Top 100 gg Prison Movies

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.

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

A child molester sent to prison finds that criminals exact harsher justice than society.

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

Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.

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

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.

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

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

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.

A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

A death row guard learns that a gentle giant in his charge possesses a mysterious gift.

A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove his worth.

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

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.

A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.

Rune has to spend the next two years in Horsens State Prison. Being the prison for the most violent men, he also has to survive it with its violent dog-eat-dog rules.

Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

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