother.

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens" entertainment.