Prison Movies

List of the best movies about jail and prisoners, showing life and jailbreak: Prison Break: The Final Break, The Shawshank Redemption, The Experiment, Big Stan, Escape From Pretoria, King of Devil's Island, Papillon, The Next Three Days, Bad Country, Starred Up.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

The movie covers the events which occurred in between the downfall of The Company and the finale of the series. It details the arrest and incarceration of Sara Tancredi, the final escape plan which Michael devises for Sara. It also reveals the ultimate fate of Gretchen Morgan.

Markimdb: 9.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:54

Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

    Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him how to fight.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany

    South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Poland
    Duration01:56

    Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
    Duration01:00

    Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration02:13

      A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:46

      19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction
      CountryUSA

      Copper Jack Stone purposefully orchestrates a bank robbery in order to be thrown into prison with the notorious Russian kingpin Balam. Balam is more than just a mob criminal; he's a very cunning and dangerous lord who controls the police force from behind bars. Balam lives in prison as a cover for his real power, which is King of the city. His cell is a lavish private room built specifically for him, inaccessible to most in the depths of the prison structure. Even the warden fears venturing into his area of the prison. However, even surrounded by his loyal henchmen and guards in his sectioned off fortress, Balam doesn't know Jack is coming for him to avenge his family, who Balam murdered in cold blood. Balam is tough... but Jack is tougher.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia
      Duration02:08

      Eccentric consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:13

      A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryUSA

      A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:49

      Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration02:02

      A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, history
      CountryCanada, USA

      Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:36

        A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

        Markimdb: 8.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:45

        Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
        Duration02:34

        An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Set in San Tiburon, the world's most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary and home to the world's most treacherous superpowered criminals, where tensions among the inmates and staff heighten, leading to anarchy that engulfs the prison and order is turned upside down.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountryAustralia

        Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Cayman Islands, Denmark, USA
        Duration01:32

        A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama
        CountryRussia
        Duration02:30

        Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:36

        The remake of the soviet classic with a modern setting. Troshkin, a children's party entertainer, uncannily resembles the notorious criminal "Smilik". After the thief steals a valuable artifact, Troshkin is forced to act as his dead ringer in order to restore his reputation and good name.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrecomedy, family
        CountryFrance

        Antoine is the Head of HR of a big company. Managing people is his thing, so when his overwhelmed wife suddenly decides to go on holiday and leave him with the responsibility of the house and their four kids, he knows it will be a piece of cake for him. But Antoine has drastically underestimated the mess that four mischievous kids can cause...

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration01:25

        Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
        CountryNorway
        Duration01:39

          A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, cartoon, anime
          CountryJapan

          The anime's setting is a fictional Japanese city named Sugomori City. One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira to share his wounds, connects him to the classmates whose lives and personalities completely differ from his. The Kizuna System is an incomplete system for the implementation of world peace that connects people through wounds. All those who are connected to this system are called Kiznaivers. When one Kiznaiver is wounded, the system divides and transmits the wound among the other Kiznaivers. Sugomori City is built on reclaimed land, but as the years go by, the city's population is decreasing. The story is set in this town where Katsuhira and the others live.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genreaction, crime
          CountrySoviet Union
          Duration01:28

          Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecomedy, crime, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:53

          Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA

          Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them - and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Something diabolical is taking place on the set of "The Task" a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize. As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable, Unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:50

          A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrefantastic, drama
          CountryUSA

          A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Russia
          Duration01:31

          Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:30

          An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:25

          Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:30

          A retired lawman works with a new sheriff when a botched Mexican drug deal and a vicious hit man threaten their border town.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, mental illness and her eventual search for redemption.

          Markimdb: 3.7
          Genrehorror, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:01

            Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA

            On a weekday morning in a peaceful suburb of Akron, Ohio, the town awakens to discover that Rachel Turner and her son, Evan, have been brutally murdered during the night. A short while later, Danny Turner is found in his car at the bottom of a ravine, after having taken his own life.

            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA

            Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.

            Markimdb: 5
            Genredrama, western, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:49

            When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.




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