1. Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
2. Parole Girl
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
3. Scum
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
4. Rampage Electra
A young girl discovers the truth regarding the secrets of her past. Just as she discovers the truth, events take place that change her life forever.
5. Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
6. Die Grünstein-Variante (Die Grünstein-Variante)
The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. Law Abiding Citizen
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
It has an average vote of 7.391 on TMDB.
8. Van Diemen's Land
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
It has an average vote of 5.333 on TMDB.
9. The Big Bird Cage
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
10. Le Deuxième Souffle (Le Deuxième Souffle)
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
11. Battered Flesh (Carne apaleada)
Berta has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.
It has an average vote of 2.7 on TMDB.
12. Guncrazy
California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classmates. This all changes when a pen-pal school project connects her with convict Howard. Anita secures Howard's parole and violently squares off against Rooney after he rapes her. Soon enough, the gun-crazy teen is on the run with Howard, with his parole officer in pursuit.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
13. Salty Air (L'aria salata)
An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
14. The Walled In (Zazidani)
A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides to save guard's life who have been fallen into the river while trying to catch him. Since the guard's job is now to keep an eye on him in the cell, they spend a lot time together and their hatred turns into a sincere friendship. The guard wants to help inmate to escape again.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
15. The Mad Game
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
16. The Exit Room
Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revolution.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
17. The Longest Yard
A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards.
18. Johny Mera Naam (जॉनी मेरा नाम)
When a gangster named Heeralal gets arrested, he befriends Johny, a petty thief, in prison. He seeks Jony's help in executing his mission of smuggling a few diamonds. Johny, however, is an undercover CID officer named Sohan.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
19. LUZ
Ruben and Carlos become cellmates in a minimum-security prison. While Ruben struggles to learn the ropes of daily life and where he falls in the complex hierarchical prison system, Carlos becomes a mentor and then eventually a lover. The two men develop feelings for one another they can't easily express. As time moves on and one of them is released before the other, there are questions looming as to whether what they had was real or simply out of the need for human connection.
It has an average vote of 5.692 on TMDB.
20. A Second Chance (Si c'était à refaire)
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
