Movies Like

Athadu (2005)

7.7 76 votes

Genre: Action, Family, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 175 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A hitman, Nandu, is hired to stage the assassination of a politician. However, when the politician is actually killed and Nandu is framed for the murder, he assumes a dead man's identity to evade the law.

Plot: assassination, corruption, escape, hitman, politics, attempted murder, investigation, redemption, ...

Cast

William Holden

Don Taylor

Otto Preminger

Robert Strauss

Stalag 17 (1953)

7.7 670 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

Plot: chess, escape, spy, guard, plant, based on play or musical, black and white, security, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Samara Weaving

Kathryn Newton

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Shawn Hatosy

Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.

Plot: escape, ritual, dark comedy, satanism, gore, pact with the devil, sequel, game, ...

Cast

Oksana Akinshina

Artyom Bogucharsky

Ljubov Agapova

Liilia u0160inkarjova

Lilya 4-ever (2002)

7.6 671 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

Style: intense

Plot: suicide, escape, underground, despair, nightclub, human trafficking, based on true story, poverty, ...

Place: sweden

Cast

Alain Delon

Bourvil

Gian Maria Volontu00e9

Yves Montand

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

7.6 731 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

Plot: prison, corruption, paris, france, escape, police, pimp, ex-cop, ...

Cast

Wowkie Zhang Wei

Xu Kai

Zhou Bichang

Peng Yuchang

Great Escape (2019) TV Show

7.6 7 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: China

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 97

Story: Cast members work together to escape a secret room.

Plot: puzzle, escape, scare, variety show, peaches, jump scare, escape room, secret room, ...

Cast

Winona Ryder

Angelina Jolie

Clea DuVall

Brittany Murphy

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

7.6 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Brian Dennehy

Bill McKinney

First Blood (1982)

7.5 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Netherlands Antilles

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, guerrilla warfare, dying and death, vietnam veteran, hero, police brutality, sheriff, escape, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Matt Damon

Franka Potente

Chris Cooper

Clive Owen

The Bourne Identity (2002)

7.5 10.2K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

Plot: assassin, amnesia, paris, france, based on novel or book, escape, barcelona, spain, ...

Cast

Brad Davis

Irene Miracle

Bo Hopkins

Paolo Bonacelli

Midnight Express (1978)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The 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 Express".

Style: suspenseful

Plot: prison, airport, drug smuggling, escape, court, attempt to escape, based on true story, prison guard, ...

Time: 1970s

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

7.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

Plot: escape, runaway, wrestling, down syndrome, on the run, wrestling coach, raft, nursing home, ...

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg

Woody Harrelson

Isla Fisher

Dave Franco

Now You See Me (2013)

7.3 16.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

Style: shocking, suspenseful

Plot: new york city, paris, france, escape, magic, bank, fbi, vault, ...

Place: las vegas

Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Katherine Waterston

Dan Fogler

Alison Sudol

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

7.3 19.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

Plot: witch, new york city, robbery, escape, teleportation, magic, suitcase, mistake, ...

Time: 1920s

MacGyver (2016) TV Show

7.3 972 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 94

Audience: TV-14

Story: 20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

Plot: technology, secret government organization, remake, escape, agent

Cast

Andy Serkis

Woody Harrelson

Karin Konoval

Terry Notary

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

7.2 9.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Plot: suicide, civil war, escape, winter, mutation, peace, solidarity, gorilla, ...

Time: 2040s

Cast

Yoo Ah-in

Park Shin-hye

Lee Hyun-wook

Jin So-yeon

#Alive (2020)

7.2 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

Plot: escape, alone, survival, drone, zombie, apartment building, zombie apocalypse, virus, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Dylan O'Brien

Kaya Scodelario

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Ki Hong Lee

The Maze Runner (2014)

7.2 18.2K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, dystopia, maze, post-apocalyptic future, memory loss, trapped, based on young adult novel, ...

Cast

Samara Weaving

Adam Brody

Mark O'Brien

Henry Czerny

Ready or Not (2019)

7.1 5.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

Plot: escape, ritual, marriage, satanism, gore, pact with the devil, wealth, murder, ...

Cast

Tony Curtis

Sidney Poitier

Theodore Bikel

Charles McGraw

The Defiant Ones (1958)

7.1 326 votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

Plot: escape, mississippi river, freedom, hostility, swamp, bias, racist, escaped convict, ...

Cast

Kurt Russell

Lee Van Cleef

Ernest Borgnine

Donald Pleasence

Escape from New York (1981)

7.1 3.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: new york city, taxi, martial arts, street gang, usa president, war veteran, kidnapping, hostage, ...

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