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Best Prison Movies

The deprivation of liberty is the punishment for the crime committed, and prisons exist to enforce this. The best prison movies are about what happens in these places where no one wants to be.

Thursday, March 14, 2024
| by Mehmet Demir
Best Prison Movies

The best prison movies focus on the experiences of people in prison, some of whom are actually guilty and some of whom are found guilty as a result of slander. Sometimes the struggle for survival and sometimes the preparations to escape from prison are the subjects of the best prison movies. But what we see in these movies is that no day is easy while living in prison. Perhaps the biggest danger is the order that some criminals, who have accepted not being free, have established by using violence in prison.

Not all of the best prison movies take place, from start to finish, inside the prison's high walls and barbed wire fences. In some of these movies, the story of being imprisoned, or after the prison days is also discussed. Perhaps the most misleading prejudice created by all prison movies, even the best ones, is the impression that prison wardens and guards are malevolent people eager to carry out their own punishments. Of course, there are officials who abuse their power, but we do not want to believe that all of them are like this.

It's no surprise that the best prison movies of all time starred some of the most famous actors and actresses of all time. We watched Oscar winners in the best prison movies, and some even managed to win Oscars with their performances in these movies. It can be said that the best prison movies have a strange common feature. While some of them are considered some of the best movies of all time, many are movies that were nominated for multiple Oscars but did not win.

It's time to choose which are the best prison movies, and for this, it is necessary to go back in time. Among all the movies set in prison, I have selected the most prominent ones one by one. Then, I picked among them and brought together the best prison movies of all time for you. It wouldn't be wrong to say that each of the best prison movies, some of which are filled with sad stories and some with action, are productions that teach lessons about life. Let's take a look at the best prison movies.

Best Prison Movies
Director
Frank Darabont
Release Year
1994
Stars
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
Director
Frank Darabont
Release Year
1999
Stars
Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Release Year
1973
Stars
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon
Director
Martin Scorsese
Release Year
2010
Stars
Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Director
John Frankenheimer
Release Year
1962
Stars
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Director
Don Siegel
Release Year
1979
Stars
Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau
Director
F. Gary Gray
Release Year
2009
Stars
Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney
Director
Tim Robbins
Release Year
1995
Stars
Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry
Director
Hwan-kyung Lee
Release Year
2013
Stars
Seung-ryong Ryu, Kal So-won, Dal-su Oh, Man-sik Jeong
Director
Michael Noer
Release Year
2017
Stars
Charlie Hunnam, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan