1920s (4)
Convict 13 (1921), The Second Hundred Years (1927, USA), Sex in Chains (1928, Germany), The Hoose-Gow (1929, USA)
1930s (23)
The Big House (1930, USA), Up the River (1930, USA), Numbered Men (1930, USA), Pardon Us (1931, USA), Ladies of the Big House (1931, USA), I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, USA), Hold ‘Em Jail (1932, USA), The Last Mile (1932, USA), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932, USA), Ladies They Talk About (1932, USA), Hell’s Highway (1932, USA), The Mayor of Hell (1933, USA), The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936, USA), The Bridge of Sighs (1936, USA), San Quentin (1937, USA), Prison Nurse (1937, USA), Convict 99 (1938, UK), Prison Break (1938, USA), Penitentiary (1938, USA), Each Dawn I Die (1939, USA), Buried Alive (1939, USA), Mutiny in the Big House (1939, USA), Behind Prison Gates (1939, USA)
1940s (11)
Castle on the Hudson (1940, USA), Men Without Souls (1940, USA), Men of San Quentin (1942, USA), Lady Gangster (1942, USA), Three Smart Saps (1942, USA), Girls in Chains (1943, USA), Prison Mutiny (1943, USA), Lady in the Death House (1944, USA), Brute Force (1947, USA), Caged (1949, USA), White Heat (1949, USA)
1950s (17)
Un Chant D’Amour (1950, France), Convicted (1950, USA), State Penitentiary (1950, USA), Big House Bunny (1950, USA), Las Islas Marías (1951, Mexico), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951, USA), Under the Gun (1951, USA), My Six Convicts (1952, USA), Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954, USA), Women’s Prison (1955, USA), Yield to the Night (1956, UK), Girls in Prison (1956, USA), Jailhouse Rock (1957, USA), The Defiant Ones (1958, USA), I Want to Live! (1958, USA), Kala Pani (1958, India), The Last Mile (1959, USA)
1960s (16)
Le Trou (1960, France), The Criminal (1960, UK), Two Way Stretch (1960, UK), So Evil, So Young (1961, UK), Jacktown (1962, USA), The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962, USA), The Quare Fellow (1962, UK), Convicts 4 (1962, USA), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962, UK), The Pot Carriers (1962, UK), Bandini (1963, India), I Stefania (1966, Greece), Cool Hand Luke (1967, USA), 99 Women (1969, Germany and ors), Take the Money and Run (1969, USA), The Witness (1969, Hungary)
1970s (17)
There Was a Crooked Man… (1970, USA), The Glass House (1972, USA), Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion (1972, Japan), The Slams (1973, USA), Papillon (1973, USA), The Longest Yard (1974, USA), Breakout (1975, USA), El Apando (1976, Mexico), Short Eyes (1977, USA), Midnight Express (1978, USA), Scum (1979, UK), Porridge (1979, UK), Escape from Alcatraz (1979, USA), Sense of Freedom (1979, UK), The Jericho Mile (1979, USA), Penitentiary (1979, USA), We are the Bus People (1979, Egypt)
1980s (26)
Brubaker (1980, USA), Stir (1980, Australia), Gideon’s Trumpet (1980, USA), Stir Crazy (1980, USA), Attica (1980, USA), McVicar (1980, UK), Hoodwink (1981, Australia), Scrubbers (1982), Fast-Walking (1982, USA), The Wall (1983, Turkey), Bad Boys (1983, USA), Hell Hole (1983, Indonesia / Philippines), Beyond the Walls (1984, Israel), Atrapadas (1984, Argentina), Maximum Security (1984, USA), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985, Brazil / USA), Doing Life (1986, Canada), Down by Law (1986, USA), Prison on Fire (1987, Hong Kong), Weeds (1987, USA), Six Against the Rock (1987, USA), Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (1988, Australia), Women Prison (1988, Hong Kong), Tango & Cash (1988, USA), Lock Up (1989, USA), An Innocent Man (1989, USA)
