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This is a list ofprison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life orprison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.

• 13 Dead Men
• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, 1932
• 3 Deewarein
• 6,000 Enemies

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1939
• Angel on My Shoulder
• Against the Wall
• Alien 3
• American History X
• Animal Factory^[1]
• Anything for Her
• Around the World in 80 Days, 1956

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Each Dawn I Die
• Ergastolo
• Ernest Goes to Jail
• Escape from Alcatraz^[1]
• Escape from Sobibor
• Escape Plan
• The Escapist, 2008
• Everynight ... Everynight
• The Experiment, 2010
• Das Experiment

• Face/Off
• Fast-Walking
• Felon
• Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion^[2]
• 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

• Gamer
• Get the Gringo
• 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

• 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 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^[1]
• In Prison Awaiting Trial
• An Innocent Man
• Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
• Invisible Stripes
• Island of Fire

• Jailbait, 2004
• Jamila dan Sang Presiden
• Je li jasno, prijatelju?
• El juego de Arcibel
• Juarez, 1939

• Kill Kill Faster Faster
• King of the Damned
• Kiss of the Spider Woman

• 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

• 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

• Naked Gun33+1⁄3: 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

• Odd Man Out
• Ohm Kruger
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1970
• Out of Sight
• Outland
• Outside These Walls

• 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

• 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

• 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^[1]
• Sherlock Holmes, 1932
• Short Eyes
• Shot Caller
• The Sign of the Cross
• 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

• Tango & Cash
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1938
• Toy Story 3
• 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

• Un chant d'amour
• Unchained
• Undisputed^[1]
• Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
• Undisputed III: Redemption
• The United States of Leland

• Vendetta, 1986
• Violence in a Women's Prison
• Virginia City, 1940

• 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

• You Can't Beat the Law
• You Can't Take It With You

• The Zero Years, 2005

• 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

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