Top Prison Break Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Jonny Lee Miller

Ewen Bremner

Robert Carlyle

T2 Trainspotting (2017)

6.9 3.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Plot: prison, friendship, based on novel or book, fight, blackmail, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, ...

Place: scotland

Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)

6.9 588 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong, China

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Plot: martial arts, police, prison escape, female martial artist, illegal drugs, stunt master, kuala lumpur malaysia

Place: china, thailand, malaysia, ...

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Katherine Waterston

Dan Fogler

Alison Sudol

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

6.8 11.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

Plot: witch, new york city, paris, france, magic, school of witchcraft, black magic, sequel, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Wesley Snipes

Sandra Bullock

Nigel Hawthorne

Demolition Man (1993)

6.8 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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-fashioned way.

Plot: martial arts, helicopter, police, psychopath, crime fighter, dystopia, museum, social control, ...

Time: future, 2030s

Cast

Channing Tatum

Adam Driver

Daniel Craig

Riley Keough

Logan Lucky (2017)

6.7 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Plot: sibling relationship, north carolina, cockroach, heist, race car driver, nascar, prison break

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jim Caviezel

50 Cent

Escape Plan (2013)

6.7 5.6K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

Plot: ship, prison warden, prison escape, escape artist, maximum security prison

Cast

Johnny Depp

Christian Bale

Marion Cotillard

Jason Clarke

Public Enemies (2009)

6.7 4.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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 assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

Plot: escape, gun, gangster, machinegun, horse race, biography, prison guard, prison escape, ...

Time: 1930s, 1900s

Cast

Mel Gibson

Kevin Hernandez

Daniel Gimu00e9nez Cacho

Peter Stormare

Get the Gringo (2012)

6.6 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Mexico

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: prison, vacation, prison escape, corrupt system, mexican cartel, escape plan, trust issues, prison hierarchy, ...

Place: mexico

Cast

Theo Maassen

Lisa Smit

Bob Schwarze

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Ria Marks

Nothing to Lose (2008)

6.6 36 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: Belgium, Netherlands

Duration: 90 min.

Story: A man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a long-stay criminal hospital to track down his estranged mother, whom he believes can prove his innocence.

Plot: kidnapping, delinquent, prison escape, sexual violence

Place: netherlands

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Richard Dawson

Maru00eda Conchita Alonso

Yaphet Kotto

The Running Man (1987)

6.5 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

Plot: based on novel or book, dystopia, game show, on the run, totalitarian, prison break, paranoid, dark future, ...

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Donald Sutherland

Maura Tierney

Instinct (1999)

6.5 660 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Plot: prison, research, gorilla, instinct, murder, mute, jungle, psychologist, ...

Cast

Cyril Raffaelli

David Belle

Philippe Torreton

Daniel Duval

District 13: Ultimatum (2009)

6.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city’s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.

Plot: prison, martial arts, street gang, corruption, chase, ghetto, delinquency, parkour, ...

Cast

Jason Statham

Joan Allen

Ian McShane

Tyrese Gibson

Death Race (2008)

6.3 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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 and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

Plot: prison, martial arts, car race, dystopia, matter of life and death, car crash, prison guard, prison escape, ...

Cast

Ryan Kwanten

Steve Bisley

Tom E. Lewis

Claire van der Boom

Red Hill (2010)

6.1 177 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, Western

Country: Australia

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.

Plot: small town, suicide, fire, rape, pregnancy, horse, jukebox, prison escape, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Chris Hemsworth

Miles Teller

Jurnee Smollett

Mark Paguio

Spiderhead (2022)

5.8 1.8K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: dystopia, psychological stress, prison escape, psychological thriller, inmate, based on short story, drug testing

Cast

Yvette Mimieux

Tommy Lee Jones

Robert Carradine

Howard Hesseman

Jackson County Jail (1976)

5.6 38 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Plot: prison, rape, escape, prison escape, murder, hitchhiker, psychotic, roadblock, ...

Cast

Lorna Maitland

James Rucker

Mark Bradley

Althea Currier

Lorna (1964)

5.6 53 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Lorna and Jim have been married for a year but Lorna remains sexually unsatisfied. While he's at work, she is raped by an escaped convict, then becomes lustfully involved with him.

Plot: adultery, rape, cheating, love affair, lust, criminal, desire, prison break, ...

Cast

Pierce Brosnan

Tim Roth

Nick Cannon

Rami Jaber

The Misfits (2021)

5.4 523 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: Finland, United Arab Emirates

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.

Plot: gold, heist, prison break, amused

Place: middle east

Cast

Lina Romay

Paul Mu00fcller

Monica Swinn

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Roger Darton

Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

4.6 65 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 81 min.

Story: Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

Plot: prison, island, rape, sadism, women's prison, dominatrix, prison warden, prison escape, ...

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