Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life behind bars to escape thrillers to World War II team-ups to earnest ...

While Prison Break began with a relatively simple premise, the story became more complicated over time, with the mysterious ...

A historical and revolutionary film based on N. Virta's story "Escape" about the events of the preparatory period for the Second Congress of the RSDLP (1902), the escape from the Lukyanovo prison in ...

“Le Trou” (1960): This stunning, deadpan prison escape movie is based on a real incident from a prison in Paris in 1947. About the only thing about it that’s not super-realistic is how attractive the ...

These prison movies are captivating. Get it? Some of the best movies are actually movies about life on the outside, where the prison represents the mental traps imposed on us by society, or our own ...