Here we've displayed a list of the best Prison Camp films : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(1967), Stalag 17(1953), Papillon(1973), The Hill(1965), Empire of the Sun(1987), Cold War(2018), As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me(2001), The Bamboo Prison(1955), Rescue Dawn(2006), The Way Back(2010), Decision Before Dawn(1951), I Am David(2004) ... ...
Western
Italy|Spain|West Germany|USA
1967
161 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Eli Wallach Lee Van Cleef Aldo Giuffré Chelo Alonso Mario Brega Luigi Pistilli Rada Rassimov
stranger bandit criminal killer union soldier bounty hunter amusing brutal gritty tense bleak gripping desert jail small town abandoned town southwest u.s. prison camp greed theft
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
War
USA
1953
120 Minutes
William Holden Otto Preminger Robert Strauss Don Taylor Harvey Lembeck Richard Erdman Peter Graves Neville Brand Sig Ruman Michael Moore Peter Baldwin
prisoner of war spy guard pilot sergeant nazi engaging gripping suspenseful tense germany prison camp world war ii prisoners of war loyalty imprisonment escape mystery quest 1940s
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Mystery & Thriller
France|USA
1973
150 Minutes
Steve McQueen Dustin Hoffman Victor Jory Don Gordon Anthony Zerbe Robert Deman Woodrow Parfrey Bill Mumy George Coulouris Ratna Assan William Smithers
convict forger prisoner doctor indian nun gritty brutal dark fiery tense emotional french guiana prison camp cell jungle colombia devil's island imprisonment escape
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Drama
UK
1965
123 Minutes
Sean Connery Harry Andrews Ian Bannen Alfred Lynch Ossie Davis Roy Kinnear Jack Watson Ian Hendry Michael Redgrave Norman Bird Neil McCallum
prisoner sergeant guard british soldiers bleak brutal intense prison camp africa libya desert following orders humiliation morality military prison rivalry discovery underdog fall
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
Adventure
USA|UK
1987
152 Minutes
Christian Bale John Malkovich Miranda Richardson Nigel Havers Joe Pantoliano Leslie Phillips Masatô Ibu Emily Richard Rupert Frazer Ben Stiller Robert Stephens
pilot soldier young boy doctor bleak inspiring emotional china prison camp war prison air force world war ii adventure growing up sacrifice 1940s
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Romance, Drama, History
Poland|UK|France|Belgium
2018
88 Minutes
Joanna Kulig Tomasz Kot Borys Szyc Agata Kulesza Adam Woronowicz Cédric Kahn Jeanne Balibar Adam Ferency
musician director sultry brooding cool passionate poland yugoslavia france paris prison camp music hall music romance cold war fall love rescue sacrifice 1960s
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Adventure, Drama, War
Germany
2001
157 Minutes
Bernhard Bettermann André Hennicke Michael Mendl Irina Pantaeva Irina Narbekova Antonio Wannek Johannes Hitzblech
bear soldiers lieutenant colonel emotional prison camp europe escape work band escape 19th century
At the end of WW2, a German POW doing hard labor in the Soviet Gulag escapes from his Siberian camp to return to Germany but he's pursued by a Soviet NKVD officer.
War
USA
1955
80 Minutes
corporal sergeant priest traitor wife prisoner of war intricate suspenseful patriotic north korea prison camp korean war confinement espionage betrayal communism sacrifice pursuit escape 1950s
A police lt. is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown, because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown's girlfriend who despises him, for information instead.
