» Stars and Roses (1989, Hong Kong)
Sad and silly film about a Hong Kong boy in jail in Vietnam and in love with a local girl.
» Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012, USA)
Wild west meets duck soup prison escape.
» Turkey Shoot (2014, Australia)
Death row hero is dropped into a kill-or-be-killed reality TV show.
» Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019, USA)
Chinese heiress held in a Belarusian back site prison. Not as interesting as it sounds.
» Avengement (2019, UK)
Brothers-at-war revenge story. And a good one.
» Strike of the Tortured Angels (1982, Hong Kong)
The embedded subtitles on this dubbed-into-English film (at least the version on YouTube) would seem to be a mixture of Danish and Finnish or other Scandinavian languages, which doesn’t seem to make much sense. But then, nor does much else in the film.
» Chasers (1994, USA)
If there were no The Last Detail (1973), this might seem like a different prison-ish road movie. As there is, it’s maybe not so different.
» Le fidèle / Racer and the Jailbird (2017, Belgium and others)
Gripping, sombre tale of an unlikely love match that survives lots, including prison.
» Krotkaya / A Gentle Creature (2017, Russia / France and others)
Long, unhurried saga: A woman tries in vain to find where her husband is detained.
» Joshila (1973, India)
Lame story of a wealthy girl who falls for a prisoner, who in turn is redeemed.