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). Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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,... Read more
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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 terms with his violent past. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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 account of events and situations that expose the US prisons and prison system and also reveals the history of still prevalent... Read more
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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. Read more
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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... Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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... Read more
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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. Read more
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RATING: 77/100
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