Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.

Animal Factory

2000

English

6.6

♡ 20

83%

Steve Buscemi Director

Steve Buscemi as A.R. Hosspack

Willem Dafoe as Earl Copen

Vincent Laresca as Ernie

Seymour Cassel as Lt. Seeman

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.

Clemency

2019

English

6.5

♡ 12

92%

Chinonye Chukwu Director

Aldis Hodge as Anthony Woods

John Churchill as Brooks

Alma Martinez as Ms. Jimenez

Alex Castillo as Victor Jimenez

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Vendetta

2015

English

4.7

♡ 12

36%

Jen Soska Director

Benjamin Hollingsworth as Joel Gainer

Jonathan Walker as Lester

Dean Cain as Mason Danvers

Michael Eklund as Warden Snyder

A hard-nosed detective deliberately commits a crime to get thrown in prison, allowing him the chance to seek vengeance on a criminal serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his wife.

Mrs. Soffel

1984

English

6.1

♡ 6

46%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Mel Gibson as Ed Biddle

Heather Graham as Factory Girl

Diane Keaton as Kate Soffel

David Fox as McNeil

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

Convicted

1950

English

6.8

♡ 3

54%

Henry Levin Director

Frank Faylen as Convict Ponti

Douglas Kennedy as Det. Bailey

Richard Hale as Judge

Harry Harvey as Parole Board Member

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Unspeakable

2002

English

3.6

♡ 2

parent child relationship

Thomas J. Wright Director

Marco Rodríguez as Cesar

Dina Meyer as Diana Purlow

Jeff Fahey as Governor

Miguel Pérez as Guard #1

Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

French

6.8

♡ 2

Action

based on novel or book

Luis Buñuel Director

Jean Servais as Alejandro Gual

Víctor Junco as Indarte

José Chávez as Le chauffeur transportant Inès Rojàs

Enrique Lucero as Vila

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.

Caged Heat

1974

English

5.3

♡ 7

76%

Jonathan Demme Director

Patrick Wright as Cop at Gas Station

John Aprea as Dream Man

George Armitage as Family Car Driver

Julian Christopher as Sharpshooter

A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.

Lock Up

1989

English

6.4

♡ 64

31%

John Flynn Director

William Allen Young as Braden

Danny Trejo as Chink's Gang

Sylvester Stallone as Frank

Frank Pesce as Johnson

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

Escape Plan

2013

English

♡ 320

50%

Mikael Håfström Director

Sam Neill as Dr. Kyrie

Jim Caviezel as Hobbes

Vincent D'Onofrio as Lester Clark

Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

Runaway Train

1985

English

7.2

♡ 36

83%

Andrey Konchalovskiy Director

Danny Trejo as Boxer

Eric Roberts as Buck McGeehy

Norman Alexander Gibbs as Queen Con

John P. Ryan as Warden Ranken

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

Brubaker

1980

English

7.1

♡ 17

74%

Action

arkansas

based on a true story

Crime

Drama

liberation of prisoners

prison

prison warden

undercover

Stuart Rosenberg Director

Noble Willingham as Dr. Fenster

Everett McGill as Eddie Caldwell

Jack O'Leary as Floor Walker

Morgan Freeman as Walter

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

Caged

1950

English

7.6

♡ 6

50%

John Cromwell Director

Don Beddoe as Commissioner Sam Walker

Lee Patrick as Elvira Powell

Jan Sterling as Jeta Kovsky - aka Smoochie

Agnes Moorehead as Ruth Benton

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden

1977

German

4.5

♡ 23

Jesús Franco Director

Alex Exler as

Jesús Franco as Dr. Milton Arcos

Dyanne Thorne as Greta

Roman Huber as Prisoner

A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the disappearance of her sister, a former patient. Meanwhile, the hospital warden and her attendants abuse and torture their charges, forcing them to star in cheap skinflicks.