| 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) | Michael Curtiz |
| Against the Wall (1994) | John Frankenheimer |
| Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) | Nick Broomfield, ... |
| American History X (1998) | Tony Kaye |
| American Me (1992) | Edward James Olmos |
| Andersonville (1996) | John Frankenheimer |
| Animal Factory (2000) | Steve Buscemi |
| Are We All Murderers? (1952) | André Cayatte |
| Attica (1980) | Marvin J. Chomsky |
| Bad Boys (1983) | Rick Rosenthal |
| The Big Doll House (1971) | Jack Hill |
| The Big House (1930) | George W. Hill |
| Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) | John Frankenheimer |
| The Birdmen (1971) | Philip Leacock |
| Black Mama, White Mama (1972) | Eddie Romero |
| Blood In, Blood Out: Bound by Honor (1993) | Taylor Hackford |
| The Boxer (1997) | Jim Sheridan |
| Brokedown Palace (1999) | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Brubaker (1980) | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Buckstone County Prison (1978) | Jimmy Huston |
| Bustin' Loose (1981) | Oz Scott, ... |
| Caged Heat (1974) | Jonathan Demme |
| Captives (1994) | Angela Pope |
| Capturing the Friedmans (2003) | Andrew Jarecki |
| Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995) | Henri Charr |
| Chained Heat II (1993) | Lloyd A. Simandl |
| The Chase (1994) | Adam Rifkin |
| Chopper (2000) | Andrew Dominik |
| Citizen X (1995) | Chris Gerolmo |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | Stanley Kubrick |
| Come See the Paradise (1990) | Alan Parker |
| Cool Hand Luke (1967) | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Coonskin (1975) | Ralph Bakshi |
| Dead Man Walking (1995) | Tim Robbins |
| Dogboys (1998) | Ken Russell |
| Doing Hard Time (2004) | Preston A. Whitmore II |
| Down by Law (1986) | Jim Jarmusch |
| Ernest Goes to Jail (1990) | John R. Cherry III |
| Escape From Alcatraz (1979) | Don Siegel |
| Escape from L.A. (1996) | John Carpenter |
| Escape from New York (1981) | John Carpenter |
| Face/Off (1997) | John Woo |
| First Time Felon (1997) | Charles Dutton |
| Fortress (1993) | Stuart Gordon |
| Freedom Downtime (2001) | Emmanuel Goldstein |
| Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988) | John Hillcoat |
| Girls in Prison (1994) | John McNaughton |
| The Green Mile (1999) | Frank Darabont |
| Greenfingers (2000) | Joel Hershman |
| Half Past Dead (2002) | Don Michael Paul |
| The Hanoi Hilton (1987) | Lionel Chetwynd |
| Happy, Texas (1999) | Mark Illsley |
| The Hill (1965) | Sidney Lumet |
| The Hurricane (1999) | Norman Jewison |
| I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| I Want to Live! (1958) | Robert Wise |
| An Innocent Man (1989) | Peter Yates |
| Jailhouse Rock (1957) | Richard Thorpe |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) | Hector Babenco |
| Ladies They Talk About (1933) | Howard Bretherton, ... |
| The Last Castle (2001) | Rod Lurie |
| Last Light (1993) | Kiefer Sutherland |
| A Letter from Death Row (1998) | Marvin Baker, ... |
| Life (1999) | Ted Demme |
| The Life of David Gale (2003) | Alan Parker |
| Lock Up (1989) | John Flynn |
| Lockdown (2000) | John Luessenhop |
| The Longest Yard (2005) | Peter Segal |
| The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987) | Daniel Mann |
| Mean Machine (2001) | Barry Skolnick |
| Midnight Express (1978) | Alan Parker |
| Monster's Ball (2001) | Marc Forster |
| Murder in the First (1995) | Marc Rocco |
| My Six Convicts (1952) | Hugo Fregonese |
| Natural Born Killers (1994) | Oliver Stone |
| New Alcatraz (2002) | Phillip J. Roth |
| The New Guy (2002) | Ed Decter |
| Nightmare in Badham County (1976) | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| No Escape (1994) | Martin Campbell |
| Out of Sight (1998) | Steven Soderbergh |
| Papillon (1973) | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Penitentiary (1980) | Jamaa Fanaka |
| Penitentiary II (1982) | Jamaa Fanaka |
| Penitentiary III (1987) | Jamaa Fanaka |
| Porridge (1979) | Dick Clement |
| Prison (1989) | Renny Harlin |
| Return to Paradise (1998) | Joseph Ruben |
| Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) | Don Siegel |
| The River Rat (1984) | Thomas Rickman |
| The Road to Guantanamo (2006) | Mat Whitecross, ... |
| Runaway Train (1986) | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| San Quentin (1937) | Lloyd Bacon |
| Scum (1977) | Alan Clarke |
| Shackles (2005) | Charles Winkler |
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Frank Darabont |
| Shocker (1989) | Wes Craven |
| Sing Sing Thanksgiving (1974) | David Hoffman |
| Sleepers (1996) | Barry Levinson |
| State Property 2 (2005) | Damon Dash |
| Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003) | Helen Stickler |
| The Tenth Man (1988) | Jack Gold |
| The Thin Blue Line (1988) | Errol Morris |
| Unchained (1955) | Hall Bartlett |
| Undisputed (2002) | Walter Hill |
| The United States of Leland (2003) | Matthew Ryan Hoge |
| Warden of Red Rock (2001) | Stephen Gyllenhaal |
| Weeds (1987) | John D. Hancock |
| White Heat (1949) | Raoul Walsh |
| Wilde (1997) | Brian Gilbert |
