Movies by Lists - Prison Escape Thrillers (61 [65]) 
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| 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 Hokka | 1965 | Teruo Ishii | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (243 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1953 | Lewis Gilbert | Drama, History, War | 6.8 (344 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2008 | Fred Cavayé | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (9.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2001 | Hardy Martins | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 7.3 (7.9K votes) | 158 | 20231017 |
| 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. | 2021 | Peter Bebjak | Drama, History, War | 6.6 (2.6K votes) | 94 | 20231013 |
| 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 a | 1971 | Philip Leacock | Drama, History, War | 6.8 (294 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| BreakoutA government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught. | 1959 | Peter Graham Scott | Drama | 6.6 (83 votes) | 62 | 20240419 |
| 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. | 1959 | Don Chaffey | Drama, War | 6.8 (647 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1957 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 8.1 (214.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Brute ForceAt a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard. | 1947 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.6 (10K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Chicken RunWhen a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners. | 2000 | Peter Lord, Nick Park | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.0 (186.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2006 | Israel Adrián Caetano | Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| 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". | 1955 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.9 (2.6K votes) | 94 | 20220414 |
| 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. | 1961 | Ken Annakin | Comedy | 6.8 (581 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Cool Hand LukeA laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform. | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (172.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1943 | Tay Garnett | War, Drama | 6.6 (824 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1942 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama, War | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Escape at DannemoraA female prison employee in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape. | 2018 | Ben Stiller | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (27.2K votes) | 2 | 20231207 |
| 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. | 1979 | Don Siegel (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (129.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2020 | Francis Annan | Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (41.5K votes) | 106 | 20231013 |
| 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. | 1987 | Jack Gold | Drama, History, War | 7.3 (8.9K votes) | 143 | 20220414 |
| Escape Game [Dasso yugi]Sonny Chiba is a master prison breaker. | 1976 | Kôsaku Yamashita | Action, Crime | 6.6 (23 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2013 | Mikael Håfström | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (237.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2018 | Steven C. Miller | Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 3.9 (30.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| 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 ... | 2002 | Gillies MacKinnon | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (1.7K votes) | 88 | 20231017 |
| 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. | 2008 | Rupert Wyatt | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (16.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2012 | Adrian Grunberg | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (110.6K votes) | 96 | 20231017 |
| 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. | 1937 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (35.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Great Escape, TheAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. | 1963 | John Sturges (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 8.2 (237.9K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| Great Jailbreak [Daidatsugoku]A group of prisoners attempts to break out of the Abashiri Prison. | 1975 | Teruo Ishii | Action, Crime | 6.2 (41 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Hole, The [Le Trou]Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme. | 1960 | Jacques Becker (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (17.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1961 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (418 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1962 | Francis Searle | Crime, Drama | 5.1 (83 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2020 | David Albala | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (2.4K votes) | 135 | 20231017 |
| Lucky BreakUnder the leadership of a small-time bank robber, British inmates hatch a plan to escape by staging a musical. | 2001 | Peter Cattaneo | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.2 (2.3K votes) | 108 | 20230728 |
| 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. | 1956 | Robert Bresson (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.3 (21.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1970 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Comedy, Western | 6.9 (5K votes) | 126 | 20230424 |
| McKenzie Break, TheDuring WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland. | 1970 | Lamont Johnson | Action, Drama, War | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| 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 t | 1980 | Tom Clegg | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Midnight ExpressBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison. | 1978 | Alan Parker | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (77.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Next Three Days, TheA married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. | 2010 | Paul Haggis | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (194K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1957 | Roy Ward Baker | Adventure, Drama, War | 7.2 (2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.0 (127.8K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2017 | Michael Noer | Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.2 (72.1K votes) | 133 | 20220415 |
| 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. | 1962 | Andrew L. Stone | War, Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| 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 Maure | 2011 | Eric Valette | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (5.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Runaway TrainTwo escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving. | 1985 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (28.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1968 | Jack Smight | Comedy, War | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Seven Times Seven [Sette volte sette]A gang of prison inmates escapes and robs the Royal Mint. | 1969 | Michele Lupo | Comedy, Crime | 7.0 (244 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Shawshank Redemption, TheTwo imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. | 1994 | Frank Darabont (*) | Drama | 9.3 (2.5M votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1953 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1980 | Sidney Poitier | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (27.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1970 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Comedy, Western | 6.9 (4.5K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2001 | Roland Suso Richter | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.7 (6.2K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| 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 t | 1960 | Robert Day | Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| 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 t | 1960 | Robert Day | Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1981 | John Huston (*) | Drama, Sport, War | 6.7 (29.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Von Ryan's ExpressAn American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII. | 1965 | Mark Robson | Action, Adventure, War | 7.1 (13.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Way Back, TheSiberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India. | 2010 | Peter Weir (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.3 (114.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1949 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (32K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Wooden Horse, TheTrue story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany. | 1950 | Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple | Drama, History, War | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| De overval | 1962 | Paul Rotha | Crime, Drama, Thriller, War | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Gwangbokjeol teuksa | 2002 | Sang-Jin Kim | Action, Comedy | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Prison Break | 2005 | nan | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil | 2018 | Tinu Pappachan | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |