Best space prison movies

It’s hard to know what’s most frightening about a space prison: the dangerous inmates within or the deadly vacuum of space that lies outside its walls. Thankfully, you can comfortably enjoy the best space prison movies from the safety of your own couch. While the film industry loves nothing more than to recycle ideas until everything is twinning, surprisingly, there hasn't been a greater demand for movies centred around a space prison. Yeah, they might feature in a story briefly, such as in "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "The Chronicles of Riddick," but where the heck are all the off-planet "The Green Mile" and "Escape from Alcatraz"s?! Why aren't there more flicks where the entire premise involves someone trying to escape the seemingly inescapable? The good news is that there are a handful of pure space prison movies where some of our favorite actors have been sent to the cosmic chokey. Here's our list of the five best space prison movies (in no particular order, don't get mad at the numbers). Article continues below 1. Fortress 2: Re-Entry (Image credit: TriStar Pictures) Release date: April 25, 2000 | Director: Geoff Murphy | Cast: Christopher Lambert, Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson When someone needed an unproblematic action star who would work on a production with a budget less than a B.L.T. sandwich, Christopher Lambert was the go-to man. …