War, Drama, History
USA|Luxembourg
2006
125 Minutes
Christian Bale Steve Zahn Jeremy Davies Galen Yuen Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul Chaiyan "Lek" Chunsuttiwat Teerawat "Ka-Ge" Mulvilai Yuttana Muenwaja Kriangsak Ming-Olo Pat Healy Toby Huss
pilot prisoner survivor military officer prisoner of war thrilling gritty laos prison camp jungle escape bombing mental illness hope violence torture escape quest 1960s
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates|Poland|India
2010
133 Minutes
Jim Sturgess Ed Harris Colin Farrell Saoirse Ronan Mark Strong Gustaf Skarsgård Alexandru Potocean Sebastian Urzendowsky Stanislav Pishtalov Zachary Baharov
spy wife soldier prisoner emotional engaging siberia himalayas prison camp military war courage disillusionment journey escape quest 1930s
Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, War
USA|West Germany
1951
119 Minutes
Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegarde Neff Dominique Blanchar O.E. Hasse Hans Christian Blech Helene Thimig Robert Freitag George Tyne
lieutenant colonel prisoner of war spy soldier brash thrilling tense germany prison camp bavaria espionage gestapo world war ii military intelligence cooperation betrayal sacrifice adventure rise
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Adventure, Drama
UK|USA
2004
92 Minutes
Ben Tibber Joan Plowright Jim Caviezel Maria Bonnevie Silvia De Santis Francesco De Vito Paco Reconti Hristo Shopov Alessandro Sperduti Adrian McCourt Clem Tibber
young boy prisoner young girl old woman mother friend powerful emotional prison camp bulgaria greece denmark ship prisoners of war prison break coming of age friendship reunion trust escape
A twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark.
Drama, War
Italy|France
1960
138 Minutes
Giovanna Ralli Sergei Bondarchuk Leo Genn Peter Baldwin Renato Salvatori Hannes Messemer
prisoner of war communist nun partisan soldier american patriotic suspenseful emotional gritty rome attic farm house countryside prison camp loyalty resistance cultural differences unlikely allies
Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Comedy, Drama
France
1962
108 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Cassel Claude Brasseur Claude Rich O.E. Hasse Jacques Jouanneau Sacha Briquet
corporal prisoner of war german soldier assistant waiter farmer suspenseful uplifting amusing prison camp train paris germany prison break world war ii bombing resilience capture cowardice escape
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1946
108 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Rachel Kempson Jack Warner Frederick Leister Mervyn Johns Rachel Thomas Gladys Henson Gordon Jackson Elliott Mason Robert Wyndham Basil Radford
soldier prisoner of war czech wife impostor nazi gripping touching dark prison camp germany great britain assumed identity world war ii prisoners of war deception on the run marriage escape love
In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
Drama, History
USA
2001
108 Minutes
David Arquette Daniel Benzali Steve Buscemi David Chandler Allan Corduner Harvey Keitel Natasha Lyonne Mira Sorvino Brian F. O'Byrne Henry Stram Lee Wilkof
doctor prisoner jew nazi dark emotional concentration camp auschwitz prison camp holocaust death extermination morality explosion murder transformation sacrifice 1940s
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Drama
USA
2014
117 Minutes
Kristen Stewart Peyman Moaadi Lane Garrison Joseph Julian Soria John Carroll Lynch Ser'Darius Blain Cory Michael Smith Julia Duffy Tara Holt Yousuf Azami Marco Khan
prison guard detainee prisoner emotional bay prison camp forbidden love unlikely friendship first job escape transformation
A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.
