Your favourite prison movies

[77]

What's your favourite prison movies?

Stir Crazy 'yeah that's right we bad!'. Classic

Shawshank, Green Mile, Papillon... There's loads of em.

Chopper!

 

[a_devil_inside]

Mean Machine and The Green Mile

 

[Wittmann45]

Sleepers, the Great Escape, Cool Hand Luke, American History X

And the Rock....so cheesy yet so awesome

 

[77]

I saw McVicar a bit ago, good but it's really dated now.

Bronson was good

 

[vanthaman]

Shawshank and great escape and of course Life

 

[Dan]

Escape from Alcatraz.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Shawshank

 

[duffer]

Scum.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

I saw McVicar a bit ago, good but it's really dated now.

Bronson was good

not really a prison film , most of it is set after he escapes , but still a cracking film

 

[pauldyson1uk]

How about Escape from New York , I would say a prison film

 

[NJ1979]

Carandiru

 

[esmufc07]

I watched a film called Dog Pound the other week which was good

 

[Member 39557]

Do you like films about Gladiators?

 

[FCBarca]

Different sort of prison film but really compelling, Das Experiment

 

[Randall Flagg]

Midnight Express

 

[Sw33t]

In Hell - fecking brilliant that is.

Undisputed

 

[R.N7]

A Prophet
A Man Escaped
Cool Hand Luke
The Great Escape
Das Experiment

 

[Annihilate Now!]

American History X and The Hurricane are probably my favourites.

 

[kiristao]

The Green Mile, Shawshank & The Rock for me

 

[cinc]

Tango and Cash is by far the best.

 

[olesmyhero]

Women in Prison
The Big Bird Cage

 

[Snow]

Cool Hand Luke, Papillon, Shawshank.

 

[Member 55443]

The Last Castle
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption

I guess technically they aren't set in a prison but they involve prisoners & fugitives:

The Fugitive
US Marshalls

and at bill.

 

[The Neviller]

VIM, there could be one made about your brush with the Greek legal system. A thriller it would indeed be..

 

[77]

Not strictly a prison movie but I love the scenes from The Italian Job with Noel Coward.

Porridge, the movie version.

Bird man of Alcatraz.

 

[DouLou]

Cell 211 was pretty awesome.

 

[Member 55443]

VIM, there could be one made about your brush with the Greek legal system. A thriller it would indeed be..

I would throw out a little green smiley, but that would be saying it was equally as funny as bill's Airplane reference, which frankly, it is not.

You can settle for this one.

 

[a_devil_inside]

How could I forget Death Race

 

[Zen]

A Prophet
Le Trou
Dead Man Walking

McVicar best of the guilty pleasures though.

 

[Pat_Mustard]

Again not strictly a prison movie, but seeing as it contained several cells, a few incarcerated folk, and all the protagonists were basically imprisoned, I nominate the original Assault on Precinct 13. Awesome movie.

 

[Marcosdeto]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113870/

great movie

 

[Stephen87]

Tango and Cash is by far the best.

I wish the last 10 minutes of that movie didn't happen. Staying with cheesy 80 films, lock-up isn't that bad.

 

[Sir Matt]

Shawshank and Sleepers.

 

[Hal9000]

No love for The Escapist? I pity you all.

 

[::sonny::]

1. Look up
2. Escape from Alcatraz