This is a list of prison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life or prison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.
0–9 13 Dead Men 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, 1932 3 Deewarein 6,000 Enemies
A The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1939 Angel on My Shoulder Against the Wall Alien 3 American History X Animal Factory Anything for Her Around the World in 80 Days, 1956
B Bad Boys, 1983 Bangkok Hilton Beyond Re-Animator The Big Bird Cage The Big Doll House The Big House, 1930 Big Stan Birdman of Alcatraz Black Mama White Mama Blackmail Blood In Blood Out Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight Borstal Boy Boys' Reformatory Brawl in Cell Block 99 Breath, 2007 Bride of Frankenstein Bringing Up Baby Brokedown Palace Bronson Brubaker Brute Force, 1947
C Caesar Must Die Caged Fury, 1989 Caged in Paradiso Canon City Captain America: Civil War Captain Blood, 1935 Captives Carandiru The Case Is Closed, Forget It Castle on the Hudson Cell 211 Cell 2455, Death Row, 1955 The Chain Gang, 1930 Chain Gang, 1950 Chain Gang, 1984 Chained Heat Chicago, 2002 Chicken Run Chopper Civil Brand Clash by Night, 1963 A Clockwork Orange Con Air Con Games The Concrete Jungle Condition Red Convict 13 Convicted, 1950 Convicts 4 Cool Hand Luke The Count of Monte Cristo, 1934 Crime After Crime The Criminal The Criminal Code Crulic: The Path to Beyond
D Dear Sarah Death Warrant Deathrow Gameshow Destroyer Devil's Island, 1939 Dirty Hands, 2008 Do Aankhen Barah Haath, 1947 Dog Pound Doing Hard Time Doing Time, 2002 Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite Dracula's Daughter Dressed to Kill, 1946 Dragon in Jail Dust Be My Destiny
E Each Dawn I Die Ergastolo Ernest Goes to Jail Escape from Alcatraz Escape from Sobibor Escape Plan The Escapist, 2008 Everynight ... Everynight The Experiment, 2010 Das Experiment
F Face/Off Fast-Walking Felon Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion The First Time Is the Last Time For You I Die Fortress, 1992 Fortress 2: Re-Entry Fortune and Men's Eyes The Fox of Glenarvon
G Gamer Get the Gringo Ghost in the Cell Ghosts... of the Civil Dead The Ghost of Frankenstein Gideon's Trumpet Go for Broke!, 1951 Goodfellas Gone With the Wind The Green Mile Greenfingers Guardians of the Galaxy Gunga Din
H H3 Half Past Dead Half Past Dead 2 Heartlock Hell to Eternity Hellgate, 1952 The Hill The Hole, 1960 Holes The Hot Box Houdini House of Dracula House of Frankenstein, 1944 House of Numbers, 1957 The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939 Hunger, 2008 The Hurricane, 1937 The Hurricane, 1999
I I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang I Believe in You I Love You Phillip Morris I Want to Live! I'm Going to Get You, Elliott Boy If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle In Hell, 2003 The Inner Cage In the Name of the Father In Prison Awaiting Trial An Innocent Man Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison Invisible Stripes Island of Fire
J Jailbait, 2004 Jamila dan Sang Presiden Je li jasno, prijatelju? El juego de Arcibel Juarez, 1939
K Kill Kill Faster Faster King of the Damned Kiss of the Spider Woman
L The Last Castle Last Light The Last Mile, 1959 Law Abiding Citizen Let's Go to Prison Les Misérables, 1935 Lilies Lion's Den, 2008 Lock Up Lockdown Locked Up: A Mother's Rage The Loners The Longest Yard, 1974 The Longest Yard, 2005 Love Child, 1982 Lucky Break, 2001
M Made in Britain Madea Goes to Jail The Magic of Ordinary Days Les mains libres Maléfique The Maltese Falcon, 1931 A Man Escaped Manners of Dying Marquis The Mask of Zorro Maundy Thursday Mean Frank and Crazy Tony Mean Machine Memoirs of Prison Men of San Quentin Midnight Express Miracle in Cell No. 7, 2013 Miracle in Cell No. 7, 2019, Philippines Miracle in Cell No. 7, 2019, Turkey Miracle in Cell No. 7, 2022 Moon 44 Mrs. Soffel Muktodhara Murder in the First Mutiny in the Big House My Life for Ireland My Six Convicts
N Naked Gun : The Final Insult National Security, 2012 Natural Born Killers New Alcatraz The New Guy A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street, 2010 Night Train to Munich No Escape, 1994 North by Northwest
O Odd Man Out Ohm Kruger One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1970 Out of Sight Outland Outside These Walls
P Paddington 2 Papillon The Paradine Case Pardon Us The Party The Pearl of Death Penitentiary, 1938 Penitentiary II Perfect Exchange Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Porridge The Pot Carriers Pressure Point Prison, 1987 Prison Break Prison of Secrets Prison on Fire Prison on Fire II Prison on Fire – Life Sentence Prison Song Prison-A-Go-Go! Prisoner 1040 The Prisoner of Shark Island The Professor A Prophet Pros & Cons Psycho, 1960 Public Hero No. 1 The Pursuit of Happiness, 1971
R Raising Arizona The Reader Reflections on a Crime Release the Prisoners to Spring Riding High, 1950 Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky Ring of Death Riot Riot in Cell Block 11 The Rock Roxie Hart, 1942 Runaway Train
S Sadomania Scarlett, 1994 The Score, 1978 La Scoumoune Scum The Second Hundred Years Seed, 2007 A Sense of Freedom Seven Keys Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll The Shawshank Redemption Sherlock Holmes, 1932 Short Eyes Shot Caller The Sign of the Cross Sing Sing Slaughterhouse Rock Sleepers Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture, 1990 The Son of Monte Cristo Spotlight Scandals Starred Up Stir Stir Crazy Stoic Stranger Inside Strawberry Fields, 1997 The Sun Sets at Dawn
T Tango & Cash The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1938 Toy Story 3 The Raid 2 The Trial of Joan of Arc This Is My Affair Tower of London, 1939 Tower of London, 1962 Train to Alcatraz, 1948 True Believer, 1989 Turning to Stone Two Thousand Women Two-Way Stretch
U Un chant d'amour Unchained Undisputed Undisputed II: Last Man Standing Undisputed III: Redemption The United States of Leland
V Vendetta, 1986 Violence in a Women's Prison Virginia City, 1940
W Walls The Weak and the Wicked Wedlock Wee Willie Winkie Weeds, 1987 White Heat Wild Bill, 2011 Women in Cell Block 7 Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
Y You Can't Beat the Law You Can't Take It With You
Z The Zero Years, 2005
Documentaries featuring prisons The Cats of Mirikitani Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo Family Gathering The Feminist on Cellblock Y, 2018 Prison Ball To Be Takei Topaz, 1945 Unfinished Business, 1985
See also Prison film Films set on Devil's Island :Category:Films set in prison
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