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Escape from Prison Movies

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Prison escape films — tunnels, schemes, and the desperate fight for freedom.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont	8.7	Drama, Crime	United States of America	142	Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmate...
The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	7.9	Adventure, Drama, War	United States of America	173	The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War ...
Papillon	1973	Franklin J. Schaffner	7.8	Crime, Drama	United States of America	151	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.
The Count of Monte Cristo	2002	Kevin Reynolds	7.7	Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Thriller	Ireland	131	Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg	7.7	Drama, Crime	United States of America	127	When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the p...
Escape from Alcatraz	1979	Don Siegel	7.5	Drama, Thriller	United States of America	113	San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
Midnight Express	1978	Alan Parker	7.4	Drama, Crime	United Kingdom	121	Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight ...
Escape from New York	1981	John Carpenter	7	Science Fiction, Action	United Kingdom	99	In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Rescue Dawn	2007	Werner Herzog	7	Adventure, Drama, War	Luxembourg	125	A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Demolition Man	1993	Marco Brambilla	6.8	Crime, Action, Science Fiction	United States of America	115	In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashio...
Escape Plan	2013	Mikael Håfström	6.7	Action, Thriller	United Kingdom	115	Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself....
Public Enemies	2009	Michael Mann	6.7	Crime, History, Drama	United States of America	140	Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assi...
Out of Sight	1998	Steven Soderbergh	6.7	Romance, Comedy, Crime	United States of America	123	Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Get the Gringo	2012	Adrian Grünberg	6.6	Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama	United States of America	96	A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Hart's War	2002	Gregory Hoblit	6.4	Drama, War	United States of America	125	When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the out...
Death Race	2008	Paul W. S. Anderson	6.3	Action, Thriller, Science Fiction	United Kingdom	105	Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence an...
Escape from L.A.	1996	John Carpenter	5.9	Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	101	Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

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