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Movies by Lists - Prison Escape Thrillers (61 [65])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Abashiri Prison [Abashiri Bangaichi]Shinichi is a good guy serving three years and approaching the end of his time. He escapes handcuffed to dangerous Gunda, who instigated the escape. Thus tethered, they start out on a journey across the desolate snow country of Hokka1965Teruo IshiiCrime, Drama6.9 (243 votes)9220211228
Albert R. N. [Break to Freedom]In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.1953Lewis GilbertDrama, History, War6.8 (344 votes)8820211228
Anything for Her [Pour elle]With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.2008Fred CavayéCrime, Drama, Thriller7.1 (9.1K votes)9620211228
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [So weit die Füße tragen]A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War 2 and sent to a labour camp in the Eastern part of Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.2001Hardy MartinsAction, Adventure, Drama, War7.3 (7.9K votes)15820231017
Auschwitz Report, TheA fictionalized tale of the escape by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, based on the novel by Wetzler called 'What Dante did not See.' They hide for 3 days and escape once the search for them is over. They report their experiences.2021Peter BebjakDrama, History, War6.6 (2.6K votes)9420231013
Birdmen, TheDuring World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in a1971Philip LeacockDrama, History, War6.8 (294 votes)7420211228
BreakoutA government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught.1959Peter Graham ScottDrama6.6 (83 votes)6220240419
Breakout [Danger Within]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.1959Don ChaffeyDrama, War6.8 (647 votes)10120211228
Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.1957David Lean (*)Adventure, Drama, War8.1 (214.6K votes)16120211228
Brute ForceAt a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.1947Jules DassinCrime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller7.6 (10K votes)9820211228
Chicken RunWhen a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.2000Peter Lord, Nick ParkAnimation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family7.0 (186.3K votes)8420211228
Chronicle Of An Escape [Crónica de una fuga]The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.2006Israel Adrián CaetanoCrime, Thriller7.2 (3.6K votes)10320211228
Colditz Story ,TheAllied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".1955Guy Hamilton (*)Drama, History, War6.9 (2.6K votes)9420220414
Coming-Out Party, A [Very Important Person]A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.1961Ken AnnakinComedy6.8 (581 votes)9820211228
Cool Hand LukeA laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.1967Stuart Rosenberg (*)Crime, Drama8.1 (172.7K votes)12720211228
Cross of Lorraine, TheA group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by Nazis troops and sent to a military prison. There they will have to make use of his best resources to keep alive... and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.1943Tay GarnettWar, Drama6.6 (824 votes)9020211228
Desperate JourneyWhen 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.1942Raoul Walsh (*)Drama, War6.9 (2.1K votes)10720211228
Escape at DannemoraA female prison employee in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.2018Ben StillerBiography, Crime, Drama, Thriller7.9 (27.2K votes)220231207
Escape From AlcatrazAlcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.1979Don Siegel (*)Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller7.6 (129.6K votes)11220211228
Escape from PretoriaBased on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.2020Francis AnnanBiography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller6.8 (41.5K votes)10620231013
Escape from SobiborGerman death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.1987Jack GoldDrama, History, War7.3 (8.9K votes)14320220414
Escape Game [Dasso yugi]Sonny Chiba is a master prison breaker.1976Kôsaku YamashitaAction, Crime6.6 (23 votes)9320211228
Escape PlanWhen a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.2013Mikael HåfströmAction, Thriller6.7 (237.7K votes)11520211228
Escape Plan 2 - HadesYears after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin has organized a new top-notch security force. But when one of his team members goes missing, Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from.2018Steven C. MillerAction, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller3.9 (30.8K votes)9620211228
Escapist, TheThe skilled pilot Denis Hopkins lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When the gang of criminals headed by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks in his seaside house, Denis offers whatever the criminals ...2002Gillies MacKinnonAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller6.1 (1.7K votes)8820231017
Escapist, TheFrank's 14 years into a life sentence when he decides to break out of the London prison to set things right with his ill junkie daughter. He plans an ingenious escape requiring 4 inmates with different skills.2008Rupert WyattCrime, Drama, Thriller6.7 (16.8K votes)10220211228
Get the GringoA career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.2012Adrian GrunbergAction, Drama, Thriller6.9 (110.6K votes)9620231017
Grand Illusion, The [La Grande Illusion]During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.1937Jean Renoir (*)Drama, War8.1 (35.8K votes)11320211228
Great Escape, TheAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.1963John Sturges (*)Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War8.2 (237.9K votes)17220211228
