The Best Prison Movies and TV Shows of All Time

    75 titles

    1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
    2. The Green Mile (1999)
    3. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
    4. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
    5. Papillon (1973)
    6. Midnight Express (1978)
    7. The Great Escape (1963)
    8. A Prophet (2009)
    9. Hunger (2008)
    10. Starred Up (2014)
    11. Shot Caller (2017)
    12. Felon (2008)
    13. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
    14. The Last Castle (2001)
    15. Bronson (2009)
    16. The Escapist (2008)
    17. Escape Plan (2013)
    18. Get the Gringo (2012)
    19. Life (1999)
    20. The Longest Yard (2005)
    21. Let's Go to Prison (2006)
    22. Brute Force (1947)
    23. Le Trou (1960)
    24. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
    25. The Big House (1930)
    26. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
    27. The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
    28. 13th (2016)
    29. American Me (1992)
    30. Bound by Honor (1993)
    31. The Rock (1996)
    32. Cell 211 (2009)
    33. Animal Factory (2000)
    34. The Hurricane (1999)
    35. The Platform (2019)
    36. Unbroken (2014)
    37. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
    38. The Longest Yard (1974)
    39. Bad Boys (1983)
    40. Stir Crazy (1980)
    41. American History X (1998)
    42. Dead Man Walking (1995)
    43. In the Name of the Father (1993)
    44. Scum (1979)
    45. Clemency (2019)
    46. Brubaker (1980)
    47. The Defiant Ones (1958)
    48. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
    49. Escape from Pretoria (2020)
    50. The Mauritanian (2021)
    51. The Mustang (2019)
    52. Sing Sing (2024)
    53. A Man Escaped (1956)
    54. The Hill (1965)
    55. Chopper (2000)
    56. The Life of David Gale (2003)
    57. The Informer (2019)
    58. Papillon (2017)
    59. Prison Break (2005)
    60. Oz (1997)
    61. Orange Is the New Black (2013)
    62. Wentworth (2013)
    63. The Night Of (2016)
    64. Black Bird (2022)
    65. Escape at Dannemora (2018)
    66. Locked Up (2015)
    67. Prisoner (1979)
    68. Bad Girls (1999)
    69. For Life (2020)
    70. Time (2021)
    71. Inside the World's Toughest Prisons (2016)
    72. 60 Days In (2016)
    73. Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
    74. Prison Playbook (2017)
    75. El marginal (2016)