Prison movies

Still awaiting further communication from Ted at RMC-Main. In the meantime:

Here’s a list of some [supposedly great] prison movies. Below the list are the sites that listed them and some synopses of each movie.

- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Green Mile
- The Last Castle
- Cool Hand Luke
- Assault on Precinct 13
- The Rock
- Escape from Alcatraz
- The Hurricane
- Dead Man Walking
- Life
- Escape from New York
- Fortress
- Con Air
- My Cousin Vinny
- Chicago
- Alien 3
- Blood In, Blood Out (Bound by Honor)
- The Longest Yard
- Death Race
- In the Name of the Father
- And God Created Woman
- Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Hart’s War
- Hanoi Hilton
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Banished Behind Bars
- Prison of Secrets
- Murder in the First
- Caged Heat
- There Was a Crooked Man
- Gothika
- Lock Up
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Reindeer Games
- The Reader
- Midnight Express
- Prison on Fire
- Death Warrant
- American History X
- Ernest Goes to Jail
- Let’s Go to Prison
- The Birdman of Alcatraz
- Bad Boys
- Papillon
- The Deer Hunter
- The Great Escape
- Chicago (2002)
- 48 Hours
- Stir Crazy
- The Life of David Gale
- 25th Hour
- 21 Grams
- Stalag 17
- Brubaker
- The Great Raid

If you have another movie to add, please send to teeninjail@yahoo.com.

For more on these movies, visit the following links:

The Top Five Prison Movies of All Time

Best Prison Movies

Amazon.com’s Best Prison Movies

The Best Prison Movies – eBaum’s World Forum

Best Prison Movies of All Time – Franks Reel Reviews