1990s (36)
Le Party (1990, Canada), Prison on Fire 2 (1990, Hong Kong), Death Warrant (1990, USA), Ernest Goes to Jail (1990, USA), Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991, USA), Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991, Hong Kong), American Me (1992, USA), My Cousin Vinny (1992, USA), The Boys of Cellblock Q (1992, USA), Against the Wall (1993, USA), In the Name of the Father (1993, UK), Bound by Honor (1993, USA) Todos a la Cárcel (1993, Spain), Last Light (1993, USA), The Shawshank Redemption (1994, USA), Captives (1994, UK), Murder in the First (1994, USA), Everynight… everynight (1994, Australia), Dead Man Walking (1995, USA), The Keeper (1995, USA), Condition Red (1995, USA / Finland), Convict Cowboy (1995, USA), Lilies (1996, Canada), Last Dance (1996, USA), La Furia (1997, Argentina), Bandits (1997, Germany), Maximum Security (1997, USA), Con Air (1997, USA), Prison of Secrets (1997, USA), First Time Felon (1997, USA), Dogboys (1998, USA), Letters from a Killer (1998, USA), Slam (1998, USA), Evasive Action (1998, USA), American History X (1998, USA), Life (1999, USA), The Green Mile (1999, USA), Brokedown Palace (1999, USA)
2000s (76)
Greenfingers (2000, UK), Johnny Greyeyes (2000, Canada), Chopper (2000, Australia), Animal Factory (2000, USA), Unshackled (2000, USA), Prison Song (2001, USA), Black Cat in Jail (2000, Hong Kong), Borstal Boy (2000, UK / Ireland), Down Time (2001, USA), The Visit (2001, USA), Lucky Break (2001, UK), Mean Machine (2001, UK), A Young Prisoner’s Revenge (2001, China), Tracks (2001, USA), Stranger Inside (2001, USA), Monster’s Ball (2001, USA), Das Experiment (2001, Germany), Within These Walls (2001, USA), Proximity (2001, USA), The Killing Yard (2001, USA), Conviction (2001, USA), Guilt by Association (2001, USA), Back by Midnight (2002, USA), Women’s Prison (2002, Iran), Half Past Dead (2002, USA), Doing Time (2002, Japan), Go for Broke (2002, USA), Jail Breakers (2002, South Korea), Maléfique (2002, France), Chicago (2002, USA), 15 to Life (2002, USA), Unspeakable (2002, USA), Civil Brand (2002, USA), Une Part du Ciel (2002, France / Belgium / Luxembourg), Carandiru (2003, Brazil), Beyond Re-animator (2003, Spain), In Hell (2003, USA), Elly Baly Balak (2003, Egypt), Carmen (2003, Russia), Symmetry (2003, Poland), Jailbait (2003, USA), 13 Dead Men (2003, USA), 3 Walls (2003, India), In Your Hands (2004, Denmark), Dead Leaves (2004, Japan), Doing Hard Time (2004, USA), There was a Beautiful Girl (2004, India), Diamond Geezer (2005, UK), Day Break (2005, Iran), The Longest Yard (2005, USA), El Escape De Los Santos (2005, USA), Shackles (2005, USA), Longford (2006, UK), Salty Air (2006, Italy), Four Minutes (2006, Germany), Chronicle of an Escape (2006, Argentina), Madea Goes to Jail (2006, USA), Let’s Go to Prison (2006, USA), Eduart (2006, Greece) 7 Ans (2006, France), Goodbye Bafana (2007, Belgium), Half Past Dead 2 (2007, USA), The Condemned (2007, USA), Mickey B (2007, UK), Big Stan (2007, USA), Selda (2007, Philippines), Lion’s Den (2008, Argentina), Hunger (2008, UK), The Escapist (2008, UK), Felon (2008, USA), Ramchand Pakistani (2008, Pakistan), Pour Elle (2008, France), Bronson (2009, UK), Jail (2009, India), Stoic (2009, USA), A Prophet (2009, France), Celda 211 (2009, Spain), Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009, USA)
2010s (1)
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010, Romania / Sweden)