Maximum security prison movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant maximum security prison movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful and disturbing films and TV shows about / with prison, maximum security prison, prisoner, prison guard, prison life, jail, violence, redemption, prison escape and criminal plots mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as maximum security prison: Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), Escape Plan (2013), Division 19 (2017), The Camp: A Prison Story (2006), Convict (2014), Time (2021), A Violent Man (2021), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Rise (2014), Doing Life (1986).
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, revenge, maximum security prison, kidnapping, prison guard, prison warden, murder, prisoner, extreme violence, violence, boxer, police shootout ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
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269K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, clever, twist ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
prison, prison escape, revenge, outsmarting, escape plan, betrayal, resourceful, escape, prisoner, maximum security prison, prison break, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, usa, miami, new orleans, colorado ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Morgan Freeman explores real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public, showcasing an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
escape plan, maximum security prison, jail, escape, escaped prisoner, prison, jailed, escape from custody, prisoner, running from police, escape attempt, prison life ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 2039, jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled out to a whole town, providing subscribers even more ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
distopia, prison, jail, prison life, prisoner, dystopian future, internet, prison sentence, choice, jailed, society, runaway ...
Time:
near future, 2030s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 2150 min.
TV show
Story:
Straightline Productions: All or Nothing. Presented by Transworld Snowboarding (2009)
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
jail, false accusation, prison gang, prison, prison life, prisoner, confined, jailed, corruption, wrongful imprisonment, prison warden, confinement indoors ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
Plot:
prison, prison violence, prison gang, male objectification, gang, humiliation, convict, prison life, confined, prisoner, jailed, bandit ...
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32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
A prisoner consumed by guilt, an officer with an impossible choice. What does it take to survive? A tense story of punishment and principles, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, crying
Plot:
prison, redemption, prison guard, prisoner, guilty conscience, jail, blackmail, suicide, mental illness, guilt, forgiveness, maximum security prison ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black gang member becomes his unlikely ...
Style:
suspense, intense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
maximum security prison, prison warden, prison, character study, redemption, prison life, jailed, jail, jail cell, prison sentence, prison fight, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, stylized, predictable ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
good versus evil, gi joe, martial arts, president, superhero, terrorism, vengeance, military, bodyguard, revenge, betrayal, maximum security prison ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., seattle, pakistan, pentagon, london ...
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The true story of a young man falsely accused of rape and sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison. He must rely on survival skills and an unlikely bond with an infamous inmate to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.
Style:
tense, captivating, crime drama, art house
Plot:
false accusation of rape, rise and fall, prison, maximum security prison, jail, jailed, false accusation, prisoner, accusation, social injustice, falsely accused, framed for a crime ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide charge that has put him on death row. This tense movie, made in Canada, has the ...
Style:
intense, tense, dramatic, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
maximum security prison, death row, wrongful conviction, innocence, death sentence, biopic, execution, survival, courtroom, redemption, character study, isolation ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Italian television series.
Style:
buddy comedy, hilarious, lighthearted, slapstick, action comedy
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
escape, maximum security prison, prison, friendship, mistaken identity, monastery, fish out of water, disguise, undercover, heartwarming, missionary, religious ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, costa rica
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Sammi, Henrik, Miriam, and Gert are prison officers and colleagues in an old, worn-down Danish prison. Their work environment is raw and hostile, and their respective lives outside the prison walls are filled with conflict, secrets, and loneliness ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, dark, tension, psychological ...
Plot:
prison, prison guard, secrets, maximum security prison, workplace situations, prison life, problem, prison warden, workplace, conflict, power struggle, moral ambiguity ...