Sci-Fi
USA
1972
104 Minutes
Michael Sacks Ron Leibman Valerie Perrine Eugene Roche Sharon Gans Roberts Blossom Sorrell Booke Kevin Conway Gary Waynesmith John Dehner Stan Gottlieb
optometrist prisoner of war alien actress soldier wife creative fascinating intricate amusing emotional dresden, germany ilium, n.y. tralfamadore prison camp zoo mental institution time travel horrors of war alien abduction
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
Drama, War
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Richard Todd Richard Attenborough Bernard Lee Michael Wilding Dennis Price Donald Houston William Franklyn Vincent Ball Peter Arne Peter Jones Ronnie Stevens
prisoner of war prisoners military officer informant brutal engaging gripping gutsy patriotic suspenseful tense thrilling italy prison camp world war ii prisoners of war escape informing tunneling escape
In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
War
USA
1942
107 Minutes
Errol Flynn Ronald Reagan Raymond Massey Nancy Coleman Alan Hale Arthur Kennedy Sig Ruman Patrick O'Moore Ronald Sinclair Louis Arco Charles Irwin
lieutenant enemy sergeant australian officer resistance fighter powerful patriotic suspenseful airplane germany prison camp factory small town world war ii escape air force impersonation sabotage bombing
When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
Drama
UK|USA
1962
116 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Maria Perschy Alfred Lynch Nigel Stock Reginald Beckwith Richard Marner Ed Devereaux Lewis Fiander George Mikell Richard Carpenter Margaret Whiting
british soldier sergeant german soldier nazi prisoner of war leader charming hilarious patriotic playful prison camp germany united kingdom poland train station charles coward prison break sabotage world war ii bravery
British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.
Sci-Fi
UK
1961
101 Minutes
Michael Craig Joan Greenwood Herbert Lom Michael Callan Gary Merrill Beth Rogan Percy Herbert Dan Jackson Nigel Green
prisoner of war pirate scientist campy spectacular prison camp island pirate ship laboratory escape experiments monsters fantasy world escape adventure 1860s
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
USA
1927
92 Minutes
William Boyd Mary Astor Louis Wolheim Michael Vavitch Ian Keith DeWitt Jennings Michael Visaroff Boris Karloff
soldier colonel harem girl servant fiancé consul amusing madcap prison camp cargo ship trenches arabia world war i prisoners of war male bonding love triangle military life love rivalry adventure
Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.
Comedy, War, Drama
UK|USA
1969
101 Minutes
Oliver Reed Michael J. Pollard Karin Baal Wolfgang Preiss Helmut Lohner Peter Carsten
prisoner of war soldier englishman elephant escaped convict zookeeper charming cheeky confident endearing fascinating incredible prison camp private zoo alps munich mountain war zone world war ii prison break
A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.
Action, Adventure
USA|Mexico
1985
95 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna Julia Nickson Charles Napier Steven Berkoff Martin Kove Andy Wood William Ghent
rambo freedom fighter beautiful woman army colonel prisoner of war communist frenetic gory unrestrained thrilling vietnam jungle prison helicopter prison camp boat postwar vietnam reconnaissance second chance murderous rampage
Rambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.
War
UK
1958
81 Minutes
Carl Mohner Andre Morell Edward Underdown Walter Fitzgerald Ronald Radd Michael Gwynn Marne Maitland
prisoner of war prisoners brutal engaging powerful british malaya prison camp world war ii prisoners of war allied forces quest rescue escape 1940s
Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp. Knowing that ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1947
91 Minutes
Greer Garson Robert Mitchum Richard Hart Morris Ankrum George Zucco Cecil Humphreys David Hoffman
patient woman psychiatrist soldier husband friend touching melodramatic emotional psychiatrist's office prison camp cottage paris normandy coast romance guilt betrayal love triangle prisoners of war world war ii
Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow French POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans, and seduces the grieving woman but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home.
Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Adventure
UK|USA|France|Australia|Japan|Ireland|Germany|Finland|China|Belgium
2018
89 Minutes
caveman pig tribal leader tribesman conquistador prisoner amusing lighthearted emotional cheeky cheery charming forest village woods stadium city prison camp conquest saving the day
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2018
104 Minutes
Amandla Stenberg Mandy Moore Bradley Whitford Harris Dickinson Patrick Gibson Skylan Brooks Miya Cech Lidya Jewett Gwendoline Christie Sammi Rotibi Golden Brooks
teen boy teen girl runaway doctor superhuman parent brooding gripping thrilling forest van concentration camp stadium abandoned building prison camp superhuman abilities running away safety betrayal resistance
Imprisoned by an adult world that now fears everyone under 18, a group of teens form a resistance group to fight back and reclaim control of their future.