Great Jailbreak [Daidatsugoku]A group of prisoners attempts to break out of the Abashiri Prison.1975Teruo IshiiAction, Crime6.2 (41 votes)9120211228
Hole, The [Le Trou]Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.1960Jacques Becker (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller8.5 (17.2K votes)13120211228
Jail Break [A cavallo della tigre]An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.1961Luigi ComenciniComedy, Drama7.1 (418 votes)10920211228
Jailbreak [Gaolbreak]A family of burglars and safecrackers plan a heist at a jewelry store. When one of the family--who is the safecracking expert--gets arrested and jailed, they hatch a plan to break him out so he can take part in the robbery.1962Francis SearleCrime, Drama5.1 (83 votes)020211228
Jailbreak Pact [Pacto de Fuga]This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.2020David AlbalaDrama, Thriller6.9 (2.4K votes)13520231017
Lucky BreakUnder the leadership of a small-time bank robber, British inmates hatch a plan to escape by staging a musical.2001Peter CattaneoComedy, Crime, Romance6.2 (2.3K votes)10820230728
Man Escaped, A [Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut]A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.1956Robert Bresson (*)Drama, Thriller, War8.3 (21.1K votes)10120211228
Man With Connections, The [Le pistonné]A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.1970Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*)Comedy, Western6.9 (5K votes)12620230424
McKenzie Break, TheDuring WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.1970Lamont JohnsonAction, Drama, War6.5 (1.5K votes)10820211228
McVicar'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is t1980Tom CleggCrime, Drama6.8 (2K votes)11220211228
Midnight ExpressBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.1978Alan ParkerBiography, Crime, Drama, Thriller7.6 (77.9K votes)12120211228
Next Three Days, TheA married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.2010Paul HaggisAction, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller7.3 (194K votes)13320211228
One That Got Away, TheA cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.1957Roy Ward BakerAdventure, Drama, War7.2 (2K votes)11120211228
PapillonA French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.1973Franklin J. Schaffner (*)Biography, Crime, Drama8.0 (127.8K votes)15120211228
PapillonWrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.2017Michael NoerAdventure, Biography, Crime, Drama7.2 (72.1K votes)13320220415
Password is Courage, TheBritish 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.1962Andrew L. StoneWar, Comedy, Drama6.9 (1.3K votes)11620211228
Prey, The [La Proie]Bank-robber Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence after robbing a national bank. Before he was caught he managed to hide the money but now it's not just the police who are looking for the money. His cell-mate is Jean-Louis Maure2011Eric ValetteAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller6.7 (5.4K votes)10520211228
Runaway TrainTwo escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.1985Andrey KonchalovskiyAction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller7.2 (28.7K votes)11120211228
Secret War of Harry Frigg, TheIn 1943, a group of captured Allied military can't agree on an escape plan, The allies headquarters develop a plan and send in a man who they hope is captured, to coordinate the captives' escape.1968Jack SmightComedy, War6.4 (1.6K votes)11020211228
Seven Times Seven [Sette volte sette]A gang of prison inmates escapes and robs the Royal Mint.1969Michele LupoComedy, Crime7.0 (244 votes)9220211228
Shawshank Redemption, TheTwo imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.1994Frank Darabont (*)Drama9.3 (2.5M votes)14220211228
Stalag 17After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.1953Billy Wilder (*)Comedy, Drama, War8.0 (54.8K votes)12020211228
Stir CrazySet up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. However, no prison cell could keep them locked in.1980Sidney PoitierComedy, Crime6.8 (27.5K votes)11120211228
There Was a Crooked ManA charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.1970Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*)Comedy, Western6.9 (4.5K votes)12620211228
Tunnel, The [Der Tunnel]During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.2001Roland Suso RichterDrama, History, Thriller7.7 (6.2K votes)15020211228
Two Way StretchDodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days' sentence left, and t1960Robert DayComedy, Crime6.9 (2.2K votes)7820211228
Two-Way StretchDodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days' sentence left, and t1960Robert DayComedy, Crime6.9 (2.2K votes)7820211228
VictoryAs allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.1981John Huston (*)Drama, Sport, War6.7 (29.5K votes)11620211228
Von Ryan's ExpressAn American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.1965Mark RobsonAction, Adventure, War7.1 (13.7K votes)11720211228
Way Back, TheSiberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.2010Peter Weir (*)Adventure, Drama, History7.3 (114.5K votes)13320211228
White HeatA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.1949Raoul Walsh (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir8.1 (32K votes)11420211228
Wooden Horse, TheTrue story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.1950Jack Lee, Ian DalrympleDrama, History, War7.0 (1.4K votes)10120211228
De overval1962Paul RothaCrime, Drama, Thriller, War7.0 (Unkn) Excluded
Gwangbokjeol teuksa2002Sang-Jin KimAction, Comedy6.2 (Unkn) Excluded
Prison Break2005nanAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller8.3 (Unkn) Excluded
Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil2018Tinu PappachanAction, Crime, Thriller7.4 (Unkn) Excluded