Best movies with prisoners

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Best movies with prisoners

Discover the best movies with prisoners, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, came in first as the best movie with prisoners of all time, followed by Con Air and Death Race from 2008. Scroll down for the top 10 movies with prisoners, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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3:10 to Yuma 1
3:10 to Yuma
2007 - Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter FondaWestern
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In late-1800s Arizona, outlaw Ben Wade is captured after a string of robberies. Dan Evans, a poor rancher and Civil War veteran, agrees for money to escort him to the 3:10 train to Yuma •••
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Con Air
1997 - Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John MalkovichAction, Thriller, Crime
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Former Army Ranger Cameron Poe is paroled and wants to get home to his wife and the daughter he has never met. The plane taking him there also carries the most dangerous convicts in the •••
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Death Race
2008 - Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShaneAction, Thriller, Science Fiction
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Former racing driver Jensen Ames is framed for his wife's murder and sent to an island prison run by a private company. There, inmates compete in armored car races broadcast as a show, and •••
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Escape from Alcatraz
1979 - Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts BlossomDrama, Thriller
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In January 1960, Frank Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison on an island in San Francisco Bay from which no one had ever managed to escape. With other inmates, he •••
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Escape from New York
1981 - Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton...
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In 1997, Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a maximum-security prison for the worst criminals, who have formed an anarchic society.
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Escape From Pretoria
2020 - Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page, Grant Piro...
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South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the •••
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Escape Plan
2013 - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim CaviezelAction, Thriller
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Ray Breslin is the world's top expert in prison security and designs places no one can escape from. Framed, he ends up locked in one such building he designed himself, and has to find a •••
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Get Hard
2015 - Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Alison Brie, Craig T. Nelson, T.I., Greg Germann, Matt Walsh...
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When millionaire hedge fund manager James (Will Ferrell) is arrested for fraud and sent to serve his sentence at San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to put his affairs in order. •••
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Get the Gringo
2012 - Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Giménez CachoAction, Thriller, Crime, Drama
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Mel Gibson plays an American career criminal caught by Mexican authorities and locked up in a tough prison, where he has to learn how to survive. Unexpected help comes from a 9-year-old •••
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It Was Just an Accident
2025 - Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad...
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A quiet mechanic recalls his years in an Iranian prison when he meets a man he thinks he recognizes as his former torturer. Unsure, he gathers other former prisoners to find out the truth •••
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Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: It Was Just an Accident (2025), Escape From Pretoria (2020), Get Hard (2015).

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Titles released in this period include The Green Mile (1999), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Con Air (1997).

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