• Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Years: 2011
• Casts: Shah Rukh Khan, Florian Lukas, Om Puri
• Directors: Farhan Akhtar

An international gangster turns himself in, then dramatically escapes - only to face treachery and betrayal.

• Genres: Thriller, Drama
• Years: 2011
• Casts: Olivia Wilde, Nick Stahl, Dash Mihok
• Directors: D.W. Brown

A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.

• Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
• Years: 1999
• Casts: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse
• Directors: Frank Darabont

The story about the lives of guards on Death Row leading up to the execution of a black man accused of child murder and rape, who has the power of faith-healing.

• Genres: Thriller, Crime, Comedy
• Years: 2003
• Casts: Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Timothy Spall
• Directors: Jonathan Teplitzky

Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow

• Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama, Horror
• Years: 2002
• Casts: Hideo Sakaki, Ryô, Koyuki
• Directors: Ryûhei Kitamura

After survivng his own execution, Tenshu choses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
• Years: 1989
• Casts: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins
• Directors: Peter Yates

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer.

• Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
• Years: 2008
• Casts: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Catherine Marchal
• Directors: Olivier Marchal

In Marseilles, the discredited and alcoholic Detective Schneider hijacks a bus and forces the bus driver with a gun to drive him home. He is arrested by the swat force and his washed up career in the police department practically ends.

• Genres: Drama, Family, Music
• Years: 2009
• Casts: Rhys Wakefield, Alexa Vega, Timothy Hutton
• Directors: Dagen Merrill

Tommy, a gifted teenager composer, dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Unfortunately, a good band is hard to find in the middle of Outback Australia - until a strange incident involving flying watermelons leads him to a group of talented prison inmates.

• Genres: Crime, Comedy
• Years: 2002
• Casts: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
• Directors: Harold Ramis

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
• Years: 2003
• Casts: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Marnie Alton
• Directors: Ringo Lam

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

• Genres: Thriller, Horror
• Years: 2008
• Casts: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick
• Directors: Eric Red

After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

• Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Biography
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Kim Rossi Stuart, Filippo Timi, Moritz Bleibtreu
• Directors: Michele Placido

A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, Crime, Comedy
• Years: 1992
• Casts: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung
• Directors: Stanley Tong

Michelle Yeoh joins the cast, portraying a police officer from mainland China. The story involves Chan and Yeoh's character going undercover to try to break up a drug smuggling ring. The action moves from China to Kuala Lumpur, where Chan's girlfriend May is kidnapped. The film marks the last appearance of Maggie Cheung as May. Michelle Yeoh reprises her role in the spin-off, called Project S. Dimension Films released Police Story 3 in the US in 1996 under the name of Supercop with some edits to the film, the complete replacement of all music and sound effects, and English dubbing.

• Genres: Crime, Drama
• Years: 2006
• Casts: Shia LaBeouf, Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson
• Directors: Dito Montiel

The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints.

• Genres: Crime, Drama
• Years: 2000
• Casts: Danny Trejo, Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong
• Directors: Steve Buscemi

Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing.

• Genres: Crime, Drama
• Years: 1998
• Casts: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo
• Directors: Tony Kaye

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

• Genre: Drama
• Year: 2010
• Cast: Daniel Brocklebank, Garry Summers, Bernie Hodges
• Director: Darren Flaxstone, Christian Martin

Father Jack is imprisoned for a crime that he has committed. The inmates suspect him of paedophilia and begin to persuade his teenage cellmate of this. His true crime is confessed to a prison guard with whom Jack has fallen in love.

• Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
• Years: 2002
• Casts: Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk
• Directors: Walter Hill

When heavyweight champion James 'Iceman' Chambers lands in prison, the resident gangster arranges a boxing match with the reigning prison champ.

• Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crime, Adventure
• Years: 1981
• Casts: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
• Directors: John Carpenter

In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue.

• Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Years: 2001
• Casts: Carla Gugino, Jet Li, Delroy Lindo
• Directors: James Wong

A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.