List of the latest prison movies in 2025 and the best prison movies of 2024 & the 2010's. Top prison movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now.
New prison movies in 2025 in Cinema & on VOD
Top movies up for release in 2025 in cinema and on VOD-
Sing Sing
DIRECTOR: Greg Kwedar
CAST: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin & Sean San Jose
The Sing Sing Correctional Facility is filled with not just prisoners but actors. Through a Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, well-read men like Divine G can express themselves where less cultured men like Divine Eye can grow. Great joy and despair is felt by the men who try to put on a stage production and reconnect with a world they’ve been denied. Based on a real-life prison program, this touching drama comes from director Greg Kwedar (Transpecos) and stars Colman Domingo (If Beale Street Could Talk), Clarence Maclin, Sean San José, and Paul Raci (Sound of Metal). All Release dates
Best prison movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ or DVD in 2025
2024, 2023, 2021, 2020 and the 2010's best rated prison movies out on DVD, Bluray or streaming on VOD (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ & More).-
Vogter
DIRECTOR: Gustav Möller
CAST: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Dar Salim & Jacob Ulrik Lohmann
Eva is a prison guard that is finding it harder to continue on with a sense of justice after enduring the tragic loss of her son. The murderer of her child is also being held in the very prison she guards. With the killer behind bars, Eva must question whether she’ll do her job and uphold the law or go above it to get back at the person who took away her son. This gritty thriller comes from director Gustav Möller (The Guilty, Before The Frost) and screenwriter Emil Nygaard Albertsen (1899), with a cast that includes Dar Salim, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jacob Lohmann, and Sebastian Bull. All Release dates -
Home
DIRECTOR: Franka Potente
CAST: Kathy Bates, Jake McLaughlin & Lil Rel Howery
Franka Potente, known for her role in Run Lola Run, makes her directorial debut with this intriguing drama about trying to leave a life of crime behind. The film follows an ex-felon who has just been released from prison and seeks to get his life back together. He finds himself returning home and trying to confront the darkness of his past in hopes of carving out a better future. This emotional picture stars the likes of Jake McLaughlin, Kathy Bates, and Aisling Franciosi. Watch the trailer of Home
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The Big Hit
DIRECTOR: Emmanuel Courcol
CAST: Kad Merad, Marina Hands & Laurent Stocker
Etienne is finding himself all washed up as an actor who can hardly any work. The only opportunity he can find for theater is directing the theater workshop of a prison. He decides to produce Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot but will have to do so with an acting troupe of prisoners who are in need of some guidance. But will it be enough to prepare these prisoners for when the curtain finally opens? It’s up to Etienne to make the play come off stunning in this quirky comedy from director Emmanuel Courcol. All Release dates -
Escape from Pretoria
DIRECTOR: Francis Annan
CAST: Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart & Daniel Webber
Two white anti-apartheid activists imprisoned on the notorious Robben Island are determined to make their escape. Starring Daniel Radcliffe. Watch the trailer of Escape from Pretoria
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Semper Fi
DIRECTOR: Henry Alex Rubin
CAST: Jai Courtney, Nat Wolff & Finn Wittrock
The story sees Courtney as Cal, a by-the-book police officer who makes ends meet as a Marine Corps reservist along with his rowdy and inseparable group of childhood friends. When Cal's younger,... Watch the trailer of Semper Fi
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The Mustang
DIRECTOR: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
CAST: Josh Stewart, Connie Britton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Gideon Adlon
Mustang stars Matthias Schoenaerts plays the violent convict Roman Coleman. Coleman gets the chance to participate to train wild mustangs as part of a rehabilitation program. Through connecting with a horse, he faces and comes to with his violent past. Watch the trailer of The Mustang
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Fonzo
DIRECTOR: Josh Trank
CAST: Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini & Matt Dillon
An iconic actor to play iconic gangster. Tom Hardy as Al Capone. After having spend 10 years in prison Al, at age 47, slowly loses touch with reality as he develops dementia. Fonzo is a biographical crime drama about an old Al Capone who gets haunted by his violent past. Watch the trailer of Fonzo
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Leonera
DIRECTOR: Pablo Trapero
CAST: Martina Gusman Elli Medeiros Rodrigo Santoro
A heart-touching rendition of prison life that showcases the bond of motherhood as a mother separated from her child struggles to raise her son from the prison. Watch the trailer of Leonera
RATING: 71/100
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King of Devil’s Island
DIRECTOR: Marius Holst
CAST: Benjamin Helstad Trond Nilssen Stellan Skarsgård
The story depicts brutal and inhumane conditions on an island prison in Norway; a new inmate leads all his companions into an uprising against the apathetic and cruel... Watch the trailer of King of Devil’s Island
RATING: 75/100
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Starred Up
DIRECTOR: David Mackenzie
CAST: Jack O'Connell Ben Mendelsohn Rupert Friend
Eric is a violent and dangerous criminal who is shifted to the adult wing where he meets his father who tries to convince him to participate in a therapy program so as to... Watch the trailer of Starred Up
RATING: 74/100
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13th
DIRECTOR: Ava DuVernay
CAST: Melina Abdullah Michelle Alexander Cory Booker
film that documents a true and detailed of events and situations that expose the US prisons and prison system and also reveals the history of still prevalent... Watch the trailer of 13th
RATING: 83/100
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Une Prophete
DIRECTOR: Jacques Audiard
CAST: Tahar Rahim Niels Arestrup Adel Bencherif
The film features the situation of a person trapped in a foreign captivity; it depicts the struggle and courage of an Arab boy who is imprisoned in a French prison. Watch the trailer of Une Prophete
RATING: 79/100
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Camp X-Ray
DIRECTOR: Peter Sattler
CAST: Kristen Stewart Peyman Moaadi Lane Garrison
The flower of love and friendship sometimes flourishes even in the driest of the deserts; an assigned soldier at the Guantanamo Bay befriends a prisoner and bears deep... Watch the trailer of Camp X-Ray
RATING: 70/100
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Papillon
DIRECTOR: Michael Noer
CAST: Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Tommy Flanagan
A remake of the 1973 classic is in the making! And Rami Malek (Mr Robot) plays the lead role. Watch the trailer of Papillon
RATING: 90/100
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Escape From Spiderhead
DIRECTOR: Joseph Kosinski
CAST: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller & Jurnee Smollett
In the near future, two convicts confront their pasts in a facility run by a visionary who gives them emotion-altering drugs. Watch the trailer of Escape From Spiderhead
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The Informer
DIRECTOR: Andrea Di Stefano
CAST: Ana de Armas, Rosamund Pike & Joel Kinnaman
A former secret agent is being released from prison to become an informant for the FBI. However, he is sent back to prison by the mob to help secure an important drug... Watch the trailer of The Informer
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A Prayer Before Dawn
DIRECTOR: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
CAST: Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Panya Yimmumphai, Nicolas Shake
A young Englishman ends up in one of the most notorious prisons of Thailand. Watch the trailer of A Prayer Before Dawn
RATING: 77/100
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