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Movies: Best "prison warden" Movies


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Lock Up(1989)

R
| 1h 55min | Action, Crime
3.4/5 (with 511 votes)

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

Brawl in Cell Block 99(2017)

NR
| 2h 12min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 604 votes)

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.

Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

PG
| 1h 53min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,203 votes)

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

Runaway Train(1985)

R
| 1h 51min | Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 229 votes)

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

Vendetta(2015)

R
| 1h 30min | Action
2.8/5 (with 63 votes)

A hard-nosed detective deliberately commits a crime to get thrown in prison, allowing him the chance to seek vengeance on a criminal serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his wife.

Brubaker(1980)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 201 votes)

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Greta, the Mad Butcher(1977)

NC-17
| 1h 30min | Drama, Horror
2.3/5 (with 31 votes)

Greta a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Greta and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling the recordings as pornoflicks.

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay, Jesús Franco, Tania Busselier, Peggy Markoff, Esther Studer, ...

Caged(1950)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

Clemency(2019)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Animal Factory(2000)

1h 34min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 91 votes)

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.

Barbed Wire Dolls(1976)

1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Horror
2.3/5 (with 17 votes)

After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture and rape are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor's house, unaware that he will not help them...

Abducted(2021)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, Action, TV Movie
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Melanie is married to Tom, a controlling, cold and self-centered man who happens to be a prison warden. He finds her to be a liability to his career aspirations and secretly plans to have her kidnapped and killed, by Jack, a dangerous inmate.

Directed by Richard Roy
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Mrs. Soffel(1984)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

Unspeakable(2003)

R
| 1h 48min | Horror
2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.

Directed by Thomas J. Wright

Convicted(1950)

1h 31min | Action, Crime
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Condemned(1929)

1h 26min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.

Jail in Burning Island(1997)

1h 38min | Action, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.

Directed by Chu Yen-ping

Gangway for Tomorrow(1943)

1h 9min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.

Directed by John H. Auer - With John Carradine, Margo, Robert Ryan, Amelita Ward, William Terry, Harry Davenport, ...

The Daring Young Man(1935)

1h 13min | Comedy

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

Prison Warden(1949)

NR
| 1h 2min | Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.

Directed by Seymour Friedman

A Little Glass of Rum(2023)

20min | Drama, Thriller

After grieving over the murder of his wife and son, a prison guard dines with the killer for his last meal.

Men Without Souls(1940)

1h 2min | Crime, Drama

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.

Penitentiary(1938)

NR
| 1h 14min | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

Rolling Stone(1919)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik.