50 Best Prison & Escape Movies (2000-2017)

A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.

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.

When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

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

Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.

Locked up for killing an intruder in self-defense, a family man must cope with life in the violent penal system.

A timid con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud, so he hires a reclusive martial arts guru who helps transform him into a kung fu expert with the ability to fight off convicts who want to either hurt or love him.

Boyka is back. This time he is fighting in the first ever inter-prison tournament with one knee.

Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges.

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

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

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.

Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.

A football star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.

A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.

A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.