🏷 Discover The Best Prison Guard Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Behind the Walls: Uncovering the Best Prison Guard Movies and TV Shows

Step into the world of correctional facilities and experience the intense drama, gripping stories, and complex characters that make up the fascinating realm of prison guard movies and TV shows. From the harsh realities of prison life to the emotional struggles of those who keep the peace, we've curated a list of the most compelling and thought-provoking films and series that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Cast

Tom Hanks

David Morse

Bonnie Hunt

Michael Clarke Duncan

The Green Mile (1999)

8.5 19.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 189 min.

Audience: R

Story: A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Plot: mentally disabled, death penalty, based on novel or book, southern usa, psychopath, death row, jail guard, supernatural, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

Cast

Najwa Nimri

Maggie Civantos

Berta Vu00e1zquez

Alba Flores

Locked Up (2015) TV Show

8.0 2.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Spain

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.

Plot: prison, corruption, prisoner, prison guard, female prisoner, female homosexuality, women in prison

Cast

Jeremy Renner

Hugh Dillon

Tobi Bamtefa

Taylor Handley

Mayor of Kingstown (2021) TV Show

7.9 642 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.

Plot: prison, corruption, detective, michigan, drug dealer, prison guard, organized crime, brother brother relationship

Cast

Steve McQueen

James Garner

Richard Attenborough

James Donald

The Great Escape (1963)

7.9 2.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 173 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Plot: prison, uniform, swastika, prisoner, based on novel or book, nazi, escape, optimism, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: switzerland

Time (2021) TV Show

7.6 264 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 6

Story: Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

Plot: suicide, prison, fight, blackmail, prison guard, teacher, drugs, alcoholic, ...

Cast

Alberto Ammann

Luis Tosar

Antonio Resines

Marta Etura

Cell 211 (2009)

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, Spain

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: 18

Story: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Plot: suicide, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, prison cell, penitentiary, prison guard, flashback, ...

Cast

Brad Davis

Irene Miracle

Bo Hopkins

Paolo Bonacelli

Midnight Express (1978)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Style: suspenseful

Plot: prison, airport, drug smuggling, escape, court, attempt to escape, based on true story, prison guard, ...

Time: 1970s

Chicago (2002)

7.1 2.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Plot: prison, chicago, illinois, gallows, musical, based on play or musical, jail, lawyer, ...

Time: 1920s

Con Air (1997)

6.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Plot: undercover, ambush, war veteran, psychopath, bravery, mexican standoff, sandstorm, hijacking, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Christian Bale

Marion Cotillard

Jason Clarke

Public Enemies (2009)

6.7 4.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

Plot: escape, gun, gangster, machinegun, horse race, biography, prison guard, prison escape, ...

Time: 1930s, 1900s

Cast

Adam Sandler

Chris Rock

James Cromwell

Nelly

The Longest Yard (2005)

6.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

Plot: prison, corruption, prisoner, smuggling (contraband), sports, american football, blackmail, american football coach, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Jason Statham

Joan Allen

Ian McShane

Tyrese Gibson

Death Race (2008)

6.3 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

Plot: prison, martial arts, car race, dystopia, matter of life and death, car crash, prison guard, prison escape, ...