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Style:
realistic, suspense, disturbing, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prisoner, friendship, jailed, urban, prison life, realism, convict, confined, social problems, maximum security prison, jail ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
prison, life sentence, jail, jailed, maximum security prison, prisoner, prison life, criminal, prison sentence, confinement indoors, confined, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
prison break, prisoner, jail, prison escape, escaped prisoner, tunnel, prison, true crime, problem, escape plan, prison life, prison guard ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Masayuki Suzuki (Itsuji Itao) is known as "Datsugoku Oh" (King of Escape) because of his incredible ability to escape from any prison. Even though his ability to escape from prison was unmatched he would normally get caught within a few ...
Style:
captivating, tense, thrilling, surreal, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prison escape, escape, prison, escape artist, jailed, island prison, escaped prisoner, maximum security prison, prison guard, runaway, criminal, prison sentence ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After the death of his brother, Mick travels to America to seek Justice. Wrongly convicted of extortion and attempted murder, Mick is sent to Pleasant Hill Penitentiary's notorious death block 13. Seething with revenge after discovering the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prison, wrongful conviction, prison gang, prison escape, escape, revenge, prison break, jail, revolt, prison fight, prison riot, prison life ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Armed forces surround a psychiatric prison in order to abduct an incarcerated serial killer — but aren't prepared for the battle that ensues.
Style:
suspense, psychological, intense, tension, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, serial killer, siege, criminal, murder, prison gang, maximum security prison, resistance, jail, prison guard, prison warden, surrounded ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Doobie Jones has two strikes against him. The ex-con is faced with the dilemma of a lifetime. After turning his community into a walking dead hoodpocalypse, Doobie has a tough decision to make. He can stand and fight Zombies to the death with his ...
Style:
hood, exciting, captivating, horror comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
zombie, voodoo, zombie outbreak, neighborhood, african american, prison, maximum security prison, living dead, undead, walking dead, misfit, breaking the law ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money ...
Style:
serious, dark, emotional, tense, period drama
Plot:
women in prison, prison, corruption, abuse of power, oppression, justice, human rights, legal battle, maximum security prison, social justice, resistance, rape ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor ...
Style:
slapstick, buddy comedy, lighthearted, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
prison, small town, prison life, prison escape, fish out of water, maximum security prison, irreverent, mistaken identity, satire, corrupt system, dark humor, disorder ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1978, 70s
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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 infamous Pretoria Prison…
Style:
political, suspense, tense, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, apartheid, prison escape, escape, political prisoner, political activism, political activist, politics, human spirit, prison break, rebelliousness, political persecution ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa, adelaide south australia, australia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Directed by Hussein Kamal.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, satirical, buddy comedy, islamic ...
Plot:
mossad, mistaken identity, wrongful arrest, police station, prison, farce, friendship, social commentary, social satire, city life, daily life, community ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, anamorphic ...
Plot:
pickpocket, heist, female warrior, burglar, con artists, organized crime, criminal, revenge, escapades, fraud, chase, vengeance ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The continuing escapades of the Suicide Squad.
Style:
entertaining, funny, visually stunning, perverse, saga ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
superhero, supernatural ability, fight scenes, violence, super villain, female warrior, final battle, giant monster, graphic violence, alien parasite, villain turns good, evil genius ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., south america, america, louisiana
Is relevant?
755K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Style:
entertaining, intense, absurd, saga, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
superhero, comic book, super villain, villain, dark hero, creature, female warrior, mission, villain turns good, avenger, villainess, one against many ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2015, 2010s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., louisiana, pentagon
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
Style:
intense, perverse, exciting, saga, action adventure ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
vigilante, chase, fight, assassination, hitman, tough girl, military, corruption, lone hero, military police, female soldier, prison escape ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
afghanistan, new orleans, north america, alabama, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, saga, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, alien, alien invasion, ufo, hi-tech, time machine, changing the past or future, benign alien, alternate timeline, mind control, space travel, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa, florida, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
139K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
criminal, prison, serial killer, male nudity, organized crime, investigation, murder, informant, crime investigation, deal, plea bargain, murder investigation ...
Time:
2020s, 90s
Place:
missouri, illinois, indiana
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